Spring Break Fun!

Over Chad's spring break we took an overnight trip with two other families from the seminary and went to the Caribbean Cove indoor Waterpark and the Children's Museum in Indianapolis.

Thursday night we hung out at the waterpark with the Gerdes and Ingall's families. The water park included the usual activities of riding around on the lazy river...Trips down the Waterslides...
Hanging out in the pools...Below is a picture of all the older boys (minus Colin...) Altogether there were 8 boys between 4 and 8, two toddlers, 1 infant and 6 parents....

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

I didn't get to spend the day with him, but figured reaching 90 years old deserved a post in our blog. Above you will see my Grandpa and Grandma Breeden celebrating his 90th Birthday. With him are my Aunt Yvonne and Uncle Chuck!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!

New Van Pictures...

I promised pictures of the new van... Here are a couple...
From the outside...Features new from our old van...
A complete roof rack... we didn't have the cross pieces on our old one
One of those fancy trip computers that tells you how many miles you can go on the current tank of gas, how long and how many miles you've been driving since you reset it etc.
A center storage area to keep stuff from flying all over the van when it rolls over
And the best loved feature of the boys... 4 DVD players installed into the headrest in front of them...

Zeke...

I recently had the opportunity to talk with a friend on the phone that we haven't seen in a while. They were friends when we were in Hawaii and they were transferred to Germany a few weeks after Seth was born. So it has been 4 1/2 years. In our most recent phone conversation she asked how tall Zeke had gotten compared to me. This prompted the following picture... I fear the day is not far off when he will be looking me in the eye and then I will be looking up to him!

Dawn of the Dinosaurs...

Last night we borrowed the new "Ice Age" movie from our library. This morning, JJ created a Long Neck in our toy room.

More Snow Fun....

On another fun wintery day, I was away from home and Chad and the boys went out to the backyard for some more fun. For the first time this winter the snow was perfect for making snowmen. The big two are Chad and I (no I do not know which is which) and the boys are working on little ones to represent themselves.They also created the sides of an igloo and covered it with sticks, but I have no pictures of this experiment...

Later they came to get me and then we went to Science Central while Chad went to class. By the time we got home (only about 2 hours later) all of our snowmen were headless and the sides of the igloo had collapsed. Not to fear it is only February, I am sure there will be more snow for rebuilding before our winter is over.

Winter Fun...

The boys and Chad have been working on a snow fort in the backyard...
This has been an ongoing project and we are getting a pretty big wall in the backyard! After working a little more on it today, the boys came in to find that their mother had a Campbell Soup Commercial Moment... Tomato Soup with Goldfish, Jello and Hot Chocolate for lunch... I could almost see the snowman melting in our dining room.