St. Patrick's Day fun!

Thanks for the St. Patrick's Day box Grandma and Don!  It's so fun getting things in the mail!  Aren't our new monkeys cute?

Here is Ben's "I Have A Dream" wish for this year:

Yipes!

Ugly sweater day

Today was ugly sweater day at Matt's school.  Don't be offended Grandma Cathy, but Matt decided to wear this:

you have to admit, it does look pretty homely on him :)!  You'll be glad to know he was in the Top 10 ugly sweater wearers.

Ben found a sheet and was trying to make a toga out of it...he has been obsessed with Greek gods and myths and stuff.  But he decided to wear it on his head instead.

The Bismarck High School boys made it to the state tournament, which starts tomorrow and is here in town.  Matt's getting a tournament pass so he can go all weekend.  Matt has also decided to go out for track.  Hmmm, he's slow and has a vertical jump of about 1/2"...should be interesting LOL!

One more quick funny from tonight

We all know how Ben has a one-track mind.  Once he gets an idea in his head he will say it over and over and over and over.  Today it was Dairy Queen.  He wanted me to go to DQ after dinner tonight.  I said not tonight, we've already had a pretty big day...maybe one day this week.  After asking about 10 more times, it was finally his bedtime (thank God).  When I went to the kitchen later to let the dogs out, I saw this on the pantry:

Oh ADD, why must you challenge me so?

Our star bell ringer

Ahh, what a relaxing, nice Sunday!  We went to church this morning and Grace got to ring the benediction bell.  Here's the story of ringing the bell:
"The bell you ring is the one that hung in the steeple of the first Methodist Church in Bismarck.  It is more than 130 years old because before it hung above the church it was on a steamboat on the Missouri River.  You will ring it three times-once for god, once for Jesus, and once for the Holy Spirit.  when the congregation starts to sing the last hymn of the service, come to the narthex at the back of the sanctuary and I will meet you there to go to the bell."
She did great!  She was kind of nervous I think....she thought she would have to do it in front of everyone, but actually it was outside of the sanctuary way back in the meeting hall. 

The first pic is Grace ringing the bell with the help of the lady from church.  It was pretty heavy!  You can see the bell better in the second picture.

After church we went to Cracker Barrel to eat (thank you Grandpa Jim for treating us to lunch!), came home and took a nap, went to the library, and now it's Oscar watching time! 

Matt's basketball season comes to an end

Well the B-2 Wachter Wildcats had their last game last week.  They actually ended up pretty good and got to the finals of the season ending tournament.  Matt had a great game, he played like a defensive monster!  He also had a great left-handed lay-up.  The team looked much better at the end of the season, as opposed to the extremely rough start of the season!  I'm always sad when bball season is over, I really enjoy it.  A few pics!

Blah

I think I have the winter blah's.  I don't feel like blogging at all, mostly because we do the same things every day, which is basically nothing.  I'll be really glad when spring gets here.  I don't think our snow has melted much at all....it will take a month of 80 degree weather to get rid of all this ridiculousness.  I'd even love to see the dead brown grass at this point!
First up is a pic from the day Matt got home from his ski trip.  He actually got his brothers and sister a t-shirt from Red Lodge!

We had a really fun visit from Heidi, Joel, Eli, Noah and Grandpa Jim a few weekends back.  We miss them a lot and it was fun for the cousins to hang out together!  In all the bustle I didn't take many pictures, but here are a couple.  Noah and Grace were eating an apple and Noah had an owie on his thumb.  He didn't want to touch the apple for fear of hurting his owie, so he ate them off the counter like a doggie :).  I love that kid.  He somehow lost the Batman cape off of his pajamas, and it's still MIA....that darn cape is hiding pretty well!

A quick no picture update

I have quite a few pics I was going to upload tonight, but I have no idea where my card reader is.  I've searched high and low but can't find it anywhere.  So until I can go buy a new one tomorrow, there isn't much of anything to report!  One teaser...Matt's bball team played in their last game tonight and lost in the finals to Simle Middle School.  Matt played his little heart out, he had 4 points and was an animal on defense.  The coach really likes him I think.  So they got second place in the tournament and now their season is over.  I'm always bummed when bball season  is over...it's my favorite by far!  Next up:  tennis in August!
I'll try to be back tomorrow with pics :).