we went up to the house again this week too!

The house inspection was today, but we wont get the results until Monday. Then we need to get estimates for the siding and roof etc... we are getting there slowly but surely. Anticipation is building. It is going to be so much work! But it will be OURS! And that is so exciting!!!

The kids found a bottle cap on the dinning room floor and made a game of kicking it around.....they were bored after about 3 minutes

just some pictures

We had the punt pass and kick conestest this Sunday, the kids had fun. Maddi got her face painted and didnt want to wash it off!

Bailey quit guitar practice this week, I'm not to thrilled with this fact!

Bailey got lots or awards at the award ceremony this week. He got it for testing high in science, being in the quiz bowl, being a helper for the art teacher all year and for having honor roll all year! He did great and I am proud of him!

Madeline graduated from kindergarten! I can't believe it I only have one more kindergarten graduation to go to! Ethan starts preschool this year...yikes! Were is life going........slow down! Sorry not much crafting things are still pretty buisy. The only things I've made have been for graduations!!!

Maddi's Bowling Birtday party

She loves the bowling alley...so of course she had to have her birthday here...again. Her "boy" friends from school came, Anthony and David. She definatly had fun. I need to get a picture of her on her new bike she got for her birthday.

Maddi's birthday

I cant believe my baby girl is 6 yrs old!!! YIKES! I feel old with every bithday.....but I love thier excitment every year its so contagious!

More graduation cards

Graduation cards

Just a few graduation cards...some ideas are cased from who knows where...but thanks to the lovely ladies on the web who are an endless inspiration to all us card makers!
Maddi, Anna and Micah loved the owl cards so I helped them make some. I should have taken pictures of them with thier owls.......

Hershey Park even more pictures

Wheres Bailey in the picture with the hershey kiss? (hiding! He was having a Im to big for this moment.)





I only got one picture of my sister and brother in law....Ruth u mind printing me a better one?

More Hershey pics

My beautiful children! And mom and dad on the way out of Hershey.

Hershey Park

sorry I havent posted much spring is so crazy busy around here and unfortunatly sickly too! With allergies and colds it truely seems (and possibly may be) as if at least one of us is always sick!I think i've slept about 9hrs in the last 2 days the baby is sick and we went to Hershey Park yesterday. When we got home at almost 11pm I jumped in the shower (it was above 80 down there) and took the baby to the emergency room. He gets these really bad coughing spells. We went to bed after 2am and then got up and got the kids off to school.....







It was hot but the kids had so much fun! Aunt Ruth, Uncle Matt, Anna, Devin, Grandma and Grandpa went with us too. Daddy didnt come which was a bummer but maybe next time. The kids loved having Anna and Devin to ride with, Micah felt a little left out cuz Devin likes to hang with Bailey, but for the most part it all went well. I cant believe how expensive hershey has gotten though! Ethan LOVED the Reeses xtreme ride its like a little roller coaster and as you ride you have a laser gun and you shoot at these lit up targets, we rode it twice and he would have rode it all day! Maddi wanted to go on the big roller coasters but she obviously isnt big enough!but she liked the scrambler. Bailey on the other had didnt want to go on the coasters but did ride one of the water coasters and got wet (he wasnt thrilled with that) and Micah liked anything that went fast! They were all pretty well behaved and I was proud of them. Me, Grandma and Grandpa were pretty much exhausted by the end of the day...the kids still wanted to ride more rides..........Ps Ethan did NOT like the characters!!!!You can see him strangling me in the picture with the Hershey bar!

Random pictures of the last few weeks

We had Micah's crossover for boyscouts. He went from wolves to bears, he was so excited! Maddi was excited cuz one of her best friends was there Ryan.

Ethan picked out his own pjs....typical boy.

The other picture is Bailey and Devin at the volleyball tournament. It was nice.

science project

Micah's science project. He had so much fun making it and maddi recommended the snowman. too cute!

Micah's homeschooled gym class

It was at our church's gym. There was even a few people there from our church who homeschool thier kids too. I met and talked to a few of the mom's who I had already talked to on the online homeschooling group. It was nice to put faces with the names. Homeschooling is challenging in some ways, but also rewarding. Micah seems (to me at least) to be improving in his reading and his confidence is improving. When he reads pages with more words on it he doesn't get so overwhelmed like before. I bought a reading comprehension book for 2nd grade at the christmas tree shop and he loves it, he was intimidated at first cuz of so many words, but now he does great. And he retains the stories and answers the questions at the end with little to no help. I'm very proud of him. I would like to go see if they have a 3rd grade book to work on over the summer. I really hope I can get him over this hump in reading so when he goes back to school next year he wont have such a hard time. When we finish the last allergy test and one more trip to the DR to see that all other reasons are cleared. I will take him to get the medication for the ADHD. I want him at home while he is trying it so I can make sure it is really helping him. Anyways

Ethan's art project

We are taking a ceramic art class for Micah's homeschooling Ethan painted the pig blue (his favorite color) and since he slept through todays class I finished his piggy bank for him. Its cute! Micah is painting a dinosaur, but his isnt done yet, we antiqued it today, we should be able to finish it next week, hopefully.