Green Cleaning!

I am trying to make the switch to green cleaning. It is healthier for you and better for the earth. I started a new blog for the journey! www.greenchoicecleaning.blogspot.com

So proud of BB!

This week has been all about BB! First she tried out for the worship team at church! They are going to allow kids to do it a few times, just for summer! It was a mom moment to see her up there. It made me want to cry. I love you BB! (She was chosen!)
Next she had track and field day. Now BB is my musical, artistic child, she has fun doing sports. I don't think of her as a big athlete. She surprised me by out of all the 4th grade girls in the whole school, she got 2nd in the long distance run! I had no idea she could do that! Way to go BB. We decided to start running together!
She is in a kids praise group and this weekend they went to the union gospel mission. They sang songs and interacted with the kids but they also sat down and had a meal with them. It was amazing. They asked them to come back on a regular basis! Not even 10 years old and already doing mission work.
Finally she went to Sharing and Caring hands to Mary's place. It was a lot of fun! I am so proud of you BB. You have an wonderful gift and an amazing heart!

Oviparous!

Agent E came home and knew a word that no one else in the whole family knew! He was so proud of himself. Oviparous means that it comes from an egg. They are studing eggs at school. They have eggs in an incubator. When they hatched Agent E named the only yellow one, Luke!
The other day, Agent E came running in the house to tell me he found an egg! So I went to look and sure enough laying in the yard was an egg that looks like a chicken egg. Because of school he knew we needed to keep it warm, so they put a mitten on it put it in a little basket and shined a flash light on it! It ws so cute, they named him Junoir! Agent E took it to school and asked if they could put it in the incubator. So now we are waiting 21 days to find out if it survived and what it is. Agent E thinks it might be a turtle and BB thinks it will be a goose. I think it might be a "Quiter", that is what they call eggs that don't hatch! I don't know how long it was sitting in the yard without a mother! We will have to wait and see!

Surfing!

KK tried surfing or at least body boarding in Wi Dells!

Her friend JD di it to!

More Christmas pics!

We always make Christmas cookies together!

They are easier to clean up with out shirts, but Agent M likes the new style of his boxers hanging out! lets hope he out grows it!

Christmas at Grandmas!

How much touble do you have, trying to get a nice Christmas picture? Every year we have Christmas Eve at my side of the family. We usually have steaks on the grill! The cousins like to have fun together! I try to get at least one good pic!

KK and I went to an away meet together!

KK had an away meet in Wi Dells. Wow that was an adventure! I have never driven that far in the middle of winter by myself! It was a great time. We shared a room with her friend Brit. Besides the meet they went rock climbing, high ropes course, go carts, rides and don't forget about the water park! KK convinced me to go on the roller coaster water slide! ( I am not a ride person!) It was alot of fun though!

She also had a lot of fu n with her friend JD. We went bowling and bought disgusting food at outrageous prices!

Best Buds

KK and AL have been friends for years. We have moved all around and gone to different schools but they keep in touch. They get along very well. The LW family somehow has been apart of all our major life events, major accident, pregnancy together, buisness and financial struggles, and the death of a loved one! They will always be apart of our memories! Good ones and tough ones! They are a fun family! I think without us and them we had a pretty dull nieghborhood! J/K

Agent M's first Track meet!

He did amazing, 1st in hurdles, 1st in both relays! We don't know about long jump yet but his team gave him the nick name Kangaroo! Because he jumps so far! Way to go Bud! I knew you could do it!

Bad Mom:(

Yesterday was tough. I had to take one kid to gymnastics, go to a track meet, take 2 to awana, and one had a choir concert. Did I mention I was supose to show houses to! Thanks to Grandpa K he went to the track meet and took one to the choir concert. Big thanks also goes out to Agent H's dad who took 2, to and from Awana.
We did not make it to gymnastics. I did however see 95% of the first track meet ever before I had to go show houses! This is my first time where I had to work instead of be super mom:( I missed the choir concert but KK had fun with Grandpa K, he took her out after! Thank you God for good family and friends to help out!

Way to go BB!

BB has had an amazing transition in her new school. She has made a lot of friends and is loving it! She had her school music performance and it was amazing! They did tap dancing, square dancing, line dancing, played instruments and sang! It was so much fun! (Sorry I forgot my camera!)

KK MVP

I forgot my camera but props to KK for getting the MVP award for bars and Vault this year! She also recieved the Jack in the box award, because it has been a tough year this year for are family personally and injury wise, but everytime she got knocked down she would keep fighting and pop right back up! Thanks Flyaways for a great year!

Awana

Life was simplier when the kids were little. We went to awana each week and all the different Awana events! Now we are always running the older ones around and it is hard to make it to Awana, much less the extra things. I feel bad because I think it is an amazing program. I get them ther as much as I can and they love it! Here is a few fun nights, PJ night with Agent H and crazy hair night with BB and Agent E!

Best buds go to jail!

Agent H came over to our new house in Andover. We need to get thoses 2 together more. We told them now that we live only 5 minutes apart, they could see alot more of each other! Its funny how those things never work out as well as you think they will! Life is busy! I think they will be life long friends! How often do you find a friend born the exact same day! Oh no its a jail break!

Agent E's first day of school!

Most people send their kids to school in Sept. Agent E was not ready to go to Kindgarten. However he was ready to learn. So I decided to home school him. It was fun and he did well.
This winter I went to school and got my real estate license. Now I am very busy and Agent E is getting the short end of the stick. He needs to be with other kids. If I don't have the time to spend with him, then he is bored and lonely!
Do to a lot of different circumstances, we needed to move. Side note, God provided a home for us in Andover! So all the kids had to switch schools in April, sorry guys! When we were signing them up for school Agent E wanted to go to school to! So we decided it would be a good transition for him to start now!
It was tough on the way to school the first day. He was mad that he was not going to school with BB! I however got him a spot at a small charter school. I was so excited, he was mad! Once I brided him, I mean took him to school, he had a great day! He said wow that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be! Followed by after day 2, I kinda like that place, it was fun!

So when most moms feel a little sad in Sept. i felt a little sad in April! My las baby has now gone to school!