Fishing and Niagra Cave

Yesterday Youth First and Cabela’s had their annual fishing event where you can go out and fish on their ponds for free (fishing poles and worms provided) and receive a free fishing pole, hotdog, and rootbeer float.  Some of their fish were tagged and if you caught one you got a $100 Cabela’s card.  We didn’t have much luck but the boys had fun.  Jacob even puts on his own worm.

 

 

 

Today we went to Niagara Cave with John and Lynn.  They came and picked us up and we headed down to Harmony.  We had a yummy picnic lunch made by

Lynn and panned for gold while we waited for our tour.  The caves were pretty amazing.  Way more and better than I was expecting.

 

 

 

     

 

           

        

Easter Weekend

Friday evening my mom and dad came over for dinner and to color eggs.

 

The boys imitating their eggs!

 

They are always coming up with some game or activity.  Love the creativity until someone gets hurt.

 

 

Saturday morning we headed over to Nana’s house.  We had a fun day.  We made a few stops – we stopped at Laskers Jewelers to dropped of my ring.  It needed to be cleaned, polished, and readjusted.  While we were there Barb helped me pick out a necklace because Matt had a $50 gift certificate.  We laughed because there wasn’t much that was in our price range, but finally found a beautiful necklace that was under $100 on sale.  It was made out of Swarovski Crystals which is where I visited in Germany.  Thanks for spending the gift cert of me hon!  Barb and I had fun shopping. 

Then we went to the mall to walk around a little and the boys got to visit the Easter bunny.  Nolan was FULL of questions about this.  He knew it wasn’t the real Easter bunny, but he wanted lots of answers.  The picture is kind of blurry because I wasn’t supposed to take pictures with  my own camera and had to do it quickly.

 

For dinner we went to the Red Lobster and had a delicious meal.  Sunday morning we got dressed, said good bye to Barb, and headed to church to meet John and Lynn. 

 

 

After church we headed to John and Lynn’s house and the boys had an egg hunt, colored eggs, played a ping pong ball game that John and Lynn made for them, Connor played online chess with Papa John, and Jacob and Nolan got to open their birthday presents.  It was a fun packed day.  We headed home later Sunday evening after watching the basketball game.

 

Hope everyone had a blessed Easter.

The Whole Month of February Wrapped up in ONE post

We are going to put the month of February in one post.  I am just not keeping up with blogging lately.  Hopefully it will start to slow down.  Ha!  ';)

 

We had a lovely visit with Nana the last Saturday in January.  She came down to watch the boys play basketball, she took Lucas shopping for his birthday and he picked out some Captain America stuff, and we had a lovely lunch.  It was a brief visit, but always so good to see her. 

 

 

 

Papa John and Yaya came to visit on Saturday, February 9th.  It was Papa John’s birthday!  We had a busy day as well.  Lucas got a birthday present for his birthday and loves his lizard.  They got to watch the boys play basketball as well and we celebrated Papa John’s birthday! 

   

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Papa John!!!!

 

The weekend and week before Valentine’s day we were busy making our valentines.

  

   

Celebrating Valentine’s Day with my sweet Valentines.

We celebrated the night before (on Ash Wednesday) because Matt and I had tickets to go to the Wild game on the 14th.

 

In the month of February we also had a some snow days/late starts due to the weather.  We kept busy on these days.

 

 

A couple fun stories about Jacob.  He was doing something in class and got the teacher and class giggling.  Later she said to him, “Jacob, you’re trouble!”  To which he kindly responding, “Right back atcha’ Mrs. P.!”.   Awesome, my child just told his teacher that she was trouble!  Luckily she was a very good sport about it and thought it was funny.

Some of Jacob’s classmates were working with another adult and they asked her if she was ever going to work with other students or if the group they had was going to be it always.  She asked them, “This will probably be our group for awhile, but why?  Is there someone you think I should meet?”.  A couple of the students said, “Oh yes, you have to meet Jacob.  He is really really funny!”.  I think we have a class clown in our future.

The days just come and go way too quickly and I try to do it all, get it all done, but most importantly take the time to know my boys.  They change and grow so quickly in such a little amount of time.