GOOOAAALLLLL!!!!

Aidan is trying his hand at soccer, and is really enjoying it! He's far more aggressive on the field than I imagined he would be. He even scored the team's first goal of the season!!

Celebrating the first goal at Tutti Frutti

Brennan is 4!

Brennan was loving his hat from school!

He started blowing at the cake as soon as he saw the lit candles coming.

Enjoying cake and ice cream

Evan enjoyed his ice cream, too!

Animal House

Brennan's field trip to the local rodeo (just the livestock show part really)

the pigs

Miniature horses

the rabbits

The turkeys and chickens were a big hit. One of the turkeys was gobbling, but it really sounded more like a dog barking than a gobble.

This goat made the rest of us look like fools, shivering in the 30 degree temps. With a little smile on its face!

Feeding the steer--aka throwing the hay near its face.

Grammy and Evan came along too.

Brennan enjoyed it, but really just wanted to be wherever his friend Jacob was. So as long as we could corral Jacob, we had Brennan. But Jacob is definitely the fearless leader of the pack, and would take off to go see something that caught his eye at any moment. It was a little crazy even with the adult-to-kid ratio that we had (I think it was 1:1).

Ice Day

We got zero of the 1-3 inches of predicted snow. :( But the ice is reason enough to call off school and stay inside!

Pinewood Derby

Aidan had his first Cub Scout Pinewood Derby on Saturday. Aidan designed and helped cut, paint, drill and polish a lot of the car. We had one maddening evening of searching for a missing axle 2 days before the race, and finally had to go to the Scout store to buy a replacement. Of course, the axle then showed up on Sunday night attached to the magnet on the back of a kitchen timer. So now we have extras for next year--which Thomas is already designing...

3rd place in the Tiger Den!

So his car goes on to a district race (yet to be determined)

First Haircut

Evan got his first haircut last Sunday, just a trim of the bangs.

Then we decided, it ended up making him look like a girl.

(I think it was just wispy enough to remind us of Marian's hair at this age). And I was afraid if we just cut more around the ears, it would end up looking like a mullett. So we made an appointment and got a full haircut yesterday.

He did very good, but would have done better if Brennan had kept the DVD player where Evan could see it. So he also got his first taste of a lollipop, just to keep him still. He recoiled, and then grabbed it to try it again!

Now that's a boy!

Loch Lown

So, in the space of a year, Mom and Dad's lake house has gone from this:

To this:

It is very close to being done! They are heading out to South Carolina in a few weeks to take a load of furniture and assorted stuff. Very excited to see a finished product! And exciting to see all that white stuff, too!

(In the spirit of Mom's family's mountain house, Braeburn (Scottish for 'hill' and 'stream'), they have decided to name the house Loch Lown: Scottish for 'lake' and 'calm, serene'). I don't know if it's going to be 2 words or run together into one. We'll have to see!