Thursday, May 10, 2012

Geocaching

What can I say? I'm addicted! Last Wednesday, I was sitting in my car during Emily's ballet class, and I was puttering around on my phone when I had the *brilliant* idea to check my geocaching app to see if there were any caches nearby. There was one some 400ft away, so I dashed inside the studio, grabbed two other mom's from Em's class, and off we went on a hunt. Photobucket

On Friday, the weather looked like it was going to be pretty decent, despite the prediction of rain, so Connor and I picked up his friend Cody and we set off on a geocaching adventure! This was the first cache we found. Turns out it was a "Travel Bug Hotel" cache, so we will have to go back and check on all the traveling "bugs" periodically to see if we can be helpful on any of their missions. There were tons of muggles (non-geocachers) out and about, and the boys and I were literally hiding behind the bushes as people would walk by, so as not to give away the location of the cache. The boys thought it was FANTASTIC!
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The second cache we tried to find was a total bust. Recent entries into the "log book" showed a low rate of success, with a few people stating they finally found it about 60ft away. I'm determined to go back with a larger group and find it. The boys were pretty bummed we didn't find that one, so I took them to another one just down the road, which I'd already found with the dance moms, so we were guaranteed a successful attempt! Photobucket

There were two more caches very nearby some errands I needed to run, so we headed out in that direction. This was our third find! Photobucket

Goofy little gnome, which Connor was thrilled with (long story short, a couple years ago Dan's aunt thought Connor liked gnomes, so she bought him one, which he then became very attached to, and now he really DOES like gnomes...)
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Our last find of the day!
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At some point I want to get ahold of some little trinkets so the kids can have fun leaving stuff behind in the caches, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. We also have travel bugs to register for each of the kids, but we haven't gotten around to doing THAT yet either!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Moments of Kindness

My kids can figure out a way to have an argument over just about ANYTHING, ANY TIME, ANY PLACE.  But they also manage to figure out ways to be super sweet to each other as well.  Take this candy note for example...

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

License Plates

I was out driving with some friends yesterday, and while stuck in traffic, we saw the following license plate, so I immediately handed my phone to my friend Kim and made her take a picture:

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My mom's name is Marlee, and I really haven't met any other people with the same name AND the same spelling. With the license plate being Marlee2, I'm assuming somewhere out there is a Marlee1...

What do you think, mom? Change your plates to Marlee3? *grin*

Monday, May 7, 2012

Quack Quack!

Our little friend katin recently got some pet ducks, and she invited us over to see them!  Connor was far more interested in them than the other two, asking lots of questions, then finally asking if he could go inside the coop and pet them.
Mick and Nick weren't overly thrilled to see him! LOL
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He did finally get to pet one of them, and probably would have happily hung out all day in the coop if I'd let him.  He's such an animal lover!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Play ball! (Connor)

Jared's team (of only 8 kids) was missing a player over the weekend, so Connor stepped in and helped out.
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No one else wanted to be catcher, but Connor loved getting to wear the gear Photobucket

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The following day, Connor had his first practice/game, and daddy is coaching HIS team as well! Dan does such a great job.
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I had so much fun watching the boys playing baseball!

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Lego Man Plays Piano

Jared came home with a paper piano a friend made him in class last week. Immediately upon arriving home, Jared took the time to make a music sheet, a piano bench, and then built Lego stairs for the Lego man to climb up in order to play the piano

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Gotta love the creativity!