new stuff....

I apologize for taking so long to do a new post....

Here's what we've been up to.... Here's Austin on his first day of preschool! He is going to school twice a week (3 hours a day). It's an early childhood education center, and he is a "peer mentor"... so far he likes it, and so far 6 hours a week hasn't been too hard on mom...

Andrew has had alot of scout stuff going on... he had his first pinewood derby, which although he didn't place, he had fun creating his car and watching everybody race. He also was awarded his bobcat badge, which he was very proud of...

"Based on recent 2008 statistics, we are losing World War II veterans at the rate of approximately 1,000 per day."

Last night we lost the only one that really mattered to me.

My grandpa "cappy" Kamler passed away last night. He had been fighting the effects of diabetes for several years now, and last night his heart had enough. I know he's in such a better place now, and not in pain anymore.... but this is still hard.

I love the saying "Life is a journey, not a destination". I have great memories of the small part of grandpa's journey that I was a part of...

I'll post more later when I get the details of when his funeral will be.

sick puppies...

Tiny 2 and popcorn haven't been feeling well....I had to make them sweet tea yesterday....



Let's see, Thursday Andrew had a class trip to The Pet Center to his his partner in education, so I have some pictures of that. Later that day I had to go pick him up because he started running a fever at school.... this is definately good timeing for a 3 day weekend.

Saturday, Randy got tickets from work to see the Mizzou basketball game, and the Cardinals Caravan was there an hour before the game, so we got some Cards autographs (mostly rookies, and Rick Horton....I'll ask Randy what all there names were again later). I forgot to take my phone off the charger before we left and didn't bring my camera, so I have absolutely no pictures, which I wasn't happy about until Austin calmly reassured me... "it's okay mom....I have a good camera in my head..."
Really, that's the best camera of all....

Simple things

These are some random pictures, but things are finally calming down....

Austin got an igloo making kit, so he can put his ice making towards something productive...
He actually froze these blocks and then piece them together to build the igloo...

One day Austin just wanted to play inthe bath tub....so after an hour here's how wrinkled your fingers get! These pictures don't really do justice to how deep those wrinkles were!

Andrew has been working on his soapbox derby car. I took the easy way and bought a kit that was already cut (thanks for the tip, dad!)

so first the basic...

And with Andrew's "lightning" paint job....

I'll post the finished product when we get the wheels on...

Christmas update

So my new years resolution should be to keep up on my posting better! Sorry for taking so long, but htere's a condensed version of our christmas...I hope to post more later.
We had a really nice christmas...

The boys got up about 6:45 and they had kindof dressed themselves(I guess so I wouldn't tell them to go get dressed). Andrew got a amtrac train he wanted and Austin got a keyboard to sing his songs on!

At my mom and dad's, we had all of us home, which was nice...

here's a pic of the siblings...

Reaghan was baptised, and I wanted to show her dress because Janet made it out of her own wedding dress... it turned out beautiful...