Took everyone on a Geocaching adventure. Here's Eddie with his first find! 

"Happy Birthday to ME, Happy Birthday to ME . . . " (No, it's not his birhtday - but what he don't know won't hurt him.) Charleston making his selection! 

Justin caught this one all by himself! 

Proud fisherman! 

Sky, Eddie, Robbie, and Justin went fishing on Lake Winnebago (sp) and caught ten walleye! (Bout' time!) 

Tyler at Summer School. It's called the Kindergarten Round Up! Gettin' ready for kindergarten - obviously. 

Ride 'em Cowboy! 

This is Robbie - my 12 year old sister. We had a whole lotta fun - o.k., I had a whole lotta fun playing with her hair! 

Josh! 

Justin trying to float 

more pool time 

Pool time! 

My knight in shining armour! 

Cute, huh?  

Tyler got a lot of really fun toys for his birthday. Water toys and water gun, puzzle, imaginext dinosaur, dragon egg, spy vision binoculars, a green stretchy lizard, a light up (Yoda) light saber, and from granny great: ball and globe, crash test dummies, robots toy, sand for the toy box, and from grandmother Wanda and grandpa Terry: bubble machine and a lot of bubbles, a knights armour, and some batteries. :) (I'd say he did real good!) 

Too much excitement. I think he slept right through the meeting with Chuck E. 

From left to right: Mason, Keaton, Stephanie, Chuck E., Tyler, Lily, Justin, Ben, and Calvin. Everyone had a great time! Although, Tyler was scared to mingle with Chuck E. He eventually got over it enough to have his picture taken with him. What a great bunch of kids! (Not pictured: Joshua, Julia, Morgan - the babies. And Trent who's 2.) Thanks to the moms and dads for coming out with the kids to make Tyler's birthday special. Hope everyone had a really good time. 

Blowing out the candles 

Happy Birthday to Tyler! 

"My future's so bright - I gotta wear shades!" 

After the game (back of Tyler's head on right/standing) 

Tyler's turning 5

Hello everyone!

I promise I'll get some more pictures up real soon. Tyler's birthday party is Sunday at Chuck E. Cheese's and I'll tell you - he is one excited little boy! The guest list includes 13 kids from 5mo. to 7 years old and 8 adults. The pictures will be fun to take! I can't wait.

Other than that we're all doing well. We've been doing a little bit of geocaching on the weekends - which is a lot of fun, check out the website to learn more: www.geocaching.com. Sky's been doing a lot of golfing and we've even got Justin enrolled in golf lessons. I believe he enjoys that more than soccer. But, Tyler seems to really enjoy the soccer. Who knows maybe Josh will be our baseball star. Of course, there's always basketball, football, or hockey. :)

We hope everyone is doing well. And, SEE YOU SOON! Yep, we're coming to GA. Can't say I'm thrilled - let's just hope everybody's air is working! :) :) :) But, we're all VERY excited to see you all. Details will come.

Love to everyone!
-Stacie

A sixth sense

The other night at Justin's soccer game Tyler says to me, 'Look mama, I see dead people!" In shock I look up and on the other side of the street - a cemetery. :)

In the web

Well, tonight the boys had their first soccer game so I made an early dinner: fried chicken nuggets, potatoes au gratin, and green beans - you know, nothing too fancy. Well, Tyler doesn't like mama's cooking or the food I choose to cook. So, I had to be very dilligent at getting him to eat. Finally, I got to a point where I believed he could finish up on his own without my constant, "Tyler, eat, now - 1. . . 2. . ." So, I went to change the baby. Tyler brought his cleaned plate into the room and asked if he could be done now. So, I praised him for finishing his food and I was so happy he ate my cooking! I let him pick out an ice pop and eat it outside with Justin. After we got home from their games I was picking up a few things so I wouldn't have to face a wreck of a home come morning. As I leaned down to pick up a hat off the floor I had to look very closely to make out this yellow and brown thing in the corner of the COMPUTER room. The closer I looked I realized I'd been had! There in the corner were ALL of Tyler's potatoes au gratin and half a piece of chicken! I tried hard to compose myself so as not to burst out laughing when having a discussion about his dinner. Try as I may I couldn't help myself. I asked Tyler, "Did you eat all of your dinner?" And he nodded, yes. So, my grin is getting bigger but I'm trying so hard to controll it - I had to put my hand over my mouth. Tyler starts giggling and my grin gets bigger. I said, "Tyler, did you think I wouldn't find your food on the floor?" Again, he nodded, yes. I had him take me to his food and he said, "I put it in the web."

(I guess that's one way to get me to clean my corners!)