Just Stuff

Just hanging out over the weekend.  Sometimes there is nothing better!

Roxy was waiting for Eddie to get his haircut.  She's like come on, lets get on with this!

The boys & I were out doing yard work and they found this cute little snake.  They tried to convince me to keep it but in the end we set him free.

Am I in school?

I feel like I'm taking classes this semester.  Cameron has so much homework - much of which requires parental help.  I don't know but I just feel like homework can also often feel more like "busy work". Who needs busy work?  We work all day to come home and squeeze 90 minutes of homework into our evening that also includes laundry, dishes, making dinner - oh...and don't even try to schedule an afternoon appointment or errand into the mix - that is reserved for weekends!  Seems as though we are "busy" enough!  And what happens if you have more than one kid -  that poor other kid better find something to do because mom is gonna be busy for a while.  Seems to me it just takes away from what little family time that we have each day. OK, so if a kid is struggling in a subject go ahead and send home a little something extra for them to work on with their parents, but otherwise I say we leave school work at school.
That's my gripe for the day....now I'd better get off this computer I've - oops I mean Cameron has a report to work on. :-)

Here is Cameron showing off his 6 week long Sioux Indian report.  It was a very detailed report - I guess on the positive side he'll be a great paragraph writer & researcher.

 Thank goodness he got a good grade on this one, we spent hours on the computer researching for this.

 Below is a picture of the explorer Hernando de Soto

He is working on a 10 part 6 week project for this now.  UGGGHHH when is summer vacation!

Cute Boys

Love these cute little guys! - And Roxy too.....<3 p="p">

I see how I rate

My husband is a popular guy at Starbucks.  You see how I rate. LOL  - I drank it proud!

Winter Break Cont...

We got to get out of town for a couple of days over our winter break and we headed to Lake Tahoe.  We stayed in Truckee and went skiing at Squaw Valley.  The week before they had huge snow storms up there but we got lucky and had sunny skies but the benefit of all the snow from the previous week.  Perfect!  We had a great couple of days skiing.

Here we are at the top of a run - Lake Tahoe in the background.

 I'm not sure of the significance of this big chair up there but Becky (my sister) has taken pictures on it (most of you have seen in on her Facebook) so we figured we'd better as well - it is pretty cool after all.

 The kiddos and the dog.

 Roxy loves the snow.  She can play in it as long as you'll let her.  It is adorable watching her run around in it - she chases the boys around happy as can be.  After all she's just a kid herself!

 Cooper playing at the skate park in town.

 The top of Squaw with the tram in the background.  A little snack stop while skiing.

 Cooper decided to give snowboarding a try.  We hunted him down in his lesson and got some pictures and video.  He loves it!  Says he is never skiing again.

 Cameron in the village.

 We took a tram over to find Cooper's lesson and his class got on as we were headed back to the village.  I got this adorable shot of him loading.

 Cameron and Roxy sledding at the skate park.

 OK...so I said it was sunny, I didn't say it was warm.  This was as we were pulling into ski on the first morning.  Thank goodness we had our hand warmers!

We love Tahoe.  It was a great mini-vacation.  We hope to be able to head up one more time this season.  Let it snow!

Winter Break Fun

The kids & I have been off since December 20th!  We've had so much fun.  I love just being home and hanging out with them.  We always find something to keep us busy.  

Like drive around and look for flooded roads during a storm

 This is one huge bag of kettle corn.  We went to 6 Flags with my sister Amy and the boys cousin Caitlyn  - can't ever go there without getting kettle corn...

 Us with Amy & Caitlyn @ 6 Flags

 We made a trip to the beach to let Roxy run around it was beautiful out there

 I love this picture of Eddie & Roxy

 Roxy is still ready to play.  She can play & play on the sand it's amazing

 Cute picture of Cameron!

 YUM, rootbeer floats with Caitlyn & Kenzie during their sleepover

 more sleepover fun - the girls look so excited - having a great time.

We had a great time hanging out.  We even snuck out of town for a couple of days!  It's back to the grind tomorrow....how many days till Spring Break??