June 2012

 Look familiar?! Clark is starting to love cars and he lines them up just like Ty. He is pretty proud of himself for it. Sometime he even sorts them, notice the buses and Lightening McQueens.

Andrew after a fun day in the sprinklers with the Jones kids.

First trip to Knobels this year!!! Josh and Andrew spent the whole time on the big rides. They didn't mind getting wet.

 Say Cheese! Every time I ask Clark to smile for the camera lately, this is the look I get. What a goofball! He loved riding the train at Knobels.

 Ty on the other hand is my most photogenic kid. He posses and had beautiful smiles all the time. We went to Knobels with our friends the Bugenhagens. You can see Wyatt in the seat in front of Ty. Paul and Lilly are sitting next to him. Ty love love loves riding the rides at Knobels. He could go all day!!

Curtis and I have been asked to be a Ma and Pa on the trek for our youth from church this summer. This means that we will be mom and dad to 12 kids agegs 14-18 for 3 days. We will dress up in pioneer clothes and try to have a pioneer experience which includes cooking in a dutch over outside. We don't know if it will be open flame or charcoal yet, but we thought we should try it out before testing our skills on the poor kids. Peach cobbler was our first attempt. I turned out pretty good in the end.

 Yummy! Check out the end results. Is your mouth watering!!

 Clark learned a new trick from Ty, swinging on the table. Tyson actually flips around and is always hanging around under there.

 

Our second attempt in the dutch over was bread. It looks beautiful, too bad we couldn't see the bottom to know that it was doughy. Oh well, we'll keep trying. 

 

To hear about May and April keep reading. I actually think I'm caught up.

May 2012

 Soccer season started in May. Andrew had a great season and scored 4 or 5 goals. his skills are really improving and he is enjoying getting to know kids on his  team. I don't have pictures of Josh playing, but he also started playing in the outdoor state cup. His team did a great job, but lost in the quarter finals.

Clark turned two! He loves being a big kid. He talks all the time and loves his big brothers. Because Ty's B-Day is so close we had a small party for the two of them together. Grandma's and Grandpa's took everyone to Hoopla's in March to celebrate while they were here, so we just enjoyed some yummy ice cream cake and did presents.

 Ty turned 4! He really thinks he is a big kid now and should get to do everything that Josh and Andrew get to do and not the stuff Clark has to do. He was really interested the the game Skylanders around his birthday and got a few guys as presents. He even got a guy from our friends the McKinney's. He was able to open presents with them. They, like us, think Ty is a pretty cool kid.

 Mom made ice cream cake! Yummy!!

 Ty was so excited when I pulled out this Monsters Inc. shirt for him to wear. Aunt Lanita made it for Josh and everyone has had a chance to enjoy it.

Andrew had field day at the end of May. It is a great day that everyone loves. I was able to go to the school and watch all the fun for a little while.

Can you tell which of my kids doesn't like to have his picture taken. Josh is doing well and enjoyed the last of the school year. He ended the year with over 900 mind jogger points for all the books he read. He was reading like crazy trying to get as many as possible. Now he is not reading anything for the summer that has a mind jogger test. He's saving it all for the fall.

April 2012

 I'm trying to catch up little. In April we went hiking at RB Winter Park one Saturday. We had a great time. The kids did a great job. Ty even walked quite a bit of it, then Curtis carried him the rest of the way. I carried Clark.

 The first year we were in PA we went hiking here with Curtis' dad. We took a picture at this rock. After hiking we played, climbed, swung, dug, and had lunch. It was a great day!

I have hated this tree for three years except in the spring when it looks like this!! I love all the beautiful colors we get in the spring. (I chopped off a lot of the lower branches on this tree since taking this pic, so we can now walk and more importantly mow under it. I like it much better now.)