Thursday, April 19, 2012

Driver's Ed

Megan finished driver's ed last week and is all ready to take her driver's test and get her license. I am really excited for her but very nervous at the same time. She can drive all by herself next Friday if she passes her test. Keep your fingers crossed.
Megan's last drive at class.
Alex and I went over to the park while we waited for Megan. It was nice out for a change and we have never been park people so we decided to go check it out. We were laughing at how packed it was. Obviously everyone was excited to be able to finally go outside.
I just thought this was cute and he didn't even argue about me taking it!!!!!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter

We had a really fun Easter around here. We got up to some presents, searched for eggs, and went to brunch. What could be better?Megan and Olivia did a great job of coloring our Easter eggs on Saturday.
Alex was excited about his Easter basket. He got a pair of shorts, a t-shirt, and candy.
Megan was to cool to admit a bunny had brought her a basket full of stuff but I reassured her that was really what had happened.
Alex broke into his reese's eggs within five minutes.
Alex had his basket all ready to search for those beautiful eggs that Megan had colored. Somehow they were spread out all over our downstairs. :)
Megan was also to cool to use her basket. She had to stash all of her eggs in her sweatshirt.
The bunny did an awesome job of hiding eggs this year!!!!! :)
After our morning full of fun at home we headed over to Tony and Suzy's house for brunch. Alex was really excited to take a picture with me.
Tony and Suzy's mom's talking up a storm in the kitchen.
We had so much good food. I was so stuffed when we finally finished eating. That was after my third trip through of course!!!!!
Megan got an early Birthday present from Tony and Suzy. It is a two hour limo ride for 8 people. She was so excited and has been planning when to use it. I am pretty sure that none of us adults are going to be invited for the ride!!!!!
We had a really fun day and even got to enjoy some sunshine. Hopefully that sticks around for awhile. It was really nice!!!!!!!!!

Monday, April 2, 2012

Arizona!!!!!!

I got to go to Arizona last week for Heidi's Birthday. It was so much fun and they have this huge yellow circle in the sky that puts you in such a good mood. I didn't have to wear 10 layers of clothes everywhere that I went and I only needed my jacket at night. What a crazy thought!!!!!When I got up on Friday morning Marie and Jacob were already hard at work on the birthday cake.
Jacob did an excellent job at decorating them all by himself. They looked perfect.
The whole family, Lloyd, Marie, Heidi, Jeff and Jacob.
Heidi and I. I didn't do to good with my camera again. I was there for 5 days and this would be the only day I remembered to get it out. I really need to pay better attention.
Look at that beautiful cake. Jacob even managed to buy the candles that don't blow out.
We went out to dinner on Friday night and then went and watched some bull riding. They were real bulls, not the mechanical ones I thought we were going too. :)
Heidi, Jacob and Marie.
I had so much fun with everyone and can't wait to go back!!!!!!!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

St. Patricks Day

Sometimes I just crack myself up with the dumb things we do around here. Yesterday was St. Patricks Day so we had to go green. We had green milk, green eggs and green butter for breakfast and then I made dinner. My folks used to make corned beef and sauerkraut every year and I always hated it so I decided that after twenty years maybe I would have acquired a taste for it so I went all out. We had corned beef, green potatoes, green french bread, green butter, and green deviled eggs. The corned beef is just as disgusting as I remember and no one else in the house liked it either so we ended up eating green cake with green frosting for our main dish with all of our green side dishes. It was a delicious dinner!!!!!!!
It's all about the green!!!!!!!
We had a really good dinner and the cake was so much better than the corned beef. We won't try to do that again!!!!!

Another choir concert

Megan had another choir concert at school. I feel like we were just at one but we got to go again.
Mike was really excited to be there. He loves to go listen to the beautiful music.
This is Alex's happy face. He really enjoys the music also.
Megan really enjoys it when we try to take her picture during the program. It is fun to watch her try to be serious. I don't think it's in her nature.
They had another good program. It was fun to go and listen to the progress that all of the choirs have made.

Congratulations Mike

Mike got a new job!!!! His Boss is retiring and they posted his job so Mike put in for it and after a couple rounds of interviews they called with the good news that he had gotten the job. As soon as they get Mike's replacement hired he will be able to start and that means his weeks of traveling to Spokane are almost over. He is really excited about the new job and being able to work out of an office instead of traveling all week. He has to start in Marysville until he gets on his own and then he can move his office to Kent which will be nice. His new official title is Fleet Manager. Yeah!!!
We made a cake and had a couple of presents waiting for him when he got home from Spokane on Friday.
Megan put streamers and balloons up all over the house.
He was really excited when he made it home. :)
He had also received a package from the Union Hall. He got his twenty year pin and a certificate.
We gave him a lovely family photo to put on his new desk and a shirt that doesn't have grease stains on it!!!!!
Alex was ready to eat the cake. It was really good.
Everyone is excited for him to get started and see how he likes it. It will be really weird to have him home during the week. I guess we will have to start eating a real dinner. I don't think he would like the chicken nuggets and french fries that the kids and I eat all week.
Congratulations Mike!!!!!!

Vegas, through Megan's eye's!!!!!

I always love to look at all of the pictures that Megan takes. She did another fine job capturing some really good ones while we were in Vegas. Here is a small preview!!!!!
I think this is the one she took out of the sunroof as we drove by. :)













This is just a few of the ones that she took but I really like them. I wish we could go back so that she could get some more!!!!!