A Lengthy Update

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So apparently someone has an issue (Kerry) with the fact that I have three small children, am back in school getting my Master's, spend two to three days each week at either preschool or kindergarten, have boys in sports two days/week, have a husband that has been at work by 5:30am and not returning until 8:30pm twice/week and have a house and family to upkeep and simply have not had the time to update my blog in the last 20 days!!! I do apologize so this will be a lengthy post since we have been SOOOOO stinkin busy for the last 20 days!!! (On a side note...right click the different pictures and click on "Open Link In New Tab" so you can easily return to my site to get to the next set of pics!!!)

We had a super fun time going bowling with the kids a few weeks ago:) Brian and Matt filled their charts for good behavior (FINALLY) and since it was raining we decided bowling was a good activity. All of them, including Luke, bowled an entire game and LOVED it! They had so much fun and all had a really great time watching Mommy try to bowl left-handed due to my shoulder. My total score bowling lefty was 38 so I gave them plenty to laugh about!!!

Brian's school had a fundraiser at the Roller Rink and we met Craig after work for some good old fashioned fun! Luke blew us away with his skills and put his brothers to shame!!! It was a total repeat of Ice Skating but he was even better:) We may have found Luke's calling!!!! He was by far the youngest and smallest one out on the rink...to see a two year old (the size of an 18 month old) on rollerblades going around completely on his own was awesome!!!

Basketball has been the reason our Saturday's no longer exist! Brian and Matt play on the same team named The Bulls this year and LOVE it!!! They are doing really well and having sooooo much fun! Daddy is their coach so I get to spend my time trying to keep Luke entertained on the bleachers:) They can both now regularly make baskets and their favorite thing to do is grab the rebounds! The pictures are from two different games...

Another activity the boys LOVE to do is go to the Lowe's workshops on Saturday mornings. These are totally FREE for the kids and they get to build something with real tools. The kids get aprons, goggles and a patch of completion every time they attend. This was Luke's first time getting to go. He really enjoyed playing with the hammer and tried his best to hit everything except for the wooden box he was making!!!

We're nearing the end...bear with me!!! The final and BIGGEST thing we have done in the last 20 days is have dinner with and watch The Globetrotters!!! Aunt Kel and Uncle Chris got us our tickets as a Christmas gift so we sent Luke to hang out with Gaga and Papa and Craig and I took the big boys off for an amazing evening!! We got to the UT basketball stadium at 5:00 and had dinner right off of the court. The menu was totally catered to kids...chicken tenders, pizza and tater tots:) During dinner the Globetrotters came in and talked to everyone. They signed autographs for everyone and then took pictures with everyone! It was so amazing to be one of the 100 people that were able to get to go to this once in a lifetime event and we had so much fun!!!! After dinner, we headed off to the game. We had great seats in the lower level and laughed the entire time! After the game, we headed down to the court to get the autographs of the players that didn't come into the dinner as well as Globie, the team mascot! Thanks Aunt Kel and Uncle Chris for an amazing night...we'd like a repeat next year!!!

So as you can see, I haven't been sitting around watching TV for the past three weeks!!! Hopefully this satisfies those of you who feel the need to complain:)

Brian's Awesome Day...

Part 1- So I'm writing this a little early, but will finish it up tomorrow:) Brian is going to have such a FUN Monday!!! It will start out with all of us in his class at 8am. He is Star of the Week this week and we all get to go to class with him in the morning to watch his movie that we made and watch him present his poster about himself:) He and I made the movie together...Brian chose the music and photos himself;) He also came up with all of the facts on his poster himself and then copied them onto a piece of poster board. He is SOOOO excited for Star of the Week as he gets to be the line leader all week as well as Mrs. Gunn's special helper. The next part of his super FUN Monday will be at 1:45 when my little smarty pants will receive an award the the second quarter awards assembly. He has no idea that he is getting one and will be SOOOO excited:) I'm not sure what award he is getting yet but I will update with pics and details later!!!

Part 2- We are so proud of our little man...he got the Tiger Pride Award:) One boy and one girl get it each quarter for good citizenship (overall great kid-nice friend, caring, kind, helpful, etc.). He is really excited as most of the other awards everyone will eventually get but this one is an extra special one!!! His star of the week presentation went really well:) He was so proud of his movie that he shared with the class and read all of his facts off of his poster to everyone:)

Such a fun break!!!

Well our two and a half weeks of lazy family time are coming to end and we have had SO much fun doing absolutely nothing!!! We stayed in our jammies for most of the days playing Wii and with the rest of our new toys. Uncle DJ came up for New Years to give the boys a lesson with their Heelys using his old ones (even Craig tried them out!!!), played outside a few times with our new trampoline basketball hoop and tether ball set, had a pizza party/movie night/sleepover in Mommy and Daddy's bed (an every few week tradition in our house!!!) and even managed to get showered and dressed to go out to dinner a few times:) I have to say though...my very favorite part of the whole two and a half weeks was having Craig home with us without having to be on the computer:) (okay...IBM did call one day but luckily that was it for the whole break!) I am putting a random assortment of pictures below ( I have had a great time playing with my new camera), most of which we are wearing the same jammies in even though they were taken on different days!!! (I am not joking when I say we didn't get out of our jammies for days...it was great!!!)

The following pictures are in honor of my sisters who I'm sure will get a huge laugh out of them...Craig and I were out front taking down the Christmas lights (for which our house won "best decorated" in our neighborhood...our hard work paid off!!!) and I looked over to see my boys playing Ice Cream Man with their big wheels!!! I have never told them of this "super fun" game that Kelly, Kerry and I used to play but obviously they are running with the same creative genes that we once had!!!! It brought back such fond memories to see my little guys having just as much fun as we once had (although my kids were outside on their own free will and not locked outside as I'm sure a few of us recall having been!!!)