Weekend with Grampa & Gramma

It was good weekend spent w/ the grandparents. I bought a tag-along-bicycle at a rummage and so Grampa was so kind :-) to help us get it working on 'Sid's' bike! The kids sure thought it was fun, but Morgan will be the main one sitting behind riding so we all can ride together at the bike trail.
Enjoy the pictures!!
Jarrett and Granpa

Morgan, Grampa, Rudy, and Gramma following behind~

Morgan just SQUEALED when she first tried it, but she is getting more and more used to it!

Louise is all smiles w/ Grampa
Kalen and Grampa

Morgan thought she would 'help' Gramma put her earrings back on!?!

Thanks Grampa and Gramma for the birthday gift!!

Look at me!!

Thanks Gramma and Grampa!!!

Here's the usual picture before Grampa and Gramma leave!!!

We LOVE you!!!

MOPS Carnival

MOPS had a kick-off to this year's coming year, and so we took Grampa & Gramma into the carnival for a few games and rides on the train. The kids had fun and gathered up some 'treasures', so they were happy!! Here are some pictures:

This doesn't look like cleaning

I told the kids to clean their rooms the other day. The boys were going to help the girls with theirs. And while I was busy doing some things, I came out to find this in the middle of the living room!! Oh well.... I decided they looked like they were having fun, so I let them play and we picked up later!

GO LIONS!!

Yes, once I got here to take the picture, I thought, "hmm... should have been in our purple and gold attire to show more school spirit"

but oh well, maybe next time!!

And yes, those were my school colors, so that's even more cool!!

I'm thinking I could find some old warm-up shirts for the girls to wear in

10 years ~?~?~Maybe!!

School Year 2008-2009

Well, after a pretty uneventful weekend, we had Open House tonight for the kids as they will start school on Thursday. They were quite excited to go and take their supplies, but once in school they got quite shy :-)!! But that's okay~ I know they will have a good year, with new challenges ~ but they have GREAT teachers, so no worries there!!!

Jarrett, Kalen, & Louise

Here is Jarrett with his 1st Grade teacher ~ Mrs. Kennedy

Here is Kalen with his Kindergarten teacher ~ Mrs. Boekhout

Here is Louise with her 4yr old Preschool teacher ~ Mrs. Pytleski

LJK are all smiles after they all say their teachers and rooms!!

Just another day

Louise had her 4yr old wellchild check-up so she can go to the school-funded 4yr old Preschool this year~ her only concern after she found out she wouldn't need shots was

"how hard will she hit me w/ that"

when she saw the reflex 'thing'

She passed w/ flying colors and is VERY excited about going to school w/ her PINK backpack!!!

Morgan got to hang out w/ Dad while Louise & Mom were gone~ She LOVES riding along in the tractor and skidloader!
Kalen found his sun glasses from last year somewhere outside!! He was THRILLED!
Hope you all had a great day!

Is the Potato here?

So while Louise was playing on the computer, I was outside taking some pictures. And I told her she needed to go to the basement b/c of the weather (and Mom DOES NOT like Iowa storms!!) When I told her she could come upstairs, she said "Was it a potato?" No, there were no tornados, but there was some bad weather east of us!!

More Fun

When the kids weren't in the water, they were playing hide-n-seek w/ the dishes Marlene borrowed them from the cabin ~ yes, we did find all the pieces!! These 4 played so well the whole day!!
Okay~ Look out in the water~ do you see 2 spots? Yes those are the boys ~ out over 150yds ~
And now you can see them a little better ~ standing ~ and the water is only up to their waist's!! The lake is down quite a bit and so I called it 'kid-friendly'!! No~ we didn't let them play out that far though~ I kept them in pretty close to the dock!!
The kids have a lot of fun w/ this 'frizbee' ~ but as you see here ~ w/ all of the trees we had some problems~ Yes, J has a bat in his hand!!!
Tyler wasn't able to go fishing, so he came over for the evening and played w/ the boys~ Kalen is waiting so very patiently in the background waiting for his turn!

Fun at Lake Poinsett

We spent the weekend w/ friends up at Lake Poinsett and we all had a FABULOUS time!!! The kids (and Mom) were able to do some tubing and JKL & a friend hung out on the shore and in the water for about 4hrs in the afternoon.



Here are some pictures of all of the fun we had:

J&K tubing

Louise is all smiles on the boat
Okay~ so the life vests were a little big, but we had them tied on through the legs so they could at least enjoy a ride on the boat!
This is me! Yes, the first turn we started on I got a little cocky and biffed it!!! But I ended up going a bit longer and it was fun to get back to the boat and have 2 little boys looking down at me w/ big eyes saying

"MOM, YOU'RE GOOD!"

(Lucas & Caleb~ now don't be showing me up any time soon!! ;-)

Here the 'fish' were posing for the camera! There was a beautiful sand beach!

Fish? No those are our KIDS!

So here is where the kids' personalities really shine!

They LOVE the water!

(which was no choice of theirs b/c their MOM takes them quite often!)

L is swimming for 'sinkies'

Yes, this is M~ who will be 3 the end of the month

I think she likes to scare me by seeing how long she can stay under water!!!!!!

NOT COOL! for a Mom! But she always comes up w/ the biggest SMILE!

J likes to swim in the deeper end diving for whatever I can throw for him!

K is all smiles ~ He goes back and forth from playing w/ L&M to over in the big end w/ JJKL&M hanging out during a safety check~
Well, off for now~ Hope you have enjoyed the pix! As I sign off for tonight, just want to tell Caleb we wish you safe travels for this week and we will be keeping the Wisness family in our prayers.

Meyer Reunion

We spent the weekend w/ the Alvia & Emma Meyer famliy!

All 142 of us at a 'hide-a-away' church camp in the middle of Iowa!

We had a lot of fun just hanging out w/ relatives we hadn't seen for awhile,

but the kids truly enjoyed the extra-curricular activities they had on the grounds.

Here are just a couple of things they did (I apologize for the lack of cropping~ I haven't figured it out on this computer yet):

While the boys were jumping off the blob,

Sid took the girls and cousins on a canoe ride.

J is jumping off onto the blob!! Then he has to climb to the end so he can get 'launched'!

J & a cousin get 'launched'!

K jumping off ~ this is what he thought was the most scary!!

K goes flying on the blob!!!!

There was so much to do at the Church camp, we didn't even come close to doing it all~ but we had a great time w/ family ~ and the boys are thinking we need to go back for the blob!!

Kids Help Out

We worked calves and poured the cows the other days so we can wean here this week. The kids were out 'helping' as much as they could. We had to weigh each calf, so that gave the boys something to do by opening and shutting the scale~

Here the boys are "skiing" like Uncle Caleb!!
L&M just hanging out