New Camper

We went looking at 5th wheel campers last week to gather some information, and ended up finding something we really liked, so we traded in our Jayco travel trailer on a new Malibu (by Skyline) 5th wheel. Click on the "5th wheel" link in the "Our Photo Albums" section to the right if you'd like to see pictures.

We hope you all had a nice weekend.
~Chris, Kati, David and Jonathan

First Day of School

Hi everyone! Yes, we know, we've been very bad about posting for a very long time ... we are going to try to get back in the habit!! We just wanted to pass along this picture of us on the first day of school. We started school this past Thursday in our "new" school -- our school system underwent a major reconfiguration over the summer, closing 2 buildings and moving everyone around. The elementary students now attend school in what was the high school and the 7-12 graders are now housed in what was the middle school -- this reconfiguration was partly to blame for mommy not posting over the past few months, she's been very busy moving the libraries all around.

I'm very excited about being in the 3rd grade. My teacher's name is Mrs. Fenton and I think I'm going to have a lot of fun. Jonathan has Mrs. Smith for Kindergarten, and I know he's going to have a lot of fun also (I had Mrs. Smith, so I know her class is fun!!)

~David

Link

The link in the Leap Year day post isn't right ... mommy will try to upload that file somewhere and put out a new link tomorrow. Right now, it's getting to be her bedtime ... :-)

Happy Leap Year Day!

Hi everybody! We hope everyone is doing well. Things here are great -- except for the snow, which seems to just keep coming and coming. Thankfully we haven't had any snow days either last week or this week!

Jonathan had a nice birthday, and I even got one of my presents early too ... we both got gift certificates for Build-A-Bear Workshop, so 2 Saturday's ago we went there and "built" our new friends, "Dino" and "Jonathan" (aka "Jonabear").

Last weekend we met Uncle Ron, Aunt Christie and Brandon at Splash Village in Frankenmuth ...we had a lot of fun playing in the water park, and on Saturday night we went up to Saginaw and watched a Saginaw Spirit hockey game (they won ... it was cool!)

Daddy's bands have been getting ready for Band Festival coming up this Saturday, we all hope they do well. We'll let you know how they do ... speaking of bands. There was a cute article in the Lakeview newspaper this week, listing the best of Montcalm County's high school basketball ... Best Pep Band -- Montabella! Go Mustangs! Here's the article if you'd like to read it!

More Later

~David

Nasty weather, nasty weather GO AWAY!!!!!

We're sorry if you are one of those people who love the snow and cold, but we want it to STOP! :-) We are at home again today for our 9th snow day this year (and it sounds like we might be headed for #10 tomorrow). We'll admit, we like snow days usually ... 3 even 4 a year are a nice way to break up the months of January-March when it seems like we don't get much break from school, but 9 is too many (7 of them have been since we went back to school from Christmas vacation). We would much rather be there now and get out earlier in summer so we can enjoy the warm weather :-) We hope everyone is staying warm, dry and not getting cabin fever like we are!

~ David & Jonathan

Hi! Let's Catch Up!

Wow! We have been lax about posting haven't we?? We knew it had been a while, but we didn't realize it had been quite so far back as Halloween. Well, we'll try to catch you up on all we've been doing ...

Well, let's see ... we had a nice Thanksgiving and a great Christmas. We saw Santa at Wal-Mart a couple of weeks before Christmas ... I sat on his lap -- David was being ornery and wouldn't. David participated in his school music program -- his class sang really nicely! 2 weekends before Christmas, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Hill's for our annual cookie making day.

We didn't do too much over break which was kinda nice. We did go to Grand Rapids one day and spent time with our friends the Keillors. We went to a place called Craig's Cruisers ... think Chuck E. Cheese only nicer :-) I really liked riding in the go carts with mom. We got lots of great Christmas gifts and had a great time hanging out with all our cousins. One of our favorite gifts were the digital cameras we each got!!

On January 5th we went to our cousin Brandon's house and celebrated his 3rd birthday -- that was fun, and the ice cream cake was AWESOME!!

Last weekend we met Grandma and Grandpa Hill, Uncle Ron, Aunt Christie and Brandon in Saginaw to watch the Shrine circus. It was neat to see all the animals and acrobats. Mommy and I even went on an elephant ride!! Mom's posting a bunch of pictures from all these things to our Picassa account (reminder for those of you who receive the blog in your email, you'll have to log into the blog itself to get to the link for the pictures ...) most of the pictures she took at the circus didn't turn out -- taking pictures in large arenas like that is hard, plus they had the lights out a good share of the time. We kept only the best pictures, and even some of those aren't that great :-)

This week is off to a lazy start ... we didn't have school yesterday so the teachers could do some "Professional Development" (mommy and daddy like to translate that into "a wasted day"), today we are enjoying our 5th snow day of the year. While having a day off is nice, we are thinking it would be nicer to be at school ... we would rather be there now than in June. We got well over 6 inches of snow last night ... it's piling up out there!

Well, I think that just about covers what we've been up too ... we hope you are all staying warm.

~Jonathan

Happy Halloween

We just wanted to say Happy Halloween!! I was Clifford the Big Red Dog, and David was Spiderman.

~Jonathan