Sunday, May 18, 2014

Trip to Texas

 As the kids get older, it gets harder and harder to the get cousins together.  Everyone is just so busy, am I right?  But finally a weekend opened up, airplane tickets were not completely horrendously expensive, and the times were good.  I took the boys to Houston


James and Andy had a great time flying for about 20 minutes.  Then they buried their heads in their kindles and were absolutely fine the rest of the trip.  It was awesome!  I even read my book.  

The first thing we had to do once we got there was each some Mexican Food.  YUM!  Note to self, it was super cold in the restaurant. I forgot how cold it was in Texas this time of year.


After dinner, we warmed up outside and the kids practiced cartwheels.  This is Andy.  


Now, just because we had a free weekend, doesn't mean the cousins didn't have anything to do.  We got to watch Charlie's soccer game!



And Audrey's dance recital:



Getting ready for Audrey and Annemarie's Frozen party:



And of course, did normal cousin things.  The boys wrestled, played wii, and built legos:





The girls did girl stuff.  And AM painted my toenails!



I was really worried since it was such a short weekend, but we were exhausted!  These kids sure have fun together!



Saturday, May 10, 2014

Breakfast for dinner

We have a little tradition here in our house.  Mark has hand bell practice on Wednesday nights so the kids and I are on are own for dinner.  We come home from school, do homework and then its breakfast for dinner!

First homework.  I really don't enjoy this part and getting two kids to get the homework done is pretty stressful.  James usually has about an hour a homework a night and getting him and Andy to focus and not touch each other or play with each other, UGH!

Andy gets done first, and James has to keep working.



Sometimes Andy gets impatient and starts without me.  Here he got the bowl, both flours, and started measuring.


He gets pretty feisty when he is hungry for pancakes.


The rest of dinner consists of sausage links, some sort of fruit, and then the waffles or pancakes.  The waffles and pancakes are always syrup on top - cut up, syrup on the side, or with snow.


To be honest, making the breakfast for dinner also is stressful.  It all has to be done at the same time and then the clean up.  But the kids love it and it is something to look forward to.