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Saturday trip to The Range

Growing up, it always felt like I had two grandmas on my dad’s side.  My Grandma Fran was a twin, which made us the recipients of double the love, homemade bread, and prayers.

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We were able to make a trip up to see my Great Aunt Helen (and introduce her to Shecklet #4) today.  Jake and I got to spend almost 2 hours with her, listening to stories about the early years of her marriage and motherhood.  Meanwhile, my dad’s cousins, Mary & Helen, were kind enough to keep the Shecklets entertained – such a gift!

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After visiting Auntie Helen, we called and left a message for my Aunt Ann and Uncle Gene to see if they wanted to meet us for dinner.  After attempting to decode the message we left, (apparently the background noise of the wind made the message nearly impossible to understand) my uncle called back and invited us to their house for dinner. We had a great time catching up and eating together as a family!

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I am so thankful for this day and the memories we made!

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Minecraft

When left alone in the basement, the boys come up with stuff like this:

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They made Minecraft people, snakes, a creeper and a spider. They’ve yet to play the actual game, but they are fully aware of what the characters look like. The way they use their imaginations blows me away almost every day.

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Pulled

Our oldest Shecklet has had his top right tooth dangling from it’s spot for what seems like forever.  Today we were out in the driveway and I finally convinced him that he needed to pop it out or else I was going to give in to the temptation to do it myself.  Anyway, after a little hesitation on his part, he went inside and five minutes later he returned with the tooth in his hand!

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Shrek on stage

Shecklet #1 received an exciting birthday experience gift from his Aunt Kari. She picked him up this afternoon to take him to the Children’s Theater to see Shrek!

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After the musical, the two went to Perkins for appetizers and pie. Shecklet #1 also came home with a Klutz spaceship kit. (He built the first one 5/26/14.)

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Happy 8th birthday, Shecklet #1!

Happy birthday, Shecklet #1!

Can you believe you’ve been around the sun 8 times?!?  Your dad pointed that out this morning at breakfast. I can remember your birthday like it was yesterday.  I know I say this every year, but you are growing up so fast!  In the past year you’ve figured out how to ride your bike, ride your scooter, jump rope, read, add, subtract, and write in sentences. And your drawing has become so much more detailed. Your love of art and science is evident in almost everything you choose to do and you have enjoyed the Mad Science classes you’ve taken at school as extra-curricular activities.

You have a fun summer ahead!  Golf camp, Play-Net, VBS, and maybe a trip to visit cousins.  Lots of new memories to create!  I’m excited to see what the coming year has in store for you!

XOXO

Mom

Here are the 2014 responses to the annual birthday questions:

  1. What is your favorite color?  Red
  2. What is your favorite toy?  iPad
  3. What is your favorite fruit?  Apple & Blueberries
  4. What is your favorite TV show?  Arthur (on PBS Kids)
  5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  sandwiches
  6. What is your favorite outfit?  shorts
  7. What is your favorite game?  Mancala
  8. What is your favorite snack?  Cheetos
  9. What is your favorite animal?  Giraffe
  10. What is your favorite song?  “Ants Go Marching”  (not the DMB version 🙂 )
  11. What is your favorite book?  Geronimo Stilton books
  12. Who is your best friend?  Max (from the bus in the afternoon)
  13. What is your favorite cereal?  Life  (It’s what you had for breakfast this morning.)
  14. What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Jump rope
  15. What is your favorite drink?  Lemonade
  16. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas
  17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night?  Monkeys
  18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  cereal
  19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday?  Mac-n-cheese
  20. What do you want to be when you grow up?  Teacher
  21. What is your favorite movie?  Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
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Easter 2014

Easter morning came early for us this year.  In order to make it to mass on time (7:30 am) with all six of us dressed in our Easter finery, my alarm went off just a tad before 5:30 am.  I longed to hit the snooze button just one more time (I had already pressed it 4 times) but I manged to get myself out of bed to start the day.  The kids were wonderfully chipper and got ready without incident.  If there’s one perk to attending the “early” mass on Easter, it’s being able to arrive at the church 10 minutes prior to mass beginning and still get a front row pew.  And we had all the space we needed, which comes in handy now that Shecklet #4 is a wiggler/mover.

After mass, the kids searched for their Easter baskets and were treated to some new duds, flip-flops, gum, Holy Heroes cd’s and a few chalk activities for the driveway.

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A little while later, we packed up and headed to Jake’s grandparents’ house to have brunch with family and friends.  The weather was gorgeous – we couldn’t have asked for a nicer day.

Once we returned home, we let the older kids break out the sidewalk chalk paint.  (We have yet to bust open the new box of chalk.  I don’t know who is more excited – me or the kids!)

I was hoping to snap a few more photos today, but instead chose to just enjoy the moment and conversations taking place around me.  I did capture a few pictures of relatives we don’t get to see very often as well as one of Lincoln with Uncle Mark.  They were sporting similar hair styles 🙂

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The Lego Movie

Jake has been extra busy at work, so his time with the kids has been limited. With the temps so low and snow piles so high, he opted to take the Big 3 Littles to a movie this afternoon.

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It’s Little #3’s first experience in a movie theater.

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He texted me these pictures and said,  “They’re so excited, they won’t let go of their tickets.”

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Cars in “snow”

Thank you Pinterest…specifically frugalfun4boys.com

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Shaving cream and Hotwheels. We can’t go outside, so we’re pretending we are playing in the snow.

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Little #3 thinks it “smells like man!”

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Morning art

Little #1 and Little #2 have an art fair coming up at school next month. They decided they wanted to paint pictures with watercolor paints. They sketched their pictures and then painted. It is so fun to see their imaginations at work.

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Not to be left out, Little #3 had her turn with finger paints and water colors.

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