Winter Project

As we know, Dan loves having a project to work on, so this winter he has been building us a new windmill. When we lived in Buhl he built one like this that stayed with the house upon request from the buyers. Our old one was green and white to match the colors of that house. Now, this one is black and white to match our house now. He just finished painting it today. It will go in our back yard since we don't have a good place for it in our front yard this time. The wind is raging today and the paint needs to dry so we will move it out of the garage soon. When we get it into it's place I will take more pictures and put them up. Once again Dan has done a great job!

Elton's 4 Year Pictures!

Elton, Oliver, Beethoven (the dog) and I finally made it into the mall today for Elton's 4 year pictures. Beethoven is Elton's dog that he made at Build A Bear in Boise a couple of weeks ago. Elton's little grin, curly hair and sparkle in his eyes are his his trademarks and suit his little personalitly. He is all about gadgets, buttons, dogs, sling shots, worms and bugs these days. He is the most social little guy you will meet and is always eager to talk about his new ideas and adventures. He is such a busy little guy that he still needs naps in the afternoon with me (which I greatly appreciate) and knows how to spell his name. While he is loving pre-school 3 mornings a week, he is very excited for next year pre-k 4 mornings a week next year. Looking at these pictures you would never think he could get into any mischief would you?

Spring Break Road Trip

Last Friday, we loaded up the van and took a trip to Boise for 2 nights. These pictures are from Saturday at Chuck E Cheese. The boys had a wonderful time and are eager to go back. We also went to Build A Bear in the mall. There we made a dog named "Scruffy" for Oliver. It has become tradition with each one of the boys that as a baby we make something for them their and that becomes their special stuffed toy. Caleb has brought his dog Buster on many trips and he has gone through the wash a few times as well. Since we got Elton a bear when he was a baby, Elton decided he wanted to make himself a dog he named "Beethoven". I will have to try to get a picture of the boys with their dogs and post it sometime. Unfortunately the pool at the hotel was out of commission. Dan got to check out a couple of Brewing supply stores and pick up some stuff for his new hobby and I got to check out the mall for a couple of hours. Then, on Sunday morning we hit the Toys R Us before we made the trip home. This was Oliver's first time to stay in a hotel and he did great in the Pack n Play both nights. It was a great trip and weekend away!

Black Bart

For any of you that have watched "Christmas Story" with little Ralphie, you will be able to relate to this post. We watched it with the boys at Christmas and Elton fell in love with it. Every day he asks to go buy a bb gun and I tell him "No..... you will shoot your eye out". He doesn't give up though and still continues to ask and he has even taken Caleb's Fisher Price plastic fishing pole and pretends it is a bb gun. You will see him walking around the house, holding it against his shoulder like a bb gun and then he says "Black Bart, now you are going to get yars!" just like little Ralphie on the movie. You can tell he has studied the movie because he says it the exact same way and it just cracks me up! He is determined! We might have a little actor on our hands.