Basketball Star!!!

This crazy kid LOVES to play basketball! He wants to go outside in the rain so he can play. I send him out in the back yard and he'll play for an hour... well almost!

I think I need to get a hoop in the house as well... this kid just really loves to throw balls!

Happy Birthday to Brenner

I know he's a big boy and he's in Kindergarten, but he's 6! He's not a toddler any more... at all.

He wanted to have multiple parties... it's not about just one day any more. Since we had his party on Saturday, we thought we'd take him somewhere fun... rather than have him sit at home and play on the computer while I do laundry and clean.

So, we headed off to Chuck-E-Cheese's... his choice.

We waited for Daddy to get home from work to open his presents.
It was quite the difficult task to keep Terek from opening all of his presents. He was sweet to let Terek and Joren open them as long as he could watch them and they didn't open them all at the same time.
He took cookies to his class today and we had cupcakes for his birthday dessert. (All made by Harmon's... not lazy mom. We had his fancy cake made by Jacinda for his party.)
He was super excited for all of his presents. Happy 6th Birthday, Brenner!!!

Brenner's 6th Birthday Party

Today was the big day of Brenner's Birthday party!
He wanted a pool party with a 3-D cake with a surfer on it.
He picked out his plates, balloons, etc.
He had tons of fun with his friends in the pool.... the funny thing was that he was the first person out of the pool and took off from his party early to go home with Lucas & Shellie. He was so anxious to play with all of his new presents. What I should have taken pictures of was the huge mess he made in the office with all of his new stuff!!!

His birthday is actually on Monday. Hopefully I can come up with something fun for him to do!!!

It's About Time!!!

I've been telling Brenner for quite some time that it's time he learns how to ride a bike! He is old enough to be embarrassed that he can't ride a bike without training wheels but still too scared to try to ride it. He got a scooter for Easter and he has no problem balancing on it. I've been telling him that if he can ride and balance on the scooter, he can ride his bike. So, today he was riding his scooter down our short slanted driveway. So, I grabbed a small old bike that we had taken the pedals off of so that they could just sit and coast on it. He did that a couple of times and realized that he really could do it. So, with the encouragement of our neighbors that assured him they used to have training wheels on their bikes too, we took off the training wheels! All I had to do was get him started and he was off!!!

Wow! How nice will this be!!!
Now we just need to teach him h0w to start and stop on his own and how to better handle the corners!
He just needed a little encouragement from friends... and a nice, warm day.

Now, it's Joren's turn!!!

Cottage Cheese.... the new Ranch.

When I was a kid/teenager, I remember dipping everything in Ranch! I would dip my roast beef in ranch, rolls in ranch, etc. Yummmmm!!!

Well, today, cottage cheese was all the rave at our house. Terek mixed his with tomato soup.

Joren dipped cookies in his cottage cheese.
Brenner made a sandwich with a fruit sticker on top and bottom and cottage cheese in the middle.
Lily (our neighbor) dipped tortilla chips in hers.
Seriously, gross, but I had to go to the store to buy more cottage cheese because they loved it so much!!!

Fun at the Park

I volunteer in Brenner's class every other week on Mondays. Cami so kindly baby sits the two munchkins for me while I'm there. Terek usually cries the whole time he's there... poor Cami. This past Monday she took the kids to the park... to keep Terek from crying.

He had tons of fun and enjoyed going down the slide on his belly.

Joren practiced his gymnastics tricks on the bar over the slide.



He's quite the athletic kid!

Computer Nerds

Ryan thought it was cute that his two little computer nerds were sitting on the couch playing on their laptops.

We're raising a family of computer geeks!

I found this on the floor in my craft room...

Doesn't that break your heart???

Best Buds!!!

The other day I realized that I haven't taken many pics of the kids with their friends. Lately it's been all about being with friends all the time... which is so great!!! The kids can't wait to play with their friends after school... and usually our back yard is full of kids... we love it!!! So this week I will try to take more pics of Brenner with his friends as well.

So, this is Joren and Parker... they are inseparable. They have so much fun together. Parker lives right across the street. Aren't they so cute?

How appropriate that they are almost wearing matching shirts!

For non-family friends, I've been posting a little more on the Williams family blog just because more of my posts have been about Lucas and Shellie so I thought I'd put them on the family blog. You can check them out here.

Seriously?

I have had it with this kid! He already dumped out a bag of cheetos, bag of jelly beans, and the 2nd day in a row he has dumped out a whole box of cereal!

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