We got to watch my Dad's baseball team win on Friday night. The boys had fun eating Grandma's snacks, playing under the bleachers, and running the bases after the game.
Joel and Dad took the boys to town on Saturday, and they came home with this turtle which they found on the road.
Noah loved being outside. He was very busyat Grandma and Grandpa's!!!
Eli loved fishing. They didn't catch many, but he had fun anyway! He is getting quite good at casting.
We had a new experience at our house tonight. After being asleep for two hours, Eli woke up from a bad dream. Then, he continued to moan and groan leading to a trip to the bathroom and a half hour of complaining about how hungry he was. I'm sure he was hungry as he ate his usual one bite of supper. I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but I finally let him get up and have a bowl of cereal (10:30pm). When he was finished, he went right back to bed.
We just happened to be meeting friends at the same park my dad was going to with his 5th graders!
Eli found this page of recipes in his National Geographic Kids magazine, and he really wanted to make the Mexican Sundae. We told him that we could have a Cinco De Mayo party with Craig and Jen and make all of the recipes. However, Joel wasn't too sure about the chicken with chocolate sauce, so I made chicken enchiladas and mexi-rice instead with molletes as appetizers. We had the party a day early because Eli and Katelynn are going to Bible School starting tonight.
The kids loved their Mexican sundaes. I'm not sure how much of the other stuff they ate, but the adults liked it.
Thanks girls for coming over tonight. I had the best time!!!!! PS I owe you still
Craig, Austin and Katelynn met us at dinoland in the mall today. The special ordered size 8 extra wide sandals which will probably be too small by July that we went to the mall to pick up; not so cheap.
For some strange reason, Eli has been asking for spinach (never had it before), so yesterday Joel found a recipe for creamed spinach. The two of them went to the grocery store to get everything they needed, and Joel went to work in the kitchen. Eli took one big bite, and I really wish I would've taken another picture as he was trying to choke it down. He made some of the best faces I've ever seen, and when he finally got the bite down, he said he liked it. Of course he did not want anymore. For the record, the rest of us liked it.
View from the the living room window and out the front door, respectively (after I just shoveled 4 foot snowdrifts). Some of you may think this is a humorous post, but the patriarch of this family is not very happy about this situation whatsoever. Forecast for Ankeny, IA: 56* and sunny. Enough said.
I still have a lot of boxes to empty before I can post pictures of the house. This is the playroom. Originally, this was going to be Eli's room, but when we moved in, he picked the other room. I think it worked out better anyway because this room is much bigger, and it is further away from Joel's office.
yellow fish bridge
Craig and I have decided that we are going to spend the summer going to every park in the area. Yesterday he met us at a park near our houses, and today Eli was requesting the park with a yellow fish that is a bridge. He must've noticed it when we were driving around looking at houses one day because we've never been to this one before. Katelynn got to stay home from daycare today, so she could come with us. 
a trip to urgent care. I was putting one more pile of laundry away before putting Noah to bed, and the boys ran past me into Noah's room (they were running from a zombie). Noah tripped and hit his forehead on the corner of one of the legs of his crib. The good news... #1 -Auntie Jen got us to urgent care at 8:27 (they close at 8:30), so we didn't have to go to the ER. #2 -We got our new insurance cards in the mail yesterday. #3- Although the doctor thought he might have to do stitches because it was such a wide cut, he decided that glue would do the trick. #4- We got there at 8:30 and were home before 9:30. #5- Noah was so good- almost like he knows we could be there again in the future. #6- no blood on the new carpet.
Moving went pretty smoothly (I can say that because I didn't lift anything). We are missing a few items that got left behind when we ran out of room in the truck and left in a hurry Thursday morning. We did however miss the snowstorm, so that was good! Thanks to everyone who helped on both ends. Eli is now ready to move to Texas!
We've got another calculator junkie on our hands. Eli spent half the weekend adding numbers with the calculator on Joel's phone.
Eli and I made a trip to Krista's over the weekend so we could finally meet Brady. We got there on Thursday night just as it started to snow. We didn't do much over the weekend, but with 4 little boys we managed to keep busy and have fun. After church yesterday, we went to my Grandma's for Easter dinner. The kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt, and then we left around 2:00. I wanted to get home before Noah went to bed.
In the spirit of the frogs and lizard theme party, I pulled out this old frog t-shirt for Noah to wear. Eli was pretty sure he was going to wear the shirt instead of Noah, so I suggested that we take a trip to Kohls to look for a different frog shirt. We found one, but Eli picked a bug shirt instead. (Noah ate this whole plate of cake and ice cream and washed it down with Eli's sprite). Thanks for the fun party Grandma!!!!
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Thanks Mom and Dad for the flowers. As you can see, I am not the only one enjoying them. Thank you Cathy and Jennifer for your help today, and thank you husband for taking such good care of the boys and me. 
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