Ollie's tools and creations

Ollie has been so busy making things out of paper and building things with his new tools and toolbox from Grandpa!  Mostly out of paper he made a bowling alley where we were to all pay money to bowl and then the next day was free day and he payed us!  He also made and is still making light sabers with paper and flashlights, a telescope he put by his bedroom window, boxes, purses, pockets, games with boards and pieces, (levi and ck have gotten into that one some too), kites, then wraps them as presents for us and the list goes on and on!  He LOVES to make things!  He has gotten to build a chair and bench for his fort and works almost daily at his tool bench pounding for tool holders and all sorts of things. He definitely has lots of ideas!  I dont have pictures of it all but i am sure Clara Kate would love to take some for me!  She loves to take pictures!

Spring!

Ollie and his "best friend" Anneke. They are super hilarious and cute together!  

anneke took this picture for us of mommy and ollie time!

The kids helped craig make a little fort behind the back garage. It is quite cute!

Ollie on his preschool playground. He has been a champ about starting PreK. And we enjoyed our last days of full time mommy ollie time with lots of fun and friends of course! 

Happy Easter!

We all enjoyed celebrating Jesus raising from the dead and the empty tomb!  The kids all stood up in front of church and sang the songs they had been practicing. It was their first time doing that at Brainerd Presbyterian. Ollie was SUPER animated and ck enjoyed singing while levi tolerated it well. Levi drew the nice picture of the crosses for our Easter mantle. The kids also enjoyed having an easter egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpas house complete with the easter egg tree and bunny cake!

Myrtle beach

We had a great Spring break at Myrtle Beach even with strep and croup! It was so neat to see the kids faces as they looked out the beach when we arrived and were blown away at how big the ocean is!  We hadn't realized none of them would remember being at the ocean. They loved building sand castles and collecting shells, playing catch on the beach, having picnics and taking walks, jumping waves and using inner tubes in the lazy river, seeing the sunrise from our balcony and spotting Dolphins jumping, and lots of swimming! They said they hoped we would go back there every spring only next time not get sick!