Kylie’s Baby Shower

Kylie had her second baby shower today. This one was hosted by our church small group. While I can’t personally vouch for anything, it sounds like it went very well. Jesse and I kept the boys at the house during the estrogen-fest. Attached are some pictures though:

Moving up in gymnastics

Mallory moved up to the 6-13 yr class at gymnastics tonight, and had a great time. She get’s to start doing things like the balance beam, uneven bars, and some vaults. She also found out about the chalk and made sure to cover her hands real good… :) Here are some pictures from tonight:

Raccoons eat Mentos?

So I was reading one of Mallory’s AR books to her tonight. And she was observing some interesting facts while we were reading… for example, on one page there were some ducks that were diving down to catch some food, and while they dove, their tails stuck out above water. She said that they were Wood Ducks, because she saw on TV that Wood Ducks keep their tails above water like that. I haven’t confirmed it yet, but she convinced me… :)

Then we got to a page where there was a raccoon eating something, and she said… it’s a raccoon eating a Mentos.

raccoon mentos

We were a little perplexed by how confident that she was that the raccoon was eating a Mentos… so we questioned her a little trying to find out what made her think it was a Mentos… so she showed us…

minnows

Easter 2013

Calen’s First Soccer Season

Well, it got off to a slow start. Calen loved soccer practice, but not so much on the game itself. So it was a struggle to get him to stay out on the court more than 10 minutes… Sometimes we tried bribing… sometimes threats… sometimes we ignored him… but all but once, we made him go anyway. The funny thing was that he seemed to pick up more interest as the season went along, and by the last game, he was all over it.

Here are a few pictures from our last couple games… I’ll add some more from the other games when I get them off the card.