Jon and Kim, we got our tickets today!!! We are coming out on the 22nd with Mom and Marvin. We are leaving on Sunday, the kids and I will be on our own on the way home. yikes :) Rickey isn't coming, but he wishes you the best.

Jake tried out for a play in school today called Snow White and the 7 dwarfs. He did such a great job. He got the part of a bat. Hmmm. He is soooo excited. ( I am excited for him too)

Gone fishing (again) ;)

Well, we are off to go fishing again. I'm taking my camera this time to catch all of the fun. Jake is outside digging for worms for us. I'm very excited, though a little nervous.

Fishing

Jake has been begging Rickey for days now to get his fishing license so he can take him fishing. On Saturday Jake literally asked Rickey every 15 minutes. Anyways, I felt bad for him and bought some fishing poles and stuff today, and took him fishing. You should have seen me in the fishing department. It was like I was looking at things in a foreign language:) I've been fishing before, but everything was always set up for me.
After buying the fishing poles we had to come home and dig for worms. Kate kept pulling the worms into little pieces so I went to my mom's so she could watch her while we looked for more worms. We went into her backyard and she lifted up a rock and we found a nightcrawler. Jake was convinced that it was a baby snake and ran away as fast as he could.( It was pretty gross. I had a hard time picking it up.) We left Kate at my mom's and went to get a fishing license for myself. Rickey happened to be driving through town at that time and stopped and got his too.
We (Jake, Rickey, Cody and I ) went to the lake and started setting our stuff up. Jake could NOT believe that we actually had to put the hook through the worm. This was his first time fishing. He kept wanting to reel the line in right away too. He didn't like just sitting and watching the bobber. Cody ended up playing at the park and Rickey went home to work on his truck. We caught a few fish. We were going to do one more cast before we left . I was untangling Jakes fishing line and I felt something wrap around my neck and then scratch my back. I looked over and Cody was holding his fishing pole saying, Sorry, Sorry , Sorry. He tried to cast it out and ended up wrapping it around my neck instead. We decided to go home after that.
Anyways, we had such a great time. I laughed and laughed all night. They are so funny. I will never forget the look on Jake's face when he found out that we had to put the hook through the worm , or the look on Cody's face when he wrapped his fishing line around me and got the hook stuck to my back. ( Thank goodness my neighbor was there , she helped me get the hook out of the back of my shirt.) I just love being a mom. I love my kids soooo much. I feel so blessed to be able to have such sweet spirits living with me.

JUST HORSIN' AROUND

We have been taking the kids to see the horses at Ed's farm since Jake was a little guy. (He always had to wear his snakeskin cowboys boots over there :) ) Kate was scared at first but now she feeds the horses and the chickens like a pro. Cody likes to feed them too, he makes sure they all get the same amount, he doesn't want anyone left out.

Kate's car

Watch out, here I come!!!

Kaylee tried out her new car today. It was so funny to watch. She doesn't understand the concept of steering so she just pushes the gas pedal and runs into anything and everything in her way. What she really needs is a 4 wheel drive truck :)

Some pictures of Jon and Kim. They are busy getting ready for the wedding. Memorial weekend is coming up soon!! Seattle, here we come!

Happy Birthday Cody!!

Cody turned 5 on April 8th. What a big boy!!!
Birthday Spankings :)

Cody and all of his new toys at Grandma's house.

We had Cody's birthday party along with Easter dinner at Grandma Jeri's house. We blew up balloons and put them all over the living room, and we yelled surprise when he came in. He was so scared, he almost cried.

Easter Morning

Our Beautiful Kate!!

The kids

I think this is my brother Dan, not sure though.

on the way home from the airport

I guess this is my blog, no one else adds to it so....... I will have to put some more interesting things here.

Well, I thought spring was here. It was 85 * a few weeks ago. Now we are under a snow advisory. We could get 3-5 inches. Oh well, I guess that's what you get in Wisconsin. I took Jake to the doctor today and the doctor said his collarbone is healing nicely. He should be able to get back to his normal activities next week. Thank goodness! I caught him jumping on the trampoline the other day. It makes me nervous because he is kind of clumsy :) I was so worried that he was going to fall and hurt that broken bone. Now I don't have to worry until the next broken bone:) Cody is going to be 5 years old on Sunday. I can not believe how fast time flies. It feels like just yesterday he was a goofy little toddler singing his medleys. Kaitlynn is growing like a weed too. She still isn't talking much, but she using her own sign language and we know what she wants. She loves to go places. Anytime someone gets their shoes on to go somewhere, she is right behind them with Jake or Cody's shoes on and her jacket.

Grandma and Mom went to Hawaii for a month. Here are some of their beautiful pictures.

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Pictures of Mom and Grandma on their cruise around the islands.

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I guess it rained a little bit while they were there:)

wooohoooo !!!!!!!!!!!!! ?????????????????????

(I love you Mom! ) Check out the look on her face, I think she likes speedos.