Winter Swim Lessons

The boys took some swim lessons at our local high school.  It was nice to have something fun to do, since it has been such a long and grey winter.

 This is Easton getting ready to jump off the diving board.

I think Brady's favorite part of swim lessons was chatting with his teacher and classmates.  He did get some swimming done, though.

Random Shots from the Past Few Weeks

 We joined the YMCA a few months ago.  We have really enjoyed using everything that they have to offer.  This is a picture of Brady and Jaylee playing with a little basketball hoop after I got done working out.

 Riley spent a few weeks playing on an intramural basketball league.  He is shooting free throws in this picture.

 More from the basketball game.

 My niece had a princess birthday party and Jaylee was more than happy to dress up for it.

 My mom even got in on the fun and came dressed up as Belle!  Jaylee told her that she looked gorgeous.

 Sick day!

 Brady and Jaylee have become pretty good friends, since Easton has been gone at kindergarten.  In this picture, Brady is teaching Jaylee how to kick field goal.

 Joey and Lyra came down for Emmie's birthday party.  Since Joey's birthday was just a few days later, we surprised him with a pizza party.  All of the kids thought the pizza "cake" was great.

Riley's parents got me tickets to a ballet for my birthday.  I decided that it would be fun to take Melanie with me.  This picture is of us leaving for the ballet.  It was so fun!

Snow Day!

 We haven't had a lot of snow this winter, but we did finally have one snow day.  We did our best to take advantage of it.  In this picture, the boys are heading for the sledding hill.

 Easton

 Brady

This picture makes me laugh.  I told my parents that we were heading over to their house to play in the snow.  Of course, my dad went outside to shovel the sidewalks before we got there.  We had only been at my parent's house a few minutes and my dad looked outside.  He said, "Well I guess they decided to fill in the sidewalk."  They were completely undoing all of his work!  Just another reason to love having your grandkids live close by, I guess!

Hair Journal - March 2013

 A football for superbowl Sunday!

 Curls!!!  All it took was a curling iron and a lot of hairspray.  It was pretty much flat by the end of the day though!

Jessica Turns 31

I turned 31 last week.  Riley had classes to teach, so he couldn't be home for dinner.  When my dad heard that he decided to take me out for a yummy steak dinner.  When I was little he would take me out to dinner for my birthday, so this was a fun daddy / daughter date.  (By the way,  I know this picture is horrible, but it is all I got.  It is difficult enough getting my dad to pose for a picture, let alone wait around to make sure it is actually a good picture.)

Hair Journal - January 2013

 

 I was especially impressed with Jaylee this day.  It is an upside down french braid into a high ponytail.  I asked Jaylee to lay with her head hanging off of the couch so I could have her at a good angle to do the braid.  She willingly hopped onto the couch, hung her head over the edge, and held still without complaining!

Random Shots from the Past Few Weeks

 Brothers

 Jaylee enjoyed her first outing to Steak-n-Shake so much that she fell asleep wearing their hat.

 Riley laughed harder than I have ever seen before at this car.  While we were filling our car up with gas he noticed this car come flying into the parking spot.  Then an angry woman jumped out of the car and ran into the gas station.  If you look close you will see that the car is covered with soap from the car wash.  Obviously the rinse mechanism on the car wash broke.  The woman who drove this car was ticked off! Riley thought the whole thing was hilarious!

 Easton was pretty excited about his soccer trophy.

 The nice thing about the boys having birthdays so close together is that I can do their annual check-ups at the same time.

 I have two friends who recently had babies.  Myself and two other girls threw them a baby shower. 

 Brady went Christmas shopping with daddy.  I thought they were cute.

 Brady was the first one of us to come down with the flu this year.  He sure looked pathetic.

 It just wouldn't be a "Random Shots" blog post without Chewy sneaking his way in.  He has turned into an old dog this past year and loves taking naps on the couch.

 Chewy and Jaylee like to watch the school bus pick up Easton each morning.

Like a typical girl, Jaylee loves getting new clothes.