A Note from Sam

James called Sam stupid so Sam retaliated. :)  I'm so glad they're learning how to work these things our for themselves. :)
(Note says, "You Stink")

Baseball Frenzy

Sam has decided that he is going to be a baseball player.  We think his new found love for the game has stemmed from his love for watching Charlie Brown and the fact that he plays baseball.  Sam is out there 3 or 4 times a day having up pitch to him so he can learn to hit home runs.  He has a great eye and makes some pretty good contact.  If we could just get him to work on his arm a little more he'd be ready for spring baseball.

A Lego Weekend

We finally did it.  We finally dumped our HUGE Lego bin and organized it.  James has really wanted a "Robin-mobile" like his Bat-mobile.  Well, they don't make one, so I thought, no problem, I can make one, we have tons of extra pieces.  Well, having a lot of pieces doesn't make it easy if they are all mixed together.  So, that did it.  We had to do something about it, so we did.  It took probably about 5 or 6 hours, but we got it done.  It is so nice to finally have it all organized and put away so that we can actually use them when needed.

 Do you know how long it takes to find all the people and their parts?!?!

Now all we have to do is organize their Lego closet and rebuild sets that have been broken.  Yeah for us! :)

 Here's my Robin-mobile.  I know, pretty amazing, right?!  Thankfully James as happy with it, because that's about as good as I get on my own!

 

 The kids also got their Lego Club Magazines in the mail this weekend.  They are so funny.  I love how they just study them and have to look at everything in them.  I remember being their age and loving getting mail.

Sending Grandma our Love

One of our most favorite things to do lately is FaceTime with Grandma and Grandpa T.  They are in Spain right now and we are so glad, that even though they are 1,000s of miles away, we can still see them and talk to them daily if we want.  Whenever something exciting happens the kids now ask if we can call Grandma and Grandpa T and tell them.  I just love that!

We decided that it was been WAY too long since we had sent them anything so we got to work.  I made some cute little holiday crafts to send to my mom to do and the kids made them great Easter crafts.  Sam made a chick that said "Happy Easter", James made a birdie, and Chloe made a bunny.  I then had to make my dad a bike.  He is always teasing me that I never get his bike pieces in the packages I send him, so we thought this would be funny.

We just can't wait until they get it now so we can see if they like it all.

My Precious

Yes, my kids are as nerdy as their father and I love it.  Sam has been walking around the last few days with this ring around his neck, held on by Lego chains.  I don't know if he's just sensitive to it or not, but he has been pretty irritable and touchy lately.  We may have to take it off him soon before it affects him too much! :)

Scheels

We finally went to Scheels.  For months we were trying to figure out what they were building off the freeway.  When we found out it was a Scheels we then had to go look up what that was.  So of course it took us months to finally go.  People had been talking about how fun it was for kids to go so we decided that we had nothing better to do on this dark snowy day, so off we went.

The store was amazing.  I loved the fish tanks.  They had such a great variety of colorful and interesting fish.  From there we went upstairs and saw the "mountain" covered in animals.  They were amazing.  We also loved all the booths they had set up through out the store.  We ended our trip by riding the huge Ferris wheel that was in the middle of the store.  The kids just giggled and giggled at being so high up. 

 Sam being strangely cryptic as he pretended to be "Two-Face" and flipped his Ferris wheel token like a coin to make his decisions! :)

Perfect Day for a BBQ

(Don't know why this picture is side ways...)
We thought that since it was barely snowing it seemed like just the right time to fire up the grill and make some burgers! ;)  Love doing this in the winter.  The smell of the grill seems to warm my insides.

Snuggles First Official Walk

It was just too beautiful to stay inside today so we decided it was high time that Snuggles was taken on a proper walk.  The kids were ecstatic.  They ran the whole way and had to take turns holding the leash.  We actually had to take a much needed pit stop at the park so everyone could catch their breath from all the excitement.  They kids had a blast playing while Snuggles was in heaven with all the smells that were surrounding her.  I got to play with the kids and sit in the sun and soak it up.  It was very therapeutic.

I LOVE YOU day

We had a great Valentine's Day!  The kids woke up to fun surprises and festive shirts.  (I don't go over board or anything on the holidays!) ;)  You can never go wrong with candy, Legos, and puppies at this house!

 We then had a fun breakfast of heart pancakes.  They were delicious.

 Dad had to go to work, so it was big Valentine's Day hugs for him!

It was off to Dad and then Sam had to get ready for school.  He was so excited to take his teacher the heart Lego he had made her.