May 12th

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!

Last week me and the little ones made stepping stones. Jacob and Rebecca made one for Tracy and Dylan made one for me. Jacob wasn't too thrilled about making his hand print. I don't think he cared for the way the wet cement felt on his hand. We also made Mother's Day cards. I told Dylan to hide mine and give it to me on Sunday and he actually remembered all by himself yesterday morning. I couldn't believe it!

Friday I had a doctor's appt. (yearly Acid Reflux checkup). After that we met Joann and family at the zoo. We spent 3 1/2 hours there. I couldn't believe it. They have added some new exhibits. They were really neat! We left straight from there and went to Kristian's soccer practice. Mike met up with me around 6 and took the kids. I was having a girl's night here at the house and had to get home to get set up for that. They all came over around 7. We spent most of the time talking and munching on yummy snacks. Then we watched P.S. I love you! Such a good movie! Mike took the boys out to eat and then to watch a movie. They got home around 11:30. I think everyone left around midnight. We had a great time.

Saturday we had soccer games. Both of the boys finally faced teams that were just as good as them. So they were really good games! Kristian's team lost 3-2 and Dylan's team lost 4-3. Dylan scored another goal this week. He is becoming quite aggressive out there!

Also on Saturday there was a huge grass fire in Ellicott. Brett and Cat had a very close call. It burned their out buildings and came close to burning their house. In total almost 9,000 acres burned. And that was just in 5 hours! The wind was horrible on Saturday, so that didn't help. Amazingly only one house burned down and no one was hurt.

Yesterday was Mother's Day. We hung out here at the house for the first part of the day, just relaxing. We were going to go back to the zoo and have a picnic, (we bought a family membership, so we will be going ALOT) but we ended up hitting traffic. We sat in it for about 20 minutes and decided since we weren't that much closer we would just turn around. So... We took the kids to the park for a few hours, went and got Kristian measured for his tux for Matt's wedding and believe me he was thrilled, NOT, ate at Chili's and then went to Seven Falls. Seven different falls come together to make one big one. There they have two seperate flights of stairs. One away from the falls so you can get a great view of the entire thing and then one set right next to them. I managed to do the first set (181 steps) to see the falls from a distance and it was beautiful, but we took the elevator down. I am not a big fan of heights at all! Mike took the boys up the flight of stairs next to the falls. He ended up carrying Dylan back down on his back. Glad I didn't see that. As you can see in the picture they are almost straight up and down! Pretty scary. We got home around 8:30, put the kids to bed and then laid in bed and watched the finale of Survivor! It was a great ending to the day.

And now we are back to Monday... Just 7 more days of school! I can't believe it. Kristian has a band concert tomorrow night. And the kids play their last soccer games on Saturday. That has been a GREAT experience. Everything was perfectly planned from practices to games. That is definitly something we will sign them up for again, if they want.

Well I suppose that is it. Have a great week!

The pictures are of the kid's stepping stones, the grizzly bears at the zoo, me and the boys here at the house and then at Seven Falls.