Building Boats

When we came back from the upper lake, one of the adults had this great idea for a boat race. The instructions were that each kid had to make a boat and the next day we would race them in the creek. Olivia was on it! She gathered pine cones and wood and got some string from Uncle Carl.

Emma had a great idea from the start and also gathered wood, pine cones and string.

Here is Olivia's. She designed it and told me how to tie on the string...I LOVE IT!

This is Emma's. She named it "the Buckaroo". It was quite large. She was so proud of it. She called the pine cones "critters" that were on her boat. Too cute. Marcus also made one, I didn't get a picture of his last night though.

Upper Lake

After dinner and cake, we took the girls for a walk to the upper lake (Marcus went fishing with Daddy). Emma was trying so hard to throw rocks in the water. It was far enough away that she couldn't quite hit it though, but she had fun trying.

While we were there we ran into a cool site...

A fisherman with lots of fish. He was nice enough to let the girls get really close and even hold the fish.

Me and my girls.

Happy Birthday Uncle Carl

The real reason we were there was to surprise Uncle Carl for his 60th Birthday! His birthday is actually at the beginning of the month. This weekend was opening weekend for fishing so it was the perfect time for everyone to come up without Carl suspecting a thing. He was very surprised that we were all there for his birthday celebration.

The kids did a great job singing "Happy Birthday".

They even gave birthday hugs.

And ate lots of cake! YUM!

Back to the Park

We tried for a group photo on the slide but it wasn't working to well.

I decided this one might be easier...cute!

Look at those crazy kids! This was such a great park! It helped burn a lot of energy.

Back to Uncle Carl's.

Funny Faces

Back at Uncle Carl's house the kids were hanging by the camp fire. This is their silly faces...

Mad faces (Emma gave it a shot...she looks pretty cute to me).

I said to look pretty....this is what I got :-)

Stroll to the Lake

I took the kids down to see the lake.

Olivia

Marcus

Emma

Weekend Fun

We went to Uncle Carl and Aunt Beth's house this weekend for some family fun. Sophie was there too!


This is the camper we stayed in. The girls did a lot of coloring in the camper.

This 4-wheeler became a play structure right from the start. It was quite funny to watch these kids. The pretended like they were driving it...they would act like they were going over bumps and everything!

We decided to walk the kids down to the park. Look at all those kids!

I just love how these girls play together. It is so fun to watch them.

After a while of playing, everyone decided to do something else so I stayed behind with my kids. This is a cabin at the park that was built as a replica of the original that stood there. The kids had fun exploring.

Then I just sat and watched the kids play. It was quite relaxing.

Peek-a-boo!

What's That?

Snow? Yes, we woke up to it snowing outside this morning and came home to the white stuff on the ground. The kids were actually excited. Emma said snow was beautiful and fun. She said you can do so much in snow. She also mentioned I should not have taken off my snow tires yet (I agreed to that one!) She really wanted to have a snowball fight so I obliged. I threw snowballs and took pictures to capture the moment.

She was all over the yard checking out all the snow.

At one point she even tried to lay in it to make a snow angel. She decided it was too wet though and that was it! Hopefully it will be gone tomorrow...it is cold outside so maybe it will stay. Can you believe just 2 days ago the kids were playing outside without coats? This has been the longest winter!

Happy Easter

We started off doing Easter pictures but only the girls were up for it. They were playing pretty hard in the yard this morning so I didn't do the pretty dresses this year. Do you like Olivia's new hair cut? I took the girls to get their hair cut yesterday before soccer. Olivia wanted it to touch her shoulders. It was in the middle of her back. I LOVE it! She does too. Emma actually got hers cut to just below the shoulders but wanted it in a bun this morning.

We finally got Marcus to come over to attempt a picture. However, as you can see, he wasn't happy about it.

Marcus produced a lot of tears throughout this process. The girls thought they would try to cheer him up with a kiss.

I think it worked! Is that a little smile I see? Hope you are all having a Happy Easter!