A time to keep

March 20, 2012

it happens every spring!

The PINEWOOD DERBY!

blocks of wood carved, sanded, painted

Excitement and anticipation builds!

The day of the big race draws near

and the boys work into the night perfecting their cars

day of...weights are added

final inspections

the completed car!

twins cars
Which one will he race?
The first place winner 2 years in a row or the rookie?

The champ it is

the rookie was pulling a little to the right!

Games of distraction to pass the time

The support crew dressed for St. Patty's day
(someone has to!)

And It begins

Excitement!!!

How will it do?

Final standings.....
Tyler 4th in Wolf Den
Alex 2nd in Bear Den
Jared a solid finisher
but he really had the coolest hand drawn flames!

Alex 3rd place overall!

Overall a great derby!

March 14, 2012

Bunting!

Remember this?

I cut it all up

sewed it together!

And made the cutest bunting!

Leftovers!

I loved this project! I want to make more!
More pictures of her finished room coming soon.
It's taking longer to put together than I thought it would.

March 13, 2012

personal pizza rolls!

Friday night Eric and Jared were gone on an overnight boy scout campout.

More about that later!

Both Tyler and Alex had a friend over to spend the night.

So what's better than pizza and a movie.

Your own pizza!

or in this case pizza roll!

Everyone got their own dough

Whatever toppings they wanted!

Assemble!

Yes even Elizabeth had to do her own
NO HELP! Me DO!

yummy!

Really I think this is one of my better ideas.
They had fun making their own

March 10, 2012

thought we were done

When boy
#1

and #3

packed up the trains and out grew their favorite Thomas T-shirts and sweatshirts we (foolishly) thought we were done.

Silly us!

who knew the Princess

would LOVE Thomas too!

But really how could you not?

He looks so happy!

Luckily for her

mom and all her boys are very experienced track builders!

I mean really, I am awesome!

But she is no more patient then the boys were waiting for the track to be finished

But when its done

There are hours of fun!

She does plays very differently

the boys were all about train wrecks and disasters.

Her trains "visit" each other and she sings songs while drive them around the track!

So once again we are tripping over track all over the family room!
Loving it and enjoying every moment.
Have a happy Saturday!

March 9, 2012

The park!

Isn't the park about the best thing EVER!

3 of my children think so.

1 is starting to think he is too big for such "childish" things.

Seriously?

he is only 10!

OK almost 11

but really how sad!

What he actually said is "The park is soooooo boring" with a little bit of throwing himself on the floor.

So we left him!

And oh the fun we had!

Soccer, baseball, fox-tail, tag hide-and-seek and then the slides, swing etc!

All captured by the camera phone!

Love this picture!

Oh wait look who joined us about 45 minutes into our adventure.
Yeah maybe the park is a little fun!

Totally unrelated to the park adventure
this little one came home and dumped out my clean laundry so she could have a seat to watch TV!
What's up with that?