The twins has a great first day of preschool.

 They really like both their teachers. Brenden's favorite part of the day was playing outside, and Logan didn't know what his favorite part was.

When I asked them what they learned today Logan told me nothing. I asked him if he learned the classroom rules and he told me there aren't any!

They said they only like being in the same class because they don't sit together! So much for a twin bond!

 Look at our cool backpacks!

Aren't we handsome!

 Silly faces!

More silly faces!

Even more silly faces!

Cute little school bus!

It has been interesting getting back in to the swing of our new schedule! I feel like we are going in 4 different directions at once! Oh wait we are! Layne has been adjusting well, he really likes school. He had his first orchestra practice yesterday and loved it.

The twins have their first day of preschool tomorrow. Brenden is super excited, Logan not so much. I am looking forward to seeing how this year will go with them both in the same class. 

Since Layne got a special breakfast at school on his first day, I decided to make doughnuts for the twins for breakfast. I am hoping this will lure them out of bed at 6:30. They need to be ready early because we don't know what time the bus is coming.

I'll post pictures tomorrow!

First Day of 4th Grade!!!

Layne had a really great first day of fourth grade! He really likes his teacher Mr. Klemisch. He is a little nervous about the amount of home work, but I think he will do just fine!

There are seventeen girls and six boys in his class! I feel very sorry for his teacher!

So we finally finished Layne's bedroom. Debbie helped me paint and then she came over while we were gone and painted the trim. Tim put up the wall paper and boom we were done! He really loves it. He took a video to show you all around his new room!

Layne starts fourth grade tomorrow! I can't believe it! He is turning into such a little man!!

I'll post pictures tomorrow. Take special note of his clothes he picked them all out by himself!

So I haven't blogged in a very long time and I promised a cetain someone that I would get back to it once school started again! Well guess what, school started again! I started my classes today, Layne starts on Thursday and the twins start next Wendesday.

Layne has been saving his allowance and decided that he really wanted to by a little video camera with his money. He has been taking some really cute videos! I am going to upload a couple.

For some reason when I upload the video it cut off the end of what Brenden said. He says "I don't like getting in trouble."

Tim went out to help some friends work cattle on Saturday. I took the boys out so they could watch, except we missed it. They finished earlier than they thought they would. But our friends invited us to stay and have a bonfire with them. The boys really enjoyed it because they got to run around in the woods, but we then spent the next 5 hours picking ticks off of them!

The boy are all enjoying their last couple days of school and I am enjoying my last couple days until
I start summer school. The boys and I are going t head to the lake for a Memorial, Tim has to stay home and work :( I am looking forward to getting out of town for a couple days!

Things have been crazy busy around here!! I finished up my semester of school. I was so glad to be done. I start my summer school classes on May 30th so I don't have to much time to relax!

Layne has been enjoying baseball. I know I am biased but he is so good!! He loves to be the catcher and last night he tried his hand at being the pitcher. He's team mates are so nice and really encourage each other.

The twins are working on learning how to ride bike without training wheels. Brenden wants Layne to teach him and they are quite funny to watch! I thought Brenden would catch on first but I think it will be Logan who will does it first!!

I booked our Christmas present from Scott and Debbie. We are going to Denver over the 4th of July! We are so excited! A fun trip without kids!!

I can't wait to get out of town for Memorial day! I haven't gone anywhere since I went to the farm in November!! I really need a nice long weekend at the lake!!

Layne has his first baseball game of the year tonight. He did so well! His team won 3-1!! He played catcher for the first two innings and loved it! And when he was up to bat twice he hit and made it to first base! It was so much fun to watch!!

Easter 2011

Easter 2011

I made a video of pictures from Easter.

Check out Brenden's new hang out!



Here is a cute video of the twins wrestling!

We found out on Friday that Layne made the baseball league. He is so excited to play! We have an informational meeting Tuesday night and we will find out what minor league team he is going to be on.

I only have 3 weeks left of school! I just figured that out this afternoon. It excited me and then terrified me because I have so much left to do!

 We had a crazy weekend. Went to Linton on Saturday to celebrate 2 of our nephews birthdays. The boys had a great time and it was really fun to see our youngest nephew walking! On Sunday afternoon we decided to clean out the laundryroom/storage room so we could move the stuff out of the office/guest room. We had planned to paint Layne's new room in the evenings this week, but I hurt my back while we were cleaning and moving. I had to go to the chiropractor on Monday and Tuesday. She had a hard time getting my back and hip into place so see suggested I get a massage before my next appointment on Friday. So tomorrow I will go get a massage and then see the chriopractor on Friday. I do feel better today so hopefully this weekend we canget Layne's room painted.

