Shaelyn's New Found Talent

Tonight Shaelyn discovered a whistle that Paxton had lying around and put it in her mouth and started whistling with it. She was crawling all over the place with it and whistling the whole time. It was pretty funny watching her.

Dinner Guests

Tonight Paxton's teacher and her husband came over for supper and the evening. Paxton had wanted her to come over so he asked her and she said they would. After supper we took a walk and then came back and had dessert and played a game of Trouble.
Paxton's teacher and her husband

Baby Shower for Paxton's Teacher

Today they had a surprise baby shower at school for Paxton's teacher. The kids all brought in little gifts for her and they cupcakes and snacks.

Some of the goodies

The kids

Paxton's teacher opening her gifts

Higher Education

Paxton has enjoyed looking at Calvin & Hobbs books recently.

Ava's Birthday Parties

Last tuesday for supper we went to Brad and Shelley's with Mom and Dad to celebrate Ava's 7th Birthday. Yesterday she had a Mad Science Birthday Party with all the kids. What a fun time!!

Grampa with the four grandkids

Opening presents

The four cousins

Singing Happy Birthday

Ava with some of her friends at the Mad Science Party

The kids watching the Mad Scientist

Ava with the Mad Scientist

The Mad Scientist

Making slime

Stirring the slime

Grampa with Shaelyn

Shaelyn with Uncle Brad

Landon

Blowing out the candles

Visitors

Jen, Liam and Weston came for a visit last wednesday afternoon. The kids had a great time playing together inside and outside. Thanks for coming to visit!!

Liam, Weston and Paxton in the tent

Playing in the basement

Liam and Paxton

Big wrestling match

Think Spring

Today's lunch was the first meal on the deck. It was soooo nice outside today. We spent a good share of the afternoon relaxing outside. Ellie and Ava came over for a few hours this afternoon to play. It would be nice to think that the warmer weather is here to stay but I think that is probably wishful thinking. We'll take what we can get for now.

Lunch on the deck

Relaxing in the lounge chair

Enjoying the nice weather

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Lovin' being outside

Train Show and Boston

Saturday Paxton and I went to a model train show at the High School in Milford. It was really neat to see the different setups that people had. Saturday evening we went down to Boston to meet up with Johanna's cousin that was there for a trade show.

Some of the smaller scale trains

Some of the neat scenes

Farm scene

One of the larger scale trains

The big track setup in the gym

Another of the larger scale trains

Working saw mill

Another train

Paxton playing with some of the toy trains

Lots of kids

Johanna's cousin Phil that we met up with in Boston

Phil and Johanna

Aidan's Birthday Party

Friday evening was Aidan's 3rd Birthday Party.

Opening presents

More presents

Ready to sing Happy Birthday

The whole family

Beach Day!!

Friday was Beach Day at school so the kids got to bring in their beach towels, flip flops, shorts and tee shirts. Johanna helped decorate on thursday after school and was there on friday for the festivities. Sounds like they had a lot of fun!!

Playing games

Story time

More games

Swimming

Brody and Paxton's class