Memorial Day Weekend

We had some visitors over Memorial Day Weekend. Grandma and Grandpa Slick came and they brought along Uncle AJ and counsin Olivia! From the minute Olivia walked in the door, until the time she left, the three little girls played non-stop, and loved every minute of it! The weather was pretty crappy for most of the weekend. The sun did come out one of the evenings, so we all took the opportunity to hang out outside.

The boys set up some targets and had fun with the guns.

Olivia told me she was jealous of them and wanted to try it out. I thought she looked kinda cute with a big ol' gun!

Grandma taught the girls how to knit. Maddie had fun knitting on the loom.

One of the nights the all the girls made cookies! Yum!

Apparently you can't get the Schall boys together without a little competition. They did push ups and arm wrestling

I'm not sure who won.

First Tooth

Sierra lost her first tooth today!!! She is very excited! She even made the tooth fairy a cute little card that has been waiting for her under Sierra's pillow ever since she found out she had a loose tooth! I wonder what kind of surprise the tooth fairy will leave for her!

Graduation

Sierra has officially graduated from Preschool!!

I was the class mom/helper this year in Sierra's class, so Maddie felt like this was her school class too since she was there every week, and I think the teachers pretty much treated her as another student (she is right up there with most of the kids with her ABC's and all that), so they let Maddie participate in the graduation too! I'm glad they let her, she had fun participating with all of the other kids.

Before the graduation ceremony, they had some fun games for the kids to play.

Potato sack races!

Even the parents got in on some of the action (although I don't think Jake was too thrilled)!!

Dinner

Gotta love grillin' and eating dinner outside!!! Bring on the summer (hopefully)!!!

Easter!!

I have tried writing this blog 2 times already, and Blogger keeps messing it up. I am sick of re-blogging. I am not going to re-type everything again, so you will just get some pictures with a few captions. Enjoy!

The Easter Bunny brought the girls each a new tool belt full of real tools! Now they have tools that are just their size to build their projects with!

It has been a tradition for a few years now to go fishing at Toston Dam on Easter. The weather was BEAUTIFUL!! A perfect day for fishing, excpet the fish weren't biting. Bummer. It was still really nice to get out and enjoy the day!

Nick and Megan came with us.

Jake met up with his friend Titus at the dam.

Hidden Treasure

We got out and about this morning for our first hike/geocaching of the season. We went up to the Buffalo Jump State Park to hike around and to find a hidden treasure box. We had never been to the Buffalo Jump and it is only about 10 miles from our house. We didn't end up finding the treasure box because we ended up on the wrong trail, and by the time we turned around, it was lunch time.

After lunch, we decided to go find some treasure that was a little closer to our house and knew it was an easy find. Sierra spotted the treasure first! It sure is nice to be able to get outside again!

Olde Town Rustic Furniture

Jake has a new blog with all of his awesome furniture he makes! Check it out! http://www.oldetownrusticfurniture.blogspot.com/

Bedroom Camping

The girls wanted to go camping. Obvisouly that wasn't going to happen, so Jake thought it would be fun to pitch a tent in their room! Of course the girls LOVED it!

The tent pretty much takes up all the free space in their room.

They even have beautiful stars to gaze up at while falling asleep. The tent has been up in their room for a few days now, and I think it is time to take it down.

Jakes Latest Projects

Jake made this shelf to go above our tv/wood stove area in our living room. The wall was just blank, so we decided it needed a shelf. The wood he used was just scrap that had been sitting out back. I like the weathered look. The shelf turned out very nice and looks good on the wall!

Here is another shelf he made. He actually made two of them. The other one is a little longer than this one, but is made out of the same material, so it looks just like this one.

I guess he got tired of building, so he started tiling. He tiled around both of our shower/tubs. Both bathrooms turned out so nice! I really adds to much to the feel of the room. This one is in our bathroom.

And these slate tiles are in the other bathroom. It is pretty nice to have a handy man around! Speaking of having a handy man, he is in the crawl space replacing our heating ducts as I type ... a handy man sure is nice!

Just Past Half Way

Well, here I am. I have had family telling me for a while now that they want to see some pics, so, here I am. I am 21 weeks this week, and getting bigger by the day!