City Museum

Jim and Shirley came to visit a few weeks ago, and took us to the City Museum. It was amazing, and I don't think we even got to a lot of things it had to offer. The kids loved it, especially the outdoor part that was made up of all kinds of things to climb. And WAY up high! You can tell Josie has two big brothers, she was game for almost everything the boys tried, except the very highest wire tunnel that was 8 or 9 stories high. Thanks, Jim and Shirley, for taking us! I have more pics on my FB album, so these are just some of the favorites...didn't want to bore you, but still probably did:)

Outside at City Museum

Seth climbing 7 or 8 stories up high

I was looking straight up at Gabe for this one

See both boys in this one? They had so much fun!

Nile and Josie climbing down to the airplane

The awesome slide

Union Station

Seth and Nile doing some shoveling first:)

They have become quite the Cards fans! You're welcome, dad:)

Seth's Hundred Day Celebration

 Seth had a hundred day celebration, and were also celebrating reading 100 books in 100 days, quite the big deal at Mason Ridge! They had an hour long presentation where they sang songs about 100 and recited poems, etc. And Seth did it all! I am still getting used to that:) Nana and Papa happened to be visiting that weekend, so that worked out great. Here are a few pictures of the day.

Christmas in Iowa

I have so few pictures of our time in Iowa over Christmas:( Our camera somehow deleted ALL of our pictures...bummer. That's Nile's claim, anyway:) And I choose to believe that it wasn't a wrong button he pushed when he was trying to figure out how to better use our camera...lol. I still love him;) Here are just a few pictures of Christmas.

Uncle Jerod and Gabe surrounded by lots of white

Gabe playing in the snow while Grandpa Pat (my dad) snowblows

Gabe and Grammies (my mom) at Christmas

Josie and Grammies

Grammies with our kids at Christmas time

Gabe's Presentation (John Adams)

Gabe had to dress up as John Adams and give a presentation in front of his class and all the parents of his classmates. The kids had to memorize their whole speech, and weren't allowed to use any notecards at all, which made for some funny times when a few of the kids completely lost their places. I always feel so bad when that happens. Gabe typically gets so nervous that he feels physically ill the night before something like this (they had to memorize lots of poems last year and do presentations for those), but this time he was much better about it. I, on the other hand, was a wreck on his behalf:) The video clarity is poor, but you can at least hear him. The cute blond kiddos in the pictures below are my daycare kids. Gabe got lots of love when he was done:)


Colin and Josie

Gabe with Reese, Colin, and Josie


Gabe & Josie with me, notice that I got 6 inches cut off my hair?!!