Playing Catch Up!

OK I decided to just do a very random post to catch up on everything. We've had lots going on in the last little bit. I just want to get it written down, before I forget to write about it at all.

1. We've been working on our house plans. We've had some drawn up about 6 years ago, but since then we've decided we want the house a bit different. So someone showed Richard a cool program on the computer and we've been drawing up our own. I went and walked through a house I really liked about a year ago. They gave us a copy of their plans and we've made our own adjustments. I'm getting super excited. Once we have it drawn up, I can put a copy on here. But hopefully we can start in the next month or so. So, so excited. The kids are too!

2. Our neighbours, the Webster's, have been going through a really scary time. Andrea was due to have her baby about a month ago. She went in and had her baby girl, then Andrea had a heart attack. She flat lined. Anyways, to make a long story short. She's had three heart attacks and 1 stroke, but she is fighting hard and starting to recover. It's been 4 weeks and she is in the Foothills in Calgary. She has 3 year old twins and her new daughter. So the twins have been over here quite a bit, just playing. Our heart breaks for their family. But there have been miracles and lots of prayers going their way. We sat our kids down and talked about what happened, and we always include them in our prayers. It's so sweet when the kids pray for the twins mom or the neighbours mom. So sweet. DJ, Kai and Beck have had a lot of fun playing together. They can get pretty crazy and wild. Fun times!

Kai pretending to drive the bus.

DJ driving the bus. He really gets into with his sounds!!

Beck trying to drive with Kai climbing in behind him.

Cute picture of DJ, Kai and Beck. We went and did a quick bus run with them. They all had so much fun!

Snack time! They all took off their shirts like, "real men"!! DJ was eating then he put his finger up and said, "Wait for it, wait for it", then he burped really loud. Here's the twins laughing at him! Too funny!

3. My girls are in basketball camp again this year. Brianna originally said no, but after the first week she was interested. So she went the 2nd week and had fun. Oh I should mention that the first week I had to basically dragged Cadence to the middle of the gym. She was crying and saying no. But, I only signed her up because she really wanted too do it. So I told her she has to at least try it. So I pulled her in and sat down with her. I did the first few exercises with her and then she was happy. She did so well. So did Abbi. Then Brianna came the next week. She had fun too. But then Cadence go hit in the head with a ball and was crying. A few minutes later Brianna got hit in the face with the ball. So I had them both in my arms crying. Brianna looked at me and said, "This is crazy, I don't ever want to play again." Oh, it was so funny. I finally got them calmed down and they went back out and started shooting. They were doing so good. I think that they will go again! Ha ha!

Cadence shooting and she made it! Yeah!

Passing the ball while they are sitting! Cadence and Brianna(in black shirt) were partners.

Cadence guarding Brianna. It was hilarious. They couldn't stop laughing!!

Abbi shooting the ball.

Brianna shooting the ball. I had to show her how to bend her knees so she could get the ball up to the net.

Brianna and Cadence playing a dribbling game!

This is half the kids at the basketball camp (Grade 2). My 3 girls are in here.

4. All my kids say annoying wrong. And it's so annoying! Ha ha! They say it like this, "Stop, that's so annoring." Seriously, all the time. Doesn't matter how many times we correct them.

5. DJ is doing so good at school. He is now going all 4 days. Monday and Wednesdays are up on the stage. It's just him and 3 other boys. He loves these days. They do a lot of physical stuff, like gymnastics, playing floor hockey, jumping etc. Then Tues and Thurs are pre-school. It's been 4 weeks and we haven't had one melt down about going to school. YEAH!

Happy DJ playing a game on the IPad!

Serious DJ!!

6. It was super nice outside about 2 weeks ago. The kids didn't have school on Friday and we were watching Kai and Beck for the day. So we decided to go for a bike ride. I walked and herded along the 6 kids!! We went to the park and played there for hours. They had so much fun. Then we started back. Not so much fun! Kai was tired so I had him on my shoulders and was carrying his bike. Plus I had 1 shoe off and was carrying that. I had a huge blister that was killing me. We were quite the site. We stopped and got a bandaid for me from the Bruce's. Then we left a bunch of bikes and kept walking. By then both the twins were crying that they were tired. So I had them all sit down and Abbi stayed with them, while I ran back to get the truck. I picked them up and went back and got all the bikes. Oh fun! Then we had a big lunch. Everyone was tired and hungry.

