Tumbling!!!

Tonight Aubrie started a new activity!! She has signed up for tumbling with our friend Paige! She was so excited to start! Her class is 10 and under kids and they are all just learning!! She is taller then her teachers and the tallest in the class but that is usually what happens to her being that she is so TALL!!!
The class started off with the basics
Cartwheels
Round offs
Summer salts
Hand stands
Back Walk overs!!



She loved the first class and is ready for the next!! She is practicing all the time and getting better even after the first class!!

baseball season

Tonight was Brian's first practice for baseball. He was so excited but the weather was not cooperating tonight!! It was so COLD and windy that I thought for sure they would have canceled practice but no they did not!!
We got there and it was going to be a short one or so the coach said..... nope we were there for the whole two hours!! It was a long practice for me but Brian loved every minute of it!!!!

Aubrie was trying to keep herself occupied and thought that it would be fun to jump the bleachers and ended up whacking her knee and we have both come to the conclusion that jumping hard metal bleachers is not the best way to keep yourself entertained!!!

Flip n out

The kids had a fund raiser for the school tonight! At Flip N Out an indoor trampoline place, the kids have always wanted to go so Rhonda, Holly and I took the kids to have a jump fest!! They were so excited that when we got there they were off!!!
Aubrie had a lot of friends that were there so she was excited!! They jumped the whole time and were bummed when it was time to leave!
While we were there we watched the VCA cheerleaders do their thing. So know we are looking into signing up the girls so they can start doing some tumbling!!

Happy Valentines day!!

This year Valentines was on a weekday which for some reason just seemed to make it seem different!! I spend my day at school with Brian and his class having a little valentines fun!! We passed out cards and got to eat some candy then it was time to go home and make dinner for everyone!!
We had a nice dinner and then watched some TV and then it was back to the normal grind!! The kids did make us some really nice valentines that have been put in my box of treasures!! They both received a little box of chocolates which was the highlight of their valentines day!!

treats!!!!

For Brian's class this year I volunteered to make the cupcakes for the class!! Brian helped as much as he wanted to then it was time to play the Wii!! I have to say that I love the handy dandy squeeze tubes that I got from Pampered Chef they made it a breeze!!

Candied Popcorn

White Chocolate Popcorn
For the teachers this year I thought that I would make something new! I got a new recipe from my mom for Candied Popcorn!! I got all the ingredients and started making it and had it boiled to 350 degrees and then I poured it on the freshly popcorn I had just made. Well the candy was not covering the popcorn like I wanted so the genius in me said it would work better if you used your hands to mix it. So I then dipped my hand into a 350 degree hell that burned my finger that I was done with that recipe and my chocolate covered one was born. I had a ice pack on my finger for hours and it was a blister for the books. So this is why there is no cute picture of the boxes filled with the popcorn!!

100 days already

Time has flown by this year!! I can not believe that 100 days of Aubrie's last year of Elementary school have come and gone!!
I remember her 100 day of Kindergarten like it was yesterday!! She made a trail mix and was so excited to show me when I picked her up that day!!! She was even thrilled to share the mix with Brian!! Oh my how times have changed, the only thing she wants to share with her brother now is a dirty look!!!
Next year she will be in middle school and before I know it she will be in High School. I can not believe that we are 100 days closer to having a middle schooler!!!

the 300 club!!!

This afternoon Aubrie had an assembly for the 300 club. Which is when you get a 300 or higher on the CRT's. She had told her dad this morning when they were having doughnuts and of course he can not say no!! I got off early and we headed to the school together!!
It was crazy there were so many kids and loud music and it was the same song over and over again. They were calling of kids names and we were like are they ever going to call Aubrie then they did and she came out and got high fives from the Principals and the kids!! She was so excited that her dad was there she came running over and gave him a hug!!
We are so proud of her accomplishments in school!!!

Doughnuts with Dad.......

Finally after 5 years of Aubrie wanting her dad to go to this so bad, he was off work today and got to take the whole crew to have doughnuts at the school!!!
I was at work so there were no pictures or poses but this will be a memory that needs no pictures! The kids were so excited that he was actually going to come they were asking him everyday for a week if he was sure that he would be able to go. I was a little worried that Paige would be sad that her dad could not come but she smiled when I told her that she could adopt Dane for the morning as her dad so she could have a doughnut!!
I left for work gave the final reminder and waited to see if I would get a call about how it went! About 845 I got a call from Dane. He said that he had a great time and that they all hugged him goodbye even Paige!! I was shocked if you know Paige you would know for a long time she would never talk to Dane heck it took her a long time to start talking to me and I have taken and picked up from school almost everyday for years!!
I am glad that he got to go this year since it is Aubrie's last year at Simmons! I know that he was just as excited to go!!

Happy Birthday Aunt Valerie

happy Birthday Aunt Valerie!!!!!
Today is Aunt Valerie's birthday and we have quite the celebration planed for her today!! Aubrie started it off with passing the crown to Valerie we tried to tell her that she had to wear it all day but she did not listen to us at all.
We headed to a craft show first where Valerie won a GREAT gift in a drawing!! Then we were off to Girmaldi's for some pizza.


We got there and the waitress gave the kids pizza dough to play with and Brian loved his and was so impressed with that. Way better then crayons he said. We order a great Cesar salad and a great pizza that was so GOOD!!!! We were impressed and will go back soon hopefully!!
Then we headed to our new favorite treat place... Retro Bakery. We all picked cupcakes to share or so we thought but Grandma did not want to share when we got home there is always one in the bunch. Valerie, Aubrie, Brian and I split some really good cupcakes!!!
It was a really fun day and I hope that Valerie had a GREAT birthday!!!

Date Night

Date Night!! Here we come, we called the best babysitter ever ( the kids words)and she watched all 5 kids. What a brave girl she is!
With the babysitter all set we all headed to Chili's for a dinner date with 3 other couples!!! When we got there they were busy and we had quite the wait. We finally got seated and got our food, then Rhonda and Dane saw the balloon artist and Rhonda ordered all of us girls Princess Crowns and bracelets to match. Dane was the only guy to get a hat and he got an alien with a death ray that was really for Brian but he sported it until we got home!!!


the princesses!!!

Brian and his hat could not quite figure out how to wear it!!!

It was a fun night that we all agreed we should do again!!!

Watching Megan

Tonight we headed over to Cram middle school to watch one of our favorite cousins cheer for her school. Megan has grown so much in the last couple of years it is amazing to me!! I had a great time catching up with Donna (another one of my favorites) , it makes me laugh that Donna has a cheerleader because she always had so much fun making fun of those kinds of girls!!
I sure wish they lived closer so we could see each other more often!!!