March 2013 highlights

Made my first ever homemade onion rings- yum!

Leaping

At school they were in the "Readers for leaders" reading program....with that if they where their shirts they get into the home U of I basketball games...and at the last game ALL the Readers for Leaders kids got to go down on the court.

Yep those are ALL 68 cases of girl scout cookies that my Troop ordered!!!  I spent 1 1/2 hours helping the ladies in Moscow unload the semi truck of cookies for our whole Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho Council!!! 

 Primeland had a contest going to raise money for the local food banks....you put money towards whoever you wanted to see kiss the pig.....well....Tom pulled some "strings" calling on some farmers at the last minute so that he could beat the other top runner.....AND He did it!!

He got to Kiss the Pig!! (actually 2 pigs)  They raised like $30,000 for the food banks!! 

Great Job Primeland!!

 Kassidy participated in the "Little Miss" part of the Distinguished Young Women program. 

The theme was "totally 80's"

She was excited because her partner....was the winner of the DYW title.

Frosty

 

On our way to get on the boat...we saw some charaters.....and Clara was very excited to see
Frosty the Snowman!!

February 2013 Highlights

 We started Clara in a Creative Dance Class. 

It's the same Class Kassidy was in a few short years ago :)

She loves the ribbon dancing!

 

 Kassidy played Rec. Basketball.  She was on a 3rd/4th grade team.  They had enough girls from Troy to have their own team...hence the bright green shirts :)  She had fun...they won every game -except the very last one...which was a bummer...but they all did good!

The boys started making their Pinewood Derby cars--yes...Tom thought it was ok to use the saw at the kitchen table :)

Snow is slowly melting away...

 The boys made cakes for their Cub Scout Blue & Gold silent auction. 

Kolby made a tacklebox & Derrick wanted a mountain with animal tracks...which I helped him with

That pretty much sums up February for us..... plus squeeze in Thinking Day for Girl Scouts and driving a suburban load of girls to town in a snow storm on unplowed roads - by myself and oh yeah...Valentine's day 

Christmas Break Surprise

With the kids being sick over Christmas..and just staying home...we wanted to do something fun with them over break when they felt better.  We went through a couple options and ended up taking them on the "North Pole Cruise" on Coeur 'd Alene Lake.  Yes, Tom and I already had done it..but we figured the kids would have fun..plus the resort there had a pool...so it was a "win-win" all around!
We didn't tell the kids what we were doing until we got there...they had to pack their clothes...but that didn't faze them as we were heading to my parent's house for New Years.  It was pretty fun to surprise them!!  We got to have hot cocoa and they heard Santa read their name on his "List" (Kolby was thinking it was kinda wierd..since we were seeing Santa after Christmas-but oh well)  and then We ALL got surprised by an elf visiting our room after the cruise...she delivered us milk and cookies...HOW FUN is THAT??!!

 

 

CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS

Time with family(even if some were sick), fun gifts and toys spread through out the living room, and Christmas lights in Locomotive Park in Lewiston-

many blessings to be thankful for

Merry Christmas to you all!

more December

Kolby was part of the Winter Concert for the 5th-12th graders in Troy.

He got to play the bongo drums during the 5th graders rendition of "Carol of the Bells" called

"Carol of the Boomwhackers"

Then to end the night ALL the kids sang "Christmas Canon"

They all did a great job on their performances 

 

The snow is finally here...and the kids have been sledding any chance they get ..even during the dark sometimes!!

Derrick and Clara

Clara - keeping up with the kids

Kolby the cool dude

Kassidy building a fort (on our side hill)  we told her to move it to another spot in the yard though :)

December 2012

December....whooosh....started with Tom and I taking a trip to the "North Pole" on a dinner cruise on Couer d'Alene Lake sponsored by BASF for the salesmen and thier spouses of Primeland ;) 

the Cub Scouts went caroling around Troy and also sang the "12 days of Christmas" while waiting for the cocoa to heat up.

We then had our annual Christmas Tree hunt with some friends. 

All that in just the first half of December!!