Six grandkids and gymnastics at the park

Six of the nine grandkids!

Got'ya, Ben!

I got you with

the clothspin.

Sitting High!!!!

Swing a little!

Ride that purple thing!

They have "Dancing with the Stars", but this is called

"Dancing on the Trees".

GOOD JOB!

I think he went that a way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter and six of the grandkids!

EASTER
BUNNY?????

All dressed up in their Easter outfits

Abbey is now playing the Easter Bunny with the EARS on!

Chris had Easter egg colored shirt on, but he still didn't get a basket.

The four boys did hunt for eggs and baskets. I guess if you really believe in the Easter Bunny, you get an Easter basket with candy!

Everyone helped to color the eggs. Kim and I even colored the raw eggs.

Nichole was playing her DS game that she had gotten for her birthday. They hunted Easter eggs at their place on Easter Sunday and then came over here for dinner.

As it shows, this was taken on Pete's ninth birthday on March 3rd. He got a skateboard, plus other things. He blew out all the candles!

The next few pictures were when Fred was inducted into the National Honor Society. We are all so proud of him. The next few shots are of Fred's 16th. birthday on March 27th. He looks like he has enough muscles without having to use the weight bench that he got for his birthday!

The last several shots are some from a JV basketball game. We were upset that we weren't able to make it up to Fredericksburg to see him play in any of his basketball games. He did do a great job in the games.

Our grandchildren in Ohio having fun

Lily is dressed up as a "Fairy" to give a book report in first grade. The second picture is in her dance class. She looks like she is having lots of fun.

Rose and Tom are getting so big and love to play around all the time. Love the cowboy hats!!!!! Rose makes a very adorable "Fairy" as well. Can't wait to see them! I will be leaving in 18 days to see them all up in Ohio. YEA!!!!!!!

The tree at Nichole's party

This was the highlight of Nichole's 9th. birthday party! It was really windy that day and just as the girls were finishing up their pizza, a tree right out in front blew over and fell across highway 15, the main route. The kids all ran outside to the porch and couldn't believe it. Their neighbor had a chain saw and someone else in the neighborhood had one, and they started to cut up the branches to remove it from the road. Some of the people in the cars, that were waiting to get through this road block, got out and helped to drag the branches to the side of the road. There must have been at least 25 or more cars on each side of the highway, waiting to get back on their way. Finally, the tree was removed from the road and the drivers could continue on their way. The girls waved to the drivers as they went by, sort of like a parade that they were watching. They all thought that was the best party they have ever been to.

When Kim comes over with her "memory stick" from Nichole's party, I will blog some more. I had forgotten to take the camera with me to the party, but Kim had her camera and she got lots of pictures. We had gone over the next day on our way to town, and stopped to get some pictures of the big "root ball". The big tree had knocked down several other trees on the way down. Now, Todd will have some work to do to get the "root ball" out of his front yard.