More Baseball Practice

Reuben is now determined to try out for the Double AA team in the Fall. If he keeps practicing like this he very may well make it.




Pretty good practice regime going...

Tipper found the cool spot

A Perfect Night For A BBQ

It was such a beautiful evening that on my way home I stopped off to pick up some hamburgers and hot dogs.... and some watermelon!

Karen is off in Florida, we missed her at our fun dinner.

Movies From Another Cold Spring day

Little League game was cancelled today due to a wet field. Maybe for the best since Jacob has a fever and will be in again tomorrow. So what is there today...
DANCE!!


Later faith and Reuben went outside to play all bundled up. Faith is really becoming a good bike rider. A new bike is in her future as a 7 year old.

Afterwards, Faith and I ride our bikes to and from the park.

Nursing Home

Tipper had a small mass removed on her eyelid today. She is not a happy camper tonight.
Jacob is finally getting better, but will still miss school tomorrow and thus the whole week.  He has lost about 10% of his body weight over the course of this illness.  I've promised to take him out to eat his choice for a breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Need to fatten him up good.

Almost Feels Like Home Again

Some pictures on the wall. A few more touchups here and there. Putting in the missing cabinet and our pendant lights over the island and we're pretty much done!

Off We Go

The kids and I are on our way.  Tipper did not want us to leave without her.

Peek-a-boo

With Karen gone for the weekend, Tipper has been very clingy; following me around all over. She also nows when she's being funny and waited for me to get my camera for this pose :-)

Very Picturesque Morning

Still all buried.
Out our front porch, sun coming up in the East.
Off to sled the big hill. Notice not a plow path in sight. They didn't even do the major community street yet.


Tipper had a great time out with us this morning.

Sledding In The Park

Made the trek to our park to hit the real hill. After a few trials to create a run, we got going pretty good. Unfortunately with all the gloves, the camera got switched to "compact" video mode. Which means the movies came out terrible.

Snow-verkill!!

Here some pictures of us outside this morning, about 10:30am. Measured about 18" inches on the ground and it was still snowing hard. Supposed to let up sometime tonight.

And Tipper enjoying (??) the snow

Snow Outside... Play Inside!

Basement has been cleaned up, so time for some playing down there.
Trains:


And the menagerie of Hess trucks:

BIG SNOW!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

What a great Thanksgiving. Everyone had a great time spending the day together and the food was terrific!

Halloween

Fun Halloween today and the rain held out long enough for a good candy haul!

We started the day with our neighborhood party at our park. Nice turn out with lots of kids dressed up. Jacob won a jar of 622 candy corns by guessing the closest. His guess was 526. Faith guessed 16 :-) Then after dinner we hit the streets for candy. We had a couple of Star wars Clones, Jacob as Captain Rex and Reuben as Commander Cody. Faith was Ariel from The Little Mermaid, and I wore my $1.50 Jason costume (of Friday The 13th fame). Even with the late drizzle, it was a pretty good turnout of kids. Went through 3 bags of candy (usually given two pieces out a kid).

Busy day tomorrow with bowling with a group of friends late morning and then our soccer game at 2pm. Hopefully our makeup practice on Thursday helps our game time performance. I am tired already.

Birthday In The Sukkah

Happy Birthday Karen!

Yesterday Karen and the kids started to decorate the Sukkah.


Tonight we had dinner out there and celebrated Karen's birthday.



Then we moved inside for some gifts...

Happy Birthday Reuben and Jacob

Our boys are now 6 years old! Such big boys now. We had a very happy birthday celebration, especially with our special guest of the week... Andrea (our first nanny).





Tipper has turned into the biggest ham when I am taking pictures. She sits there perfectly still waiting for me to take her picture.


And finally an old movie of the boys (Faith is in Mommy's belly).

Only one party still to go

Today we had Faith's birthday party for her classmates. She wanted a princess bowling party! Luckily we talked her out of the princess part and kept with the bowling. It was fun but chaotic. Everyone had a goodtime.

The day started out busy. I took the kids out for breakfast and then to "Five Below" so they could use some of their gift money. Faith bought a little art set with glitter and stickers and the boys each got a pump rocket. I rushed them home from the store so I could make my softball games (which we won). I then rushed home from my games to take a 5 minute shower and then out the door again to the party. Whew!
I'll be happy when birthday season is over.

Calm Before The Storm

Pretty quiet weekend; mostly in recovery mode getting everyone back and healthy again. Yesterday Jacob and I rested at home while Karen took Reuben and Faith to a Lego event at the mall.
Think Reuben could be any happier :-)





Meanwhile back at home I noticed this little guy who must not have known that the groundhog saw his shadow.

Then Tipper went out and kept the yard clear of those rascals.

Today I took the kids out for pizza and the hobby shop after the boys received a good report from Sunday school. The kids picked out some snap together models. Reuben got an F-15, while Faith and Jacob got Star Wars fighters. Reuben had his together in minutes. Meanwhile it took Daddy quite awhile to get the Star Wars ones together. I even resorted to glue in several places; not the best snap together models. Anyway Reuben and Jacob liked them. Faith, who's model was the hardest to get together, told me "this is boring" while I struggled to get it together. She went off to play while I labored getting the darn thing together.

Finally, tonight was another pre-school Dads event. About 15 of us went bowling. Lot of fun and I even wound up with 205 game; haven't done that in awhile. But, I lost to a 211! Anyway, now we wait for the supposed snow storm of epic proportions (5-9 inches)...

No Snow - Then Wii Ski

All that excitement really got to Tipper...