Baseball season

Baseball season has officially begun, well it did about 3 weeks ago...

Landon took the year off last year but decided to play this year since Steve is coaching. And oh how I love watching these two play together and cheer each other on!

Landon is a little rusty, but he sure isn't afraid to go out there and give it his all. 

They won their first game and got to do the celebratory run around the bases after the game was over. 

Now we just have to work on getting another win under their belt.

Madison

Michael's class went on a field trip to Madison a few weeks back...It just took me awhile to post it :/

Our first stop was the Kohl center which the boys were all excited about since we were there right after the the badgers had lost their last game of the playoffs.

They were busy cleaning off the ice and getting ready for the next event!

Our next stop was to a war museum across the street from the Capitol. 

The capitol!

The tour guide was telling us an interesting story about this haunted picture. Apparently years ago there was a painting here that was painted over with this new picture. Well if you look closely above the beaver on the rock you can see the ghost man with a hat on. He apparently did want to be painted over and has slowly started to come thru the new painting.

Of course my pictures don't do it justice, but the ceiling is just amazing!

Congress man Michael

Testing out the Governors seat ;)

This was the table leg to the table Michael was sitting at in the picture above, I loved the detailed carving.

The ceiling in the governors office, another example of all the intricate work done it our capitol building.

Memorial Weekend

 So I deserve the bad mother of the year award. I didn't pack swim suit because A) I didn't think it would be that warm and B) I didn't think they would want to go in the ICE cold water. 

Well I was wrong, thank goodness there is a Walmart 10 minutes up the road so I could get some suits and towels. They spent ALL day on Saturday in the lake! Less learned ALWAYS bring suits, kids don't mind the freezing cold water ;)

Meet Michael, the fish whisper. For the last 2 years he has sat at the waters edge, net in hand watching the carp swim at the lakes edge. Well he finally managed to catch one in the net, without a fishing pole! Looks like we'll know where to find him this summer.

Thanks to ALL the fallen down sticks we had to clean up, the campfire on Saturday night was HUGE!

There is nothing better than a Sunday afternoon nap on a lawn chair :) Gotta love that fresh air!

Our fire on night 2 wasn't nearly as big, but that made it easy to enjoy a movie by the fire.

Grandpa and Grandma were just at Disneyland. They picked up the kids some maps so they could plan out our trip ahead of time ;) 

These kept them quiet for awhile on our ride home from the island. 

Landon's 1st Communion

The day has finally come for Landon to receive his first communion. He has been learning about it for the last 6 months and today was his day to shine.

The weather was absolutely perfect!

So we were able to get a few good pictures outside.

He patiently waited to tear open the gifts.

And gave us ALL a good laugh when he opened this gift and said  "I got a picture with people I don't know"

The day wouldn't be complete with out cake and cookies.