Misc. March

The boys finished up their second session of swim lessons and

will start their third session next week.  Alex has advanced to level 4

and Carter to level 3.  They are both turning into such great swimmers!

I really need to video it!!!!!!!

We went swimming with Laurence and I snapped this picture

with my Iphone during swim break.
They are getting so big and looking oh so cool!!!!

Carter also started Karate this month, but I haven't taken any pictures.
He is doing fantastic and you should see him do knuckle push ups!
Today we were 2 minutes late so he had to do 25 knuckle push ups. 
I told Carter I was sorry and he said, "It's okay mom!  They're easy!"
He dropped and did 25 push ups on his knuckles in no time at all!
Way to go Carter!!!!!!

Hallie has also started Ice Skating.... Pics to come, I promise!
She can't wait to advance to level three---- hopefully next month.

I took Nadya and her friend  to the last home meet for the Red Rocks....

We Celebrated My Birthday........

It fell on a Tuesday and on Tuesdays kids eat free at Lonestar,

so we took full advantage and took all four of them!!

We met up with my parents, Kris, Josh, Laurence, Misty and Aaron too!

Nadya and Hallie were the photographers, so they are not in any of the pictures.

Love, love, love the picture of Carter!!!!!!!

They seriously brought him an adult size soda.... What????

After we came home and celebrated some more........

I made homemade cream cheese lemon icing and Doug baked a spice cake.

It was delicious!

 

We took the kids to their first hockey game. 
They had a great time and were so well behaved.....
We used our Pass of All Passes and
all 15ish of us sat together! 

Funny Tidbits---

 Already shared these on Facebook, but I want to document them for my blurb book.

Carter: "Mom, how does your blinker always know where you are going??"
Me: LOL

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Me: Carter you're never going to get married if you can't learn to lift the toilet seat!!! No one wants to sit in your pee!


Carter: That's okay, don't you know I want to be a bachelor????

Reminder to Myself-  Video Carter reading.... He has completely turned the corner and reads everything with great speed! 



Karate

The boys have been begging me to sign them up for karate lessons.
I finally caved in and signed them up at a local recreation center.
It hasn't been a very good experience to say the least.
There are way too many kids in a small room and the director
continually interupts the teacher to tell the student stupid things like,
"Boys and girls, I just want to thank you for coming.  You're doing me a favor. Really."
And, "I know this is boring, but  everything you do in life is going to be boring, right parents?"
And "If you want to get really good at anything you have to keep practicing."
(I know these are good things for the kids to hear mostly and that is not my problem.
However, his continual interruptions really disrupt the flow of the class which is already difficult considering  there are about thirty students.)
Over and over again.  He literally interrupts every two to three minutes.
Needless to say, Alex is D.O.N.E.
He was done after about the first two lessons.
Carter is hanging in there and wants to continue, but I am going to be exploring other options.
Preferably something with fewer kids and a director that lets his teacher, well, teach.

I took a few pics though.  These first two pictures are taken outside because quite frankly there were too many kids so the director took some of the newer kids outside to work on technique.  That is until it started sprinkling as Carter so politely pointed out. "Excuse me, it's sprinkling."  So cute.

These were taken inside with the entire crew.  Note the director interrupting the class, yet again.
It doesn't look like a lot of kids, but it is.  I only had my point and shoot so I couldn't get  a really wide angle, but you can tell by how close the kids are standing next to each other that they do not have enough room.  (Which is not good when you are practicing kicks and punches either.)

So, we are on the hunt for a different Karate program that doesn't cost a fortune!  Any ideas????