Not Quite Tiger Woods in The Making....

On Valentine's weekend we took a trip to Frankenmuth with my sister Jeni and her family. We stayed at the Bavarian Inn and the kids had a ton of fun playing in the arcade, swimming, dancing, and hanging out with their aunt, uncle, and cousins. I have been wanting to take them putt putting and since the Bavarian Inn has an indoor course it was the perfect opportunity. The entire trip there all the twins could talk about was how they were going to golf and Carson just couldn't wait to play what he refered to as "golf ball." So here is a pic by pic illustration of the kids first golfing experience.

Brian tried to teach Christian how to hold his putter and putt.

Isabelle decided she'd rather do things her own way.

Carson decided the best spot to start putting was 1 foot away from the hole.

Chris looking up to Izzy for some advice. Apparently he didn't like Brian's methods.

It started to look more like a game of hockey!

And about three holes in they decided they were finished.

I have been pondering bowling for Carson's birthday but if this is any indication we prob won't make it through 10 frames. Perhaps I should set that idea aside for a year or two....

A Vacation?

I took a two week vacation from work so that I could stay with Barbie's (my sister) kids for a little over a week while they were in Cancun. She has 5 kids and my 3 tagged along, so for about 9 days I was a mother to 8 (actually, mother to 9 on one of the days because my other little niece came and spent the night)!

I don't get to really visit my family in the thumb a ton because usually when we head up to Bad Axe or Ubly it is for a quick weekend and it's because we have something going on. So visits tend to be quick and rushed so that we can touch bases with most everyone before we head out of town. This time we had 9 days to visit and while it was a busy 9 days with dance classes, practices, basketball games, a snow day, homework, and the task of cooking for and cleaning up from 8 kids, we did manage to go and visit grandma twice, enjoy a spaghetti dinner with my sister Jeni's family, have my niece Leah over for a sleep over, and enjoy a brief visit from my sister-in-law Crystal and her 3 kids. Since it was parent observation week, Carson and I got to watch Alivia dance. We also got to see Jesse, Austin, Bailey, and my niece's bf Mitchel play in their bball games. Unfortunately Nicole and Mikayla's home bball games were rescheduled b/c of the snow day so we didn't get to see them play :( We still plan to make it to one yet this year tho.

When we weren't busy visiting or attending extra cirricular activies, we found time to play in the snow, ride snowmobiles, bake, paint, play with play doh, go out to lunch at Pizza Hut, play webkinz (i think at one time three computers were logged on), and watch more Dora and Diego episodes than Barbie's kids ever wanted to see.

While some may question the use if the word "vacation" in such context, I would certainly call it such. Everyone enoyed being able to spend the week togther and it was a nice break from the daily grind of taking the kids to dyacare and gonig to work. And when truth be told, vacations aren't usually all that relaxing anyway.

Here are some photos from the week:

Superbowl Sunday

I realize Super Bowl Sunday was over two weeks ago, however the last two weeks of my life were abnormally busy. And I want to blog about this particular Sunday because while it didn't involve a superbowl bash, it was one of the funnest superbowl Sundays I can recall. Here's how the day went:

At approx 10 am on the morning we had already cleaned up from breakfast and were gearing up to take the kids outside. It was a sunny and nice day by this winters standards and the kids were itching to get out of the house.

Isabelle eating the head off her snowman...

Christian found that the best way to eat the snow was to lay right in it!

Carson and Brian making some snowballs to launch my way.

We spent the afternoon running a relay race around the house, playing a long game of hide and seek (this entailed them hiding wherever mommy just hid and then jumping out and giggling "here I am" no sooner than they said "I’m ready"), watching some Dora & Diego, playing duck duck goose (where Carson would tap each person on the head and say "duck goose" and laugh) and reading books. We also threw in a few rounds of ring around the rosie christian-style, which is when "we all jump up" instead of fall down.

Around kick off time we sat down to enjoy some buffalo chicken dip and watch the game. The kids (and myself) found the game to be a little boring so we had a little webkinz time to spruce things up. At about half time it was off to bed for the kiddos, and relaxation for the 'rents.

So while there was no big party, no cocktails, no superbowl squares, etc.. it really was a perfect superbowl sunday. It was just a perfect day, really. It was one of those days that really made me appreciate the family Brian and I have made together. I couldn’t imagine any other thing I would rather doing than living, loving, and laughing with Brian and our 3 little angels.