Football

Today was David's last football game. It's been a good season although I think their final record was 2-4-1 (I'm not exactly sure, I lost count) but they played good and had fun. I've put some pictures in a gallery on the blog called "football". This picture may not seem like such a great one to use to brag on his season, but I'm especially proud ... David made that touchdown!!
~Kati

1st Day of School

Well, we all made it through the first day of school. The boys both seem to like their teachers. David's a little bummed, his best friend isn't in his class this year. I think Jonathan was a little disappointed he didn't have homework tonight ... I'm sure once he actually starts getting some that attitude will change quickly. :-)
~Kati

Are we ready for some FOOTBALL??

I hope so ... David is playing Rocket Football this year. He's already started practice and really likes it. He modeled his uniform for me the other day -- everybody root for #93!!

Back To School

It's hard to believe, but this summer is almost over. It sure did fly by fast. Tonight was open house at school. The kids got to find out who their teachers are and see their classrooms. The boys are at grandma and grandpa's this week, so I took some pictures so they could see their rooms and know what to expect next week. Jonathan is in the team taught class ... the big room.

Sunny Smiles from Six Lakes

We hope you all are enjoying this warm weather we have been having. We have been enjoying our pool a lot!!

1st trip to the ER

Well, we've now made our first trip to the ER ... in a way I'm surprised I made it over 9 years as a mom before having to take one :-) Jonathan was on the swing set and says he was twisting while swinging and got out of control and ended up hitting the side of the play set. Put a nice gash in his head, so we drove over to Lakeview to the ER (there is a very small hospital over there) and they stapled him back together. Guess that's why little boys should learn to just swing and not mess around ...
~Kati

David's Music Program -- Not

Well scratch that ... I guess they only let you put 10 minute long things on there. I'll have to look for other options. Sorry

David's Music Program

Thought you might like a chance to see some (or all) of David's music program. Videos I've put up previously have been on Google Video, but that basically doesn't exist anymore, so I'm trying YouTube (which it appears is run by Google -- go figure) ... we'll see how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfvrE876zc
Kati

Visiting the Dinosaurs

Well, I'm a little late in posting this ... over spring break the boys and I took another day trip with our friends the Davidson's. We went to the Grand Rapids Public Museum to see their dinosaur exhibit. It was a very fun day and we saw lots of interesting things. The dinosaur exhibit had a lot of hands-on stuff like the "digging for dinosaur bones" area. We also got to see a show in the planetarium that is inside the museum.

Happy Birthday David!

Hard to believe, but today was David's 9th birthday. Both boys enjoyed playing with the Tinkertoys he got.

David's Basketball Debut

David participated in the youth basketball clinic offered at school in November/December. As part of that program he got to play in short little games during the 1/2 times of a couple of the "big kid's" games recently. Thought we'd share some pictures (sorry, they aren't the best quality -- my camera doesn't take very good pictures in the gymnasium ...) These were taken at his first game which was during 1/2 time of a girls jv game. He also got to play last night at 1/2 time of the boys varsity. He really enjoyed playing!

~Kati

A Spur of the Moment Outing!

This morning Julie Davidson called and asked what we were doing today because she was thinking of taking an outing to the MI Historical Museum, and wondered if we would like to go along. She had been checking some things out online a few days back and found out that today they were celebrating Michigan's 172nd birthday with costumed interpreters showing how things were and have changed throughout last 172 years. The only thing on our agenda was grocery shopping, which we decided could easily be done another day, so off we went. It was a very fun and interesting trip. Click on the link to the right to see some of our pictures from today. After touring the museum, we went out to dinner and got to eat in a real train car!
~Kati

Are you keeping warm?

We are glad that the last couple of days have been a bit warmer --
relatively speaking of course. It's still very cold outside, but at least in the afternoons the temperature is getting up above zero so the boys can go outside for short amounts of time. They really like to push the snow on the deck around with their toy trucks. Jonathan was getting frustrated this afternoon because Callie kept plopping down in front of him. He didn't seem to understand that she wanted him to pet her. I went out and sledded with the boys for a few minutes this afternoon, but it's too cold for this girl -- I much prefer to stay inside and curl up with a good book! Keep warm everyone ...

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everybody! We hope your first couple of days of 2009 have been good. We started off the new year by hanging out with our friends the Keillors. Mom and dad even let us stay up until midnight (although Jonathan didn't make it ... he fell asleep about 11:15). Mom and Aunt Shannon were glad for once that we were playing our video games -- that meant we were quiet and not running around for at least a little while. :-)
Have a great weekend!
~David