Hurry!

Time appears to be dragging. I think it's a conspiracy against me. We were able to make an arrangement with our new landlord to get into the place early in exchange for cleaning it. So, that means we should have the key as early as this weekend. In the meantime, however, we're packing up all we can so our place is filled with boxes, there's not much to do and there's nowhere to walk. Oh, fun. I wish time would just move faster so that we can start clearing out some of this stuff! Ok, enough complaining ;) Speaking of cleaning...anyone want to help? It will be lots of fun!

On another note, since most of our stuff is packed up, we had nothing to do for "Family Night" this week (which just so happened to be on Saturday since the Dave Ramsey thing was on Thursday), So we decided to take the kiddos to McDonald's and then to Hastings to let them pick out a new book. We've decided that there is an unspoken rule at McDonald's. If you kids are well behaved, they are allowed to sit in the dining area, if they are brats, you must take them to the play area where they will not disturb the other patrons. Now, this does not mean that all kids that go into the play area are brats of course. There was this one family where it was quite obvious who was in charge. It was the 5 year old girl climbing on all the tables yelling at her mom that she wants ice cream. What was her mom doing? Standing in line yelling right back, asking if she wanted chocolate or strawberry. I think just about every person in there was glaring at her lol.
At Hastings, Kelsi picked out a couple of Warriors books...shocking...while Matthias spent the time playing at the train table. We found a couple of educational type books for him, the kind where he can practice his writing and counting and such and then it just wipes off. So, that's about all the excitement going on around here...oddly, I have not pictures to share!

Lots and lots of pictures!

So, after reading Melissa's "Wordless Wednesday" post, I remembered that I had taken a couple of pictures of Matthias a while ago that I had thought would be fun to use for one of those. Then, as I as pulling the pictures off my camera, I realized there were a lot of pictures on there I hadn't done anything with yet! So, here they all are in one post:
First, we have Matthias drinking his green juice...the first thing he asks for in the mornings!



Next, is Jordyn's birthday tea:



A whole lot of pictures from a park visit a few weeks ago...if you click on the arrow really fast it's almost like seeing it in real time ;)




And, finally...more pictures from the park. Matthias riding his new bike, and Kelsi playing her new recorder:

Flashback Friday

Yep, I said "flashback friday", here are some pictures of Easter 2007. Enjoy!

Spring Break

I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon and share some pictures of our spring break fun:

From Spring Cleanin

From Spring Cleaning

From Spring Cleaning

From Spring Cleaning

From Spring Cleaning

From Spring Cleaning

From Spring Cleaning

No, really...that's what they were doing for fun.  I went into the kitchen this morning to do some cleaning, and Matthias followed me in and asked to clean too.  What mom is going to say no to that?  So I gave him a washcloth and a spray bottle I filled with water and set him loose.  Then I jokingly asked Kelsi if she wanted to clean too.  She did.  So they both set to work washing the table.  Then I pulled out the swiffer and the broom and told it's much more fun to clean the floors.  Oddly, the did have fun!  They both sprayed water everywhere (Kelsi's bottle actually had a bit of cleaner in it), scrubbed everywhere and sang a lot.  Now we have a nice, clean kitchen and Kelsi has admitted that chores might actually be fun...but not her room.

On another note, we changed some stuff on our blog a while ago, including the URL.  If you've subscribed before, the RSS has changed so you will need to subscribe again.

*edit*  ok, so the slideshow isn't showing up.  To see the rest of the pictures, click here.)

Sir Beldin, Wyrmslayer

This is Sir Beldin, Wyrmslayer...  doesn't he look ferocious?   I finally broke Daniel down enough, and we bought ourselves a bird last night =)  We got him while Matthias was visiting with Grandma, so we thought it would be pretty fun to see his reaction.  When we got home, Matthias started playing on his slide (yes, we have a slide in the living room), then he spotted the bird.  Matthias just kind of stayed at the top of the slide, eying Beldin warily.  Finally he asked "what's that?".  So I took him over to say hi.



As I was pointing out the food and water and stuff, I accidentaly bumped the cage, causing Beldin to freak out and flap around wildly (he was a bit jittery from all the excitement of the day).  Matthias freaked out too!  He ran to the couch and wouldn't get off.  Even for dinner lol.  I had to hold his hand and walk him across the living room to the kitchen, explaining to him that the bird was going to stay in his house, and wasn't going to get out.  After dinner, he managed to walk around a bit more, but still wouldn't go withing 6 feet of the cage =)

Today, however, Matthias has been a bit braver.  He's been talking to Beldin all day, making sure he knows what his name is and where his food is =)  Beldin seems to be taking to Matthias though, he actually tweeted at him a couple of times!

Cleaning Matthias

Matthias was oh-so-helpful today and assited me in cleaning the floors (which as you probably see, needed it quite badly).



Sadly the promised family photo excursion did not happen due to snow...yuck!  But we are all looking forward to seeing "The Jungle Book" tomorrow, and hope to get some pics of Kelsi with the cast members again!

