Brandon's turns 7

This year Brandon decided he wanted to have a Hockey Party so we planned a party at the college with:
• Floor Hockey
• Popcorn & Nachos
• Hockey Bingo
• Hockey puck Piñata - and hitting it with a hockey stick of coarse
I created a hockey trading card for the birthday invitation and Charlie, Taylor and I all wear referee jerseys. All in all it was lots of great fun!

A free scrapbook design by Smilebox

Wow what a Week!

The week of Brandon's Birthday turned out to be quit a week for our family. It all started on Wednesday night when Caleb got sick (stomach flu). On Thursday night Emily got sick, then Friday night Taylor got sick. Saturday afternoon we managed to pull off Brandon's birthday party with six of his friends (thank goodness it was at the college and not our house). Unfortunately, later that night Charlie got sick. Then on Sunday night (Brandon's actual birthday) he got sick. Even though he started feeling better on Monday afternoon he starting show signs of pink eye and before we knew it Brandon and I both had pink eye in both eyes.   Fortunately, no one else in our family got pink eye and we are all healthy once again.  Wow what a long week filled with very little sleep and TONS of laundry!  Hope we don't repeat a week like this anytime soon!

Emily’s New Accessory

Last Saturday all the kids were in the basement having fun jumping on our mats and somehow Emily fell and hurt her arm.  We are not really sure what happened but Emily started crying and after a few minutes we knew it was more than a little bump.  She is a pretty tough kid and typically does not cry much after a fall or bump, but this time she would not settle down so we took her to the emergency room and sure enough they found a small hair line crack hence the beautiful sling.  At first I thought this was going to be a disaster, but actually it has not been too bad.  She has done a good job keeping it on and we can see improvement in her mobility and it is not nearly as sensitive.  As you can see she is in good spirits!

Christmas Fun

This is a little late, but I guess better late than never . We spent Christmas this year at home in Iowa as a family. It was a fun relaxing week filled with games, legos, movies, play-doh and great family time! Here some photos of all the fun.



Christmas day - the view out our backdoor!





Taylor having fun with the Play-doh



Caleb excited about his new truck



Taylor and her new scooter



Emily - just being cute!

Caleb, Emily and Taylor all having fun with the play-doh

One of many lego sets that was built throughout the week.

New hats -new hockey net and lots of fun!

Another lego built

Merry Christmas

Brandon ~ 1st Grade Gingerbread House

Our local school has a great tradition where all the first graders get to make a gingerbread house out of gram crackers.  They get to invite someone to come help and since Charlie helped Taylor two years ago Brandon selected me.  It is lots of fun and Brandon created one very cool gingerbread house. 

Brandon with his house

the backside

Christmas Cookies

 Last Saturday, Charlie, Taylor and Brandon decided they wanted to make gingerbread cookies so here is some pictures of all the fun!