Kader's cooking day!!

Kader is "announcing" the news of the day!
Kader mixing the cream cheese and butter....
Kader and his good friend Ashwin (Kader likes to tease him and call him Ashley!)
Mareyn and Kader with their finished dirt cups....worms and all!

Erika and I get our hair done

Looking nice and foiled!
Noah with our very special stylist Sarah!!

Noah was so good....He sat in his stroller for two hours and just talked and looked around....he was full of smiles!!

Muffins for Moms

Kader eating his muffin at "Muffins for Moms"!

Singing some special songs for the moms!

A close up......Kader drew a picture of me and I had short purple hair. They had to put our age on the picture and there was a range of 15 to 99. I got to be 15!!
We played in the room after the program. Was a fun morning....there is Donuts for Dads in April so stay tuned!

Vinnie's class at Chapel

Vinnie's class "hosted" chapel on Tuesday and they did such a good job...they all picked their characters from the Bible and then they wrote about their characters and memorized their parts....We also found out at conferences last thursday that Vinnie was going to play his guitar for special music. Shawn and I looked at each other with surprise (we rarely know what is going on at school for Vinnie, as he is a boy of few words when it comes to letting us know what is happening) anyway we just smiled and said okay. Vinnie got a guitar for Christmas and has not had one lesson yet he just plays around on it and Shawn has taught him a few chords...so we didn't think he could even read music much less pull off a whole song. Much to our amazement he did wonderful...not missing one chord. My mom thinks he can just play by ear...so maybe we should look into getting him some lessons!!

Spring Showers bring MUDDY MESS!!

The kids checking out the mud sliding down our front yard and onto the road during the rain last Sunday.
We have a nice mixture of clay and black dirt....
The views from our back yard.....we are really excited to have grass hopefully by Summer.

Maddie get's 3rd place in dance competition!!!

Maddie and her friend Maggie Kretchman showing off their third place ribbons!

Shawn and the kids having a "movie night"!

Cousin Tiffany comes to visit~

Our cousin Tiffany Lentz from Ankeny, Iowa came to spend her spring break from college with Grandma Bev! They had a good week together and on her way back she stopped by Erika's so we could see her. Thank you for taking the time to see us Tiffany!!

Grandma Bev Having a Good Day!

Dad went to get Granma to come out to the Lake for the afternoon because she was having a really good day!! We all got to spend some time with her and she got to hold Bodin. Even without her hair she still looks like Grandma Bev! She showed the kids her bald head but they didn't seem to mind at all. Kader said, "Just like Dad" and that was it. Thank you for all of you that are praying for her...she is such a special person to all of us! Love you Grandma!!

Noah and Uncle Shawn~

Crazy Hair Day at School

More winter fun....

Mom pulling the girls on the sled.
Vinnie enjoying his freedom to drive!!
Karly trying to lick Mareyn but the helmet saved her!
Maddie going down the hill at Hillcrest.
Mareyn being mad she was done sledding and hungry she wanted to go and get a taco.....it was 9:30am but that didn't seem to disuade her a bit.

The Veums go snowmobiling on Wall Lake!

Sunday afternoon we took advantage of the mild temperature and went snowmobiling....Mareyn even got to drive the snowscoot all by herself...she was quite proud. Her first drive went straight towards the middle of the lake and then her promptly hitting the kill switch and tuning around to yell, "How do you turn this thing?!!" After another little lesson she quickly caught on and around she went.

J turns 9!!

J turned nine on March 5 and off to Chucky Cheese we did go!!