Story about these pictures below is in the month of Feb, click on I was at Madelyns gymnastics to read. I published it after I posted the pics, but I guess it posted in order of when I typed the draft.

Riley turned 9, February 24th. He is having his party on March 7, though. He got to open his present from mom and dad. Also thank you to grandmas and grandpas sending birthday cards.

Riley had his blue and gold banquet on Saturday. He received his wolf badge and a few other awards. They had a dad and son cake auction to earn money for day camp this summer. Logan will be 8 when camp is here so he also got to make a cake to earn money so he can go to camp. We had fun, but unfortunately did not win any cake. Mark was unable to get a non blurry picture of Riley getting his badge, but I got one of each of the boys with their cakes.

Ok, so i am sitting at Madelyn's gymnastics yesterday.. and i get a phone call. I had left Alyssa and the two boys at home, and gave them a job to clean up the back yard and weed the front. Mark was on his way home from work when i left. When he got home, Riley had taken off to who knows where, so he tasked Logan with the back yard and Alyssa with the front. He then went in the house to take a shower. A few minutes later Logan comes running into the house screaming there is a fire!! Mark is thinking at a neighbors??, down the street?? He opens up the windowto look and our backyard is on fire!! He luckily was able to get it out with the hose and some stomping, and some buckets of water. Logan had gotten a hold of the lighter we used to light the bbq last week, so riley could do his outdoor cooking to earn his wolf badge. He says he was lighting a piece of grass on the patio and it spread to the rest of the grass. It was very windy yesterday. I am very grateful Logan did not get caught in the middle of the fire. He is unscathed. Unfortunately our trampoline has a hole in it. We are also lucky it didnt spread to the neighbors or to a house.

Riley had his second Pinewood Derby. His car didnt do so hot, but he had fun making it. They also had a family race, so Logan and Maddy got to make a car also. Maddy didnt want to be in the picture.

We have been busy, busy, go, go, go!! I love to keep the kids active in activities. Alyssa has been keeping busy dancing, getting ready for a recital in May. She dances Mon, Tues, and Sat. Madelyn is doing gymnastics on Tues and Thurs. Both boys are doing basketball. Their Geronimo team is done, but they are still going with Fort Sill and yesterday soccer started. I wish the girls wanted to play soccer, but then that would be more places to run to. I love to watch them practice and play games. I wish I had a better action camera.