Nice spring day, Paula Abdul, and David Archuleta

How's that for random? We had a great spring day today, although it was really windy. Grace got a new outfit in the mail today, and she wanted to go outside to model it.

And on Saturday, we watched the Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon (except Ben...he was with his friend Jeff). American Idol won for Best Reality show.

Grace: Oh Mom, David Archuleta is SO CUTE!

Matt: Why is Paula wearing a basketball sleeve on her arm?

Thoughts for Joel & Heidi

Moorhead is getting major flooding from the Red River, and Joel and Heidi's house may be in trouble. They are bringing stuff up from the downstairs and getting ready to possibly evacuate to Heidi's brother's house. Please send lots of positive vibes out for them....and hope that the water stays out of their house!

Noah and the hats

I forgot to post this pic the other day. The kids played at our house while people went to church and when I turned around to look at Noah, he had 3 of Rich's fedoras on his head HAHAHAH! Too funny.

Matt's been doing a unit in science where they make what's called a Rube Goldberg.

It's kind of like that game Mousetrap where you have lots of objects that hit together to finally make the net drop. Matt and Hunter are making theirs from dominos, and the goal is to make the automatic paper towel dispenser go off. Here's Matt doing some practice runs!

Dinner time battle-royale

So I made this taco bake thing for dinner tonight. It didn't go over real well with the little kids....they whined that it was too spicy and had onions and beans (eyes rolling here). But I made them eat some of the chicken that was in it....CHICKEN for goodness sakes, what's so offensive about that? Grace decided she did NOT want to eat any of the piece of chicken I told her to eat, so I made her sit there until it was gone. She sat there for 45 minutes. Here is the huge (another eye roll) piece of chicken she was 'forced' to eat...you see it there on the table, that small piece of chicken in front of her?She told me I was torturing her and I was the worst mother ever and she was going to throw up. In the end she finally ate the darn thing, and didn't even puke! After the stand-off I saw her writing on her pad. This is what she made:

It says at the top "The Rowls (the rules)" and has a picture of our family. Notice Rich's snappy fedora? I'll read what it says from the left:

1. Keep your room clean The kids

2. If you make a mess, clean it up 8. Don't be mean

3. Don't say bad words 9. Don't fight

4. Listen 10. Don't scream

5. Eat your food 11. No tears

6. Be nice to each other 12. Do your manners

7. Be respectful and responsible 13. Listen

Interesting list, isn't it? Especially after she planted herself in that chair and refused to eat a quarter sized piece of chicken for 45 minutes.

Happy Birthday Eli!

We celebrated Eli's 5th birthday at my mom's yesterday (his birthday was actually the 13th) with a great meal and lots of fun little boys! The Kluver boys and Luke came to the party and all the kids had a ball together! Those boys are so cute and sweet! It was a Transformers party, with lots and lots of Transformers decorations.

Chase and Spidey Noah:

Joel & Rich took the kids outside to fly kites for awhile in the afternoon. Here are Rich and Grace flying her kite....Grace is wearing her high heels of course!

Happy Spring!

We were outside a lot of the day today...the weather was beautiful! Things are starting to pop up over at my mom's house....yippee! Joel & Heidi & the boys are down this weekend to celebrate Eli's birthday...the kids have had a ball playing and riding their bikes!

Lake South Heart

South Heart is a little town we drive through to get to my dad's house. With all of the snow & warmer temps, there was tons of melting while we were there. South Heart has a little river (?..I suppose that's what you'd call it, it's more like a creek) that runs just north of town by the golf course, and it completely flooded the fields & golf course. All the water you see in these pics should be fields! We also stopped and visited Monica for a bit. The kids spun around on her kitchen chairs and Ben almost puked on the floor. Good times!