Busy, busy bees

We've been so crazy around here lately with activites, meetings, work and school that I haven't had any time to blog - barely time to sleep! So I'm going to be doing a bit of back-blogging today to catch up. When I looked at my last blog date I couldn't believe it's been almost a month already. It doesn't seem like it's been that long since it happened. I'm ready for summer with the hope of things slowing down just a little bit - fingers crossed - but it is already filling up with things too. I guess we've finally hit that stage of constant "on the move" and it probably won't be slowing down for the next 10+ years from what I hear. Anyway, better get to back dating, documenting all the fun we've been having while going crazy!

Play ball!

We have two ball players in the family this spring - a tballer and a softballer.

Brett started playing tball for the first time and seems to really be enjoying it. His team is called the Naturals. Their first game was today and it was hilarious! I'd forgotten how funny these little ones are when they don't have any idea how to play. The batting team was trying to field their own balls, even after just batting. But Brett did great! Hit the ball and even made it to first with no problem. He got to play first base and short stop today. He didn't play in the dirt too bad either - always a plus. Here are some shots from todays game.

Watching & waiting for his game to start

Ready to play

up to bat

Kate is playing machine/coach pitch for the first time this year. Her former coach, Connie, isn't coaching this year, but she got us hooked up with some good ones. Coach Kelly has really taken an interest in Katelyn and has been working with her to learn to catch - her favorite! We haven't had any games yet, but looking forward to watching them play!

Coach Kelly giving her some instruction

down and ready

Let's Play Ball!!

It's a Jungle Out There

Katelyn's school musical was tonight. She's been so waiting for this moment since last fall when we went to see the 4th graders perform their musical. She's knows all the songs, all the moves and everyone's lines. Brett and I are pretty familiar with all the songs too - whether we want to be or not. This was a combination of 2nd & 3rd grades, so most of the speaking parts went to 3rd graders. It was a hit! The kids did so well. Mr. Kindle, the new music teacher, has really done a great job this year with the kids and the musicals. They are entertaining & only last about 30 minutes - perfect!

CoCo & Poppa made it to the big performance too

and one more with a cute little brother

Camping Out

Our Brownie troop was invited to go camping this weekend. About half of my girls were able to go, so we met out at Camp Prairie Schooner for a night of fun (hopefully). As the girls arrived, they were assigned chore groups. They got to help build the fire, cook and clean up. Since this was our first official camp out, I was learning also. One of my Brownie moms is the leader of a junior troop & they were the ones doing the teaching/mentoring. We started with some games and soon got the fire going. Katelyn's team was in charge of fire building first.

There were a lot of songs sung, dances danced and laughs laughed.

We even got to go Spider Sniffing. I can't tell you about that though. It's a secret society. Next time we are camping, I can take you though and get you inducted into the society also. The girls did great, had fun and slept well through a very loud thunderstorm. Thank goodness for lodges and the wiseness of a leader to plan it there for our first - thanks Tiffany! We had one mishap. A leader of the other troop fell off the stoop & sprained her ankle. Of course it was a Friday night about 10:30pm when I had to take her to the ER, at Truman Med Center East of all places. I'll just say, it is a very, very interesting place to people watch! Saw my first "Tweeker" - cool! The next morning we got up bright and early to start cooking breakfast -

the worst part of camping in my opinion. It takes so long to do and you are so hungry by the time it finishes and it never tastes very good.

We moved on to build edible fires - fun

make gorp - tasty - and go on a hike.

The camp had a neat treehouse the girls stopped in on the hike to eat their gorp.

Brett's Spring Program

Brett's preschool put on a Spring Program last night. Each class sang a song or two. They also had the cutest little slide show for each grade level. Brett has really enjoyed preK since switching into his new class. There are only 9 kids and they all really get along and like each other.

He has two best buddies in his class - Isaac

and Dylan

and a girl friend, Sophia. He says he just wants to be her friend, but she told him he had to be her boyfriend or nothing. So, according to him, he's pretending - to be her boyfriend - so they can be friends. Too funny!