Bike Upgrades!

A friend of ours passed down some bikes to us.

Anna Kate got an upgrade!

Benjamin got Steven’s hand-me-down. 

And Steven got an upgrade!

There’s been a lot of bike riding going on!
 

Habermas Easter!

 

Sweatbees Got Talent!

These four performed the cup song at our school’s talent show. 

Lydia sold the concessions. 

Steven caught the cups. 

The teachers performed “We are the World” while the judges deliberated. 

All the participants: 

It was quite a show!
 

Sweatbee Swarm!

Anna Kate has been in the running club at school this spring. Her friend Lia somehow talked her into it.

They have been training for their big race, the Sweatbee Swarm.  

They did great!

We celebrated afterwards with breakfast at Huddle House. 

 

High School Lydia!

Lydia and I went to high school orientation last week. Ahhhh!!!

We saw our smarty pants cousin/nephew on display. So proud!

Can’t believe it’s almost time for high school!

Steven Spotlight!

Steven is playing soccer this spring and doing great!

Steven and Everly played against each other. (Steven’s team won, just for the record. Haha)

And here we have a series of Steven in the tub. 

His top teeth are growing in, and I’m feeling sad about his toothless smile going away 

So I keep taking excessive photos to document his cuteness, or whatever you’d call this. Haha!

And here we have Steven blowing bubbles at school. His teacher is having a 26 day countdown to summer…a different letter theme every day. This was day B, bubbles and basketball. 

Today’s letter is E, exercise and estimation. Ha!
 

Goal Gal Getaway!

I’m back!!!!! I have not been able to get this silly blog to work for months and months! Finally today I decided I was going to get it going, and by some miracle I did!

So here we go, we’ve got some catching up to do!

This past weekend we had our semi-annual Goal Gal Getaway. It’s a dear group of friends from church (mostly). We used to set goals for ourselves and have a friendly competition, but now we mainly just hang out. So the weekend preparations started by making what we call the brownies of doom. I forgot to buy marshmallows, and Joel had to run to the store late Thursday night. Whoops! But it was worth it.  So delicious!

These were the first to arrive at our cabin. Courtney came all the way from Arkansas! Amanda prepared a delicious feast for us to enjoy!

A couple more trickled in, and we had a surprise party to celebrate Amanda’s 40th birthday, complete with Amanda themed games. 

Breakfast the next morning. The weather was perfect!

Besties for the resties. Ha

We went on our traditional hike at Fall Creek Falls. 

And here’s our beautiful cabin. It was so nice!

We had the best time! It was so good to be together, as always. Already looking forward to the next one.