Skittles anyone?

Taven being of school age and interested in all sorts of things decided that he wanted to do a science project to take to school. We attended science night and learned how to make the board and all of that so I said why not. Well yesterday we got the stuff to "Scientifically see what color of skittles has the most per pack" He and Aspen opened the packs and did a good job of recording the numbers. The rest was up to me to put it altogether, I think I worked on the stupid thing for 5 hours before I was finshed. I can already tell that I am going to be the mom that fusses over her kids homework to make sure that it is perfect- I don't want to be, really I don't- but what choice to I have? Anyway he takes it to school tomorrow and for now we have a ton of Skittles to eat! YUMMY!

Tea Party Time!

Santa brought Aspen a realy tea set for Christmas, so one day when her friends where over we had a tea party! She is such a fun girly girl!

Palo Duro Canyon

For spring break we headed north to Amarillo and went hiking in PaloDuro (the grand canyon of Texas-ya right!!!) We went with our friends Nicole and Brent Nelson and their little girl Danielle. The kids had a ton of fun and although it was a little breezy it is still so great to get outside and do something. We don't really get very many chances to be in the great outdoors in Lubbock! If you have been here, you know what I am talking about!

Taven spent a majority of our hike looking for the elusive chinchilla! I think he really thought that he was going to find one. This is Ryan narrating on the Chinchilla adventure!

Close to my heart!

If anyone remembers Ryan from high school you will know why this picture is so close to my heart. (Taven is the Catcher in this picture!)

THE WATCH

Ryan has an obsession with all things watch related so naturally when he decided that a watch is what he wanted for graduation there was much tossing and turning at night to pick the perfect one. He finally made a decision and found a Haurex and it is HUGE! It looks great and we are all so happy he found the watch of his dreams!!

I Know!

So once again I have neglected my blog. Here is a little update. Ryan has now officially 24days until graduation! Holy cow--we are almost done!!! Taven is all about T-ball again and of course playing with his buddies and reading- his new favorite book is called "I want to be a Jedi". Aspen is taking gymnastics and she really seems to like it- I think she is sick of preschool and wants it to be summer so that she can stay up late! And Berkley is potty training kindof- she won't tell me yet when she needs to go, but if I put her on the potty she knows what to do, so it is only a matter of time now. And then there is me- I have just been working and taking care of the kiddos. That is about it!

Student Of The Month

Taven was student of the month for February! He is such a good little student, and really loves school!