Keeeeeee-yahhhhhh!!!!!!

Rylie's been taking karate at school for a couple of months now and today was her first promotion ceremony. She's now a yellow belt. Her sensei says she's a leader. She did real well reciting her life skills "respect" and "bravery." And, she broke her board by kicking it.

This is Keith's new nemisis. We thought that the beavers from last year were gone when they came and trapped them so he decided on Sunday to go break down some of the dam so the water would drain out and maybe save some of the trees. Well, to his surprise, there's a new crop of them this year and they're not too happy with him tampering with their home. They're constantly on look out for him.

Let's go fly a kite... :)

Mother's Day afternoon turned out to be pretty nice after starting out cool and overcast. Rylie had gotten a kite a couple of weeks ago, but the weather hasn't been overly conducive to be outside too much. At first she was really excited, but became pouty when she was tired of trying to get it up in the air. We'll have to try again another day when there's a more sustained wind.

Grandma & Grandpa's new addition

Grandma & Grandpa Watt came up for the afternoon and brought their new addition. His name is Kaiser and he's so cute. Currently Macy is bigger than him, but that won't last for long. Give it a couple of months and he'll be towering over her.

Fun Spring Weekend...

We finally had a decent weekend to spend some time outside. After 5 days of rain, Saturday turned out to be sunny and warm. Brookie played in the playhouse and out in the yard with Macy. Rylie swang on the swings with mom and watched a group of new hatched geese munch on some grass by the pond.

On Sunday, we went downtown to have lunch with Mom's company and then watch the Indians play. It was definitely a yucky start to the festivities downtown. Of course we had to battle rain drops before the game started. Rylie had fun running on the hill in the outfield. Brook took in some pitches and then a little nap. All in all, it was a fun weekend with the girls...

Easter

We celebrated the Easter holiday with friends and family this year. On Saturday, we over to Aiden's house for and Easter Egg Hunt. It was fun to watch the little ones hunt down over 50 eggs...On Easter Sunday Grandma and Grandpa Watt came over to visit the little ones. Again we had a little egg hunt mainly for Rylie, but this time we had to dodge the rain drops. We have almost 7 inches of rain in the month of April with another 2-3 inches coming this week...thankfully, our house is on relatively high ground...

First time decorating Easter eggs!!!

We decorated Easter eggs for the first time tonight. It was a lesson in patience for little miss Rylie. It took all she had not to pick up each egg as they air dried. Needless to say she and little Brooke had a fun time rolling the eggs in the dye and shaking the egg in a bag of glitter...