Basketball

Evan will be playing on a basketball team this summer through the parks & rec. Last night they had a skills assessment to decide what teams to place the players on.  Evan was so great!  He's never played on a hoop this high.  He had a blast!

Little Loves

Katelyn and I went to a birthday party on Sunday. Many of the kids there were from her preschool.  As she was in the jumper, there was this one little boy, Justin, who kept playing with Katelyn. He would try to tackle Katelyn and she was loving it. Of course, I feared she would get injured so I had her come out of the jumper.  Then when they called all the kids to come inside, Justin told his mom, "I have to sit next to my girl."  And then later he came up to Katelyn and kissed her on the cheek!  I couldn't believe this so I asked Katelyn if she had a boyfriend and shyly she said, "Yah."  After that, we didn't stay too much longer at the party!

And then Evan is just the sweetest boy.  I went to pick him up from day care today and he was hanging around with all the big kids - probably 5th graders.  As he went to leave they all said bye to him and two of the girls came up to him and gave him hugs.  The teacher came up to me and said that all the kids love him because he's such a good boy.  And I totally agree!

We have the greatest kids.  Other kids are just drawn to them.  We pray that our kids can be Godly influences on their friends.

Glitter Glam

Tonight was Glitter Glam at our church.  Katelyn had been counting down the days all week until tonight so she could become the Glitter Princess!  It's an event put on by our church to let the young girls get all prettied up and then have a message about how beautiful they are just they way God made them.  It was crazy at the church tonight.  There were about 250 girls - yes 250 girls!  Around the church were stations where the girls could have make-up, nails, and hair done.  Then there were also stations for the girls to do crafts and a room for dinner.  There was not a dull moment!  After the stations, the girls receive a message from the Bible.  They were asked to write down what they like best about themselves, and Katelyn said that she likes her beautiful princess dress best.  I think her favorite part about tonight was spending the evening with her best friend, Kendall.  They are friends from preschool, but we just learned that Kendall also attends Flipside, but just hadn't been on a Sunday in awhile.  So now Katelyn can look forward to seeing her on Sundays and during the week.

Family Camping

We went on our first camping trip as a family of 4.  We made reservations at the beginning of Spring Break because we wanted to do something fun with the kids.  However, we didn't know that the weather forecast would be for rain that night and the next day, but the camp wouldn't refund us the money, so we decided to head to the campground and at least enjoy the day and later decide whether to stay the night or not.  I'm so glad that we did that and didn't just cancel the trip.  The campground was in Chino, pretty close to our house.  The kids had a blast at the playground and around the lake.  We brought soccer balls so Evan mainly enjoyed kicking those around.  The downside of the trip was not just the rain in the forecast, but we also had a lot of wind so it was really cold.  We couldn't really get a fire going so after dinner and cold s'mores we got into our tent for the night. Thankfully I brought some cards and we all enjoyed a long game of War.  The kids loved it and Evan even said it was his favorite part.  We decided to give the night a try.  We took our smaller tent so all four of us were lined up and even with the body heat, it was still pretty cold (at least to me). Katelyn went to sleep pretty quick and was out.  Ken, Evan, and I struggled more trying to get to sleep.  Evan kept rubbing his nose with some allergies and Ken was worried about him. We were trying to decide whether to stay or go home.  It had started raining just a little bit, but with fear of it raining even harder through night and into morning, and with Evan not sleeping, I decided we should pack up and go home.  It just didn't seem right to stay camping just to say that we made it through the night if we were all going to be miserable the next day (and we only had a 1 night reservation).  So, we put sleepy/grumpy Evan in the car.  Then we packed up everything in and out of the tent except Kate.  She was the last part before taking down the tent. She actually woke up pretty calm and stayed awake the whole drive home.  We folded the tent and the tarp, which weren't too wet, and headed home.  It was a good thing because about half way home, Evan vomited in the car.  He was really sick and that was keeping him from sleeping.  After cleaning him up, he went right to sleep.  Katelyn ended up sleeping in our bed for the night and it turned out to be a great family experience.  We'll try to go for maybe 2 nights the next time we plan a camping trip!

Flipside's Epic Race

Evan and I got to attend Flipside's Epic Race yesterday.  It was an event for mothers and sons.  We were given 3 envelopes and on each envelope were 3 riddles.  We had to figure each one out, go find that item/place and take a picture with it.  So we spent almost 2 hours driving around looking for these riddles.  Once we figured out the 3 riddles, we could then open the envelope and do the task inside of it.  Those tasks were probably Evan's favorite part.  First, we had to go to an arcade and win 15 tickets.  We headed for Shakey's and Evan won 100 tickets.  The second envelope had us look for 12 license plates from different states, so we set off to drive around the Victoria Gardens parking lot - and we actually found 12!  Evan will tell you that this was his favorite part!  Then the 3rd envelope had us head back to church for a great lunch.  Here are some pictures to enjoy!

The Great Skateboard Ride!

Ken usually takes the kids on his skateboard one at a time.  But over the Thanksgiving break they perfected the ride with all three of them.  They were having a blast as you can see!

Christmas Decorating

We decorated for Christmas yesterday.  It was a lot of fun because Evan is at an age where he remembers past Christmases and was sooooooooooooooooooo excited to decorate this year.  He knew what goodies were packed away in the Christmas boxes and was so eager to find those items.