Kate turns 7!!

 This sweet girl turned 7!  I had some tears that morning, she is growing so fast, can't believe she's 7!

Weight: 45 lbs (20th percentile)
Height:  4' .75" (53rd percentile)

At age 7, Kate...

LOVES to read--Boxcar Children, Ready Freddy, Horrible Harry, My Weird School
Favorite Movie:  Curious George, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Tarzan, Pocahontas, Mulan
Favorite Color:  Hot Pink
Favorite things to do:  Ride bikes outside, play with friends, go on vacations, play with cousins
Teeth:  Has lost 8 teeth (6 were pulled in November)
Favorite Song:  Bastille-Pompeii (I'm gonna be an optimist about this)
Favorite Candy:  Candy Corn
Friends:  Sadie, Kayli, Emma, Brenna, Brooke, Teagan, and Brycson

-is constantly helping with Ty, they are good buddies
-does very well in school, is a good listener and a good friend
-loves to play soccer, playing this spring and planning on the fall

Kate got roller skates and is so cute on them!!

This girl is so special, we love you to pieces Kate!

March and Visitors

Scott laying in his box bed.

Kate is a reader and loves it so much, she devours books.  

Ty is a wild man, keeps us laughing

Melissa and Zac came for another visit, this is also the neighbor kids out playing in the sand pile

Ellie and Austin

Zac and Melissa slept on an air mattress in the living room, all the kids played on it

We took them to the Castle Park.

Austin pushing Ellie

Austin and Ty

We loved having them to visit!!

Kites

Austin and Scott got kites from their friend Jaxon for their birthday.  Finally in March, it got really windy and we could go fly them.

Austin

Scott

Austin

Austin(you can also see pictured the huge pile of trees that we cut down)

Scott

The yard

The theme this year has been house projects.  One of the really big ones was the backyard.  There were tons of trees (these pictures were taken after most of the trees had already been removed).  There were posts from an old fence (probably built about 100 years ago) as well as chain link fence that trees and groups of trees were growing through.  We took these out by hand (and thought in hindsight that we should have just rented a backhoe).

 Austin, Scott--the kids would help us throwing things away, digging holes, then would just play.

Ty crawled around and got very filthy.

One of the posts we dug out.  You can't tell very well, but at the bottom, that is solid concrete with the concrete about 12 in diameter and about 30 in long. They were beasts.

Shelves in the garage

We had no shelves and desperately needed some.  Jeff went ahead and built them (with a tiny bit of help from me)  They turned out really nice, stored a lot, and are very sturdy.  We've since built a few more, we love them!

Jeff was very excited--to the point that he smiled and gave an A-dorable pose!

Early Spring Happenings

Scott (left) and Austin (right) love playing together.  They are playing anything and everything, wooden trains are ranking high right now.

Kate is at school for lunch, so here are our 3 cute boys, Scott, Austin, Ty

Ty seems to love getting stuck in silly places.  Kate and Ty are buddies.  You can also get a view of Kate's bangs.  She decided one day she wanted them and took matters into her own hands.

Zac and Melissa came down for the weekend to help us with our electrical.  The kids had so much fun playing together!!  Ty and Ellie are little buddies, it's so cute.

Yep, still holding Ty and his bottle for feeding time.  

We got a few nice days so we could play outside.

Also to the Castle Park

Scott and Austin

Austin pushing Scott

Ty loves this and uses it as a jungle gym.  He also uses it to climb on tables.

Austin and his puppy

Kate also loves putting Ty in precarious situations--like the laundry basket.  Austin on the right.

Family walk...Scott, Ty, Kate, Austin