Birthday Party 1

This year, we are having two parties for Landon to make it easier on Great Nanny and Pappap. Today, we kicked-off the birthday weekend with "party #1". We had a small gathering at our house with Grandma, Pappy Rick, Uncle Doug, Uncle Mike, Megan, Zack and Tyler. He wanted the Star Wars lego theme. He wanted Captain Rex and it was spot on! Our cake lady did an AWESOME job. We loved it and SO DID LANDON! He also got really great gifts. We got him the Star Wars turbo tank (that's what he wanted). We were joking around with him all day telling him he was going to get Barbie legos and when he opened it up he said "I'm so glad it wasn't Barbie!" Landon and Lukas were both really excited about his Forest Police Station from Uncle Mike and Megan. After we had cake and ice-cream, we had a lego building party. Everyone was building something. Landon kept asking Lukas if he could have this or that and we had to keep telling him that these were all his toys, not Lukas's. He had a really great day and is excited about tomorrow, too! We love you, Landon~ Mommy, Daddy and Lukas

Recorder!

Lukas is learning to play a recorder in music class. We ordered this at the beginning of the school year and they arrived and he's beginning. Ben and I remember when we had recorders in school. They were these really cheap flute-a-phones. We both recall that they were white with a red mouth piece. The recorders today are really nice. It looks like a clarinet and it even came with a case and cleaning wand. We were pretty impressed. Lukas is very excited about learning to play his recorder!

Valentine's Day!

We made our traditional Valentine sugar cookies. Landon really helped us out this time, and of course, he was the first to dive into the cookies after we finished. Lukas is our best helper. He hangs in there till the very end. He's getting so good at decorating sugar cookies. The boys had a wonderful day!

This year both boys wanted Star War Valentine's. They sure do make our job easy:)

Landon had his first Valentine's party at school. He is leader of his class this week. Which means we are in charge of snacks all week. It's also his birthday week! We made special treats for his classmates for his party and also made a special "Valentine's Snack." He picked out applesauce, pink juice boxes, and outer space gold fish. Mommy put heart stickers all around the applesauce bowl and put a tiny heart sticker on a plastic spoon for each child. Then put everything in a "Valentine's Snack" bag. On Thursday, we'll send in birthday cupcakes! He's really excited about school this week.

Lukas didn't want to send in a Valentine's treat. He only wanted to pass out his Valentine's. He's growing up way too fast:(

XOXO♥HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY♥XOXO

Pirates Cove Waterpark

Today, we went to a birthday party at Conley Resort. They have a Pirate themed indoor water park. We were the first party to arrive, so we had the pool all to ourselves for the first hour. The boys had a blast! Great place, we are definitely going to have to take them back.

Enjoy the pics! Happy 7th Birthday, Tyler!

100th Day of School!

Today was Lukas's 100th day of school.

He was super excited this morning to go on his 100th day. Not only was it the 100th day, but also Groundhog Day. His teacher made a fun, big deal out of today. Lukas got a "100th day" bracelet, a Groundhog Day homework pass, some really cool poems, and colored a picture – he predicted 6 more weeks. He guessed right, Groundhog Phil saw his shadow!

Landon also had school today and learned about Groundhog Day. He made a really cute craft. It's a toilet paper roll, popsicle stick with a groundhog head glued at the top of the stick. He put the stick through the roll and pops the head up. He said "Oh-uh, the groundhog saw his shadow. He's going back to sleep for 6 more weeks." So simple~So adorable!

Here are a couple poems that Lukas brought home:

~*~100 Days of School~*~

Ready to celebrate?

It's the 100th day of school.

We've studied hard each day.

Learning is cool.

We've made many friends.

Here at school.

What fun it is to say we've been at school 100 days!

100 days, 100 days,

100 days of school.

We've been in school 100 days.

We think that's really cool!

100 days, 100 days,

100 days of school.

We've been in school 100 days.

We love to be in school!

Sly little Groundhog

According to a legend

That started long ago,

There's a little furry animal

Who knows something we don't know.

He builds his home beneath the ground,

then curls into a ball.

He sleeps and sleeps the months away.

He eats no food at all.

Then, on February second,

he steps from his warm bed.

He rubs his eyes, and stretches,

and shakes his sleepy head.

He waddles up the ramp he built;

his message must be told.

He saw his shadow on the ground,

We have six more weeks of cold!

Pack 553 Pinewood Derby

Lukas's Pack Derby was Sunday at 2:00. The Pack did a great job fundraising this year and we got a brand new stainless steel track. It even came with software that you can project onto a wall. The Cub Master set everything up to show the boys that were racing and right below which boys were on deck. It was really nice.

Lukas didn't have the fastest or slowest car, but it definitely looked extremely awesome. His car actually got faster with each race. He was a little bummed that he didn't win the "big trophy", but he did get a participation trophy. Which was a great hit with all the boys.

Mother's Ring

I've been wanting a mother's ring and we've been looking around for a couple years. A few weeks ago, we stopped into a jewelry store and Ben bought my MOTHER'S RING! I LOVE IT!!! Lukas is the emerald (which is the most expensive birth stone) and Landon is the amethyst. When we picked up the ring, it was perfect. What's really amazing is that green and purple are my favorite colors, they are complementary colors, and those were also the colors for our wedding. Wow, talk about meant to be. God is Great!

Thank you so much Benjamin...I LOVE YOU! ~Kelly

Bad to the Bone!

Last weekend, Lukas worked on his Pinewood Derby car and did an AWESOME JOB!

He picked out his template, decided he wanted to paint it black, and then picked out these "bad to the bone" decals. His car template turned out really neat with the decals because the front end looks like flames. He painted that red/orange with a fire effect. Of course, his artist mother was teaching him some cool techniques:) He even has cool flame pipes on the sides. Those are actually weights that he picked out this year. We all can't wait to see how his car does. His pack derby is this Sunday!

We are very proud of you Lukas!

*~**Fun in the snow*~**~*

We haven't posted much this month because we've been very busy and exhausted. This post should have been posted last weekend.

We haven't had much snow this winter and last weekend the boys were so excited that we got enough that they could play in. We bundled them up and they played outside for over 2 hours. Lukas loves to throw snowballs and Landon loves to eat the snow. Mommy went out and helped them build a snowman. Daddy would wonder out once in a while and throw a couple snowballs at them:) We all hope we get some more snow this winter!

Happy New Year!

Our Charlie Brown tree

Finally, we took down our tree. We definitely would have done this the day after Christmas, but we heard that it's bad luck if you take your tree down before New Year's. As we took the ornaments and lights off, it sounded like rain in our house. By the time that Ben got the tree outside, it had no needles left! All we could do was laugh through the whole thing. It took us all day to clean.