OTHER NEWS

A friend of ours has a wild and crazy son named Zack who my kids think is hilarious. he is almost two and has a TON of energy. he LOVES fish and all things aquatic, so his mom invited me, Sofia and Oliver to the GA aquarium. we have never gone as a family, so i thought this would be perfect to take the little ones to. Luckily my friend had a guest pass so i didn't have to pay a thing! it was so much fun. the aquarium is beautiful and we even got to watch one of the divers clean the tank and feed the fish. 

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

so now that i have shown you all how my hair looks, i will move on to more important things....... like what my kids have been up to. hey~ sometimes us moms need a little attention too! so we had a couple of surprises in the past few weeks. first of all Nico and Rob were playing football IN THE HOUSE which is never a good idea! Nico dove for the ball and caught his KNEE in the eye. needless to say it was black and he was mad! i got his spirits up by taking he and Annelies to their school president's day dance. we had a blast until sofia got caught in the 'mosh pit' of 3rd graders and got trampled. she came home with a free gift from the D.J.! that cheered her up a bit. 

We got a wonderful visit from some friends of mine (Maureen and Brett) from Michigan. it was so great to see them and Nico had a blast with their 11 year old son.

 

Annelies, Sofia and I had a fun time getting mad makeovers. annelies and sofia glammed me up with beautiful purple eyeshadow and some RED lips. Annelies had amazing blue eyeshadow and some awesome, groovy nail polish. sofia went oh~ natural with little make-up and multi-colored nail polish. we had so much fun.

the best thing of all was our snow day! the snow came down hard while we were at church on sunday and the kids had a blast playing in the slush when we got home. they were all SO excited when school was cancelled on Monday. we had a yummy breakfast and snuggled up and watched movies most of the day. it was nice to have a long weekend to just relax and not be able to go anywhere. 

it has been an eventful few weeks and a lot has happened. i am so happy to report that Nico is doing SO good at school. he has really had a hard time this year and we made a few adjustments and thankfully he is doing AMAZING! 

BETTER PICS OF THE NEW DO

i realized shortly after my post that my new do did not say at all that it was the beautiful new hair cut that i wanted it to be. i am posting new pictures to show you how i style my hair and show you how it REALLY looks. hope this says more about my taste in hair style!!

THE NEXT KNUCKLEHEADS DESIGNER

Nico has always loved to draw and create things. this drawing in particular caught my attention and gave the family a little giggle, mostly because of the letter to aunt melissa! Nico~ you are the best and most inventive little boy. it is so fun to see how his little mind thinks. oh.... melissa, be sure and get this to him ASAP!!

PYROMANIAC!!

like father, like son! isn't that the saying? today rob took nico and his friend JT to our land up north to do some four wheeling. the brush on the field was high and nico's 4 wheeler was hot! put the two together and you have a brush fire. the fire department was called in to put out the fire. needless to say they will have a lot to talk about at school on monday!

SILVER MEDALIST!!!

we have a true athlete in Jakob! he loves playing sports.... his favorites are baseball and bowling. this past fall when i got an email from the special olympics committe inviting Jakob to participate in bowling, i jumped at the chance. i knew Jakob would love it. little did i know that there would be NO BUMPERS!! Jakob had to make the bowling ball stay on the lane and actually hit the pins. i thought for sure this was going to be impossible for him. we went to all the practices and i watched his bowling score climb from single digits up to 60 and 70 points. so imagine my surprise on olympic day when he bowled good enough to win the silver metal. he was so excited to stand up on the podium and accept he metal!! way to go Jakob...... 

in the process of practicing and at our overnight stay at the double tree, Jakob developed a love interest in a little girl named emily. she of course being three years his senior, wanted nothing to do with him!

GRANDMA BOOT AND UTAH

In the very cold month of January we got the news that grandma Boot was not doing well. in the past months we had planned for this, but weren't sure when it would take place. Rob did not take any chances and planned for a drive out to utah, not knowing how long he would be gone. he decided to take nico with him and also made the road trip with his dad. it was three generations of quality time! the long journey began and i received several phone calls to assure me that they were doing great. once in utah they spent lots of time visiting with grandma boot and hearing great stories from aunt anneka and anyone else that had something great to share about grandma boot. She was an amazing woman and was very special to so many people. she will be missed by everyone who ever had the pleasure of meeting her or hearing her speak. nico had such an amazing time out there visiting and having some time off from school. at one point he called me and asked if i could ship his stuff out to utah. he did not want to come home! 

*i wish i could have been at the funeral to say my goodbye's. i appreciated how welcome and 

  loved she always made me feel. i am just so happy that she is with HER nico again!!