March 2017

I LOVE it when all 3 boys play nicely together!

Nathan went to San Diego and Portland for 5 days and took these photos!  Beautiful places to visit!

Meanwhile, we were home looking out at a snow covered yard.

Nathan took the boys to the cabin and stopped at a Diner for lunch.  The portions were so huge that pictures were in order and they've been back since to show me what a great restaurant it is!  :)

They were having fun exploring near the cabin.

Dorian was eating a DQ blizzard in a NW Iowa blizzard.  :)

This happens frequently!

I took Heidi, Aniah, Eden and Adria along with us to the Children's Museum on one of their half days of school.  Our year long membership was about to expire so we wanted to get one more trip in!  :)

Nathan spent a night at the cabin and captured this sunrise picture! 

Just 2 brothers waiting for water to boil so they can make mac-n-cheese!

Mason is 4!!!  Playing Mario Kart Wii and watching Paw Patrol are close to the top of his favorites list.

Levi made a handmade drum set for Mason!  It was really precious to see how excited Levi was to give it to him. 

Demonstrating how it works!

Dorian picked out a ball and a small Lego set for Mason.

Nathan and I gave him a game and a bug jar.

Grandma Tintle came to visit for a couple of days!  She brought a gift and we got to eat cupcakes again!

Mason really liked the puppy card!

The Bolkemas and Jason Rosema came for lunch on Sunday and we celebrated again with them!

It looks like he liked the ice cream cake!

The kids all wanted to have a Mario Kart tournament as we did for Dorian's birthday party.  :)

Mason loves his new gifts! 

Yeah, we now have running water at the cabin! 

Mason does such a great job at Kindermusik!

It was fun to have Emmi come to play at our house!  She really only wanted to play with Molly.

Mason still loves matchbox cars.

Dorian made a Pinewood Derby car this year for Cadets!  He did most of it himself and named it Bolt. 

Mason and I went with his preschool friends to the Butterfly House!  He even got to touch a sting ray and star fish!

Levi had a Writer's Celebration at school.  He did a wonderful job writing and reading about the time that we went on the Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster at Disney World!  I love it when Nathan and I get to go and celebrate our boys at school together!

February

This was the first year that my parent's watched the whole Super Bowl and we were happy to have them at our house with us.  Our boys went to bed at halftime and watched the highlights of the game at breakfast the next morning!  :)

 Dorian, Levi and Jaden playing some snowball baseball!

Mason has really been enjoying learning how to write letters lately!  He wrote his name on the Valentine's that he made for his preschool friends!  I was so proud of him.

Levi had fun bringing his penguin to school for his Book Character Day.  He likes to read about penguins!

Levi had a great idea for their science experiment!  He put candy hearts in the balloon and watched the balloon explode off when the hearts fell in the Sprite!

We thoroughly enjoyed the unseasonably warm weather for the middle of February and went to the park to play after all 3 boys had a dentist appointment!  (Yeah! Mason did great at his first dentist appointment.)

We spent a couple of days in Sioux Falls before Nathan left for a work trip.  It was fun to swim and go down the slide (many times!) at the waterpark!

Nathan stayed in a hotel very close to the White House and the boys thought it was super fun to see a picture of it!

 We found Lamby!  It was lost for about a month and we found it in the drawer of our nightstand.

Mason was having fun trying out a 2 wheel bike (on training wheels)!  He'll need a little practice but it's the perfect size for him!

Dorian was very proud of the tool box that he made by himself at Cadets!  Now we'll have to put him to work!

 Q is for Quilt.  It was fun to teach preschool at our house!

Snow Day!  The boys were so excited about the possibility of having a snow day that they woke up at 5AM and couldn't go back to sleep.  Nathan was still on his work trip.  It was really quite fun to start the coffee early, turn on the fireplace, and watch TV in the sunroom while we watched the sunrise! 

 Nice work concentrating on a big puzzle, Mason!!!  We had fun working together.

 It was Boat Box Day at Kindermusik!  Molly did not get to go along though! :)