Cullen's First Communion

This weekend we celebrated Cullen's First Communion!  Some of the grandparents and cousins came into town from both sides of the family for the big day.  

 The big guy on his big day...

 The cake was spectacular- mmmm...

 Future doubles partners?  Like mother, like daughter:)

 The party ended pretty early because everyone had a ways to travel to get home.  

The weather was awesome and the kids have been begging to go catch creatures.  They didn't really care what they caught they just want to try catching anything.  So we took them to a local park...

 And had some success catching tadpoles and turtles.

Today was the first day I think I have taken Geremu to catch something and he didn't fall in.  

The Cousins Visit

At the end of last week my sister Katie came to town so Johnny and Cullen could spend a little more time together before Katie's family headed back home to North Carolina.  Johnny came while Cullen was still in school.  Cullen spotted Johnny waiting for him while he was still on the bus, when he got off the bus he ran right into Johnny's waiting arms...

Katie has all boys, who don't like to shop.  So Katie decided to take Nasuuna out and spoil her.  Which of course lead to shadow dancing in her new outfit.

 Cullen spent one morning by himself with the cousins.  He wanted to take them to Lambeau Field, so to Green Bay we went...

 He had fun hanging with the boys...

Cullen even got the chance to introduce his cousins to our good friend Beth.  Which lead to everyone trying on the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl ring...

 The below picture just might be my favorite from the day...

 Cullen had a lot of fun on his day with the cousins.

 We are all looking forward to seeing them again in June!

Nasuuna's 6th Birthday

 Today we celebrated Nasuuna's 6th Birthday

For entertainment Geremu surprised us by preformed a stunt that involved the cake...

I've been prepping Nasuuna and asking her what it is she wants for her birthday and her standard response is, "Nofing, I got everything I want."  I am humbled to be a part of this girl's life.  

Long Easter Weekend

For our long Easter weekend we headed to my parents house.  My sister Katie had flown home from North Carolina with her boys and my sister Megan's family was in town from Minnesota.  It was great having most of the family together even if it was only for a little bit of time.

Nick took the older boys out for a little hiking fun...

They enjoyed it and came back filthy!

We decided to celebrate the "spring" birthdays while we were all together.

 Easter morning the kids all had fun hunting for their baskets.

 Before heading out to church.  

Since the kids were all clean and dressed nice I had to take a picture.

 Granny Bird and Pop with all the grandkids.

When we got back from church the bunny had visited again, eggs were all over the yard.  The kids lined up for instructions.  Each kids had a different color egg this year.  We had to make it fair for the little kids.

 And it's a good thing we did because the little kids did not jump the gun, look at them still standing nicely.

 We always have judged Katie's trips based off of how much she cries when it's time for her to head home.  If she cries a lot she had a lot of fun...  What I didn't anticipate was my own sensitive son Cullen crying when it was time for him to say good-bye to Johnny.   It was heartbreaking I tell ya.  The good news is we have found a little time later this week for the kids to get back together before the cousins head back to North Carolina.

10 Year Anniversary

To celebrate our 10 year anniversary on Friday we (Nick and I) headed up north with our 3 favorite people...

The weather was beautiful, it was in 20's with LOTS of snow!

   

The kids stayed busy sledding and building a fort...

They were hoping to surprise Uncle Corky with snowballs when he came over.  

But Corky had other plans...

When Corky beat a 5, 6, and 7 year old in the snowball fight he made sure everyone in the north woods knew...

The snow was really deep.  Below is what happens when you don't want to travel the road and don't want to put on your snowshoes...

We had to call for Nick's help a few times because the kids would literally get stuck in the snow.  If I was able to get them out it was without a boot (and once the sock went missing too)...

No boots or socks were lost, just temporarily missing.  

The kids had fun trying to break the ice on the river...

 Cullen made-up his own "live" version of Temple Run.  He also holds the record for the fastest time.  The tunnels were so small the adults had trouble getting through them.

Thanks to this good-lookin' guy...

 The last 10+ years of my life have been pretty fantastic.

And these little people are just the icing on the cake...

We like to party...

I must first start by wishing you all a very Happy St. Patty's Day!

We had an eventful weekend.  Cullen was down in the dumps at the end of last week with a pretty high fever.  So he spent most of the weekend laying low- recovering.  It's our first illness of the winter (knock on wood) so we really can't complain too much.  

We woke up on Saturday to a fresh layer of snow.  

So my child who loves to shovel (Geremu) was out at it again...
For hours.

We spent some time at the library and outside again in the afternoon.  

Nasuuna stayed busy making little snowmen and snowdonkeys...

So Geremu could run them over with his bike...

I went outside because "You need to see my snow donkey!"  When I looked in the garage the car was covered in snow.  I asked the kids what happened and they both busted up laughing.  They had taken snow into the garage and threw it all over Nick's car.  The amount of snow they had used was pretty inpressive- the windshield and hood of the car was completely covered with a good 4-5" of snow.

Saturday afternoon we begin celebrating St. Patty's Day early with some good friends.  Beth, Patrick, Erica and Curt came over for a green celebration.  This picture was taken a week ago but it has the kids with Patrick and Beth, they are so good to my kids and us.

 The kids woke-up today to find that someone/something had gotten into our house again and dropped...

Chocolate money!  The $10 bill was not dropped purposefully.   We were stunned when the kids woke us up holding the real money with the fake gold.  I think one of our guest from the day before dropped it in the kitchen.

To add to our weekend of celebrations we celebrated
Adisa's birthday today!

 This afternoon the kids swam and hung out together.

 Everyone was in bed early!

Bed Early = Successful Weekend