This is a special post dedicated to Grandma Pam. Emily, Logan and Brett each got their very own brand new bicycle today from Grandma Pam. They got helmets and pads for safety too. Thanks so much to Grandma. She misses them so much living all the way over the ocean in Hawaii and they'll be thinking how special she must think they are every time they ride their bikes. Thank You Grandma!

Emily got to climb up on the roof with her Daddy and Grandpa the other day. They were checking out different spots to find a leak and decided to put shingles on the whole North end. Emily was very proud of herself up there on the roof as you can see from the pictures.

We went to the Discovery Center in Springfield today. It was really fun. The kids enjoyed checking out all the different stations they had and they learned a little bit without even knowing it. Emily liked the big echo tube. She already had it figured out when the girl was explaining it to us. Emily said it was like a big cave. We had a really good time and went with a homeschool group from church. Great fun and great company.

Emily doing some weighing..

They're having a Japanese tea party...

They got to do a little grocery shoppin...

Emily gettin' some practice brushin' teeth...

Logan crawlin' around...

Brett drivin' the dumptruck...

The firefighters are gonna go put out a flame...

We worked on our garden yesterday! Crystal came over and helped it was great we're going to have twice the garden as last year. I can't wait.

This was so funny. Emily and Logan were playing Karate kids and Brett just had to join in...

Today was such a nice day. The weather was warm and the wind wasn't too strong. It's been crazy windy here for like a week and brrrrr cold. Yesterday was nice and we went to the park so when we woke up to another nice day we again went to the park. Today we went on a nature hike if you can call it that. We took a lap on the jogging trail at the city park. Yesterday at the park the kids found someone's kite that had lost it's string. We repaired it with the tail to fly it with. It can only go so high but it's fun for the kids. They flew the kite yesterday and again today. We tried spotting birds on our walk and I got a couple pictures. We think the picture we got was of a robin. It's cool too because we must have got him right as he was getting ready to fly off because his feet aren't touching the tree limb. Emily searched for pine cones and found a couple that Brett later threw in the creek... We had to fish them out down stream. It was really a great day and it's a day I never would have had if we hadn't decided to homeschool. I'm so thankful for all the days like this we'll have together and I'm just sorry about all the one's I missed having them in public school.

Poor Logan... Today was a bad day for him. He was being such a good boy playing one of his video games when along came little brother! Brett had gotten one of the paintball gun barrels out of the box we keep some stuff in and he whacked Logan right across the face with it. He gave Logan a bloody nose and cut his eye up real bad. I'm not sure if you can tell from the picture but there's a big bump and the cut is pretty deep. We decided he didn't need stitches, hopefully we're right. Brett got in a lot of trouble and Logan really has been soaking up the attention. Chris keeps asking him if it still hurts but Logan says it doesn't. He keeps touching it though so I know it's still pretty tender. Hopefully he doesn't get a big black eye to go along with it. Logan has a scar on his other eyebrow from a fall when he was about two so I'm sure he'll now have a matching scar on the other side. I'm sure he'll be proud of them when he gets older though... boys always are aren't they?