Middle School Basketball

This year Payton went out for the MTMS team.  He made the "A" team and started most of the time except for when he was sick.  It was a lot of fun watching the team this year.  The boys did well and I look forward to next year.  I didn't get many good pictures because I always had Beckym with me so these pictures are ones Scott took when I was home sick. 

Below is the team warming up.

Free throws.

On the bench with some team mates.

Teenager in the house

Well  we now have a teenager in the house.  I cant believe that I now have a 13 year old.  Payton has grown up a lot in the past year.  He now is officially bigger than me and I think he may some day pass up his dad as well.  Below is a picture of Payton on his first day of kindergarten. 

Payton had a DQ cake.  Here he is blowing out his candles. 

I think he is thinking do we they really need to sing to me, I'm too old for this.

Cadynce playing basketball

Cadynce played basketball again this year.  Notice the Hawkeyes colors of their uniforms!

Cadynce taking the ball to the basket.

On the bench watching his team.

He still is a little small compared to everyone else.

Trying to get open.

The team and their coaches.

Beckym turns 4 years old!

It is hard to believe that my baby is already four years old! Looking at the pictures below brings back many memories and my has he gotten stronger, bigger, and tougher.  There is now wander he is very strong willed little boy:) We should have known back then when he was taking off all his tubes and trying to lift his head up when he shouldn't have been.

Now here is all grown up into a little man.  On his birthday I had put a bunch of balloons in his room for his to wake up to.  He thought it was pretty cool!

He wanted to have a dinosaur birthday so that is what he got.  We went and ate at T-Rex.

I had a dinosaur cake made as well.

Opening presents.

I couldn't get a good smile out of him he was being a goof off.

Blowing out the candles all by himself.

Napping

Well Beckym sometimes doesn't always take a nap and when he doesn't he can get into things.  I got Beckym out of his room one afternoon and found this mess in his bathroom.  He found some baby powder under his sink and decided to put it all over his bathroom.

He dumped it on the floor.  Oh and by the way that trash can was also about half full.

Smeared it on the wall.

Rubbed it in to make it look better.

He also filled his sink with the powder which clogged the sink as well.

Now his bathroom sink area has been cleared of anything he can get into!!

Pinterest

I became an addict of pinterest and have done a few projects.  Below I redid my end tables.  

Picture of end table before I started.

After I sanded it.

Then I painted it. I also sanded it after that again and now I am deciding if it is done or if I should do something else to it.  I will post pictures when I am actually finished with this project.

 Decor for Valentines Day.  These say on my island.

Wreath I made for the front door.

Christmas 2011

I know it has been way too long but I am slowly going to catch up.  Below are some Christmas pictures from our Christmas celebration with our own little family. 

Decoration cookies for Santa.  Notice Beckym's shoulder pads with basketball jersey:)

Putting reindeer food out for the reindeer to find their way to our house. 

Elley and Weber got new dog beds in their stockings this year.

Opening stockings when they woke up.

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I think they like their beds!

Beckym excited to see that there are presents under the tree.