A Boys Weekend...

It was that time of year...The Father and Sons weekend was this past Friday and Saturday and the boys were super excited to go. (All but one that is...the BIG ONE) Mike packed like they were leaving for a week. not 14 hours. Be that as it may, I do know that camping is not his favorite thing but he was a good sport and off they went.

I was told that as soon as they passed our church building, which is about, ummmm 3 minutes away from our house if you don't make the light, Mike was asked, "How much longer"...no joke. It was a long drive and the boys don't do drives well.

But they made it and everyone in one piece. They had a great time, despite Baker's "blood incident".

Saturday they were home by 10 am and the car was at the car wash by 11. We were swimming by 11:30. They had a great time and I know Mike is grateful he has another year before he has to do it again!!!

HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

The other day, while picking up the boys at the bus stop, Owen picked up the mints out of the glove box. I told him that they were hot mints and that he would not like them. I got out of the car to get the boys and when I got back into the car he was breathing hard into the air vents, with his mouth opened. Guess he didn't listen to me, AGAIN!! My guess is that he was attempting to cool down his mouth. All I could hear was, "Hot Hot Hot"!

Cabela's

A few weeks ago we were looking for something to do with the boys...we stumbled upon Cabela's Sporting Goods Store. The boys had a great time and found some interesting things there. Not sure we will make this a weekly stop, but we had fun and the boys enjoyed it. I on the other had was defiantly "a fish out of water"!!!

On your mark, get set, GO!!!!

It was the first day to be over 1oo degrees and Baker had a track meet. Yes, welcome to the AZ spring. Gotta love April in the desert. Monday Baker was part of a team of 4 that ran in their schools 4X100.

And...they came in first out of 4 schools.

Here is his good friend Tyson, who got them off to a winning start.

Thanks to the Eliason gene...he has become a great runner!

OH...yes he DID!!!!

Every school has those days where they try to promote "school spirit". Last week, on Thursday to be exact, our Baker woke up and said, "It's miss match day at school today". So he got ready and with much excitement went off to school.

That afternoon when he got home his first words to me were..., "MOM!! Guess what?" "What", I replied. "It wasn't miss match day today!"...I couldn't stop laughing...Poor Baker, perhaps now he'll read a calender!

We love you Baker!!

Easter 09

Easter on Sunday, when you have 8am church doesn't always work...so the Easter Bunny came after lunch this year.

The boys enjoyed finding the eggs as always but I am sad to say...I don't think Baker will be willing to carry a basket around much longer!! I think 11 is "to cool" for that kind of thing, however, candy will be welcome!

~Happy Easter~

4 years and counting...

Owen turned 4 a few weeks ago...needless to say, I've not done well at keeping up with posts. I would like to chalk it up to school, but I've been done for a week and half and have just enjoyed doing nothing.

Owen wanted to go to the mall and get a dinosaur stuffed animal at Build-A-Bear. They don't have dinosaurs anymore so he settled for an elephant and loved the process of "building"it. He wasn't however to fond of the bell ringing and "happy birthday" at the end...too much attention?

He had a great birthday and we hope he makes it to 5 :).