Saturday...

was a beautiful day in Iowa! We spent the whole day outside!

bikes

Noah is showing off on his new hand-me-down. He will however get a NEW bike helmet. This one we found in Jennifer's garage. Eli is reading this as I'm writing and wants me to point out that Noah is standing on and riding his new bike. Yes, this is our wild child for sure!!!! Eli loves his birthday gift from Grandma Cathy and Don! Maybe one day he'll actually be able to use it a home.

My boys

Chase, Jake, Eli, Luke and Noah

final birthday party

On Sunday, we had the highly anticipated "Tranformers Birthday" at Grandma Cathy's. Grandma and Aunt Linda put on a fabulous birthday dinner!!! It was fun to have Grandma, Don, Jennifer, Rich, the cousins, Aunt Linda, Chase, Jake and Luke there to help celebrate. It's not a party unless we have a pinata. This one had strings to pull, so we didn't have to get out the baseball bat.

Thanks Aunt Jennifer for making the yummy cake!

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Who needs dolls???

Ella: Eww... "You pooped."

Heidi: "Who pooped?"

Ella: "The triceratops pooped."

Noah took off for his room and brought back a diaper for Ella.

Spring Fever

Finally...... it's been warm enough to spend some time outside.

so much for being good!

On the drive to Grandpa Jim's, Grace and Eli started their own club. You had to be covered in marker in order to join.

Birthday Boy

We spent Friday afternoon at Chuck E. Cheeses with my family and some friends to celebrate Eli's 5th birthday.

Jennifer, Rich and kids got to our house late Friday to spend the night and left yesterday to continue on their journey. They are spending their spring break at Grandpa Jim's house, and they took Eli with them. Hopefully he's being good. It's very quiet around here. Noah cried for a few minutes when he realized that he wasn't going with, but then he got excited and announced, "I'm going to Eli's room!"

Girls' night

Thanks for the most random day ever ladies! As Erin said, next time, it's board games and coca cola!

Friday night fun

Katelynn was here for a sleepover on Friday night, and my awesome husband took over. First, he made this fabulous fort which the kids LOVE, and I'm not quite sure how I'm going to be able to take it down tonight (the fort has doubled in size and now takes up most of the playroom)! Then he set up his movie theater complete with popcorn and candy (Katelynn was a little disappointed that they got water instead of pop to drink).

Finally, he converted the fort into a sleeping tent where Eli and Katelynn spent the night.

The best day ever!

As Eli and Joel were driving home from "Donuts with Dad" at preschool, Eli said, "I can't wait until the next March 6th". He also filled up his sticker chart today, and recieved 4 more Magic Tree House books in the mail.

*His last shipment of books was for Valentine's Day, and this next set was supposed to wait for his birthday (next Friday). However, after he finished his last book, Eli informed Joel that they would now have to start over with #1, so Joel called "The Magic Tree House Fairy" aka Grandma Cathy!!! Thanks Cathy; we have one happy boy on our hands!

Dr. Jack & Dr. Noah

Jack and Noah decided to "fix" me today, so they got out this puzzle. After using the measuring tape to see how big I am (1 inch), my head, hands, fingers, and feet were taken off with the saw, my skin was scraped off with the screwdriver, my eyes were taken out with the pliers, and they hammered nails into my stomach. It must be time to invest in a new doctor kit!

A preview...

of the 2012 U.S. gymnastics team.

Joel, Austin, and Noah finished their routines before the camera came out.

STUCK

Yep, that's Craig and Joel trying to get Erin out of our driveway this afternoon! Have I mentioned how much my husband is enjoying his first Minnesota winter?

Brothers

I love these facial expressions!


As for the reason I took the pictures.........
I heard some story involving Grace, Eli and DON writing on foreheads?!?!?!?
Eli asked Joel to put the "X" on his head, and then took it upon himself to decorate his brother with an "O".

Tank Tops in February

Jack was our fashion leader today!

Happy Birthday Brady!

It's hard to believe this little guy will be one next week! We all met at a hotel this afternoon for swimming and a little pizza party.

Mr. No Fear spent a VERY long time on this little slide before he decided that it was time to move to the big slide. From there, we had to go jump on logs with Zach and Eli.

Time to add another one???? Joel informed me tonight that he has a boy named picked out...Sil (he was watching square dancing at the time of the announcement). Craig and Jen, it must be your turn!

Erin, I feel your transformer pain

Eli and Jack LOVE transformers. Jack has been asking me for days to transform Optimus Prime. It took me almost an hour, but for the first time since we got this thing in December, he is finally in car mode. I think I was more excited than the boys were!

My Personal Interior Decorator

SOMEONE has been putting random pieces of "art" on the walls. I did hang the snowman myself, but I was told EXACTLY where to put it.

"Mom, I need a piece of string and two pieces of tape". Maybe I should've asked why!

another superhero

Hooked Together Tummy Man and Belly Button Boy

Superheroes

Introducing..... Underwear Man and Diaper Boy

Daddy is home.

Good thing too! After Eli got mad at me during his bedtime routine on Thursday night, he wouldn't let me read with him and said he was never reading with me again. So far, he has stuck to that.P.S. Grandma Connie and Grandpa Steve,
Eli says his parents are not weird, but mine are.

one track mind

Noah kept asking where his Spiderman costume was today. I told him several times that it was being washed. I thought he finally forgot about it, but this is where I found him about an hour later.