Our smart kids

Principal Award!! Isabella, Parker and Soren all made principal award for this past trimester. We are so proud of them. Principal award means you got all A's and S & O's for citizenship. Okay so kindergarten is a bit on the easy side - although Miss T runs a tight ship and it can be tough at times, however for 1st grade and 2nd grade it is an accomplishment, especially now that new information is being taught.

Isabella brought up 5 of her citizenship awards, see next posting and you will see her reward from her Dad.

Way too go kids- you ROCK!!

Bad Bad Blogger

Okay so I have been such a bad blogger.... hang on because here come several good ones.

I just realized I didn't take very many pictures in the desert for Easter, I need to get better about my picture taking.

xxox
caroline

**Pink Eye**

No this is not ME - thank goodness!!

Cami called me last Sunday Am and said she got up in the night and couldn't open her eye, and said "I think I have pink eye", then she came over and took off her dark glasses.... I almost spit my coffee out, she looked like Rocky Balboa. Even this picture doesn't show you how bad it was. She obviously was fighting something because she had a cold sore as well, but would not allow me to photograph it for the blog.

She is feeling much now and her eye is back to normal.

**It's official.....

I am turning into a "thin mint" cookie!! We got our girlscout cookies and both Mike and I are addicted to thin mints like we are some kind of junkies. It is horrible and thank goodness they are almost gone, only 1 sleeve left...oh that reminds me I better eat them before Mike gets home.

Now that the sun is out - thank the good Lord! I'm treadmill bound so that I can get into shape for summer.

I'm so glad girlscout cookies only come around once a year, and also that Isabella is not in girl scouts, otherwise knowing us we would have purchased 50 boxes so that she could win the $19.99 prize.... That is what my mom and dad did for me when I was a girl scout, only difference the cookies are around $1.00 a box back then.

Muttin' Bustin' - Rodeo, Kernville, Ca - day 1

Sheep riding that is... Soren was the first one to go and he did great, he wasn't afraid at all, I think the sheep thought he had an itch on his back and bucked a bit and Soren came right off, he got right up and dusted himself off and waved to the crowd. Isabella went next and since she is practically a professional, she knew the exactly what to do, she also did great and got right up and blew kisses to the crowd.
Parker went last of the 3 kids, he had a great ride - pictures to follow. He got dragged under the sheep and I think it stepped on him. It makes me a nervous wreck! Elizabeth and Charlie were very good cheerleaders in the grand stands.

We stayed at Don and Risa's in their camper which was great because we didn't have to haul our camper up there. All 9 of us stayed together (we do love each other alot). We went over to Larry's for dinner and then home to get the muttin bustin kids to bed, Cami and I did sit by the campfire with Risa and talk for a while before we went off to bed, it was very relaxing.

More with day 2 and I will post the video later in the week ( Chris is traveling and ofcourse I could never figure it out without him).

My Valentine's **

Here are my 3 Valentine's and the loves of my life. This picture is from June when we were visiting Grandpa and Grandma Oursler in Lake Havasu, (notice how tan they are).

Mike is my true valentine and I am so blessed to be his wife. Isabella is my God given valentine since she was born on the 13th, and with the heart birth mark on her neck, everyone knows she is a true valentine child. Soren is just plain - LOVE - he is such a sweetheart and the cutest 5 year old in the world.

I am a lucky girl.

xxox - caroline

"Gettin' Buzy with Izzy in the Kitchen"

Isabella's 8th birthday party was a cooking party. She loves to help me cook and she always likes to act like we are on our own cooking show. It is very cute, however at the end of a long day of working and then trying to whip up something fantastic in the kitchen these words can be annoying "mom you are not looking into the camera".... I do try to stop and remember what is important in life and if that means slowing down and "looking into the (make believe) camera" then so be it.
Everyone got an apron and then they all signed each others during the party. They made chicken strips for lunch, crunching the corn flakes and dipping in buttermilk, rolling in the corn flakes and then baking. Each child made an individual "apple crisp" which was my Great Grandma Sorensen's recipe and they packed it up to take home. I bought cake boxes to put them in. It was alot more work then I anticipated and thank goodness Mike, Cami, Chris, Linda, Penny and Jamie were there to help me out. Uncle Chris did the video of Isabella cooking with Alexis and Olivia and explaining what she was doing.


It was a great party and not very expensive, just need lots of helping hands at the party.

I can't believe she is 8 - ugh!
xxox
caroline