Brooklyn is a Soaring Eagle

Brooklyn came home with a letter from her school. We opened it and this is what it said.
Congratulations! Your child had been selected the Soaring Eagle for the second nine weeks. Selection for this honor is reserved for student who display traits of excellent character development. You must feel proud to have raised a child who serves as a role model. Thank you for sharing your precious child with us at Freedom park Elementary School.
Your child will be given a certificate and gifts.
Wow! we were all so excited for Brooklyn. She was on TV. It was so cool.
Brooklyn received a t-shirt, some pencils, a really cool sharpener that has objects moving up and down as she sharpeners her pencils, she also got a really cool eraser.
We are so Happy with Brooklyn and her abilities at school. She is so smart and has such a wonderful personality. We love our Brooklyn. Congrats to her and her achievement.
We love you Brooklyn.
Here she is in her new Freedom Park T-shirt. So cute Miss B.

Here is her gifts with all the goodies.

Here is her certificate for being a Soaring Eagle.

And her ribbon. She was so sad the sticky only lasted through one outfit.

Happy Valentine's Day

Jeremy and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. Our very first date was Feb 14th 1998
Look how cute we are!! boy I love this man.

We went on a double date with our good friends Brandi and Will Douglass.
We ate at an Italian restaurant called Giuseppe's , then we went to the Mall. We ended our date going to
the Movie Theater to watch Taken. Oh my word this movie definitely kept you on the edge
of your seat. When we got home, we melted some dipping chocolate

and dipped strawberries and bananas Yummy!!!!

Jeremy gave me a beautiful Willow tree statue called "Together"

and fixed my watch that has been broken for over two years.

Jeremy got some computer stuff and a bag full of his favorite chocolates all with

cute little love notes. I love this holiday. It's so nice to spend it with my Eternal Companion. I love you Jer.

He we are in the restaurant. Boy we clean up nice.
It's hard to believe we have been a couple for 11 years.

Here is Brandi and Will What a cute couple!
Doesn't Brandi look amazing? She is so beautiful.

check out her blog and see all her progress. It's amazing

Pinewood Derby

We all had a great time at the Pinewood derby tonight. Kayden's car weighed too much so Jer had to take some weight off the front of his car... Well the back was so heavy Kayden's first race his car jumped the track and went sideways. It was so cool. Okay it made his car get fourth but it was so cool. From then on out WE raced his car back wards. He got second the next three races. We sure have a lot of fun at these pinewood derbys. Kayden has one more year to race... After the pinewood derby we had an open field and anyone could race. Brooklyn loved racing her purple car. We added more weight to make the car weigh 8oz and Chandler raced Kayden's car again he got first place. yeah that's all it needed was a little weight in the front. Brooklyn and her car. She wanted a purple car that had the number 100 as well as 100 dots.

Brooklyn's car weighed 7.9 oz. She was so excited to race her car in the anything goes category. Here is Kayden with his Pinewood Derby car. His car turned out so cool. Jeremy engraved lightnings on the sides and carved number 27 on the top. Super cool car Kayden

Here is a close up of the purple polka dots 100 car....

Kayden's cool pinewood derby car. Looks so awesome!

Here are the kids Kayden with his trophy and Brooklyn with her ribbon and chandler with

The car

Here is Cub Scout Pack 61. You guys rock!!!! What a fun night of racing our cars.

Kayden, Isaiah, and Jeremiah all with their trophies. Good Job boys!!!!

Here are all the cars. Kayden's was so heavy in the back they had to turn it sideways.

Chandler having a blast playing with cars and his own track. Super fun!

Waiting for the race to start....

Kayden is in the 4th lane in second place.

Kayden is in the 1st lane. Almost first. But came in second again

Kayden is in the second lane came in second again.

Fort

Hanging in the bunker! WE are SAFE!

Hiding from the enemy

Okay we really are friends. Cute kids

moving more sticks.

Brooklyn and Kayden having a fun fight. Luckily no one has got hit. (Crossing my fingers it stays that way)

This is the start of the second fort.

Here is the front of the fort. Look at all those kids hard at word. fun fun

Here is the side of the fort. Pretty cool hu? Lots of hours stacking sticks. I think this is so cool.

Freeze Brooklyn. Girls vs Boys and Brooklyn was taken into prison.

Kayden protecting the fort

My kids are so creative. Behind our house is a little forest. The kids have made a fort with some of their friends. They have so much fun playing all kinds of games of course all of the kids are military so fighting bad guys always plays a huge factor. I am so impressed at how awesome this fort is. They have worked hard making all kinds of walls and they even have a little bunker with carpet. I went out today and took some pictures. It's fun to see all the neighborhood kids playing together. Love a forest in our back yard. Who knew wood and dirt could be so fun.

Super Bowl

We had some friends over to watch Super Bowl 43 The Pittsburgh Steelers vs Arizona Cardinals
When everyone arrived they filled out a football projection sheet as to who would win the coin toss, who would get the first touch down, etc. We also played a little game with cut out footballs. When the game started you couldn't say "Football" or you would loose your football. I lost my football first. Surprise surprise. Out of all of the people here only 3 thought the Pittsburgh steelers would win. Tina, Rebbecca and Kayla. Everyone else thought the Arizona Cardinals would win. In fact, the Cardinals had a special nick name. (The Lord's Team) Thanks to Chris. He was so funny the whole game. He kept giving me a hard time. Well, we had loads of fun cheering for our teams. We had a great time stuffing ourselves with all the yummy food.
I love the Super Bowl. Enjoy the pics.
And Chris my team totally won the game!!!!! yeah!!! I guess the best team won..... What do you have to say about your Lord's Team now??
Look at all that yummy "Super Bowl" Food

Here are most of the kids. Of course we had some too busy to stop for a picture. The kids had so much fun playing and hanging out while the adults watched the super bowl.

Here is the group of friends we had over for the Super Bowl.

Erik (Standing) Chris, Rachel, Jessica, Rebbecca, Tina, Steven, Sydney and Kayla. We are missing Ashley (who was visiting a friend and came a little later, and Stephanie who was at choir who also came later.)

Picture with Jer and the group.

What kids do without parent supervision. They loved it... So much fun with all our friends.

Having a blast watching the Super bowl.

Chris, Rachel, Rebbecca and Jillian. Cute face!!!

How many people can sit on this couch? We got four.

Tina, Kayla, Steven, and Sydney. Lizzy is in the back.

Ashely is in the computer desk chair. Super cute. We love the game.

Go Steelers!!!!