Math Science Olympiad

Boston at the Math Science Olympiad

Boston, Alex and Caden waiting to start KRYPTO

Waiting for their next hand to be dealt...

About ready to start a round...

next hand...

I think they had a good time...their dealer was really slow, so from the pictures they spent a lot of time waiting and not as much time playing...

Main Bathroom Before, During and After

Jeff had already torn into this bathroom before I got any pictures...he's taken all the tile off already in this picture.

Another view...

Jeff removing the leaky faucet...

Jeff loving using the power tools...

After all the walls were torn out.

The back part of the tub.

After we got all the walls out, we thought we were ready for a new bath...Jeff started looking down near the floor and it was rotten. We ended up having to take out the tub and cutting out sections of our sub floor that were rotten! It just never seems to end! This is the area Jeff cut out...we had to tear out a row of tile Jeff put in a few months ago so we could repair the water damage.

Another shot of the torn out floor.

A view into the family room down below...the white in these pictures is the ceiling of the family room down stairs.

Here is the view from the family room below...we've had 3-4 holes in our ceiling like this for years...trying to discover different water leaks...hopefully this will be the last (find some wood quick!) Maren on a daily basis points to the hole and tell me, "Hole! Daddy did it!"

Maren was really funny while we were doing this... after I took down the shower curtain, I folded it and put it in the master bath...a little while later I couldn't find Maren anywhere. This is where I found her. She was curled up on her floor in the shower curtain...funny girl!


Drum role please....the finished bathroom...minus the row of tile and baseboard we'll have to now fix...
view from the doorway

the back of the bathtub

here is the finished tub minus the tile on the edge...


Yahoo...this project makes two bathrooms down...I have to take finish pictures of the first one we tore out...so next we move on to the Master...

Buckets, Buckets, and more Buckets

I have a friend who gets me these buckets for my food storage...she had a huge stack, so one hot afternoon my kids helped wash them out so we could put our food storage in them...

Sierra and Joran

Sierra

Joran and Boston

Boston

Cheyenne's Last Volleyball Game

Here is a picture of Cheyenne (on the right) at her last volleyball game...she did a great job!

Mothers Day

Mothers day this year was hectic...Jeff made me breakfast and then had meetings to attend. I cleaned up and got everyone ready...we wore our green again (like Easter), but since Jeff was gone we didn't get any pictures...I guess it will be Josi's reception before we get a new family picture up. I hurried and got the things done for dinner that had to be done before church and we were off...After church, Jeff grilled steaks and we had them with baked potatoes, salad and rolls...this is Joran with his butter mustache after taking a bite of his roll...isn't this what being a mom is all about!




Jeff got me a new mixer and the cook book I wanted...we're going to share the generator (Happy Fathers day)...Cheyenne bought me some jewelry and everyone made me cards...Connor promised me a big hug, which I'm still waiting for...teenagers!

Maren's Second Birthday

Maren's Birthday is May 7th...we were so busy that night ( Connor had an away soccer game-a one and a half hour drive each way plus the hour and a half game, and Cheyenne had a volleyball tournament) that we decided to celebrate the next night. Maren has been celebrating since we flipped the calendar-we have a dog calendar and she knows which puppy shows when it is her birthday!

This is our 2 year old Maren...on her real birthday!


Anyway, Grandma Stephens takes each grandchild to lunch and shopping, but in this case...she brought Maren a happy meal and a gift...



Here are Maren and Joran sitting on Maren's 4 wheeler from Grandpa and Grandma!


The battery had to charge once we got it put together, so these are actually the next night...


she was chasing Cheyenne around the house!

We're entering the Princess stage again!


Maren got pizza for her dinner...our kids usually chose what they want for dinner. We decided that since Maren often wanders into our room at 2am and says "I want pizza" that she wouldn't mind too much if we helped her choose.



Maren had an Abby Cadabby cake last year that I made. This year the week was too busy to make a Dora...she had to settle for a store cake this time!


I think the rest of us had more fun opening gifts that she did...we like to do heavy, heavy hangover with each present...we kept telling her to close her eyes and she looked like she was trying to fill her pants....we laughed so hard each time.

Still trying....


She figured out how to peak!

I think she might be getting the hang of it now!


These are sand toys for the sandbox...


Training pants...can you tell what we're doing this summer???


Big girl pants for when we've succeded!


A new baby and all the "things" a good mommy needs!

I don't know what happened to the pictures of her bubble mower...she also got a gallon of bubble mix...we're going to be prepared this year...that stuff goes quick! I think she had a good birthday and we are so happy she is such a blessing in our lives...

Connor is Vice President

Connor was nominated and ran for National Junior Honor Society Officer. He won Vice President...Here are the pictures from the induction ceremony....




Here are the Sandridge Junior High National Honor Society Officers-Connor is on the left.


Here they are taking the pledge from last years officers.


Here is Mr. Vice President of National Junior Honor Society and Sandridge!