I'm Back!!

Well I've been off all week taking a little break from all the parties!! We had our last one Wednesday with Jason turning 37. He had a fun day. His ladies made him a crown and septor! He had a very big head. Don't worry we bursted that bubble very quickly
This weekend Jason, Walter and his friend Andy went out to Las Vegas for a shooting show. Don't ask,they are having fun and not purchasing anything! Last night he went to the casino that was holding a BIG UFC fight! He and Andy were hoping to get in, but the tickets were $800 and up. He did not buy one! So they walked the strip a bit.
Today he's due to see his dad and his wife Gayla. That will be great for him.
As for us, we've had a fun weekend. Katie had a sleepover at a friends Friday and Ben and I went on an adventure! Oh yes, we had quite the adventure Friday night and once again my dad, our Poppy came to the rescue. The brief story: I locked myself out of the house at 5:15ish at night. Yes, it was getting dark. It was also the day of POURING RAIN. Panic is an understatement. No key in any secret places that I could find and no way to reach Jason who just took off on the plane. So we took a trek through the woods to our neighbors. The house had lights on and it looked really close, really close. Well it wasn't. We took one step into the woods and slid down on our butts! It gets worse. I will no longer worry about our well. There is a lot of water back there I never knew we had a stream! Yup. Rocks, swamp, pricker bushes and oh yeah a rock wall to climb over! Oh yes, I am not kidding. no one was home. So off we went to our next neighbor.
Well to make a long story short, we found a neighbor who was home and we called my dad who had a spare key. So the lesson is: IF YOU LIVE ON A MAIN ROAD AND HAVE NO NEIGHBORS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A SPARE KEY!!!! LESSON 2: HAVE A SPARE KEY NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE!
We survived.
Now we are relaxing at my mom and dad's and having a fun day.

Katie turns 7!!

Fun Pics

Poppy as Hannah Montanna!!

Grandpa Walter, Ben and Daddy

New Activities

Jason is hoping Ben will be in UFC 1000 MiddleWeight Championship! Seriously, we've been talking about signing Ben up for Karate for about a year. Well we finally did. Jason takes him a few nights a week and its a great bonding time for them!! Isn't he cute!

Katie has just started a 6 week HIPHOP class at the YMCA. She had lots of fun and can't wait till next week. Good, I was nervous, since she didn't want to do ballet/tap this year. Something new and different!

Birthday Party

They are getting so big. I just love these shots of the kids. What great smiles if I do say so myself.
They had fun at their party on Saturday. It was "Ben's" party since Katie will have her "girlfriend" party this Saturday. Ben had so much fun with his friends, he didn't know what to do with them all there at once! Mason, Brody, Liam, Morgun and Nick and Nate Oh My! His newest little buddy is Will. His dad is Jerry, Jason's longtime friend.
It was great to see Aunt Marcella and Uncle Noah. Luckily Uncle Noah was able to avoid a wrestling match. Luckily I had Auntie Amy and Caroline to help me stay calm and take pictures!
Well over on the side I added a few fun photos of the day. Yes, that's my dad with the Hannah Montanna wig on, he'll do anything for Mady and Katie! And yes, that's Liam with the long hair. He's growing up way to fast!!!

Ben turns 4!!!!

Today is Ben's 4th birthday. When he woke up he didn't even say anything, we had to remind him. No big deal to him. He thought his birthday was Saturday since that's when everyone came over. Once we made a big deal of it he was excited to turn 4, but then wanted to be 3 again a few times throughout the day! When we went to the store and he couldn't get something he would say, "for my next home birthday when I'm 5 can I get...", so cute.
Today was MLK day so we all were home. We had a relaxing AM and then surprised the kids and took them to ChuckECHeese for a fun B-day for both of them. Katie's is Thursday. As we turned into the parking lot and Katie said "CEC", Ben said, "yeah, Daddy said maybe we'd go someday" he didn't get that we were going there now! Katie helped explain.
After that we went to Ruby Tuesday for lunch, they both love it there and and always eat good. Today they both liked eating off our salad plates. I tellya. Then off to ToysRUs. They each had a toy to exchange. Well that was fun, it took 4-ever for them to decide!
Tonight we'll give Ben his gifts. That will be fun.
I'll write more later, time to start getting ready for dinner.

SNOW DAY!

OKAY...YES IT WAS A LAME SNOW DAY. WE HAD MAYBE 2 INCHES THAT QUICKLY TURNED TO SLUSHY SNOW AND THE MAIN ROAD WAS PERFECTLY CLEAR.
BUT...WE DID HAVE A NICE EXTRA DAY OFF:)
JUST REMIND ME OF THIS JUNE 30TH WHEN WE ARE STILL IN SCHOOL!