What has been going on?

I know I have not posted in a couple weeks. We have been staying busy. Andrew started his baseball games. He has two already and they won both. He is having so much fun this year. We will have two a week until mid June. Caleb will play T-ball this year and he is very excited about that. I think he will start in a couple weeks and it only last about a month. The kids all love baseball. Even Kaitlyn likes to try to bat and play catch in the yard. Besides baseball we are trying to get ready for a garage sale in 2 weeks. Every year we have a big one in the Koops Well Drilling parking lot. Since Mark used to work there we get invited to join too. Everyone always does very well. I am going through the house trying to find things to sell. I need to price all of my stuff yet, I am putting it off because that is the worse part. Mark is going to be gone this weekend for a bachelor party in Chicago. It will be strange with him gone. I couldn't tell you the last time he was gone over night. Mark's sister Heidi and her husband Mark are coming home to visit in two week. We are getting excited to see them. In the midst of all this we are still in the process of fixing up a bedroom upstairs for Kaitlyn. We need to finish the trim and then have the carpet layed. We are so close to being done. I will post pictures when we have it finished. Then I will finally have a toy room on the main floor. I can't wait. I guess I have rambled on enough.

Kaitlyn's 2nd Birthday

I can't believe Kaitlyn is already 2 years old. It seems like yesterday she was born. It sure has been fun. It is kinda sad because my last little baby is not a baby anymore. She is growing into a sweet little girl with such a fun personality. Happy Birthday Baby Sister!!

This is Kaitlyn trying on the clothes Aunt Heidi and Uncle Mark got her. She decided to put on all the clothes she got over her dress. It was too cute.

Here is Kaitlyn enjoying some birthday cake.

She was not sure about the birthday candles she would not blow them out. Caleb had to help her.

She loved to open presents but she didn't want to rip the paper so she carefully untaped the packages and envelopes. She is sure different from the boys.

We got her a Barbie Jeep. We had it hidden behind the deck but when we were having the Easter egg hunt she found it. She was so excited and loved it.

Here are a few pictures from Easter.

Easter

We had a busy Easter this year. We went to church, went to grandma and grandpa's house and then we had an Easter / Birthday party at our house. Kaitlyn's 2nd birthday was the 14th so we had one big party. It was nice to have warmer weather this year. We had an Easter egg hunt for the kids. They thought that was fun. We hide 43 eggs and think it took them about 3 mins to find them all. The Easter bunny must not have made it very challenging. Here are a few pictures of the kids.
Brayden so handsome when he smiles this is rare

Kaitlyn enjoying a piece of her candy

Andrew is growing up and getting so big

Caleb is photogenic he always has a good smile and loves to have his picture taken

This is the best picture of the 4 of them. Brayden decided not to smile as usual.

"The Worm"

I thought I would post while I had a little extra time on my hands. I am currently at my in-law's house waiting for 4 years worth of pictures to burn to disc. I don't know if anyone heard about "the worm" that is supposedly going to affect computers on 4/1/09. My father in-law wanted me to come do some paperwork and extra backups of the computer system just in case something does happen. For those of you that don't know I do the books for my father in-law's business. So any way I decided to burn all the pictures I had stored on there computer. I know if I would not have put it off for so long and burned them to a disc as I go it wouldn't be so complicated. I have now been here for 3 hrs on the computer and am really getting quite sick of it. I am waiting for my last disc to burn now. I sure hope who ever started this hype about " the worm" is not just pulling an April fools day joke. If so I just wasted 3 hours. As you can tell I am quite perturbed about the whole thing. I guess one good thing is I am getting my pictures taken care of. Ok, I just needed to vent for a minute. I guess we will see tomorrow if it was real.

Boys will be Boys

The boys love to ride quads and dirt bikes by Grandpa & Grandma's house. This is Brayden's first year riding. Grandpa likes to start them young. Andrew was 4 when he got his first quad and started riding. He was always a cautious kid. Caleb would ride with grandpa since he was a baby and loved it. He started riding by himself 2 years ago. He is pretty good at it now. Brayden started a little last year but this year he really has it down. Brayden is more of a free spirit and has no fear. He makes me a little nervous. I could see him competing in a stunt competition someday. Maybe he will take lessons from his uncle Mark someday. I can't watch him to much he makes me nervous. Grandpa just laughs at me. I took a couple of pictures of them today. It is a good thing the quads and dirt bikes stay at Grandpa's house. I know today is just a preview of many days and gallons of gas to come this summer.

Florida Trip

We had a great time in Florida. We got back on Wednesday. The weather was perfect while we were there. I guess that was the best week they have had all year. It was 80's and sunny everyday. We rented a house so we had our own pool. That was awesome with the kids. We had 10 of us all together in the house. Mark's parents went and so did my brother and his friend Dan. The house had 5 bedrooms, so it worked out great. We didn't go to any of the parks, we just walked around downtown Disney one evening. That is free. We tried to keep it cheap. Most of the days we stayed at the house and let the kids swim. We went to Coco Beach one day too. We ate pretty cheap. We could cook all our meals at the house. We spent $200.00 on groceries and that fed 10 people 3meals a day for the week. We saved alot by not eating out. If anyone is going with a family this is the way to go. Renting a house is cheaper then a hotel. We have rented a house for the past two years and we have had awesome luck with it. Here are a couple photos from the trip.