Weekly Post

We had a busy week.  Not many pictures, sorry :(

We have a cute Robin that moved into the wreath on our front door.  She sits proudly on her nest most of the day, and we even spotted a few blue eggs once while she was a away.

We've been prepping for a talent show at church.  The dog has been working on getting trained with an electric collar (we are getting an invisible fence this week).  

The weather has been pretty cold and yucky here.  Ethan's track meet was cancelled this week so he went home with a friend.  They ended up riding bikes a couple miles away to McDonalds and ate over 40 chicken nuggets, and then they went to Walmart. Living the high life.

We had lots of soccer and gymnastics practice until late every night.  Which means I spend a lot of time in the car :(

The kids all had friends over Friday after school and we made pizza and played.

The boys had soccer games this weekend!  Cole is playing on a new team.  He is doing great (his team not so much).  Ethan is playing on the same team and becoming a great little soccer player.  Both my boys are really fast and aggressive, just the way Shawn used to play!  

Ethan is going to be working this summer (1st job!!)  He will be a golf caddie at a local Country Club.  He isn't loving the khaki's and polo shirts, but I think he looks so cute.  

He had caddie training this weekend.

Liv, Cole and I spent time at the mall birthday shopping for Ethan (his birthday is next week)

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Ethan helping me fill the car up with gas!

Cole had a field trip to Miller Park Stadium to watch a Brewers game

We got some patio furniture!

Ethan's first track meet.  He ran the 800 and 1600 relay.

Shawn doing manly stuff :)

First campfire of the season

Liv did some serious soccer game watching this weekend (3 games)

Driving range practice

Frozen Lemonade

Liv and I went to a play that her friend was starring in.  She was Cinderella.

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Liv had a choir concert this past week.

These two were my dates (Shawn was working)

We went out for ice cream after with friends

Shawn and Ethan cleaned out the garage

I took Liv and two friends for pedi/mani's Friday night

We did Liv's floating lantern birthday tradition

Liv and her friend Lily trying to keep warm before gymnastics

The weather was amazing this weekend.  Lots of walks and riding bikes.

Saturday was the beginning of soccer season.  Both Ethan and Cole had games.

Ethan likes to ride Liv's old bike around the neighborhood (his is broken)

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Not many pictures this week, sorry! 

Shawn and I voted

Soccer season started for the boys.  My life is now over for the next two months:( It was a terrible weather week and we had snow three times.  Soccer practice was cancelled most of the week, except for Tuesday.  But they still practiced in the rain.

This week was big for Liv, as she had a Birthday.  We went out for a birthday dinner Saturday after gymnastics.  We tried a new burger place, called Osgoods.

We opened presents and celebrated!

Shawn and Liv put together the American Girl doll bed she got.  She got some shoes, a jacket, a craft and her big gift was an iPad Mini.  He iPod has been on the brink of death for the past year, so it was time for an upgrade!  

She had a great birthday!

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This week was Spring Break.  We had a pretty quiet week around here.  Lots of sleeping in :)

The kids spent many hours outside riding bikes and building a fort somewhere in the woods.  They would not disclose the actually location, so I never saw it, but I did see all the mud they brought home and the backpack full of shovels and axes!

Liv got a new bike.  She finally graduated form the pink barbie one she got when she was five and can now join the forces of the neighborhood bike gang!  They did get in trouble one night when they went out for a late night ride in the dark and we couldn't find them :(

Shawn and I took the boys to a new driving range.  It was outdoor, but had huge heaters so it was nice and warm.

Liv had gymnastics every day this week.  She is working on a back handspring on the beam, which makes me nervous to watch!

The missionaries came over to practice the discussions with Shawn and I.  We invited Ethan to join us and he had a great time.  In two weeks they have invited Ethan to prepare and present the 1st discussion to them.

Shawn and I won the award on Thursday for the best "couple rowing" distance for our Orange Theory class this week.  We rowed 10, 500 meters. 

We went to a family pottery class Friday afternoon.

Cole had the time of his life Friday night.  His good friend's dad is the Milwaukee Bucks Strength Coach.  So Cole was invited by his friend to the game, in the family seats.  He got to sit right behind the team and have access to the family room with lots of free food and treats.  We watched most of the game at home on TV and even Cole a few times standing on the floor right by the team.

Apparently Cole made a deal with the Bucks Media/Team Manager.  The deal was that if the Bucks won, they would sign Cole's basketball and that if they lost they would not sign it.  The Bucks ended up pulling off a great win Friday night and Cole came home with a signed basketball by all the team members.  They got to stay after and meet and talk with many of the players.  Unfortunately, my friends phone died and so I don't even have one picture, but Cole had a pretty amazing night!

He spent the night at his friends because they got back late after the game.  He went Saturday morning with his friend to play basketball at the church and then he finally came home around noon.

While Cole was out partying, the rest of us went out to dinner with friends and then Liv and her friend spent the night "crafting".

Saturday morning we were welcomed to a beautiful spring day by snow :(  Oliie was the only one happy about the snow.

(not a real rat, just a toy)

Shawn and Ethan went out to dinner and then watched the priesthood session Saturday night.  We enjoyed a nice Sunday listening to conference!