Pinewood Derby 2014!

Jacob participated in the cub scout Pinewood Derby this past Saturday. He was super proud of himself when his car finished 2nd overall!

If you want to see some of the other pictures from race day you'll have to follow the link...
Pinewood Derby Pictures!

Zach's 100th Day of School!

Zach's class didn't dress up or anything but he came out of school wearing a "100 days of school" hat thingamahoo.

He also had a bag of trail mix that they made at school with 10 marshmallows, 10 kix, 10 chex, 10 butterscotch chips, 10 pretzels, 10 goldfish, 10 chocolate chips, 10 cheerios, and 2 more sets of 10 of other things that I can't remember!!

Such a sweetie pie that is 100 days smarter!

He was too busy eating his trail mix to give me another good smile! His mouth is full!!

Emily was playing with hairbands today..

trouble.

The kids and I made a "house" out of 2 cardboard boxes. Emily and I made a few modifications today while the boys were at school and she loved it!

cheeeeeeeese!

Jacob's 100th Day of School!

Today was Jacob's 100th day of school this year.. Kindergarten started 2 days later than 1st grade so I'm figuring Zach's will be on Monday (though we haven't heard anything about preparing for it like we did Jacob's. Zach had to make a posterboard to take in and we did that already and forgot to take a picture!).

Anyways, Jacob dressed up like an old man.....

 before school.

 after school. His teacher had mustaches for all the boys.

She wrote me a note in his agenda that said she loved his outfit and she picked him and another friend in his class to be on the school news that morning. (They have a short little newscast done by kids in the school that the entire school watches during morning announcements.) He was so excited telling me about it! Zach was excited that he saw his brother and was sure to tell his friends that it was his brother!

 He didn't have his stick cane at school either, we found it in the driveway and used it for a photo prop.

 the old man with the young man. :-)

 and the sweetheart.

a good dog...

I've been watching Zach feed Ringo lately and I've noticed that he frequently gives him a milk bone in his food bowl (with his scoop of food). I pointed it out to Daniel a few days ago and that evening Zach said something to Daniel along these lines... "Dad, when Ringo is a good dog I give him a whole cookie with his food but when he's a bad dog, I break it and he only gets half!" Yeah, take that Ringo! You can still be obnoxious and get a treat. Good dog.

Happy 55th Birthday, Dad!!

Daniel's graduation!

Even though Daniel finished his classes for his degree (and got his diploma) months ago, today was the day for him to actually graduate. :)  I got to wrangle all 3 kids at the Chase Center on the Brandywine Riverfront for a couple hours but was more than happy to do it so we could all watch him walk across the stage!

The kids and I got in line early to wait to get into the hall to get our seats and boy was I glad we did. We got really great seats! (And I made sure when we sat down that there was nobody in the row we picked, or the row in front of or behind. That way, people had to "pick" to sit next to the lady with 3 kids.)

And really, for all the waiting that we had to do, the kids were pretty good. Jacob was the best of the bunch. Zach was the grumpiest. Emily was in charge of the goldfish. Seriously, she didn't want anyone else to stick their hand in the bag. We left a small mess.. just to make sure they knew we were there.

Can you spot Daniel?

He was actually sitting a few rows back from us on the other side of the aisle. The boys were tickled that they could see him so easily from our seats. (And I was at our seats when I took this picture. That's how close we were!)

Daniel Peter James Durrbeck!

Shaking the President of Wilmington University's hand.

Walking back by us to get to his seat!

 

Woo-hoo!!!

 

Afterwards we had a tasty lunch at my mom's favorite place to eat by us, Jose's Border Café! YUM!

Ice Skating

This past Sunday we went ice skating with some friends for Jacob (& his friend Andrew) to work on their ice skating belt loop for cub scouts. (Well, Daniel and the boys went ice skating, I put skates on and then held Emily for almost 2 hours while she should've been napping!)

Other than the boys having sore butts from falling they had a great time!

 Daniel and Jacob

 Jacob

 Having a good time!

 Zach, Jacob, & Daniel

 Jen with Josh

 Noah

 Mike and Andrew

 Little stinker that should've been napping.

 Noah and Emily watching the zamboni.

Jacob and Andrew watching the zamboni.

The boys just have to ice skate for one more hour to earn their belt loop!