auction season

For the last few months we have preparing for our school auction.  It has been a long but fun road.  Last night was the big event.  We spent the better part of the day setting up.  The event started at 6:00 with silent auction,  food and socializing.  At 7:00 the trivia started.   The dads group at our school was in charge of the trivia.  They did a magnificent job.  It was entertaining and enlightening- I even knew some of the answers!  The whole evening was fun.  I hope we raised a lot of money for the school.

time

Time seems to be passing so quickly.  It's already the middle of March!  We are so busy and I feel a little like life is passing us by.

The kids are feeling the effects of our busyness.  They are missing their Dad too- a lot more than they are verbalizing.  Because of his EMT training they see him less than usual during the week.  We know it's temporary, but it's still hard.

Reagan needed a bit of extra love from her mama this week so I took her out of school an hour early yesterday (during her least favorite subject, PE).   We went to Starbucks and then shopped for Carsyn's birthday present.  We also made a quick stop at Oh, Lolli Lolli.   Reagan had never been to this fun little candy shop.  I had been trying to keep it a secret but the cat's out of the bag now!

Reagan is full of energy and is such a joyful person.  She is also passionate and strong willed.  All of those great qualities make up our sweet Reagan girl.  It was fun spending a bit of time with just her....

our long day

Today Dale had his first 14 hour shift on an ambulance.  Well, he wasn't on an ambulance for 14 hours...  He sat at the fire station most of the day.  He did go on 3 rides: 1 for lunch, 1 was a false alarm and 1 was a DOA.  Not terribly exciting- for 14 hours...

 We had a long day without him.  Micah spent the night last night.  He woke up this morning and after a quick nap he threw up.  His dad came to get him and then the kiddos began to aggravate each other.  It occurred a good chunk of the day- my intervention was no help.  We ended up losing out on some fun activities.   We did manage to use an exorbitant amount of pearler beads- creating all kinds of treasures.  I also got to make belgium waffles for dinner (Dale does not appreciate breakfast for dinner so this was our chance).

Everyone is in bed and Dale is now home.  14 hours down 42 to go!  I'm glad he is not intending to be an EMT full time....

1/2 day

It was a beautiful day today so we met friends at the park.....

spelling

Reagan has a 90 word spelling test this week.  We have been studying for while.  Sunday we decided to write all the "difficult words" in their vowel categories.  It helped Reagan immensely- she had to spell the word and put it in all the categories it fit.  She would "sing" the word over and over until she was finished.  It was fun.

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Today was nice so we decided to go to the park and play ball.   Before we began the kids (and Dale) ran 1 mile around the track (we are going to be logging in a few miles a week to be ready for the race  in April.)

after that we had to create our own bases...

 then we played 2 super long innings...

the end of the season- 2 back-to-back games

Tonight was the last 2 games of the basketball season.  Pregame we met our friends, the Walseth's, at Chick-fil-a for dinner.  Unfortunately Luke hates doesn't care for their food so he brought his own lunch.

Anyway...  we arrived at the game at 6:00 and the 5 boys warmed up.  That's right.  5 boys played back-to-back basketball games tonight.  They were amazing!  The first game they won 16-10.  The second game was a bit tougher.  The opposing team was rough.  All our boys played great but Luke was on FIRE (not that I am prejudice or anything).  He passed to everyone, dribbled around players and scored a bunch.  All of the boys scored at least once, they worked hard and were very encouraging to one another.  The final score of the game was 24-18.

My pictures are terrible.  I have not mastered moving photography but I couldn't not post them!

 Stu giving Luke a hug after an amazing shot...

 Luke and William- good buddies...

 We celebrated with ice cream after the game.  That's right- we took our babies children out for ice cream at 8:30 at night!