Gone Camping!

In a few hours Derick is going to pull the trailer out to Hungry Horse Campground for the kids and I for the week! This year I think there will be 8-10 families coming and going through out the week and I am sure a great time will be had by all! I will post again when we return home!

Kid Update

It seems like the kids have done so much in the last week so I will give you a little up date on each one of them a minute.

Rileigh- Riliegh had a her last day of Kindergarten on Thursday! She had a great year and is going to miss Mrs. Nederveld next year (so will her mom!) She is really starting to enjoy softball and has improved 100% since the first game! Last night I was so proud of her she got hits every time she got up!! She got in the car and said to me " Mom, I had a really good game tonight!" It was great to see her do so well and be so proud of herself. Rileigh has also gotten herself in trouble on summer vacation! ( imagine that) One of my neighbors came over to inform me that Rileigh and Annika and a couple kids where taking down there pants and smelling each others butts!! ( i was tempted to asked who stunk the most after I was done punishing her) Everyone has informed me that this is pretty normal for kids to do stuff like that but still I was not happy with her! I don't think she will ever try that again!!!

Annika- Dear Sweet Annika! I think she is going thru her terrible 3's, or she has just realized she is the middle child!!! She was also was so easy going and listened so well and just my little buddy and now she is talking back, whining, will not listen, and did I mention the whining!! Yesterday I found her and the neighbor boy, who is also 3, on top of the slide with there pants down to there ankles! I of course yelled at them and sent the other boy home and made Annika come in for the day since we had this conversation the day before with the smelling of the butts! When I asked her what they were doing she informed me that they were peeing on the slide! Sure enough she tried it and her legs were soaked! Got to love it!

Tyler- Tyler is loving his baby food and now is getting more in his mouth then on the bib!! He continues to be a happy baby and just loves to be outside and watching the kids! This morning he did manage to roll from his back to his belly so hopefully he will remember that in the middle of the night!

Just for the Record

I guess the word on the street is that the Stanley Cup got a small dent in it when the players took it to Chelio's Saturday night. I would just like to state that we had nothing to do with it!!! Have a Great Day!

Tigers Game

Zetterberg holding up the cup.
Us Soaked with Beer and Champagne!

Dallas Drake signing Heathers Shirt
Jiri Hudler
Lidstrom and Chelios, I think.

Osgood Tanked

Hasek


Dallas Drake

Bat Boy (Nate Robertson?)

On Saturday we took our 2nd Annual trip to the Tigers game with Jason and Melissa. We left home at 9:30 to get to the game early so we could do some people watching and tailgating! During the game Jason and Melissa told me the guy with the Tigers Jersey on, on the field was one of the Tigers pitchers and if we had the chance we had to go get his autograph. Well you know me I am all over that! In between innings the guys went up to the top and I had the perfect opportunity to get his autograph so down I go and the dude kept telling me that I did not want his autograph I was thinking what a humble player till I turned around and Melissa is cracking up because he was only the bat boy! You know what they say about paybacks!

Once the Game got out we were walking to our car in Cheli's Chili parking lot when we spotted the Stanley cup at Cheli's! We were all over that! Some of the players were on the the stage signing autographs and partying while others were on the roof spraying everyone on the ground with champagne! After trying with not much luck of getting any closer to the cup we decided to head back to the car. I was walking with Derick and Jason and Melissa were a ways behind us when they started clearing the way because the cup was coming thru! Then I was like 6inchs from the cup when I spot Jason running to get to the store next to us b/c Melissa just got her picture with Chris Osgood and he had to go get a Red Wings hat! Melissa was like quick take Dericks hat and let's try to get that signed! I did manage to get an autograph and I think she got a picture of him signing it. Oh you think that is cool our night was just begining!!! We walked to the car, regrouped, and I am not sure who's idea it was to go into the bar b/c that was the direction of the Stanley cup was going so in the bar we go and 6-8 players were standing on the bar with the cup! We got as close as we could which for me was right on the back of the bar stool of the bar they were standing on!! Oh Yeah!! I can't tell you how many times we touched the cup, had quite a few drinks from the Stanley cup and I even sacrificed one of my 2 tank tops for a few autographs!!! By the time we walked out of there we all were full of beer from the cup and champagne that they were shooting at all of us and we even got a bottle of champagne and a Bud light from Dallas Drake !!!!! Sorry if I rambled but I still can't believe it!!

Last Day of School

Today at 1:00pm school was let out for the summer. What a bittersweet day for me! I can't believe I am going to have a 1st grader next year! Now the big question is what do I do with them all summer long! Tami called me today to let me know that she is counting down the day's until September and Ethan has not even been out of school for a week yet!! That will probably be me!!

That's all for tonight! I can hear the first tempertantram starting for the summer!!

Tyler is 4 months!

I can't believe my baby is already 4 months old! He had his check up today and weighed in at 16lbs 10oz (80%) and was 26 3/4 inch long (95%) . I started to spoon feed him his cereal and now he thinks he is such a big boy!

Updates

Emma and Annika's Table for the weekend!

Rileigh and Ethan at the park

The Curtis Family

Family picture at the zoo

Sorry it has been so long since my last post, last minute we decided to go to Wisconsin for Memorial day! We had a wonderful time even though it took us 3 hrs longer then we had planned to get there do to construction on the north side of Chicago. While stuck in traffic for hours on end the kids did amazingly well! Rileigh learned a great lesson in the power of prayer ( so did mom and dad) Rileigh started to go nuts after the first 2 hours of moving only a few miles so I suggested she pray and ask God if he could make the traffic start moving,and I kid you not we started to move!! Every time after that as soon as we would start to slow down she would pray and we would start moving again! What an answer to prayer! I was so cool to see Our Awesome God at work!