Going for a Ride

Grandpa stopped by the school and took us for a ride!

Bishop 4 1/2, Noah almost 4, Aven almost 2, Perrin 1 1/2

happy first birthday aven

on the day of her birthday, her class made a banner for her................

we opened up a big bag of balls for us to play with, aven loves balls......

she held on to these for quite some time ;0)

and her favorite thing was to place the balls in the holes in this big lego piece......

when we pulled out the streamers, her favorite thing was sticking her finger inside the hole in the middle...........

what a party she had!!!!

but the best part by far was digging in to her own cupcake.....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

bishop was not as messy as aven ;0)

can you even tell there is a hand under all that icing?????

and the funniest thing was how disappointed she was when it was all gone!!!

sister cris

january 2011, was a family reunion in the name of tia cris, whom so many refer to as sister cris.  she is such a blessing to have in all of our lives and such a perfect example of how to live our lives.

we were all so thankful for our time together, especially with her, and to hear her advice

may God hear all of our prayers and bless her.  we pray for a miracle, may God's will be fulfilled through her.

the search for the troll under the bridge

we are stuck on bridges right now, even in school we are doing a big project on bridges, thanks to the initiation of mr. bishop lumpkin!

so when we went to the bank today and he saw this bridge, he said, "mom can we go to the bridge with noah?"

and so, we had a saturday outing at the bridges by our bank..........

run to the bridge.........

no signs of the troll!  everything looks pretty safe, we can cross the bridge!

"on your mark, get set, go!"

then the boys found rocks, and we sat for about 30 minutes throwing every rock we found in the water.  until there were no more rocks left!

this was the biggest rock we found!

"noah, look!  ducks!"

ahhhhhh, stretching out in the pretty weather!

here come the ducks, but we scared them away in no time ;0)

"mom! look, there is a hole in the tree!"

and for the finally of the outing, we used sticks as fishing poles and caught tons of algae!  we smelled so good once we left the pond ;0)