The National Scrabble Championships are this weekend!!!

Back on February 13th (Opa's birthday, none the less and Friday the 13th), Jordan and his Scrabble partner, Courtney, won their spot to go to the National Scrabble Championships. Read the original post here.

This weekend is the Championships in Rhode Island. You can watch it online here! The tournament starts tomorrow! Look for Jordan and Courtney (Floyd T. Binns Middle School, Culpeper, VA) and cheer them on!

Weekend in the Mountains

Jamie's camera has been gone for a few weeks. One of us got dust on the actual camera lens inside and neither of us know how to clean it out properly. Luckily the Geek Squad takes care of that but has to send it off to get it done. It came back just in time for us to go to the mountains for a gorgeous weekend. All 5 kiddos were there (usually one of the big boys are missing ~ it's rare to have all 5 up there). Jamie had been up there all week turkey hunting and getting things done. It was a great weekend and just keeps reminding us how much we love it there and want to move there. Hopefully some day....



Since there are so many, I'm going to make the rest of these thumbnails so please click on them for the larger version.



The boys were playing football and told Jenna she couldn't play...

Happy Easter 2009!

Happy Easter! Dad, Mom and Boo came over today for linner, as Jasmine was calling it. I cooked. Oma and Jasmine made deviled eggs and then everyone ate. We watched golf, which honestly isn't as comletely and utterly boring as I thought. We had strawberry shortcakes, which Oma and Opa brought. YUMMY! Oma even found CHOCOLATE sponge cakes. Are you kidding me? I thought I died and went to heaven. The kids wrestled Uncle Boo. It was a fun day.

The only pictures I got were of 4 of the 5 coloring eggs last night. James was at his mom's. Here's the fun!

Finally made the girls' blankets

The girls picked out some polar fleece material MONTHS ago for me to make them some blankets. I finally dragged the sewing machine up from the basement so I could make them. You know ~ a nice warm, polar fleece blanket just in time for it to warm up outside! Go me! Oh well. Better late than never. The girls LOVE them. They are so dang soft. I personally want one. Jacob wants a camo one (surprise! surprise!) and thankfully JoAnn's has the polar fleece in camo. Oh and a sale to boot! YAY! He'll be getting one soon.

Jenna's blanket



Jasmine's blanket

Wacky Wednesday at Jacob's Preschool

Jacob's preschool had Wacky Wednesday today. They were allowed to wear their jammies to school, their clothes inside out, a funny hat, really anything goes as long as it was safe. They had wacky waffles for snack. They had all sorts of fun.

Jacob wore his new spring jammies to school. Jenna, of course, left hers on as well. I forgot to get a picture of the two of them in their pajamas. I'll get one later with them both in their new pajamas.

They also painted their faces and hands if they wanted. Jacob requested spiders.