Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Soccer!

Katelin and Alissa were signed up for Fall and Spring soccer. Ryan helped coach some of Alissa's team, the Cheetahs. Its been a great confidence booster for this one...


She got pretty good by the end of Spring.
Katelins team was the Tigers. 
 She was lucky enough to have one of her school friends on her team.





Having these two in soccer took up Tuesday-Thursday evenings, and Saturdays. It got kinda crazy sometimes, but nothing compared to what we are going to experience next season when we have 3 of them signed up! Oy. 

The last few months

I know, I know...its been a while. I would just like to add my excuses to these next few posts. I have photographic evidence that we have been busy, not just being lazy. Now that school is finally out, and I am done playing chauffeur, I can sit down and update the blog. Never mind what time it is! My first excuse from my absence in blog world is this...

 No, I wasnt sitting on the toilet. I was painting around it! I got sick of the bright orange Nemo paint and peeling border, so I decided to have another go at some froggy stripes! I think it turned out pretty well, and if you noticed the first picture, I found a way to finally organize all the kids toothbrushes, floss and paste! Yay me! The other painting project that I am still cursing was this one...

 Madi and Katelin have to live with each other in these close quarters. Sometimes it results in a few disagreements, one of which is color choices. They are kinda opposites. So after much disputing and reflection we came to a compromise using both their color choices...blue with purple and green polka dots. I kinda felt like I was surrounded by a smurf with measles, but I think it turned out okay. Never, ever will I do this again though-it took forever!

Excuse #2: In April, we had a couple of our favorite people come to visit us. Ryans brother had to come to Chicago for work, so he decided to bring his wife along for a kids free getaway. While he was at work, us girls decided to check out the Milwaukee Art museum.

 Gotta say, I appreciate art as much as the next guy, but seriously....?
 We like to call that one, crack. Honestly experienced a "I wish I had painted that and made money for it" moment. There were several pieces like that, but the girls did find their favorites...
 Of course, Katelin likes the painting of assorted slices of pie.

One of the highlights of the museum was getting to create your own art work. Think we all could have competed with some of the pieces we saw.
 At least the outside of the building looks cool. Its patterned after a sailboat and the top opens and closes like sails. If you watch American Idol, the Milwaukee auditions were done here. That was the most exciting part for me! Yeah, think that was just a one time visit. At least I had good company! Thanks for enduring it with us Aunt Tina! (:
 During some down time, we discovered a little game you might have heard of- Angry Birds. Zack quickly became addicted, so when we saw Angry Bird Fruit Snacks, we had to get them. Of course this is one time I allowed him to play with his food.

 Excuse #3: If you remember, our friendly Easter Bunny left us all 6 Flags season passes, so we have been taking full advantage. Brylee is getting big enough to start enjoying some rides, but the carousel is still one of her favorites.

 Zack wasnt sure he wanted to go on Raging Rapids when he saw how wet people were getting, but he ended up loving it!
 This particular trip, we ran into some friends, so we hung out with them until the "damaging wind storm" started to blow in. They really were having fun despite what this picture shows. Looks like they are all ticked at someone...JUST GET THE RIDE GOING ALREADY!  
And this is what constant running around does to a boy. At least he is surrounded by all his bedtime friends...oh and cant forget the hat. Love that kid! 
More excuses to come. They took up so much time, they deserve their own post. Of course, you probably already saw them since blogger puts newest posts on top. 

Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter Happenings

Lets just keep this short and sweet. You know the drill.
First things first...decorating Easter Eggs.


This one may require a bit of explanation.
Alissa is our ultra emotional child. I dont want to call her a pessimest, but well...
Anyway, she gets very hard on herself if something doesnt turn out exactly as planned.
Enter the easter eggs, the need to draw the perfect easter bunny on one, and the failure to draw the perfect Easter bunny on one and you get...
This devastation continued for almost the entire duration of egg paining.
Lets move on to more happy to please children, shall we?

This picture cracked me up. Is that not the cutest fake smile ever!?
Thats a little better.
Ryan trying to cheer up Ms. Emotion. Love the cross eyes.
Easter Morning
I neglected to take a picture of the baskets before the kids ripped into them, so try to use your imagination.
All the kids got beach towels because Madi informed me that up until this point we were apparently so uncool because we used bath towels when we went swimming. Who knew a beach towel could make you so cool?


There were some bubbles for the 3 younger, kites for Zack and Alissa and of course candy for all.
And Brylee got a book, and this shirt, because I bought it with the beach towels and forgot it was in the bag.
That was it, well except for the 6 Flags season passes, but they werent really very excited about those so whatever.
They decided to try out their new towels during the Easter Story. And Jovi decided to lick Alissas face right as I took the picture.
Then it was time to clean up. We attempted pictures outside, but for some unknown reason, the kids kept squinting. So we moved the photo shoot inside. Ive included the best of both worlds for your viewing pleasure.












Yeah, the group shots never turn out so well. We tried.
Happy Easter!