Honey, what happend to the license plates?

You know that sinking feeling...after a tough day at work, the commuter van drops you off at your car and you realize something's wrong. Sure enough someone had stolen my license plates! Fortunately they couldn't get the front one off - which made it easier to explain to the officer who took the report, that it really had been stolen. Within a couple of days we had new plates and all is well. Bummer of a pre-April Fools joke though!

All Fools Parade

For the first time ever we got to be in the All Fools Parade representing our gym Northshore Gymnastics Center (NGC). All of us kids were in it except for Caleb who was at a church conference. Dad was the camera man (It's all thanks to him we have pictures) and, ever since Rilla and Cian joined the team, Mom has been an assistant coach to help out with the younger kids and got to walk with us in the parade. [Emma 11]

Uncle Jack's 90th Brithday

Uncle Jack's 90 birthday was on March 5 (Which was on a Friday), and we celebrated it on Saturday. I had a great time. We got him a box full of Oh chocolate!, we had homemade cou-cous salad for dinner, and then he opened presents and had chocolate cake. It was great!

-Colin

Jake and Cian

Cians "friend" Jake

Last year, after Cian had gone upstairs, a new "friend" of Cian's came downstairs, saying his name was Jake and that Cian had gone to his house. Since then, Jake has come with us to many places including church, or at least the car ride to church, mom always tells him that Cian should probably go to his class and then Cian will suddenly appear in the car and Jake will have disappeared. I think the "Friend" thing is spreading because Rilla now has a "friend" named Ariel and Cian has many more including a "pirate" named Jack.

-Emma

Jack the Pirate

New Chicks

On February 10, Mom and all the kids decided to get chicks early (as the weather had been rather mellow this year),and went to the Dayville hay and grain store. Usually we get chicks at the Bothell feed store so the variety's a bit different then usual. Dad had wanted to get all Rhode Island Reds,but due to his absence, we only got two Rhodes (out of eight chicks). Only one chick death (Emma's chick) and the rest are all healthy and growing fast. In fact we have had to expand the chick box and soon we'll have to move them out to the garage. This works out in our favor because on March 22 we are getting more chicks and by then the first ones will be out in the garage and the box will be free. Then again we only have one heat lamp....
-Caleb