Bowling in the New Year

Kris and I took the boys for a night out bowling to ring in the New Year. Well, we rung in the New Year at 8pm and pretended it was 12, but it was still fun!

Ethan wasn't strong enough to pick up a 6 lb ball (the smallest they had) so he used a ramp. He loved it!

Sam was a "secret agent spy" and wore his hood up and glasses on. What an imagination he has! We did the chicken dance, had pizza, bowled and blowed our horns at midnight (aka 8pm). Had a blast!

Here are my boys!

1st Day of School

Sam's 1st Day of Kindergarten! He loves it!

Ethan's 1st Day of Pre-school - back at the same school again this year.

3rd Annual Tire Tater Contest

I know you have all been waiting for more pics! The day is finally here!

Today we won the coveted "Golden Masher" (and Bumble Spud, for Transformer lovers). I know I know, you wish you had. How did we do it, you ask? Well a lot of hard work, dedication, and tires. Right, tires.

Each year, we plant potatoes in a tire. As it grows, we add more tires. And more tires. Then, at the end of the season, we dig through the dirt from the tires and pull out all the potatoes that grew. Phew, hard work. The boys LOVE this part. Boys and dirt go together well! We weigh them all and the family with the most weight wins! That was us!!

Mom and Ron had a great pile too!

Here they are!

Mason was cute, as usual!

Now, to add to the excitement, we also took the prize for biggest potato! What a year!

So, this last picture is the 3rd cutest little boy ever!! LOL This is my nephew, Mason James Arsenault. He came with his mom and dad, Toby and Amanda Arsenault, to the resort and spent a night with us. He is so cute I could eat him up. Poor kid gets smothered in kisses when I am holding him. Can you blame me - look at that face!!

OK, onto the other pics...the end of our trip was to Santa's Village and Storyland. Still raining on Sat when we went to Santa's Village, so we wore ponchos! It still was warm though so we made the best of it. Kids wore froggie boots and splashed in every puddle there. Every kids dream. Sunday made up for the rainy weather - hot and so nice! We had a blast on the water rides. Great end to our 4th vacation. But we never saw fireworks - they were cancelled in Rangeley due to thunder and lightning.

OK, so I haven't posted in a long time, but a lot of you have asked if I please can post! So, here it is! This set of pictures are from the beginning of our week away! We went to Kris's family camp on Aziscohos Lake (near Rangeley) for 2 days and to the Rangeley Lake Resorts for 2 days. It rained the whole time, on and off, but we made the most of it! We still went fishing - see the boys using umbrellas! We had good luck though and caught a nice one! We still had a campfire and made smore's, my favorite. A good start to our trip.

Just a few more pics...sorry they aren't every day! My favorite is from today - the boys had a beach party, even in the middle of a snowstorm. They lounged in the sun (lamp light), made fishing poles and fish and then caught them, made fruit kabobs and had a picnic lunch, and we even played games, like Sam's ring toss. Tons of fun.