Ava 4th Birthday!

For Ava's 4th Birthday she wanted to have a big party at the park. Last year we went to Taylor's Birthday Party here at University Park in Grand Forks and had a blast. So we decided to have it there since we would be in town for Tyler and April's wedding.  It was a hot day outside and the kids had a blast in the water park area while all of the adults visited in the shade.

Ava and Halle are going through the rainbow sprinkler.

Ava is showing Grandma Hattie and Nicky what she got for a gift, as Braden watches in the background.

Here is Braden sitting on a sprinkler cooling his bottom off. Yes he is wearing his clothes. I forgot to make sure he packed his trunks before we left home. And in North Dakota the store are not open before NOON on Sundays! Needless to say we did not have time to shop for another one for him. As you can see he did not mind.

Here is the Birthday girl with all smiles! She is showing off her new swimsuit.

Here we are tying to light Ava's candles on the cake.

I had to shield the wind from blowing out the candles.

Macy, Taylor, Halle and Ava stopping for just a minute to get their photo taken.

Here are some of the adults sitting the shade and enjoying the nice weather.

Wedding Fun!

Jason's cousin Tyler got married this past Saturday so, we made the drive over to Grand Forks for the big celebration.  It was such a pretty wedding and reception. Our kids had a blast dancing and visiting with all of their cousins. Here are some great photos I took of them dancing and caring on.

Halle and Ava posing so nicely for the photo. Don't they have pretty dress on?

Braden is busy trying not to look at me while Jason and Ava dances.

Auntie LaVonne and Bralynn dancing too.

Another photo of Braden trying to hide from the camera again.

Kylee and Macy doing the hokey poke.

Here is Ava dancing all by herself and not caring who is watching. Bralynn is dancing and enjoying herself.

Thursday June 17th

Here is Ava and I planting flowers in our new garden. Jason dug up all of the sod and planted a tree for us and he even put brick around the edge of the garden for us.

He is Jason working hard for Ava and I to be able to plant some flowers and hopefully this fall some shrubs. Our yard is very large and blan. This will hopefully help it look some what nice. We would also like to do another garden like this on the other side of the driveway.  Maybe this fall when we get our shurbs we will have time to do this again. 

Tooth Fairy.

Braden finally able to meet the Tooth Fairy... well sort of.  He actually started out with 5 wiggly teeth.  The one that is missing has been ready to come out for some time. On Sunday while eating pancakes (his favorite) he turned to me and said "Hay Mom, look" and in his hand was his tooth! He was very excited.  Braden is one of the youngest kids in his class and is the last one to see Tooth Fairy. 

Hockey~the last game at J.S. Glas

Last night (Saturday 2/20/10) the BSU Beaver's played their last game at the John S. Glas. It was a very exciting night and weekend. Jason and I were able to take our kids to Friday and Saturday night games Thanks to the Bank who has season tickets. Winning both nights was a blast not only it was the last home game but the last game at the Glas.  Below are some photos Jason and I took at the game on Sat.

Dropping ot the puck!

Our first goal of the night!

Vance the Zambonie driver taking his last round of the rink. He has been the driver for twent some years!

The banks seats are close to the red line as you can get. Jason was able to take this great photo of the rink.

Here is our ending score! What a game!

At the end of the night they took a photo of the first hockey player to score at the Glas and the last person who scored at the Glas. Cramer on the left and Denny Sauter on the right.

This is R.H. Peters the former BSU hockey coach.

It was a great night and we are looking foward to next year season at the BREC!

Ice Fishing!

A couple of weekends ago Griffin's family came over for the weekend. Jason took Braden and Trysten out ice fishing.  Trysten was not that excited because he never caught any fish while ice fishing before. He is now happy to say that he loves fishing with uncle Jason!  The fish were bitting that day and Trysten was the frist one to catch a fish too!

It is February!?

Wow it is already February! Where did January go? We have been busy around here again.

Braden has hockey 2 times a week and games on Saturday. And he is still going to church on Wednesday nights after practice for youth group.

Ava is also coming with us to church and loves meeting new friends. I think since Braden has joined hockey and church Ava has made 3 new friends her age.
We have been enjoying going to the BSU hockey games again this year…thanks to the bank who has 8 seats. Our team has been doing really great this again this year and we are looking forward to next year’s game in our new Bemidji Regional Event Center that is being built on Lake Bemidji. The BREC will be open in October. We will be hosting the first game to the Grand Forks Sioux. (Papa Doug’s team)
Here is a photo of what the BREC looks like now.

Here are the kids playing in a fort they built in the living room yesterday afternoon. We are home again today because Braden was tested positive for Strep. Today we sent Ava to Annette’s so Braden could relax today without her. He was able to sleep in today and be able to have lunch in the living room. He was very excited for that. So was the dog, who almost got his lunch.