Brady's 1st Catch!!

James took the older 2 boys fishing at Galesville Reservoir one day during Spring Break. After all the cleaning, we figured they needed a break. :')
Brady is the only one that caught a fish...and it is the first one he has ever caught.

Then when he got home, there was the cleaning to be done......more on that one at a later time.

Spring Cleaning....Room 1

The first room to get tackled was Skylar & Austin's room.....it took 2 days to get completed...how sad is that?
We had to take out their old beds, give one to Brady and give the other one away. Then James (with Brady's help) put together the new bunkbeds we got for them.....this is suppose to get Austin to sleep back in his own room...wish me luck on that one.
After 3 garbage bags of papers, broken toys and stuff we decided was no longer needed, the end results were amazing. Skylar even mentioned how nice he thought his room looked.
My wish is that it will continue to stay this way from now on.
To those of you whose kids always keep their rooms clean....I salute you and would love to know what the trick is to it.

A trip to the workshop..

We decided to take the kids on a trip to Eugene. We kept telling them we would go to Build-A-Bear Workshop "someday"...this would be that someday.
First we went to Toys R Us and let them each buy a toy.....with all the toys in the store, the boys just had to have "Star Wars" figures....I thought they would pick something they couldn't find at our local Wal-Mart.

The kids' Grandma asked Skylar to make one for her...he did really good at picking out a bear for her. He even came up with the name "Elizabeth"....have been able to figure out where he came up with it. The clerk at the store was great, she let each child put their own heart into grandma's bear.

Strike a pose.

After having some issues with PSE, I was finally able to get the pictures to go where I wanted.
These were taken for Kameryn's ballet class this year. It is her first year in dance, and she is the oldest one in her class.
At this point, she is not liking it very much, so we will have to wait and see if we continue on next year.

Dinner???

James got to go out fishing with Craig and Eric for the first time. He caught the first, only and biggest fish of the day. Unfortunately he had to put it back in the river...lucky fish...lucky me also since I do not like to eat fish. haha I guess it is illegal to keep a Native fish.....that is a fish that was born in the wild, not in a fish hatchery.