Cub Scouts Raingutter Regatta Derby

Last week Malachi's cub scouts had a Raingutter Regatta Derby. The boys all constructed (from a kit) and decorated a sailboat that they raced in raingutter tracks by blowing on the sails. We had the derby at Seip Mound and it was extremely windy that evening so it was difficult to have any "fair" races, but the boys still seemed to have fun. Malachi unfortunately only raced twice since he lost both of his heats. Poor kid! After the race the boys hiked to the top of Seip Mound, a Native American burial mound, and got to play a bit rolling down the side.

 Malachi insists on making crazy faces for most of his pictures these days. Oh well.

Play Ball!

Last Saturday was opening day for our little league. Elliott will be playing T-ball on the Dodgers this year, along with quite a few of our friends. Practices start this week and games will start mid May. It should be a fun and entertaining time that I'm sure you won't want to miss - a schedule will be posted as soon as I have one!

New Driveway!

Our new driveway was finished late last week so we can officially play and drive on it now. We're so excited to have this new space for the boys and they're definitely excited about the promise of a basketball hoop in the future!

New Improvement

We've been waiting a few years to be able to do this and finally are able to get it done...we are paving part of our driveway! We figured it was time for the boys to have a place to ride bikes and shoot some hoops and I'm excited to say they'll be able to do both by the end of the week! Elliott and Jonas were fascinated watching the construction:

Finally Warm!

It seems that spring has finally arrived for real! We've had some beautiful weather the past few days and we are loving our outdoor time. Elliott has been begging to play with Play-Doh for a couple days now and I realized that would be a perfect outdoor activity. They had a blast and I didn't have to scrape the remains out of my carpet!

Spring Has Arrived?

We've finally been able to spend some time outdoors without having to bundle up so much. Apparently that also means it's time to start wearing baseball caps instead of winter hats, and Jonas was very excited to find out that he has inherited his very own Aggie hat!

We had a surprise visit from some of our favorite people the other night. Our boys were especially excited that they arrived on Uncle Blaker's "machine." Oliver and Jonas had fun just sitting in it and pretending but they were lucky enough to get a short ride too. They were not as amused when it was Adeline and Elliott's turn! I caught a glimpse of the future in this picture:

Honor Roll!

Malachi received awards last week for perfect attendance and A honor roll for the third grading period. We are very proud of his hard work and hope he can keep it up for one more quarter...he just informed me the other day that there are only 40 more days until summer break. Woohoo!!