Jan. 12, 2015 - My 4 Dates

That's right everyone, I had 4, count them 4, dates tonight.  Dan was out of town and I didn't want to cook dinner so.....I took the boys out to Azul Tequila.  As we were walking in, with my four boys ahead of me and people looking at me like "look at her, she has four boys" I was behind Noah and realized I couldn't see over him!  Oh how the times have changed!  As we were waiting for our food I took this picture of us, which took a number of tries, with much moaning and groaning and "Mom, why do we need to take a picture?" coming from a few mouths.  I said we needed to take a picture because not many people can say they have had four dates in one night.  Ethan replied and I quote, "I can, it's called every other Friday night!"  I looked at him with surprise in my eyes and shook my head.  Then corrected myself and said not many people could say they had four dates at one time.  He said "Yeah, every other Friday night, that's me!"  We all laughed pretty hard at that comment.  Noah then added, "my arms aren't long enough to have 4 dates at once" as he was sitting there pretending to put his arms around four girls.  I guess my boys are getting older, already thinking about dating.  Not sure this Mama is ready for that!

Jan. 11, 2015 - The Fort

It finally got warm enough that the kids got outside for a bit.  After getting all their winter gear on they headed out to the tree fort.  They've spent quite a bit of time piecing things together in this tree.  Noah still has big ideas for additions.  We'll see what gets added this summer. 

Jan. 10, 2015 - Let the Tournaments Begin

Today was Ethan's first tournament with his Eagles basketball team.  Noah and Bryce both had games in Eau Claire so just Ethan and I headed out for West Salem.  It was a long drive but well work it.  Ethan and his team played great.  They ended up coming in 2nd overall.  Not bad for their first time out there!

Later that night, Dan and I went out to dinner just the two of us.  After we ate we went to a store to look at a few things and found these fun masquerade masks.  Now we just need a place to wear them.  Don't worry, we didn't actually buy them.

Jan. 9, 2015 - Flat Stanley

Sawyer brought a project home today from school.  They read the book "Flat Stanley" and loved it.  Each student gets to take their turn bringing Stanley home and taking pictures with him.  Sawyer was determined to take Stanley lots of fun places and get some cool pictures.  So out we went.  Stanley visited Scheels, Aldi and he got to play with Sawyer's Nerf gun.  Good times!

 

 

Jan. 8, 2015 - Gametime

The kids were back to school today and just in time so they could have their basketball game at ILC tonight.  The Squires played the St. Mark Lions tonight and it was a little bit of a rough game.  We didn't come out winning but I think they learned a few things.  Dan had a little helper for part of the game, a good coach always needs a good assistant right?

Jan. 7, 2015 - Brrrrr

There was no school today because it was too cold!  Temperatures with windchill were right around -40 degrees in the morning.  That's cold.  So what do you do when it's that cold out?  Go bowling of course!  The kids did have a good time bowling but I think they had more fun hanging out with friends, well the youngest ones did at least.  I'm not sure Ethan is having fun in this picture.   

Jan. 6, 2015 - Practice, Practice, Practice

Tonight I was the family chauffer.  I went from practice 1 at the Y....

To practice 2 at Immanuel......

To practice 3 at South where I had to leave Ethan at the curb because practice 1 ended the same time that practice 3 started.  I'm sure glad every night isn't like this one...