Lauren's Basketball Season

Lauren, Kaylen and Abby

The match-up

Lauren and Izzy... our two aggressive players!! (and competitors in soccer too)

Blurry I know.. but the only action photo I got.

Team Girl Power
Back: Brandy, Jayden, Josie, Maddi
Front: Abby, Lauren, Izzy (missing Kaylen to illness)

Elise's Basketball Season

Back Row: Coach Ann, Sam, Sindu, Chloe, Sarah, Coach Eric
Front Row: Olivia, Ella, Elise, Paige

Coach Daddy

Coach Anne working on the match-ups

All of my action photos turned out blurry no matter what setting I had my camera on.. annoying.

Cupcake Time!

A successful season!


Here are a ton of videos.. just little snippets!

First LNO night ~ Success

I decided to get a group of friends together to commit to one night a month for an Ladies Night Out (LNO)

We started last month with dinner but not many were able to make it due to bad weather and illness.. this time.. we all made it and had sooo much fun. I would do this again in a heart beat.  I am not much of an artist but had a blast!

Back Row: Missy Barry, Me, Christina Grimes, Jes Freundl, Jana Peterson
Front Row: Gloria Wood, Katrina Davis & Jacque Feuerhelm

King Christmas 2014

Time for Bingo!!!

Caroline and Aunty Mal ready to play.

Greg, Austin and Kennedy

Haley, Val, Craig and Stacey... looks serious.

Joyce and Gavin calling numbers

The Harrison's having fun.. (Andy, Jack, Lea and Caroline)

The attempt to get all of these kiddos to sleep...

Elise and Amber

Caroline, Alli and Kennedy

And of course Jack...

This is what we do after the kids go to bed.. play cards and drink beer!

This year we missed some people. Mollie and family couldn't be there, which was a big bummer for everyone.  Lauren came down with a fever the morning we were supposed to leave so Eric stayed home with her and Elise and I came down.  We usually see Steve King and John at this gathering and missed them too!

House Projects

So I am feeling a little overwhelmed with house projects, house cleaning, working, being a mom and wife.. etc... etc... I can't seem to figure out how some of these woman do all of these things and stay sane. The first problem is that I don't have the personality of someone who wants to be busy ALL of the time.. I do like my down time that is for sure, but I also love to do projects around the house.. it's just getting it all started that takes forever. The third problem is that I don't have a great work space in the house for some of the things that I want to do... I need my garage.. but it's 5 degrees outside so I can't use it this time of year.  I always seem to get motivated at the wrong time.. then end up frustrated because I don't have the tools handy, or the space or an extra hand when I need it. (Eric always helps but it's hard to motivate him at times as well)  So my list of projects goes on and on and on. I actually just put all my lists in my new kindle of house projects for each room that I want to do.. this is like the 20 year plan but hey.. it's fun to dream, plus, I am a little obsessed with lists. I get great joy in crossing things off the DONE list.

I have decided to just pick one that I can do completely on my own, without tools, without anyone else.. now the question is which ONE do I pick???

My top choices of things I can do in the middle of the winter.. by myself .. are as follows.

1. Paint Elise's room... turquoise/teal two toned colored... bottom half 1-2 shades darker than the top half.  Below is her new bedding that is ADORBS.. and I can't wait to do her room.  She is growing up on me and we are moving on to "tween" bedding that I hope will get her through the teen years without growing tired of it.

Pottery Barn Teen: http://www.pbteen.com/products/cottage-stripe-duvet-sham-pool/?pkey=cgirls-duvet-cases&

I can't get this photo to go larger without getting blurry but this is what her sheets look like.  It doesn't look like they match but they do... love stripes and polka dots together.  Then I am going to paint her trim work white and eventually we will replace her closet and room doors to be white as well.

2. Stain the master bathroom cabinets just like the main bath cabinets... but I have to spray paint the hardware.. I guess I could do that outside and then bring them in right away to dry since it is bitter cold out right now.

So now I have to decide.. Hmmmmm, will probably start with the bathroom but will keep you posted.

Christmas Morning ~ 2013

Elise's big scores.. she had all ready stashed her Lego Cruiseship in her room.. hmm where does she get that from???

Lauren is a happy girl.. Santa brought her a Barbie Dream House!!!

Dudley was a happy camper.. he attacked paper, shook bows, and got a bunch of toys from Santa too!

Looking for Dudley's leash.

A trip to the Science Center

We had a fun day at the Science Center with the girls. Jana Peterson and I took the crew down for the day and finished our day at Subway for lunch. This group is a hoot and am hoping they are lifelong friends like I am with my elementary girlfriends!

Lauren, Avery Peterson, Natalie Freundl, Paige Peterson, Elise
In the submarine...

On the dog sled.

Getting ready for the weather forecast. 

In the mini- IMAX theater, it was pitch black in there and there were lots of giggles and shadows moving.. this is what I caught with the flash.. they all screamed!

Getting in position to be on television for the weather forecast.