 The twins are celebrating "The week of the young child" at school this week. Monday was sports day, Tuesday was pajama day, and today was wacky hair day. So the boys got really wacky hair!

Tomorrow is hat day. Brenden couldn't be happier that he gets to wear his Vikings hat to school!

Tim and I spent yesterday cleaning the boys room in preparation for Layne to move downstairs. We tried on shorts from last year to see what still fit and what needed to go. Since Brenden and Logan are wearing completely different sizes I separated out their clothes and gave them their own dressers. I took all of Layne's clothes out of the closet to make room for the twins stuff. As we were doing this Layne was getting really excited to move to his own room, so I told him that he could start sleeping downstairs now if he wanted. So he did. We put a baby monitor down in his room so that we could hear if he got scared, and we told him that he could come up in the middle of the night if he wanted. But he didn't need to, he made it all night and then when he got home from school he asked if he could go down to his room with his friend Dimitri. He spent all afternoon in "his" room! We are going to move the bed tonight so he can get out the window if need be.

Tim's check up went well. The doctor said he is healing really well, she doesn't even want to see him for another check up. She said his swelling is almost completely gone and the scar is almost unnoticeable.

Brenden is doing fine today. He didn't want to change is band aid because he was afraid it was going to hurt and it did. The clinic has some really good super sticky band aids!

Isn't he cute!

Four stitches.

"I'm a tough guy!"

After Layne got out of school today I took all the boys to the bowling alley so that Layne could make up the games that he had missed fro the last couple of weeks. Layne did pretty good, got a 70 one game. When we were getting ready to leave Layne went to put one ball away (he wanted to use 2 so the 4 games would go faster), well he took a long time to come back to Brenden decided he would help Layne and get the other ball out of the rack. He pick it up and started to come over to me and just as I was telling him that it was to heavy for him, put it down he tripped on the stair. He cracked his chin right on the edge and was bleeding everywhere. I immediately knew he needed stitches. So I went home to drop off the other 2 kids and check with Tim, I wanted to see what he thought and he wasn't sure, but I was! So we took him in and he had to get 4 stitches. Thankfully Debbie just happened to be at our house so she stayed and watched the boys so Tim could come with!

Tim's check up is tomorrow. I will post details about both of them then!

I went to the doctor this morning. I have an upper respitory infection that caused me to have an asthma attack. I haven't had any trouble with asthma since before Tim and I got married so I didn't recoginze the sysmptoms at first. Once I got the inhalor and used it was almost imediate relief. He said this might cause my asthma to flare up for a while, so we will see!

Tim is felling pretty good today. He has yet to venture out of the house though, so tomorrow he is going to go the mens bible lunch at Holy Cross. Then on Thursday he has to get his license renewed since he is going to be an old man on Friday!!

We are being hit with another bad storm today. I hope it clears up quickly!! We do not need a  repete of a couple of weeks ago. Isn't it supposed to be spring!?!

Tim is feeling pretty good today, but a bit antsy. If he moves around to much then his eye starts to hurt so he can't really do to much. I have been really impressed with the plastic surgeon. She personally called today to check on him.

I have a cold and I can't stop coughing. The twins both had it last week and now Layne and I have it. We are trying to keep it away from Tim, because I can't imagine how much it would hurt to be coughing right now!

In the ER.

Mondy after it happened.

Day after surgery.

So Tim's surgery went well. The hole was little bigger than Dr. Honeycutt expected. It was 2 1/4 centimeters big which is about the size of a quarter. The original plan was to lay mesh over the hole and then the tissue would grow over it to keep it in place, but since it was so big she had to put in extra mesh and then put in two screws to stabilize it. Dr. Honeycutt said the screws shouldn't bother him, but he will be able to feel them on his face once the swelling goes down. Yesterday he didn't have much pain, but today he is having quite a bit. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

It was so nice here today. It got to 47 degrees! The boys played outside for most of the afternoon (at least the part where I wasn't chauffeuring Tim). When they came inside everything was soaking wet, but the time change has them all mixed up so I wanted them to get good and worn out!

It has been exactly one month since I last blogged. I guess I got a little busy! We have battle a round of flu and a round of colds. We have had some great reports at parent/teacher conferences and I have been plugging away at school.

I am on spring break this week and it is a good thing. We had a little accident over the weekend. Tim's eye is a very flattering shade of blue and purple. One of our precious, adorable children accidentally threw a toy gun at Tim and broke his eye socket. He has to have surgery on Friday to repair it. He is not able to drive or lift anything, so now I get to be his chauffeur for the week!

I promised a certain person that I would get back to blogging more, so I am going to try my hardest to do just that!!