Story Writers

After we went to the Disney on Ice, Isabella's school assignment was to write a story about it. The following is a truthful rendition--copied exactly the way she wrote it.

Once I went to disney on ice. I saw buzz, and the princesses, and Alice, and the Incredibles. The Incredibles went on vacation to disney land. In disney land they saw miky and miny mouse but then one day syndrome took miky and miny mouse to jail. The Indredibles found out that miky and miny mouse were gon. The Incretibles started to get to work when they found out they needed there soots. The Incretibles put on there soots and saved miky and miny mouse from jale. They saved disney land to. Now we can have a partty. The Incrtibles sved the day once agan. The End.

So we still need to work on some spelling and capitalization, but I think she did pretty well.

The birthday girl

For Isabella's 7th birthday we decided to wait to have the party since Tim was not going to be home. But I decided it would be the perfect day to take them to Silver Dollar City since my Dad had some free passes and had been wanting to go with us. The kids had a great time. Bella was so brave and rode the barn swing (which is pretty intense), thunderation, and then powder keg (which leaves me a little weak-kneed!). Elijah rode thunderation 3 times...and has been asking to go back so he can ride again. And Lydia shocked us all. She had not been able to ride any of the rides until we got to Fire in the Hole (which really she only measured tall enough because her hair was sticking up!). We got in line and Dad and I started talking about whether or not it would scare her. We decided that it was too much so I took her out of line. By the time I reached the end of line to leave, she realized what we were doing and started crying the most broken hearted cry I've ever heard! So I decided I would take her in line and talk it up as the scariest ride in the world and thought she would back out at the last minute...she did not. In fact, she rode it and did great. She keeps saying, I want to go Fire in the Hole again, again. Anyway, that even Grandma bought a tiny cake for the kids to share. Enjoy!

Can you spell that please?

Yesterday in church, Elijah sat with us in big church. He busied himself drawing pictures and writing. He drew a picture of a man standing on a hill. He labelled the man "Tim." And then wrote the name of the place where he was standing as "Loowevil." Too cute!

Disney on Ice and hanging out at the house

This weekend, Grandma took the three older kids to Disney on Ice. I'm not really going to include pictures of the program but there are some pictures of the kids watching and traveling up to see it. Last week, I got the camera out and lay down on the floor--the fastest way to get the kids to come around. I'll admit that the pictures are not really all the good (my sweatjacket is in several of them) but it shows the kids playing "naturally."

Tim went fishing on Thursday and caught quite a big fish. Then while they were setting everything up to clean the fish, we got the kids to pick fish up...well, some of the kids. Ellie kept a distance, but we finally talked Lydia into poking a fish.

Resurrection Day

Look at this I'm posting these pictures the day after I took them...that's pretty good for me! I hope all had a wonderful Resurrection Day. I pray that you all took the time to think about what the day really is about not just the chocolate, easter eggs, chocolate, new dresses, and chocolate (we got WAY too much if you can't tell). Enjoy the pictures!

Too funny

As I was looking at my FB page this morning I noticed that one of my friends had posted a picture of herself with her new "beau." I read the title out loud which sparked a funny conversation. Elijah made some comment and I told him that he didn't know what the word meant. He said he did that it was something girls wear in their hair. When I said no, Isabella said that it was something that boys wear around their necks when they are on a date!!!!
This morning, Grandma let the kids go into her closet and play with her shoes, hats, etc. When I came in to see what they were doing, Elijah was having Lydia look at herself in the mirror. He told me they were playing "What Not to Wear!"

Learning to ride bikes and fish

Grandma has been teaching the kids to ride their bikes on the few nice days that we've had. Isabella and Elijah have litterally taken off. They are doing great. These pictures are from one of the first days that they were riding. I'll try to get some pictures of them riding again soon...hopefully Wednesday will see an up turn in the weather!

And the kids have also been fishing.