Last Day of School 2016-We have another Graduate!

Yes it's true!  One more has graduated from elementary school!  Micah is officially a Middle Schooler, not sure how that happened.  He is really excited to be done with elementary school and onto bigger and better things.  He is such a hard worker and loves to learn. 

 Mrs. Bentson was a great transition teacher for Micah.  Moving after school started is always hard on everyone, but we were fortunate to have some awesome teachers help with the transition and she was one of them.

Malia loved Mr. Eckoff.  He was great and really knew how to keep her on task.  She is our little social butterfly that gets easily distracted by her friends.  He always seemed to be able to reign her back in. Thanks for a great 4th grade year!

 Micah will miss Parkview, at least we still have Malia there for a couple more years.  It has been great!

I couldn't forget these two.  They are always by my side relishing in their siblings accomplishments!

Unfortunately I didn't take last day pics of the older girls, but they didn't mind, lol.

McKay is 2!!!

 I feel like a broken record (I probably am) but this growing up stuff has gotta stop.  Maybe it's because he is our last and I have been really trying to enjoy these baby moments but I really cannot believe that lil Kaders is 2!   Recently he has discovered that movies can be fun to watch and those movies have consisted of Big Hero 6, Home, Inside Out, Star Star, and Minion's (or Nana's as he says).  He loves those little yellow guys, so I decided to make him a Stuart birthday cake.  It turned out pretty cute.

 My little mop head.  There is no controlling that hair.

 He was pretty fascinated by this "Nana" cake.

 He waited so patiently to dig in.

 That mop had to go a couple of days later.  It was driving me nuts.

 This little guy is always keeping us on our toes.  He loves chilling with the IPad, playing with cars or Star Wars, or driving his sister crazy. He's still not talking a lot but he is smart cookie.  You can see wheels in his head turning trying to figure things out.  Love this little stinker of mine.

Visits and crazy kids

Towards the end of January my parents decided to head out  again to visit their grand kids.  They first stopped at our house for a few days before going to visit with other kids.  It was having them for a few days.

Uncle Billy had 2 business trips to take to Minneapolis and visited with us the first time and crashed at our house the second.  It's always great when family has to come see us, lol.

Oh and we took him to Costco for a Usinger Brat.  They sell them in the food court and are the best Brat around.

Masie found a purple marker and apparently has watched her older sister putting on makeup a little too much.  She was upset when I first discovered her. so I tried to lighten up her mood with some selfies.

 

 Kaders is notorious for falling asleep on the way home from church.  It doesn't matter what we do to try and keep him awake. We yell at him, startle him, sing really loud.  His internal nap clock goes off right at 12:15 on Sunday's.  I mean, not even a lollipop will keep this lil dude awake. 

Attempt at McKay's 12 month shots

And this my friends is what happens when you attempt to take 12 month shots of a child who is uninterested in your agenda.

Yep, that's the best we got.  Oh well, I tried.

McKay is 1!!!!

It's been a whole year since this little guy joined our family and of course we couldn't break tradition by not making him a cake to destroy.  We decided to make him a sun cake and were hoping since he's a little more active and daring than the other kids were at this age that maybe we'd get a good cake destruction.

But after that initial touch, we quickly realized he wasn't going to destroy it.  

So we got him a fork to see if that would help.

He ate it and sure enjoyed it!

Then he just wanted to run away and try to get cake an frosting everywhere.

So we let the kids join in on the fun.

Don't get me wrong, he still made a mess.

But a cute mess.

We went out for the rest of the day and then for dinner we went to Culver's.

We are sure grateful for this kid.  He's kept us on our toes and there's never a dull moment with him around.  Love ya lil man!