Jungle Gyms and Jedi Training

We are trying our best to take advantage of all these beautiful spring days so on our walk today we went to the playground to climb around and eat our lunch.

Ben didn't quite make it home.
And after nap time Luke reminded me I had promised he could play star wars after nap. So him and Ben took on the Dark Side's lawn chairs....

Lilly

Lillian Joy was born May 7, 2009 at 9:09 am
7 lbs. 14 oz. 20 1/2 in.
Erin and Lily came home Saturday so we got to see them at the Heffelfingers.

Aunt Kathy enjoying her sweet new niece.

Luke was utterly taken with his new cousin. He couldn't stop touching her and stroking her hair and giving her kisses and hugs so finally I told him he could hold her...you would've thought I gave him a million bucks.
he hugged her

and talked to her and even made sure her blanket was covering her arms. We could barely get him to look away long enough to smile for the camera.

Of course after Luke held her, Ben needed to.

He only poked her in the eye once and when he was done, he was done and slipped his arm out from under her and tried to climb down. Lily took it all in stride.

After we had passed Lily around like a football we left for home but look forward to seeing Uncle Chad and all his girls next weekend for Lily reaffirmation!

It's about time...

The boys and I made a trip to Milwaukee last Saturday. We had a brand new baby to see! But first we stopped in Germantown and saw the new kitchen floor at has been 7 years in the making....

anyone who has ever been to my parents' house knows the awful carpet that covered the kitchen, dining room, and hallway. It looks so fancy now! We're very excited. I hope Kurt got a couple hockey games in before the table went back in!

Yippeeeeee!

Scott finally broke down and let me get dsl at home so I can actually connect to the rest of the world from home! I may actually get to blog every couple of days rather than once a month when I squeeze it in at school! So here is hopefully the last catch up session I will have to do for awhile.....

Easter:

For those of you who didn't hear, Scott spent Maundy Thursday through late Saturday night in the hospital. It was an absyss on the back of his throat. (a big white spot, really gross).

They really had no reason to keep him, we found out that Saturday but all the blood work they did managed to figure out why Scott had been so tired...he had mono. We got him home for Easter and that's all I really wanted after our crazy ordeal. (a special shout out to Uncle Josh and Aunt Lydia for their awesome help during our long spring break!)

It was our first Easter at home so we tried to do all the fun things we could....

We dyed eggs...

We got all dressed up for church. (Scott stayed in bed)
We found our Easter baskets.

And raided them. CANDY!!!!!
We got Scott out of bed for our Easter dinner and a very quick Easter Egg Hunt

Ben kinda figured out the whole game about halfway through.

But by then Luke had figured out his own system.

1. Find an egg

2. Check if it is hard boiled or plastic

3. Put all filled plastic eggs in basket

4. Put all hard boiled eggs in Ben's basket to make it look like you are sharing.

We even saved eggs for an egg cracking contest with Josh, Kurt, and Lydia that night but it never happened. Maybe next year. Of course none of the ups and downs of that weekend could take away the joy of Christ's resurrection. Luke sang his alleluias loud and proud on Easter. It is awesome to see his love for Jesus.

TANKS

Two Sundays ago we had the rare chance to play outside on a beautiful day. We went to a place called Cantigny. Scott takes his classes there for fieldtrips because it has a war museum...we went because it has tanks...

Luke and Ben's adventures!

Our weather has been hit and miss lately but when it's above 45 degrees we make sure to get out. One of our walks took us to the park. Here's Luke and his mini me swinging in full Cardinals gear. They almost had a rumble with a four year old wearing a Cubs hat.


Scott likes to clean out the garage whenever it's warm. Luke thought he should help. Scott calls these his Uncle Jeff pictures...I think it's the hat.

I told him to wave...

Grandpa "flying" Luke...cheese!

Sunday night means lesson planning. My boys with their laptops.

(Luke get himself all set up after Daddy started working.)

Ben the Green monster...there's the face of Tupperware.

Wild party with Uncle Kurt...

They were going to watch Clonewars together...