Garden Time!

Planting our lives away!!!

Mazzy showing off her row.

Bronson doing a great job planting his peas.

Covering up the peas.

Helping Dad put the tiller away.

Having a little play break from gardening.

About a week and a half ago, Ryan could NOT stand it anymore, so we planted our peas, spinach and white icicle radishes. Ryan was as happy as a kid in a candy store, and Maz was a close 2nd. Ry got out the tiller and tilled up the garden and got it ready for the plantin'. The kids got their own rows of peas to plant, like usual, and they did a great job! Mazzy is a pro at spacing them out, but Bronson needed a little help, so I had to show him where to place each pea. Every year we plant white icicle radishes for my grandpa, who LOVES them. The kids were excited to plant them and care for them for their great Grandpa Dee. And we are proud to say that those are already up and sprouted! Now the long wait for our peas.....mmmm can't wait!

Baseball Smackin'

Mazzy took her turn at batting and dropping the balls into the machine.

Bronson takin' a swing!

Bronson's turn to drop the balls in the machine.

I discovered I'm pretty good at hitting a baseball! Who knew?

Ryan's turn.

Maz and me getting ready to go home. The sun was BRIGHT in my eyes!

We've been deciding whether or not to put Bronson back in t-ball or bump him up to machine pitch for baseball this year. He technically should be in t-ball for one more year, but he's just so darn good at sluggin' a baseball! So we put him to the test. A couple of weeks ago, we took him to an indoor sportsplex just to see what he could do. Well lets just say, after dropping the balls in the machine and Bronson sluggin' 7 balls in a row, we came to the conclusion that it would be alright to bump him up to machine pitch. We slugged balls for about an hour and a half, and Bronson was up to bat the majority of that time! I LOVED watching him just bat one right after another! He's so excited to start playing again. I'm not sure about the rest of his game....we'll be working on it, but he definitely has the batting down! The rest of us each took our turn at smackin' some balls....it was a very fun family day!!!

Holy Behind!

Me with my gift card....weird picture I know...

My wonderful Birthday Day!

I helped out with Bronson's Valentine's party, I made cookies for the kids to decorate. They had so much fun!

These are pictures from our fun day at the park.

Ok, let's just start out with this.....I'm sure from the title of this post you were all probably thinking "YES!!! There is going to be a picture of Ryan or Hailey's awesomely holy "behind" or as you may call it...bum".....well that was just part of my ploy to get you to come to my blog and read posts about my family. Sorry to disappoint my MANY readers!

Ok now back to some serious catching up! January and February have been busy months....mainly just due to sick kids ALL the time! The times that they haven't been sick we have tried to cram as much stuff in as possible to actually live a little! Back at the end of January I celebrated my 32nd birthday.....I know....I'm so young! I had such a great 3 days being able to celebrate with family and friends! My mom and sister took me out for a day of shopping for much needed clothes! Then we went to dinner together. Thanks Mom and Mist for such a fun day! The day before my birthday my parents came down and took me out to dinner 'cause my dad had to work on my actual birthday. Then on "the" day of the MOMENTOUS occasion of my birth some 32 years ago, Ryan planned and cooked a most EXCELLENT meal! He and the kids banished me to the basement and I was instructed to stay on the couch and relax! He cooked me all of my favorite things....shrimp, steak, cheesy garlic mashed potatoes, green beans (from our garden), a coke and then a yummy ice cream cake! I felt so loved and spoiled! The Vincent's showed up also to wish me a Happy Birthday and that was a fun visit! Ryan and the kids also got me a gift certificate to Rue21 for more much needed clothes....let's just say I haven't bought clothes for myself for about 5 years.....I was really grateful for that gift! Also my wonderful in laws...yup, not outlaws....Ray and Renee also got me a gift card to Ross...more clothes YAY!!!! So a big THANKS to them as well for making me feel loved and appreciated!

Enough about me, so the kids have been battling with sickness this winter...not fun! We had a wonderfully scary visit to the ER with Mazzy as she decided to turn blue from croup! I was in need of some extra gray hairs.....so I was excited that that helped me out in that department. So recap....we've had croup, strep throat, sinus infections, colds, and more recently bronchitis, and did I mention sinus infections??? Pretty eventful around here! Last month in February we actually had a day or two that was warm, and luckily no one was sick so we spent 3 and half hours at the park! It was wonderful to get out!

Mazzy's teacher and school has recommended that she should apply for the Full Time Spectrum program for gifted and talented students. School has just been way too easy for her this year and her teacher, Ryan and I feel this would be much better for her to learn things at a deeper level. So February brought Mazzy's testing to get into the program. She tested from 9 to 11:30...there were 9 parts to the test, but she did it! That's the hardest part of the whole process, so it is nice to have it done and over with for her. We are so proud of her for giving this a shot! If she gets in that means she will go to a different school. She made the choice and is pretty excited about it! We won't know anything until the end of April.

Bronson is doing so well in Kindergarten! He is reading wonderfully and just really enjoys going and doing "school work"! I'm amazed with my little Bug! He is really determined to learn and I LOVE that he has this quality! He lost his front tooth in February (sometime) he was pretty excited about it! Now to see if there is room for these teeth coming in....one of them is already coming in, but it is going to knock out another tooth for it to fit. Don't know about that. He's also just getting over bronchitis, which will be nice when that is completely cleared up.

And now I think that about sums us up for the past couple of months! I'm sure there is more, but I can't think of anything else at the moment...so that's it and that's all! For now anyways.

Bronson's tooth finally came out!!!

Visiting cousins...Mazzy holding Josh.

Luci, Mazzy and Bronson playing a game on the phone together.