Road Trip 2011

Four Adults, 7 Children, 16 hours, 1 motorhome. What a Blast. We loaded up in Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Rick's motorhome and headed to Texas for cousin Taylor's graduation. We made the trip in one day. The kids did soooo much better than expected. We were all surprised. We had lots of activities for them to do and we did stop for 1 hour at lunch to let Grandpa nap and play at a park. Every single kid took a nap afterwards which is a great feat in and of itself. Grandpa was a great sport too. We just kept him filled up with lots of snacky foods and diet pepsi's.

Dad

Down and Derby

Well, if you've ever watched the movie "Down and Derby" you should. Just don't let your husband!!!! Who would of thought, a pinewood derby track in the living room. It looked like a bomb exploded in my living room for days. The mess drove me crazy. I guess that's what happens when you live with 4 little boys and 1 big boy.

New Shirts

I love making Erik new shirts. I buy plain old t-shirts for a buck or two and fix them up. It's a great way to use fabric scraps and felt. I LOVE felt!! I'm not sure why the lightning McQueen car had to be in all the pictures. I guess it's a boy thing.

Happy President's Day!!

I made the boys t-shirts of the Presidents from Mt. Rushmore for President's Day this year. Mikey has one too. Not sure how he missed out on his picture. You can tell which ones like to have pics taken and which ones tolerate it.

A Knight Out on the Town!

We took the boys to the Excalibur for dinner at Knights of the Roundtable. They had a great time!! We took the older three when they were younger but we had to cheer for the bad knight. That didn't go over real well. This year we cheered for the knight from Hungary. My parents came with us. They watched the boys faces more than the show.

Happy Birthday

This is the birthday cake my husband bought for me. I woke up to this and flowers on the table. He is so awesome. The boys have never been more excited for my birthday.

Blue and Gold

The annual cub scout banquet was this month. Layron doesn't turn 11 until June but he worked really hard to be able to get his Arrow of Light by the ceremony. Mikey earned several belt loops as well. They both made and decorated cakes with Neil. Mikey's is the wolf. Layron's is the arrow of light.

What?

I went to tuck Mikey and Seth in bed the other night and this is what I walked in to.

EIEIO

Erik found some toy animals I found in the dollar section. He started lining them up. He looked at the other bag and told me how lonely these animals were and that they reaaaaallllly needed to play with the other animals. So I let him open the other bag. He then matched each up with its partner. I guess we'll call him Noah.:) I made a farm set out of felt for his animals. The ark will have to wait.