"Hard lessons learned for Kyson"
Kyson's new advise for any one wanting to play baseball.
This is what your face well look like after you try hitting one large white bouncy ball.

" Warning", stick to a normal ball. Kyson decided that it would be much easier to hit a large ball, verses a small one. Boy was he wrong. Little did he no, that the bat would bounce off of it, which it did. This is Kyson's face one week later.

Kyson's 2nd piece of advise, don't try and kiss the cute girls at school.OK, so that's not what really happened. I was brushing his teeth this morning before school, and I kinda bumped his tooth a little hard. yes, it was already loose,but let's just say I made it much more loose. Anyways to make a long story short, I had to pull it out before he would go to school. Doesn't he look extra cute now.

"HAPPY EASTER" This year we let Brinlee Color egg's all by herself. Imagine the mess we had to clean up. Her hands were dyed all different colors for day's.

Riley was so funny. He would color an egg one color, and then he would change his mind and want it another color. It's amazing the colors they go after they have been in different dye's. Riley's favorite egg is the dark purple one. If you look close enough it has a spider web look on it. We are not sure even how it got there, but Riley was so excited. He called it his "spider man egg".

Kyson, such a perfectionist. Kyson, took his time making each egg perfect. Kyson's favorite egg is the multi color egg at the top. Hum, who does he remind you of. (Brian)

Yes, we are a little crazy.

Oops, where is dad's head.

Easter egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Calderwood's house.

I think dad is trying to steel some of Kyson's candy. (Get your own)

Easter egg hunt at our house Saturday afternoon.

Kyson and Riley counting there egg's.

Mom helping Brinlee count her egg's, she was so proud of all of her egg's.

After the kid's were done with there Easter egg hunt, they insisted on one for mom, and dad.

I have one thing to say "Dad cheats".

Aren't we so cute.

Brian is such an awesome dad. There is nothing that makes the kids happier, than playing, and beeing with there dad.

Brinlee Love's her new shoes the Easter bunny brought her. She ex specially liked her new puzzles and bubble gun. If some of the pictures look a little fuzzy, Brian informed me that the Len's needed to be cleaned. I thought the camera was broke.Oops.

Riley and kyson loved there tooth fiery book, and there bubble sticks.

"Kyson's Dr. Seuss Week"

Last week at school was Dr. Seuss week. Throughout the week they did different things everyday. Day one was Pajama day, day two was Hat day, day three was where your clothes inside out day , day four was dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss character. I wonder who Kyson dressed up as.

Hurray, Brinlee is potty trained. I am so excited, this is the first time in almost 8 years, that I have not had to change diaper's. I do not no what to do. While I was potty training Brinlee, every time she went to the bathroom, she would get a sucker. Riley loved this idea, because every time Brinlee got one, so did he. A couple days into this, Riley went to the bathroom, and came out and said "mom, I went to the bathroom, I need a sucker". Needless to say I went threw a lot of suckers in 3 weeks.

Riley was so excited that mom and dad finally let him give Brinlee a ride on the snow machine. Brinlee loved it, she laughed the whole time.

Like father like son. The other day Riley had a bloody nose. He went into the bathroom, and fixed the problem. When he came out of the bathroom, he told me he did not need my help, dad had showed him what to do . The only problem was that he wanted to go to school looking like that.

Kyson just finished his first year of basketball. He did so well. It is so much fun watching them learn new things. Every time Kyson made a basket, he was so proud of himself. Lets just say, Brian and I spent a lot of time laughing.

Kyson getting ready to throw the ball in.

A couple of weeks ago, we took the kids on a snow machine ride up to feed the fish at "Big Springs" in Island Park. The kids had a blast feeding the fish, and especially loved the muskrat.

Aren't these 3 chillins so dang cute.

Brian took the kids snow machine up for them to ride. Let's just say Kyson obeyed the rules, Riley on the other hand, no hope. We gave some rules for the boys to follow so that they would not get ran over. Kyson followed them to a tee. Riley, every time me or Brian turned our head, he would dart off into some field trying to find a jump. It took us so long to get back to the truck, we finally made Riley get off, and put Kyson back on. The kids had so much fun. As you can tell from the picture Riley likes to rear end people on the snow machine.

Kyson loves to drive dad's snow machine. Brian is usually on the back telling him to slow down.

Brinlee loves to ride snow machines. Every time Brian would get off of the trail, she would look up at me with her arms stretched out, like where did dad go. Brinlee loves to go fast, she will laugh and go "wee" pretty much the whole time. Brian just loves the fact the his kids love to ride, as much as he dose.

Just thought I would share some of Riley, Brinlee, and McKenzie's art work. Lets just say mom was not happy. Riley, the smart one even signed his name on the shelf.

"The Love Bug"

Kyson came home from school a couple days before Valentine's day saying, for there Valentine party they needed to bring a decorated Valentine box, and who ever had the best box would get first place, and win a prize. So we sat down together, kyson drew a rough draft of what he wanted, and he came up with the "love Bug". He was so excited, he was hoping to get first place.

When kyson came home from school, he came running into the house just as happy as could be. Sure enough he had won 1st place with his "love Bug". Even though he looks a little moody in the picture, he really was happy. He won a box of Mike and Ike's.

For family night, the boys put together there Valentine's for school.

The kids has a blast decorating sugar cookies.

Kyson, Riley, and Brinlee had each made dad there own special cookie. We took them over to Brain at work. Brian was so excited, who could resist a cookie with an inch of frosting, and an endless amount of sprinkles and candy pieces.

Kyson was so excited, that dad took a bite of his first.

On valentines day, kyson had a basketball game. So after the basketball game we came home, and I made them heart shaped pancakes with chocolate chips. It dose not take much to make them happy.

One of Kyson famous poses.

Riley, well I thought he liked his pancake. I am not quite sure why Brinlee is trying to eat heir's with a pizza cutter.

Riley turns 5 year's old My cute little innocent boy( ya right) turned 5 years old last week. Riley celebrated his birthday on Saturday with his friend's. When I asked Riley, what he wanted to do for his birthday party he said he wanted to snowmobile (surprise, surprise). I had the party planned before i even asked him. I new the answer. I asked Riley what he wanted for his birthday, and he told me a cake, an apple, a snowmobile, and a towel. Yes, a little odd i no. Of course he got the cake, a John Deere cake (thank Grandpa Hill for that one), he has the snowmobile, the apple and towel, well i have no clue where those came from. Like i said the kid No's what he wants.

Riley and his friends got all warmed up with pizza and tikki punch (Riley's 2 favorite things) before heading outside, where Brian pulled them all around behind the sled, and Riley gave rides on the little red snowmobile.

I had to laugh, almost all of Riley's friends gave him tractor's for his birthday.(once again you can thank Grandpa Hill for that) By the end of the day, I think Riley had a tractor of ever size.

Riley and Britton, putting together a transformer. Riley was so happy, that he had another one to add to his collection.

Riley attends 2 preschools. Riley was so excited, that he got to celebrate his birthday at both schools, with his kung fu panda cupcakes. When Riley came home from school, he was so excited that he got the bad guy ring off of the cupcake. ( I hope that's a boy thing)
Riley was so funny the day after his birthday. He had just woke up and he said" mom, am I still 5 years old". When I told him yes, he just got this big smile on his face, ran over to Brinlee, and said" Brinlee, guess what I am still 5. Riley can always bring a smile to your face. I just love him so much.