This was a different day. But here's the twins and DJ throwing rocks on the ice.

DJ riding his bike and giving his stuffed animal a ride!

Beck and DJ having a snack at the park!

DJ driving his monster truck!

7. That same day, later, we went and fed the horses across the road from us. At about 1:30pm that same day, we added 2 more kids to our mix! Ha ha! I was watching them for a friend for a bit. So all 9 of us went across the road and were feeding the horses. Then we found a big puddle, which everyone had to take a turn jumping in and splashing. By this time Kai and Beck were both soaked. We walked them back to their house. They were crying, because they wanted to stay with us. It was almost 4pm. We had a lot of fun with them. Then we took the other two back home too. It was a fun day!

The kids feeding some of the horses!

Those lucky horses!

The huge puddle the kids were having fun in!

Cadence and Beck ready to jump in!

8. Keira has been over a few times lately. We always have fun with Keira. I took her to Lethbridge with me one morning, after we dropped the kids off at school. I had a list of things to do. She insisted on bringing her stuffed puppy. So away we went.

Keira walking through the tiny puddle with her puppy!

Keira and DJ playing in the backyard. She thought it was funny she could go in the bath tub!!

9. My girls have been in their school choir this year. Last Wednesday they went to Cardston and sang in the festival there. DJ and I went up to listen. I was so proud of my three girls. They do a good job! We got to take a picture before they sang. They sang three songs. They were super good. Then on Friday we went to the school assembly and I got to record them sing those songs.

Here's a picture of the whole choir.

Here's Abbi, 2nd from the left on the front.

Then Brianna and Cadence are standing by each other. You can't miss Cadence with her red hair!!

10. My kids are so funny when they watch a show. I found them one day all cuddle up on the floor and our chair watching a movie on the computer. It was pretty cute. I made them some popcorn to go with it too. Then another day I found DJ on his bed watching on the Ipad. Richard was cuddled up next to him and Brianna on top of her dad. They were all focused on the show! Ha ha! So funny!

Movie time at the Spencer's!!

Relaxing in DJ's newly cleaned, painted and organized room!

11. We've had some crazy weather lately. On March 20th, the first day of spring, we had a huge snow storm. We woke up that morning and there was no snow. We were at my parents house (long story, but we were painting our house and stretching carpet and cleaning carpet), and I got the kids ready for school. Then we took off for Magrath. The clouds were so black over by Magrath. All my kids were commenting on the clouds. It looked pretty cool. So I took a picture and then about 1hr later we were in the middle of a blizzard! Crazy!

Love this picture! Driving away from my parents farm. The sky was so dark.

Then behind us it was still blue.

This was a couple hours later. Crazy stuff!!

12. This winter has been so LONG!! Driving me and everyone in our family crazy! The kids just want to go outside and enjoy the nice weather. But the weather isn't cooperating. We went to my parents one afternoon and the kids had fun running on their treadmill. I was helping them. It was pretty entertaining!! We were all laughing!

Brianna and DJ running together.

Cadence squished in and Brianna ended up flying off! Ha ha!

13. We have been working hard getting things done in our house. We put it up for sale last week. The week before, we got the carpet re stretched, and then we cleaned the carpet. It looks amazing. Then before we put all the furniture back, we decided to paint all the bedrooms. Huge difference. It was a crazy week, but we got a lot done. I dejunked a lot of stuff, and packed up things and put things in a storage space we rented. It makes it so much easier to keep clean, with less stuff.

We painted the rooms all a light grey color. I love it. This is Cadence's room.

Richard painted himself into a corner and couldn't get back to his ladder. We were all laughing. I heard him call for me, "Janae I need help!" Too funny!

Cadence's room, nice and neat!! Richard made all the girls a desk out of DJ's dresser. They all love them!

14. We've had lots of friends over to play lately. I noticed the kids took some pictures on my camera so I wanted to post them.

Alexa and Cadence!

Alexa! Brianna and Cadence both enjoy doing things with Alexa!

Beck and Kai watching on the Ipad with Abbi!

Kai and Beck eating some yummy macaroni!