My Bookworms

Here is how Kelsi and Matthias spent the afternoon, eating and reading!  Naturally I had to snap a few pictures.  Kelsi was completely oblivious to my taking pictures until I started laughing over the super-close pictures I was taking of her while she was eating.  I was nice enough to not upload most of those...just a couple of the least embarrasing ones ;)  Matthias took the picture taking in stride and assumed I could still see and identify all the pictures in his book from across the room and kept asking "what's that?" every time he turned the page.  Thankfully, I've learned the trick of asking him "what is it?" whenever he askes, so then he promptly answers his own question...which is quite handy when I can't see what he's pointing at.  Anyway, I'll shut up...here are the pictures:

Mommy's Big Helper

Matthias has been such a big helper today ;)  When I was vaccuming, he decided to make sure the cabinets were in order.





Then, he was so nice to help with folding laundry...



He decided it was quite comfy in there, and settled in to watch t.v.





And what was it that he wanted to watch?



Happy trees!  (or "painting" as Matthias called it)

Ok, back to folding clothes now.

Good-bye Hair!

Matthias finally got a haircut!  He hasn't had his hair cut since October when the clipper attatchement broke mid-hair cut and so he had to go bald.  We still haven't gotten around to getting a replacement, so today I pulled out some scissors and a comb, plopped Matthias down in front of Veggie Tales and went to work.  Shockingly, he stayed pretty still once he stopped trying to figure out what I was doing =)  Here are some pictures, his hair is supposed to be kinda spiked up on top, but I doesn't quite want to do that yet, so we'll probably have to gunk it up for a while.

Adventures in Painting

Last night, we all decided to do some painting.  The kiddos of course had a blast, Kelsi did some very nice painting, and Matthias managed get paint everywhere.  Kelsi painted a picture of the sun and one of the sky with some pretty clouds.  Matthias painted a brown blob that ended up getting a hole in the paper lol.  We'll call it "abstract".  We did learn, however that Matthias will need his own paints,  as he managed to turn them all brown and Kelsi wasn't left with much to work with!  Here are some pictures of the fun, sadly I'm still getting used to this camera so there are some blurry pictures here and there =)

Good Times...

I was browsing through old pictures and I couldn't resist sharing this will everyone!

Kelsi the Supermodel

Here are a few pictures of Kelsi showing off her new cardigan.  She had a bit of fun if you can't tell lol.

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Matthias is gone...

...and he has been replaced by a bottomless pit!  For breakfast today, Matthias ate:

• 2 eggs


• 1/2 waffle


• banana


• handful of grapes


• whole peanutbutter sandwich

Yep, he's a pig.

Cookie-Time!

Last night we let the kiddos make some cookies with their new cookie-making kits.  Matthias of course, couldn't quite understand why he couldn't just eat the dough, but he had fun anyway!

Christmas Lights Fun

Last night we went on a trolley ride downtown to look at the Christmas lights.  Matthias thought he was pretty cool riding in a "train" and Kelsi had a blast too.  It wasn't all that exciting for us adults, although Daniel and I won the only two raffle prizes (of course we were nice enough to let someone else have the second one), so now we have a little bundle of coupons and vouchers for some of the places at Riverstone...sadly not for Cold Stone though =(

Happy Birthday, K-lou!

Today my little girl is 9...yikes!  We don't have much planned for today since we have church and all that.  Tomorrow though, is the big party day!  We're planning a big breakfast celebration complete with french toast (it would have been waffles, but sadly we're all out of Grandma's famous mix!), a gift or two, and then we're going to finish the Egypt documentary we've been watching.  Kelsi requested that we finish it lol.  Later in the afternoon we're going to go see Narnia and then the pizza party!  We're going to have a busy day!  

After we got home from getting Kelsi from school, we had a bit of fun in the leaves.  Sadly, it was too cold for us to stay out there too long (Matthias was not dressed for it!) so now we're huddled under some blankets watching Veggie Tales.  Here are some pictures of our fun...just ignore the peanut butter on Little Man's face ;)

Coloring Goodness

After Matthias decided I needed a few additions to the dinner menu I was working on, I got him set up with his crayons and some paper (all the coloring books were MIA).  So he's been sitting at the table for the last half hour or so coloring and saying "very pretty" continually =)

Halloween Goodness

Here are some pictures of our fun last night!

Carver's Farm

This past Saturday we took a trip to Carver's Farm. Other than the fact that most of the pumpkins were rotten or smashed, we had a good time! Matthias loved the hayride, and Kelsi ran around like crazy trying to find the perfect mini-pumpkin =) Matthias managed to find a mini-pumpkin right away and would not let go of it for the rest of the day!

Early Birthday Goodness

I'm totally slacking, Kelsi asked me to post about her early birthday gifts...and I forgot until now! Oops! Anyway, we decided to give Kelsi a few of her birthday gifts early since it was getting so cold.


The hat is a Pokéball, and apparently the envy of many of her friends.  The gloves, however, are by far her favorite.  She even wore them to bed the first night!  I was a bit worried that she might be kinda bummed about getting handmade stuff like that, but she's hardly taken the stuff off!