Some good news

No, I'm not pregnant! We've had a crazy couple of months. The van was in the shop for 2 weeks total. Doug spent a month in Ohio. Not all at once, thankfully. Will got a strep infection on his skin, then two weeks later Aiden got strep throat but was never really sick and never said anything. The strep throat turned into scarlet fever. Then he had an allergic reaction to the meds. We went to the Dr. twice in three days! All the kids had to be on antibiotics for ten days. I felt like I had a pharmacy in the fridge. Everyone is healthy now! The really good news is that insurance agreed to pay more for our new roof we have to get. Back in January we had a pretty bad ice storm and a branch landed on the house. We didn't think the damage was that bad but we later found out it was. We also had a lot of wind damage that we didn't know about. We hadn't really argued with the insurance people much. They actually called us after they got our estimate and told us they weren't going to pay anymore. Then we got a couple more calls from them and they decided to pay the rest! They are saying the damage is from 2 different storms so we do have to pay 2 deductibles. Which is okay. We can handle that much better then having to pay for most of the roof. Now hopefully the new roof will go on soon.

Earth Day 2009

Since it was Earth Day, Quinn insisted that we go for a nature walk. He even made a list of things to look for and do. His list included looking for birds, picking up trash, looking for bird poop (that was Doug's contribution to the list), and playing in the side yard. Everyone had lots of fun.

Funny Pictures of Will

A couple of Sundays ago, Will came home and changed into his spider-man boxers. For some reason he wanted to keep his socks and shoes on. Doug and I thought this was really funny. Will didn't agree with us. He wasn't thrilled that Doug was taking pictures of him. Please excuse the mess of the sunroom.

Happy Easter!

Children's Museum Part 2

Here are some more pics from the Children's Museum. Enjoy!

Will digging for dinosaur bones.

Quinn digging for dinosaur bones.

Aiden digging for dinosaur bones.


Quinn and his chest of gold. The dragon behind him and the dragon in the chest are made of legos.



Aiden and Will

Princess Riley

Spider-Man

Will and C3PO

Quinn, Anakin, and Ahsoka

Aiden and R2-D2

Children's Museum Part 1

So we made it to the Children's Museum in Indy. The kids had a ton of fun and so did we. Here are the first round of pictures. We were there all day and still didn't see everything!

This is a huge blown glass scultpture.

This is the is the bottom of the blown glass sculpture.

Riley checking out the bottom of the sculpture. The seat spins around very slowly but she wasn't too sure about it.

This was Doug's favortie part. Anakin's Star Fighter (I think). Will just told me it's Obi Wan's.

Riley never moved from this position the whole ride. She wouldn't even look at Doug so he could take a picture.

Quinn



Will and Aiden

The Batmobile. It was one of qutie a few that were used in the movie.