Thursday, March 31, 2016

A Little Spring Break Vacation

Isaac, Christian, Jeremiah, and I went to McCormick's Creek State Park for 3 days, just to get out of town for a little Spring Break vacation.  Sarah, unfortunately, was really busy with nursing school so she couldn't make it.  Abby is starring in "Alladin" at Kingsway and needed to be a drama practice.  Elijah was busy with other things, I guess.

The campground was pretty much empty except for a few families who had the same idea as me.  The weather was great for camping, the playground was in full view, and there were some nice kids that the boys made friends with.

We did the usual McCormick's creek stuff.  We went to the waterfall and walked along the creek.  People fell in of course.  We chucked rocks at various other rocks and in the water.

There was a trip into Spencer to pick up supplies, and eat at Mcdonald's for lunch.  I can tell you that they had too many cookies, pepsis, and ice creams.  They also had glow-sticks each night, and a campfire was going most of the time.  There was only one burn, an ember popped out and landed in Jeremiahs shoe.  He got a boo boo, so we went back into Spencer for ointment and Band-aids to make it feel better.

In total we played 4 games.  We played Catan twice, then Castle Ravenloft, and Ticket to Ride.  I tried to manage my phone and customer calls during the time.  I read a Time magazine that I bought at Marsh all about Alexander Hamilton, which was very interesting.

I'm looking forward to a season of more wins with the camper.



























All good things come to an end.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

We Found a Stick Hut

Isaac, Christian, Jeremiah, and I were hiking through Southwestway Park and found this stick hut.  It was very easy to find, because it is right next to a main trail, yet a trail we rarely go on.  We favor another trail normally, but today decided to explore the rest of the park.  Isaac declared that it was an old Indian hut, so we went with that.















Sunday, March 13, 2016

Jan/Feb

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything.  The months have been quite a blur.  Busy busy busy!




This was taken some time in January...we were waiting for Isaac to finish practice so we went to the park.  Such a WARM day for January!



Isaac had a fun season of basketball!  

Jeremiah and Christian started upward again.  Jeremiah loves to play basketball.


Isaac's group got GOLD at solo & ensemble competition


And my little buddy Christian had surgery.  He had to have his tonsils & adenoid removed. 
It was very hard on him.

After about 2 weeks he started to feel a tiny bit better.  We had to force him to eat...but it's always a lot more fun with a friend.


I got to go hang out at school with Jeremiah for his Valentines Day party! 

We really spent the ENTIRE month of February trying to get Christian to eat something to regain his health and strenth...

Finally a little better, so we had a dance party.  Grandma even made an appearance!


Abby and her friends performed their ensemble piece, it was great!


Making cards for people he loves


We had some friends over for dinner.


Abby and our friend/neighbor Fairy


I don't know what is going on here...

Christian started hemorrhaging 17 days after his surgery so he needed to have it recauterized. At this point we were wondering if he'd ever get better & return to school.  At least his teacher sent all of his work home and I was able to help him stay caught up.


Formulating a plan to win the game :)


FINALLY Christian got better!  We decided to take advantage of it and go to the park with friends. 


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