Some important events!

It's been a busy couple of weeks! My boy graduated from Kindergarten today! It was such a cute ceremony, each kid had to say what they want to be when they grow up Walter said "funeral director." First grade here we come, boy the time does fly by!
Jeff and his Grandpa celebrated their Birthdays on Wednesday! Happy Birthday to a couple of wonderful guys!

And our little Rose Ella is now four! She of course wanted another dog cake. She loves her dogs and cats that is for sure!

Happy Easter to all!

The lamb cake tradition lives on.

An egg with emme m's!

Is it spring yet?

Here are the kids with their cousins celebrating Great Grandma's Birthday last weekend, the kids are happy to have her back in town (she spent the winter downstate Michigan).

Last weekend Walter was driving a snowmobile at his friend Jack's house, this weekend is Easter! Only in the Copper Country!

Yesterday the kids had their gang of friends over to decorate eggs and have an egg hunt. Walter was so excited that he only slept 6 hours the night before. The kids had a great time.

Some celebrations!

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. We've been busy as usual. Anyway here are some of the things we have been up to.

Walter's school has a behavior reward program that allows them to earn super stars and with their super stars they buy things, anyway, he has been quite thoughtful when he spends his super stars because he has been buying things for us as well. So a couple of weeks ago he came home with a bunny Easter cookie cutter for me. So of course we had to make and decorate bunny cookies. Rose E really got into the spirit of it as you can see. She decorated for about an hour! Oh and speaking of bunnies, a couple of weeks ago we where talking about real bunnies and I said one year when I was a little girl I got a real bunny in my Easter basket, Walter replied back with "are you sure there where no screws or batteries underneath it!" Guess who just had a Birthday? Happy Birthday Ariel.

Last weekend we went to Green Bay to celebrate. The kids had a blast.

And the weekend before we went to Wisconsin also to celebrate baby Thea's baptism. I have better pictures of her in her beautiful gown but for some reason our computer has been playing hide-n-seek with our loaded pictures lately and I can't find them on our computer.

A photo of Walter, Rose E and Colton

These pictures where taken a little while back dressed in Sunday best. Anyway, I had to the post them because Walter made me laugh on that day because he said "why are we dressed like old people?'

I think we are finally moving away from all of that winter gear! The kids enjoyed some sunshine this weekend and it is nice to see that most of our snow is almost gone! Phew it was beginning to feel like it would never come!

Our entertainment

Walter's kindergarten class performed nursery rhymes for our preschoolers last week. Walter sang "It's Raining, It's Pouring" and was a little pig in the three little pigs skit. It was so cute! A couple of weeks ago too Walter read a book to the preschooler class, it was neat, the class was so into it. It is amazing to me every day how many more words he is reading.
This girl has been hamming it up. Every week she has a new name. Last week she was Lucy, then it was Rose Bud and then today she was Emily. Here she is holding her name tag for Rose Bud.
And here is the "finger skater." She found the helmet with our dress-up stuff and then had to go rummaging in the basement for a second skate, this is what she came-up with. Oh and our vacuum is now the Zamboni. Gotta love it.
Last but not least, Mama's little angel. She got her hair cut this week. We said good bye to the last of her baby hair. She was so excited to be in the beauty parlor and sat like a little princess the entire time.

An ice princess!

We've been taking the kids to open skating every weekend. It is interesting to see the differences between Walter and Rose E. Walter is all about speed and Rose E is a figure skater want to be. Her second time skating she saw a group of six year old girls that where in figure skating and studied them, then she pushed her pusher away and just started skating by herself. Now she is wearing dresses to skating with the dress hanging out of her snow pants to look like "one of those skaters." The kids are both upset because next weekend is the last weekend for open skating in the rink.

Oh and speaking of Rose E and clothing, she has now jumped up into a size 4t. Anyway, the other day I was putting a new pair of pants on her and they had adjusters inside the pants. Her pants kept falling down on her so I adjusted them a little tighter and she said excitedly "you mean my pants have a seat belt inside of them."

A new guest.

We are reading this book for a reading program at school and
Walter is so addicted to it. The story's main character is about a toy rabbit and his journeys. The entire school is reading this story and each class gets a stuffed rabbit to take turns taking home to take on new adventures. Anyway, Walter was ecstatic after school on Friday because it was his turn to have Edward Tulane (the rabbit). Our new guest has gone to the Mining Shaft restaurant and arcade (under Walter's request of course), to Walter's friends house, ice skating, and played a board game so far. Oh and Walter even set-up a special bed for him, using Rose E's doll bed, too cute. Walter's favorite part about the whole thing though is that he was given a camera to take a couple of pictures of Edward on his adventures.
Yes, we still have a lot of that white stuff, this time of year it is hard to imagine it all melting.

A snow train visits our yard.

Snow and trains, welcome to my world!