Beautiful Weather!

Then she stayed outside to swing until it started to get dark and then decided to come inside to wait on her daddy. We love warm weather and hope it comes back to stay next time!!!

Until the swings lured her back to fun. We taught Carter to swing on his belly.

She was sitting patiently on the cement block waiting to see her daddy's pickup come home. That kept her occupied for about 10 minutes, I couldn't convince her it was going to be awhile.

Lots more work to do on those stones mom!!

Then we got distracted to go see what Hannah was doing (before chasing Carter by the pond I was trying to pick up all the stones in the yard)

This is the look of a kid very mad I wouldn't let him right at the end of the dock by himself- mean mom!!

Then Carter found the pond and we fed the fish. We came back up to the garage but next thing I knew he was running back to the pond. Another Summer of trying to teach a kid the pond rules (big sigh)

And Carter on his "phone" in the garage- what boring but cute kids!!!

It finally feels like spring on the first full day of spring (don't look at the forcast for the rest of the week!). We went outside to play when we got home; Hannah on the "phone" in the garage

Sauder Inn

We could barely get this fish out of the water- he was trying to see if he could get all the diving rings, sticks and rockets in 1 jump into the pool- he's doing pretty good in the water!

Friday night after swimming lessons, we loaded up the car and first stopped at Ridgeville for the Fish Fry- Yummy- the kids (minus Ethan as usual) all ate well and we warned them no more food until Saturday morning. Of course as soon as we got into the hotel room Hannah wanted to know when the pizza was coming (the last time we stayed in a Hotel was in August when we went to a wedding in Gettysburg and one evening instead of going out we just ordered pizza to the room, so I guess Hannah thinks we need pizza everytime we go to a hotel- good memory for her!!)

Then we went over to spend the night at Sauder's Inn- swimming a lot Friday night

And of course playing in the game room

Hannah with a goofy look on her face

The 2 little kids played a long time at the toy table next to the pool when we were done swimming. The kids had a good time, but we're not sure if Hannah and Carter just didn't like sleeping somewhere different or were tired. They fell asleep by 10, but then Hannah was up off and on for an hour whining; then she fell asleep and Carter was up off and on for 2 hrs whining. Leave the kids at home next time!!!

Busy Week

I walked into the office one evening to find all 3 kids playing PBS kids. Poor Carter didn't have a seat (the 2 older ones don't like to have him around since he usually just bangs on the keyboard and messes up their stuff) so he somehow managed to get onto the corner of the desk and was just hanging there for dear life (of course I took a picture quick with my phone before saving him!!)
Ethan has had swimming lesson at Ayersville every night last week and this week with the Bok kids, so Thursday after swimming lessons we made a quick trip to Kroger. Since I'm off Thursday and we're usually not really home a lot, Carter doesn't get a good long nap, so he fell asleep in the car and was out, so I put him in the shorter basket at kroger and he didn't wake up (notice the warning on the cart, but really the kid didn't move the whole time he was in there!)

Fat Tuesday we headed over to St Peter's in Holgate for Faschnaut Day (basically sugar coated donut holes). Carter and Sarah thought they were good!!!