Easter

We died eater eggs on Saturday. The easter bunny hid all the eggs inside the house, it was too muddy for the easter bunny to go outside this year. It didn't take the kids long to find the eggs but they had fun. The easter bunny will have to hide them harder next year lol. That was our easter, everyone was too sick to got anywhere.

Special Day for Zander

Zander turned five on Saturday. We are moving all of the bedrooms around, and painting them so the kids can each have their own room. Zane and Zander have been sharing since we move here. Ember moved into the basement, Zander moved into Ember's old room upstairs. We finished Zander's room jst in time for him to move into and sleep in on his birthday. He was so proud to have his own room. We painted his room in the bakugan theme. all the little cirlce designs are bakugan balls. It was a lot of work but it was worth it.

Zander's Birthday

Zander's birthday is really on April 11, but that Easter weekend this year, so we decided to have his party early. This is a pic of Zander and his friends.

just a pic of some of the decorations and his presents.

We started the birthday party with a bunch of games, "Wake up little doggie", Bear and Tiger, Freeze dance, and a snowball fight. the snowballs were balls of socks. the kids all joined together and attack Jay

for those who are not sure what they are looking at, Zander's cake is a Bakugan, on a bakugan card. I think it turned out really good. bakugan are little balls that are rolled onto cards, when two bakugan's are on the same card they battle, and who ever has the most point from the battles wins.

We got Zander a power wheel quad, I think it will get a lot of use this summer.

One Toe in the Grave

Jason decided to try doing a drama production, after a lot of convincing. There is a drama club here in Rouleau, that does a dinner theater and air bands every year. They thought that since Jay loved air bands that he might want to try drama. He complained everytime there was a practice but in the end, he said that he might do it again another year. I guess i wasn't that bad after all. The play was a comedy, and there where not a lot of people in the play so everyone had to learn a lot of lines. They did a very good job. This is a picture of the whole cast, i didn't take the picture so don't complain about the quality.

Dance Competition

We spent the day at a dance competition, both Ember and Zander were preforming. It was a very good day, and I am very proud of my kids. Ember's first dance was her group hip hop, they danced to "Get your head in the game". They were dressed as basket ball players and had a basket ball as a prop. The won first in thier divison.

Zander was the next one to dance, he was dressed as a duck, and danced (tap) to the song " Splish Splash" They were so cute, Zander was in the centre of the stage with a huge smile. They didn't win first, but did awsome.

Ember had her tap performance next. they danced to the song "Crazy little thing". They did great again and walked away with another first place.
Ember decided to to a jazz duet this year, they danced to "Jail house Rock" They only had two hours of lesson time to learn the whole dance routine. They did some after hour practicing at home. They ended up winning second in their division.


Ember's last dance of the night was her goup jazz. They danced to "Girls just want to have Fun". The girls actually preformed a lift as part of their performance, it was suprising to see the girls do a lift at that age, but they did it great.They got third in this division. I was not able to get a pic of this outfit, not enough time between her duet and this one.

It was a long day for Zane, but he was a trooper and made it to the end, with just a little cat nap after supper.

I was not allowed to take pic when the kids were on stage, so i will try and get some video's and some better pics at the recital in April.

skiing

On March 14, I took Ember and Breann, one of Ember's fiends skiing at Mission Ridge. It was really nice out that day, and we had alot of fun. We started by taking a ski lesson and then took a lunch break. we hit the slopes again and did not stop until it they closed the runs.

the new me

I got my hair cut and colored, on Feb 21 and new glasses. how does it look??

Odie

We got a new puppy on February 16. He is a Chihuahua. He is just 15 week old now. We named him Odie.

valentines day

This is what i found when i woke up in the morning. under the red paper was rose petals, hearts and choolate.




This is what i got in my bag of presents.

after lunch we started to make costumes for our curling team. Our team name was hooters and shooters. the guys had the hooters and the girls had the shooters. We had arm bands that held shooter glasses but you cant really tell in the pic. the hats were our insentive to keep going. kinda like a horse and carrot, only for us it was a shooter glass.

Jay kept himself entertained by trying to catch the shooter glass at the end of the string. he didn't stop until he could do it.

The Queen

Ember was crowned Queen at the School Valentine day party. She also won three toys in different carnival games. She had good luck even though it was Friday the 13th.

I am out of shape

I took the boys toboggening when we were at Weyburn last week. It made me realize how out of shape I am. I would push the boys down the hill and then run to the bottom of the hill to get them. I had to pull the sled and Zane up the hill. after doing this for a little over a hour I was tired and was very happy to hear the boys wanted to go back home.