We have visitors in our backyard...

Three little foxes and their mommy have made a den in our backyard.. they yelp like little puppies and are sooooo fun to watch.. We hope they stay around for awhile.. 

Josh Burow turns 13 !!! AMAZING !!!!

Josh and his friends from Faith, Eric Landgrebe, Isaac Glynn, Colton from across the street, Noah Monge

We had planned on an all day football game at a park.. It rained, so we scrounged for something to do. We ended up taking them swimming at our club, renting a boy movie and ordering pizza. They ended up playing night games at the end and stayed much later than we thought. They all had  a blast.

Zack and Nick watching the movie Josh picked out called Kicking and screaming...

Josh on his 13th birthday eating 5 dollar pizza.. yum yum. Our friends the Dillners own the restaurant.. We get spoiled by them sometimes...

Jonah Fig is in the middle of Isaac and Noah..

We piled 9 teenage boys in our van to go swimming.. A BIT tight.

Josh's cake.  I should have made one. I could have done better, but he wanted a walmart cake and he wanted football.. So, that is what he got.  Happy 13th Josh...Wow, I have a teenager...

Easter 2012...with the Leslie's family...

Easter 2012

Nick and Josh at the Breakfast dinner we had in the basment of Oakridge Comm Church.              Handsome aren't they..

Beth was the Choral director.. Zack and Nick both sang in the Easter Concert, against their will =)

Finding Easter Eggs, Zack, Sophia Leslie, Tiana Leslie and Nicholas.....

Hannah, Jonathan Leslie, Josh and Chris watching the little ones look for their easter eggs.

Josh and our neighbor Jeremy watched and laughed as they hid an egg balancing on a branch...

When did this happen?  My baby is mowing the grass. Nick is now 9 and loves to work hard and is a perfectionist (good to have around the house =)



CHRISTMAS 2011

 Daddy opening gifts, Zack with our snowman that sings great funny Christmas songs, Nick doing his puzzle ( a must in the winter time in Minnesota) and the tree, which looks like we had a lot of gifts, but some were from Grandparents...

Nick turned 9... My baby is getting older..

Nick's birthday seemed to last days.. First we had the day of his birthday with just his family, then he had some friends over for a small party to play Wii and then he asked to spend the night, and go swimming at the AmericInn..

Josh Leslie at Nick's party... they played Skylander on the Wiil
Nick opening one of his gifts...

When Nick woke up, I had plastered notes all over the rooms, tons of notes saying happy birthday, happy 9th, we love you.. etc...He smiled when he saw them all..It took me forever to make that many notes, but worth it..

Nick at the AmericInn.. He always makes things so fun and interesting.

Nana and Papa came over to help celebrate his birthday at the hotel..

Dude ..You hear what I hear.!!!

I convinced the boys to be in the play for Christmas this year.. Actually it was a whole family affair. Josh played a bumbling deputy Andrews with Jeremy Misener who is his Youth pastor. Nick and Zack sang along with mommy in the choir and Chris ran the lights for the stage. Guess our family was needed this year...

Josh and Jeremy about to bust open the door to Mondo Mart in the play.
Rehearsal night...

The cast of the play.

Nick and Zack are in the back rown.