Always time for fun!

The New Year has brought many changes for us this year. I have been very busy lately with school starting again. I have three classes this time History, Nutrition and Chemistry. I have Chem at night and the other two are online classes. Online classes are alot harder for me. The quizzes an exams are timed and you have weekly projects on top of term papers. History will be my biggest struggle. I love to read and I love to learn about history but I dont like to read history! It is very dry. Night classes are working out well for us. Joe gets some good quality time with the boys. Last year Joe had to use alot of PTO time to stay home with sick kids while I went to take exams. So this way should work out well.

Chase is still doing cub scouts and loving it. Here are his newly built bookends. This is a great project for my little bookworm. Chase can knock out a novel in a week. He is reading 5-6th grade material. We are very proud of him. It is so hard to make him stop reading at night and go to sleep! He is also doing great at basketball. He has come such a long way. He is going to take a little break so that Saturdays are freed up for him and Joe to go fishing. He just started Chess club and loves it. I can't believe how fast he is growing up.



Oh little Brock! He has never really played with toys much but he does now! He is crazy about pirates and knights. This is how I found him sleeping last week. When he was put in to bed his toys were put away. I was just in the next room and never heard a thing! Brock is growing so fast.

We had a four day weekend and so I decided it should be super fun! We started the day with Brocks Pre-opp all is a go for Wed...yeah! Joe has always been at every surgery but this feels like such an old hat for us I have asked him to go to work and help me out by being home on Thursday. I am sure Brock and I will be just fine. Next we headed to the craft store to get 29 cents worth of felt for the air hockey paddles. We left with $20 of models, modeling clay, knights and a plastic shark.

Next we headed to Incredible Pizza for some good ole' fun with the Brautigam boys, Tyler and Ryan. Mini golf was a big hit. Chase is finally old enough to drive the go carts alone...sniff sniff. This makes me feel so old! lol. So I took Brock for a spin. We had a blast. I also got hit on by the HOT go cart attendant (Erin no comments here). So we got an extra ride! lol. It felt great to know that I have options...no really I am joking here. Go to Incredible Pizza and you will know what I mean. Here are our handsome boys.


Joe and Brock snuggling in for a bedtime story!