Thursday, May 1, 2014

End of March and Movin' On

We have been having weekly family dinners with Josh and Jodi.  One week while her parents were in town we decided to go to the bowling alley for happy hour and a bit of bowling.  Fun times were had by all. 

Josie posing and the boys too fascinated with banging the balls. 
What a beautiful setting of the sun...
And on our walk home, Benjamin was so taken by this bobcat tractor.
Another one of our weekly family dinners here at the house.
Josh LOVES Josie.. and he and Benjamin are getting along quite well these days too.

On March 29th, Josie turned 7 and a half.  I made her a half of a lemon cake to celebrate.   I was in the process of renewing my teaching certificate and was at a class at the zoo all day on the 29th but Josie, Marty and Benjamin celebrated with cake at Oma and Opa's. 
I usually dread classes for renewing my certificate but this zoo class was actually really fun and interesting. It was a full day focused on birds and there was coffee and food served all day... what could be better?




Bob the Great Horned Owl
 A cute morning snuggly photo of the kids.

My friend, Siri, and I have been doing kid/date night swaps since January.  A couple times a month we drop our kids off at their house and Marty and I go out for a few hours and vice versa.  The kids have become very good friends and we all get a few kid-free hours.  Win/win for everyone.
Below: Josie and Caetano.
Some random creations from Benjamin. 




Some tree climbing and soccer playing

 I don't take the kids together to the grocery store very often.  I did for a quick errand after Spanish class and they both wanted to get in the truck cart.  Look at Josie's knees - she barely fits!!

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