happy birthday alysha

Can't believe my "little" girl is 14 years old, sniff. We had a small party for her on Sat. eve Dale, Amy and kids and Doug & Mattie and their family came down for burgers on the grill and Amy made the b-day cake (thanks). Tonite I cooked her favorite dinner: poormans steak, mashed potatoes and green beans, yum!

her new walleta new dress

boy scouts

The boys spent most of the day out in the woods. It was a beautiful spring day. They were having so much fun exploring and starting a fire, yikes!

stone path they made to cross the creek.

safety first, they filled a bucket with water in the event the fire got out of hand.

roasting marshmallows

eating marshmallows the campsite, they also roasting hot dogs, Yumo!

lego magazine

Every day when we stop to get the mail, I hear "did we get a lego magazine?" Well, wait no more. They forget about everything else and pour over the magazine for hours. It's like Christmas comes every 2 months. However, I love legos they are good for the kids to be creative and use their imagination. I think they will be engineers when they grow up.

snow

Darrell and the kids had a great time sledding yesterday.....

Trevor being silly

getting a ride

Drew & Trevor building a fort

jumping over the wall

Go Illini

On Saturday we took the kids to the Illini game. We had 2 "C" tickets and 4 "B's" so we made Darrell sit up in "C" and the kids and I sat in "B", because he always gets to sit down on the floor anytime he goes to a game, so we thought he should experience the nose bleed section. :)

For the half time show they had the Jesse White tumblers, I think the kids enjoyed that more than the game, they were very interesting to watch. my boysmy girl

worst snow day ever

"This is the worst snow day ever! The 4-wheeler doesn't start, there's not enough snow to go sledding down the hill, and the snow doesn't pack. Why are we at home if we can't even go out and play in the snow". said Drew.
Can you tell he was not enjoying being home. Poor guy. So we pushed the 4-wheeler into the garage, put the battery charger on it and waited.......Went out a little later and tadaaa, it started. We saved the worst snow day ever!
Yesterday Alysha had a run-in with one of the guys at school during P.E. They were playing capture the flag and they didn't see each other and boom! She hit his forehead with her teeth and gave him about a 1" gash. She actually knocked one of her brackets on her braces off and bent the wire and her lower lip is all swollen and bruised, she was in pretty good pain last night. Much better today. She gets her braces off on Tuesday!!!!! Yeah, after 5 years of retainers or braces she is definitely ready for them to be off.

bump be-gone

Darrell has had a bump on his head for a quite some time. It was starting to get bigger and you could easily see it thru his hair (I know, what hair?). I told him he either had to grow his hair longer or have it removed, he chose the later. So today was the day he went and had it removed.
Here are the results....

the cyst -
it looks like a jelly bean and about the same size

ouch! he has one stitch