Snowforts

We got over a foot of snow today and it was wet and heavy. The boys and I built snow forts while Jeff cleared the driveway with the snowblower.

Here is Isaac in his fort. They aren't very big because we all got hot and sweaty making them. Plus, I am getting over a bad cold and get out of breath easily. They liked them and that is all that matters.

Declan in his fort. Below is the movie of the snowball fight after the forts were built. They had a great time!

HandPrint Lilies

We spent part of our snow storm, no school day making HandPrint Lilies. We got the idea out of the Family Fun magazine, April issue. The kids trace their hands and cut them out. Then I drew the leaves and we cut them out. Then you just tape everything to a straw. They turned out really cute and each kid is giving one to each grandmother for Easter. Here are Isaac's Lilies, he colored his handprints to give his flowers more color.

Declan's Lilies, he chose to leave his white.

Playing with the camera

I took out the camera to take a picture of the 2 cats laying on the stuffed animals and then we started having fun taking pictures last night. Our white cat, Fluffy, is on the brown stuff animal and then Trouble, calico cat is by herself on the right.

Declan is watching hockey on TV. There isn't anything else on our TV unless Spongebob happens to be on.

Declan and Trouble

Isaac and Trouble. She lets the kids pick her up all the time and doesn't care. She is the only cat that lets the kids do that.

Funny!

I don't know why Isaac wanted his picture taken like this, but he did.

Me and the kids. Ignore my hair, I am thinking of growing it out and it is getting too long to do anything with right now.

Isaac's face

Declan's face. He was trying to hide his face behind a box and not let me get his face. I am patient.

Then we rested on the cough together and watched more hockey. It sure was fun taking silly pictures.

Awards Night 2009

There is also an awards night for the Mites (Declan's league) and Termites (Isaac's league).

The kids get a free hotdog, chips and pop at awards night. When you are 7 and 8 years old, you don't eat with your parents. You hang out under the stairs with all your friends and eat your meal talking silly.

Sorry, I thought I got this one straight. Declan getting his awards. He got a certificate for participation in the program, a 50 hours club puck for skating 50 hours outside of practices, and a 75 hours club T-shirt . He actually skated 92.25 hours outside of scheduled practices, but they stop at 75. He was so proud of himself!

Isaac getting his awards. He also got a participation certificate, a 25 hours club puck and a 50 hours club T-shirt. The termites get to skate less hours for the puck and T-shirt. He actually skated 77.25 hours outside of his practices. He was also very proud!

There is a mom that has a son on Declan's league that has an expensive camera with the huge lens. She took a bunch of pictures during the season and gave some moms the disk of them. This was my favorite picture that she got of Declan.

Super Sunday 2009

The kids had their very last hockey game on March 22nd. They call the day Super Sunday. It is a big deal for the younger kids to have this game and have it televised and shown on TV later. We buy the DVD of it from the TV station also.
Isaac's team ended in a tie in his game, but they played their hearts out. Isaac is number 7.

He loves playing center and doing the face-offs.

He also played goalie for a goal. They don't wear all the goalie pads until he gets in the level Declan is in right now. He also likes being a goalie.. HELP!

Isaac's team and coaches. He is in front and center of the photo.

All kids who play in the game get a gold medal on Super Sunday.

Like the non-smile for being a hockey player?

Declan was still fighting his cold and recovering from being in the hospital a week before this game, so he played goalie. He is a pretty good goalie and that doesn't help me to not be a goalie mom. I am not really sure I can handle people blaming the game on my kid if he is goalie. Let's hope his desire to score goals will still won.

Declan also got a gold medal. His team did lose his game and they did a shoot out for the kids to make it more fun. They loved having a shoot out like the pros do.

Declan's team

The gold medals for my boys!

Mite Blast in Wahpeton

Declan's Mite team traveled to Wahpeton last weekend for the Mite Blast tournament. There were 14 mite teams at this tournament. Declan's team played their hearts out and played very well. They lost their first 2 games, but were able to win their third and final game. They were all so excited and it was good to end the tournament on a good note.


Here is Declan playing center in his second game. This is his most favorite position.

There were flags on the boards for all the teams in the tournament. This was for Declan's team Fergus Falls Gold.

This was his team lined up watching the game before them to get over.

Declan played his 2nd favoite position in the last game. Goalie. He was pretty sick on this day and was having trouble breathing in his first game that day. So I talked to the coach since they were going to see who else wanted to be goalie about having Declan be goalie. He was very excited and did an awesome job.

The team didn't place, but played really well.

Each participant in the tournament gets a puck that has the mite blast symbol on it. The kids were pretty excited about their pucks.

Declan ended up in the hospital the day after this game, Sunday because he took a turn for the worse that night. He ended up with a bad case of croup and an infection of his larynx. Strange!! He came home late Monday afternoon after the doctor did many x-rays, blood work, a CT of his neck, IV steroids, IV antibiotics, and lots of pain meds for his throat. The poor kid was in so much pain he could not even talk. It was so hard seeing my talkative little boy not talk for 24 hours. I stayed with him the whole time in the hospital and Jeff was there when he wasn't home with Isaac or at work. It was the longest 2 days of our lives and the scariest. He is much better today, Wednesday, and will be back in school on Thursday.

He was such a trooper and we are so proud of him!

Wine Racks designed by Jeff (of course)

Jeff got his wine racks finished that he designed and made out of steel.

The racks with the wine and his little wine glasses made out of steel. They have magnets on them to put them where Jeff decides.

He made the little glasses in 3 different sizes to make it look cooler. Jeff put rubber stuff on the little openings so the steel doesn't scratch up the bottles. Smart honey! The wine racks are very cool!

80's Prom

So besides watching a Parent/Mite game on my birthday, Jeff and I took the kids to my parents house so we could go to the 80's Prom with some friends. We had a blast and it was an awesome birthday celebration. Terree and Branda were so sweet to make a cheesecake for me to have before our dance. You guys are the greatest and thank you very much!

We had a great time dressing up for the 80's Prom, but we decided not to go formal. We weren't the only ones not formal either.

This is some friends of Terree and Branda and their hurbands that live in the cities, Susie and Joel. Don't they make the cutest smurfs?

Then the rest of the ladies of our group were in 80's gear. Here is Branda, Terree, Mary (friend from Minneapolis), Sandy (another friend from Minneapolis), and me. Terree and John and Branda and Steve lived many years in Minneapolis.

Jeff and I. Jeff went as a 83 or 84 Sioux fan from when they won a championship. He wasn't going to dress up at all, so we were happy he did something.

Branda and Steve. Steve was Magnum P.I.

Terree and John or should I say Jason.

Branda and Steve, Jeff and Cyndi

We took a bunch of pictures by the prom pictures site, but this one is our favorite. We are titling this one our "Smurf Killing".