One Room School House

On Tuesday, Garrett's 4th grade class had the opportunity to attend a one room school house for a day.  From what I saw it looked like all were having a good time.  They even got to pick new names for the day.  Garrett's was "Mark"...yes, brother Mark, you should be so proud!  Marcus was also my grandpa's name who attended a one room school house in South Dakota. 

Here is the class and room.  Garrett is in the back row w/the red shorts. 

Here he is working with a quill pen and ink.  (stupid blogger, won't rotate my picture)

Here he is smiling so I would leave!

While waiting for lunch time, Owen played at a little park.

After a "sack" lunch that was carried by tin pails, the kids played boys against girls in a softball game. 

Wedding Weekend

My cousin Jill was married this past weekend to Larry.  Our family loves them to pieces. 

 Here is the crew before the wedding. 

Maddison ALWAYS thinks we need to have a funny face picture.  Garrett wasn't so sure. 

Owen dancing in the parking lot while waiting for bride and groom to get done w/receiving line.

Rundquist cousins! 

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Maddie is holding Morgan

Grady doing a little jig while waiting for supper!

Jill and Larry. 

This was about the only good shot.  The lights in background were wrecking my perfect picture taking! 

Owen dancing w/the bride and maid of honor!

I should probably mention too, that Garrett caught the garter and Maddison caught the bouquet.  G-flicked the garter to the maid of honor's (cousin Lanelle)boyfriend. Hint, hint Jared! and the maid of honor insisted that Maddie keep the bouquet. 

We had a great time and congrats

Jill and Larry. Wishing you both years of happiness!

Home Improvement Project 100 and something (i've lost count!)

After 6 years here we are finally getting around to finishing some projects.  Well atleast in one way or another.  The spot below has footings poured for our fireplace of our dreams.  But after seeing the cost of our dreams, that has been put on hold indefinately.  Sooo I decided I wanted to get my landscaping done and finally front steps off the front porch along w/sidewalk, plants, bushes, etc.  But what to do w/this spot?   A hot tub would fit perfectly in this spot, BUT it faces the front of our home.  So we decided to extend the deck at an angle and put our front steps off this new deck. In the words of my husband, "its cheaper to do it this way!"...

 We shall see how it comes together....

BEFORE:

Brent showing off his muscles mixing quick-crete.  Maddison covering her eyes because she is totally emabarassed by her father (and it was just us there!) is this a sign of what's to come?

Setting posts.

Getting ready to start laying deck boards.  Garrett and Maddison have been such a big help.  Garrett has learned how to use a router, along w/other skills.

Whenever I go out to take pics.. All I see is Brent doing is standing around!

The deck floor is almost all layed.  I would go out and take pics today, but its raining AGAIN...so more to come!  Pavers or stamped stained cement for sidewalk?  Any opinions?

Deer

Last week one morning I woke up an saw these nice creatures walking down our lane.  The didn't have a care in the world, well atleast they didn't act like it.  These deer are ok to look at as long as they keep going because I don't need them in the garden or eating bark off my ornamental pear trees! This was taken from our back deck. 

This was out the front porch. 

Oh...and just in case you were wondering what/how Lucky Dog reacted.  He didn't have a care in the world either.  He never jumped up, smelled, barked, howled.  In fact he watched them while laying on his belly. 

Some watch dog huh???

KSU Field Trip

I had the privilege of joining Maddison on her one big field trip of the year.  On Monday I rode the bus w/30 plus 1st graders and many parents and teachers to Manhattan to tour some buildings at the KSU campus. 


I was a little nervous about the bus ride.  I thought it would be WAY loud, but the kids were awesome.  Bus ride to and from was uneventful (THANK YOU LORD). 

First stop was the sheep/goat barn. 

2nd Stop was Bill Snyder Stadium...

This is in the front office. 

Maddison waiting on "game film"...These seats were very comfortable

Game jerseys and shoes

Football Locker Room

Running out the tunnel and out on the field!

Doing the splits and practice cheering!

Maddison running to me after a 50 yard sprint!

She got a little football in too!

3rd stop was Bramlage and the indoor practice facility. 

Bramlage had the floor up for a banquet and the locker rooms were locked, but the kids did get to run in the indoor facility it was really nice.  Maddison took a little "bet" for a 100 yard race, from a very nice mom and her son.  Let's just say Maddison won!  But I don't have pics to prove it.  Maybe the nice mom could send a few pics my way or did they "accidentally" get erased??

We then ate lunch at the Union courtyard and then made a track for Call Hall for ice cream.  Maddison got Chocolate Brownie delight and I had peanut butter nut.  Both were YUMMY. 

We had a great day, the weather was PERFECT and the kiddos were great!

PS-Sorry about spell check...can't get it off and I can't repost for some reason.  So please excuse the yellow hightlights!

Lucky Dog update #2

Owen and the dog go round and round and round ALL day long. O is in and out of the house a million times. There are a couple of upsides:he can put his boots on the right feet by himself, he's not watching tv, and is taking good naps from being outside a lot in the morning. Down side...he leaves ALL doors open no matter how many times I tell him. Which fine for now, but when its hot and ac is on, and ALL the fly's, then we could be in trouble.

Playing Ball

I know, I know, you are all just dying for me to post something. Posting something, anything, a little or a lot, has been on my "to-do" list for 2 weeks and everytime I think I will do it, I get distracted by someone else's blog, facebook, emails, vbs, laundry, well...you get my drift.

We have been busy, but not busy w/things that are interesting to post about. School, church, work, kids, dog, bills (again you get my drift)

These next to videos are Owen and playing ball. He spends a lot of time outside and likes to play ball. However he doesn't think he can hit AND put the ball on the tee so Brent or I have to "load" the tee. The other night I noticed him making funny faces when he was trying to hit the ball hard. Thus the two videos.