Monday, January 26, 2009

Update on the four kiddos

Brendon - Meryn - Trevin - Caleb


Brendon- 11.7 years old - 72 pounds - 4'9" tall

Loves playing Roblox on the computer - doesn't like to make his bed-loves playing with his new RC motorcycle-hates putting away clean clothes-is learning geometry in school-has all A's & B's in school-can't wait for soccer season to start-has enjoyed playing basketball-starting to show interest in girls-likes to be in charge-loves to get alone time with his mom & dad-has a strong will-is very compassionate when his twin is sick-is laid back-is sensitive-wants to be a fireman when he grows up-saves everything-lost two teeth this week-wears glasses- still wants contacts-is left handed-is our only kid that will eat broccoli-Is an awesome son!



Caleb- 11.7 years old - 67 pounds -4'8" tall

Loves hanging out with his friends-is a computer magnet-asked me how to spell his middle name today-is using an inhaler for sports now-doesn't like to be smaller than his twin brother-has all A's in school-loves building anything & everything-wants to take a computer apart and try to put it back together on his own-loves skateboarding-is playing basketball-is usually dramatic-loves to please us-loves to climb anything-is excited to play soccer in the spring-loves wearing shorts all year round-hates homework-is shy around most girls-is a peace maker-wants to be a pilot when he grows up-Is an awesome son!


Trevin - 9.3 years old - 62 pounds 4'4" tall

Is a happy kid-got braces last month-doesn't want too much affection from his mom in public-loves to get lots of affection at home-is an awesome student-smiles all the time-loves to play jokes on his dad-loves his third grade teacher-needs a haircut desperately-is playing basketball-did not like tackle football-likes to sleep in his brothers room at night-calls himself a KU fan-has never watched a single KU game-loves to make his brothers and sister happy-has really bad eczema right now-has a huge heart-wears a sweatshirt everyday-likes to wear the same sweatshirt everyday-uses a water pik-is usually soaked from the water pik-loves cold pizza-is a total nut-loves to make us laugh-is a messy eater-makes his bed every morning-covers up his KU bird with a blanket every morning-doesn't like wearing his glasses-wants to be a sculptor when he grows up-Is an awesome son!


Meryn - 5.4 years old - 40 pounds - 3'7" tall

Loves getting to be the only one at home-loves Curious George-Loves to play computer games on my laptop-loves to cuddle-wants to play soccer again this spring-is excited to start kindergarten next year-loves to impress her brothers-loves cubbies-loves listening & singing The Mission & People Need the Lord by Steve Green-is 5 going on 16-is always stuffed up from allergies-is connected to my hip while the boys are at school-loves to dress up girly-loves to play football with her brothers-tells all of us how she missed us even if we've only been gone five minutes-loves playing games with the family-likes to boss her brothers-always wants help cleaning her room-wants to be a ballerina when she grows up-is an awesome daughter!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tagged


I was tagged by Elisa, here are the rules

1.Choose your 4th picture folder

2. Choose the 4th picture in the folder

3. Explain the picture

This picture was taken July 4th 2008. Meryn, Malia & Meredith having fun in the sun. Oh how I am ready for summer time!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Trevin gets braces...


and he loves them! He actually was excited about this. He gets to pick the colors so of course he picked a KU themed mouth. We will see if those are the colors he sticks with for the duration of this. They took lots of pictures of his mouth & told me they would be doing that a lot because his is an extreme case. It is amazing how much of a difference you can see already in his bite. They built up two of his teeth so that he would not have the cross bite and he has to bite straight. We'll post more pics as we go along.

Monday, January 05, 2009

Christmas 2008

New pajamas from Grandpa & Grandma Lanker
The 3 princeses
My videographer while daddy is away
Brendon & Taylor running the webcam so Greg can watch from work
Trevin & Micah

Meryn Jamie Brittney  Malia
10 of the 23 grand kids on my side

sing it Brendon...the kids Christmas present

I was trying really hard to stay awake


We celebrated on Christmas eve morning. Greg had to work Christmas all day and I had just gotten off work that morning. It was a whirlwind of a time after that. We had a great time with family and as usual I didn't get the camera out as often as I wished I had. But here are a few to share.

Our first snow

We finally had our first few inches of snow last month. The boys wanted to build a ramp to sled down there wasn't quite enough to make that work but they had a fun time anyway.