May

Kailee had her first marching band parade over Mother's Day weekend.  Yes, we did have to break out the winter coats, hats and mittens to watch the parade.  Of course the only time it rained all day was the 15 minutes we were outside watching!  But the plus side to that is there were hardly any kids there, so we got LOTS of candy!

 

 Mother's Day with my girls

 Jocelyn knows how to spell a few words by herself, and these are some of them.  She did this all by herself while eating lunch!  I came down to check on her and found this.  What a sweet girl!

 We had a big change in our house in May.  Calvin changed jobs after 13 years in the restaurant business!  He's now working with his dad selling fishing bobbers and stops that his dad makes.  We've had a website for a few years where we've sold them, but he decided to go full time with it.  It's been a big change, but we're really enjoying having him home more and the flexibility that being your own boss brings!

 

This was his last day at work - Jocelyn did not want her picture taken at 6:30 in the morning - I guess I really can't blame her.

 Much better in the afternoon!

 And she still loves the face paints....

All the rest

Okay - here's the last of them!  Whew! 

Calvin goes every year to the Twins home opener.  He normally goes with his brother and some of his buddies.  They decided that they're getting too old for that (there may be some beer drinking involved when they go) and this year invited me and Nicole to come along.  We thought that was pretty nice, and I was excited to see Target Field - I'd never been there before. 

 However, it was about 30 degrees and windy the day we went.  Probably my first and last home opener!  Of course our seats weren't in the sun, although the wind wasn't bad where we were sitting.  I think my toes were numb for at least an hour after we left.  And I'm realizing now that I don't even know if they won or not!

 Grandpa built this beautiful rocking horse for the kids - it turned out so cute!  He stained it and sanded it so the nose looks great.  They'll get many years of fun out of this one!

 Finally last weekend it started getting warm...but notice the pile of snow in the background!  Jocelyn couldn't wait to get out in the dirt digging for worms.  Kailee helped her find one, but I think most of them were still sleeping! 

 First bike ride of the year - she loves to ride her bike.

 These are from yesterday - Grandpa and Jocey playing playdough ball bowling.  Grandpas come up with the best games!

So that's all for now.  Hopefully it won't take me another 6 months to put up more pictures.  I'm sure it won't - we have some fun stuff going on this summer that will require a lot of picture taking. 

Ty's Baptism

We made the trek up to Grand Forks for Ty's baptism on April 14th.  Jocelyn and I were going to come over to the Cities Thursday night so the drive wasn't quite as long, but of course we had a snow storm and the roads were better Friday morning.  Didn't think we'd have to think about that in mid April! 

The girls got right into their playing routine and of course had a blast all weekend!

Saturday we got to go to their nephew Rylan's birthday party!  The kids had a blast and it was fun to see Katie's family.  Jocelyn was excited to see Rylan and Mackenzie - she had so much fun with them at the cabin last summer!

Brian put me to work while we were there (okay - I offered - I can't imagine getting anything done with those 2 tiny kids) ripping out the flooring they had put in the office in their newly remodeled basement.  It was defective, so the glue did come up pretty easily.

Sitting patiently before church

So happy!  But you can't get him going too much - he'll either spit up or get the hiccups!

He did great at the baptism - smiled at Pastor Carla the whole time, and thought he might want to hold the candle himself.

All the grandparents

Katie's family

And then this is what we woke up to on Monday morning!  It had started Sunday evening, so we knew it was going to be bad.  Seriously?!  In April?!  So Brian put me to work yet again shoveling the wet, heavy snow.  I did miss my excercise class Monday night since we weren't back in time - this was my substitute.

We were able to leave after lunch on Monday, and the roads were fine by then.  Jocelyn never falls asleep in the car anymore, so I guess she had a fun weekend!

Grandpa's cheerleaders

Katie & Brian and the kids came down after Dad's surgery to help out while Mom was at work.  Luckily for us they decided to stay until the weekend we came over to help so we could see them!  Dad loved having them all around and I like to think it made his recovery easier.  Sadly I didn't get any pics of them with him, but plenty of the kids!

 Ty sure did a lot of growing from Christmas!

 Katie's birthday was on Saturday of the weekend they were here.  So they left me in charge of Dad and all 3 kids for the day so they could go out!  (Mom was at work).  Everyone survived!  Sure made me glad I don't have 3 kids under age 4 however.  We had a fun day and they did too.

 Mom & Dad got a new office chair, and the girls thought the box was great fun!  Dad even cut a little window and door handles for them.