The Crazy Adventures Of Our Darling Family: April 2009

26 April 2009

Fun Afghanistan clothes & a Wolf Encounter for Rachel...

Paul sent the kids some more fun stuff to wear from Afghanistan...Thank you sweetie...they are having fun playing dress-up :-)!!

He just makes me smile so big when he makes these funny faces!!!

Pretty Princess...it is hard to tell with the detail from the dress but, she is also wearing a bunch of flashy jewelry... click to enlarge to get a better view :-).

Paul said these are "Man Jammies" Hee.

Rachel went to the Alaska Zoo for her friend Hailey's birthday party yesterday & what a wild treat...they had a Wolf Encounter as Hailey's surprise!! Rachel & Hailey LOVE, LOVE to play "wolf pack" and Husky Pup games together so this was so much fun for them! I think I would have been too scared to pet one...even if it is "trained" by the zoo keepers. Glad she had fun though!! So, here are some shots that Hailey's Mom, Jennifer shared with me.

23 April 2009

AHHHHH...

Guess what Jakob found???

We were loading up to leave and I noticed that I was missing Jakob?? I come inside to see him with a plastic bag against the window...ummm??? "What are you doing?" he responds, "Trying to catch the bird!" Of course, a bird, why didn't I think of that?! We did have the door open to the garage for about 5 minutes...I guess that all he/she needed!! I am so thankful that JAkob came back inside for whatever reason! I would NOT have enjoyed cleaning up the enormous amount of bird poop that would have been around upon our return a few hours later! That is if it survived Biscuit!! NEVER a dull moment!

22 April 2009

We are enjoying the early spring!!!

OK, sorry I have taken so long to post...I am going to start with the current 7 move my way back...
We are so excited that we have been reaching the 50*mark the past few days...Spring is here...hopefully to stay!! The kids have really been enjoying riding their scooters & bikes! I am waiting to wash all their snow gear...just in case we get a late snow like last year's 17 inches on the 25th of April!! With the daylight & warmer temp.s we are staying out a lot later than usual...hard to stick to the routine when bikes are calling their names. But, with Paul gone...I NEED them to stick to the routine as much as possible....so, I need to get dinner done earlier so then they can go play...instead of waiting for them to want to come in...they do NOT want to come in!!

Rachel & Ben with their friends Morgan & Hailey giving their Build-A-Bear pals a much needed ride in the wagon...

Rachel enjoyed having Gillian over for a sleepover & then on Sunday we returned her back to her home in Palmer & spent the day having fun with Kari & the girls :-).

My beautiful Rachel...

Rachel with Gillian...

Samuel sharing a special moment with Jordyn...right before they hit each other in the face :-).

The boys, hanging out...

The cow says, "moo"...

And what would a cow be without butterfly wings?!

Then on Monday, Spring officially kicked off with the sounds of the Ice Cream truck music!!!They could hear the music for about 30 minutes before it FINALLY made it to our street! They were all pacing the street,SCREAMING & jumping up and down for the truck to come to them the whole time!! Oh, to be a kid again...such pure joy & excitement!!!

FINALLY...but, then they had to wait for it to turn around & they started doing the happy dance!!

They had to really think about their choices...they were using their own allowance money! I was not paying...I know, mean mommy...but I have a couple boxes of Popsicles & ice cream treats in the freezer that are already paid for. I told them they could pay ME for my stash, that I would gladly let them pay me for their ice cream treats. They were NOT at all thrilled with that idea. I guess I need to play happy, annoying ice cream truck music to get them to buy treats from

me:-)