Big brother keeping little sister safe in a thunderstorm

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Gymnastics

Meryn had her first lesson at gymnastics tonight. She loved it so much she told me she wanted to stop playing soccer and just do gymnastics. She did very well, you would not have known she hadn't been on a balance beam before tonight. Here is a few pictures of the fun.

Meryns Haircut

Meryn has been begging us to let her cut her hair short again so we finally made an appointment. She was so excited, she said she wanted it short like her brothers so she didn't have to deal with knots anymore. Well of course we didn't agree to that but she was happy with the results and loved showing off her new do.

12 Year Anniversary

12 years and going strong!
Happy Anniversary to us!

Snow!!

Brendon and Trevin digging tunnels

Clearing a path

Snow hanging over the roof

The front of the house

The kids and I

Caleb towing Meryn

The backyard

Yesterday I was headed back home from California hoping to beat the blizzard that was predicted for our area. Well, I made it home with the storm already in progress. There were about 6 inches on the ground at around 7 pm. This morning when we woke up, there was 18. We were pretty surprised. I think this is the most we've had at one time since we moved here. The kids were so anxious to get out and play in it, so we went out and took pictures before it didn't look so nice. Susan and I spent over 2 hours shoveling one side of our driveway. Hopefully we'll be able to use it tomorrow if the roads are plowed.

California

The original Lanker's

Mom, Jason and Dad

Jason in the batting cages

Katie and Ethan

Grandma and Grandpa 

Congrats Dr. J

Jason defending

I was blessed with the opportunity to go out to Los Angeles this week, to be there for Jason's defense for his PHD. It was a great event to attend. Jason did wonderful and is now "Dr. Lanker"! Kind of weird. I was able to see a lot of my family I hadn't expected to, so that was great. The time went fast, but a lot of great memories were made. Thank you Mom and Dad for everything!

Honor Guard

I was chosen last year to be on our fire departments' Honor Guard. After a lot of waiting, I finally had my first event last Friday at the NJCAA basketball championship. We presented the colors before the game. It was pretty neat and a bit nerve racking since it was my first event and there had to be at least 100,000 people there or so it felt! I carried the Kansas flag and made it through with no missteps, so that was good. I was glad to finish and am looking forward to the next event.

Trevin

Trevin cracks me up! When he walked in from school, he asked if I noticed anything about him. I didn't right away except he wasn't wearing his glasses, but that is no new news for him. So he said my pants are on backwards! Well I guess he put them on backwards this morning and when he realized it around lunch time, he said he didn't want to make a big deal by switching them back(i guess he wanted it to look like he wore them that way purpose). He said one girl at the end of the day told him quietly "your pants are on backwards" he just looked at her and said "uh yeah, I know". He is a funny boy, I love his personality!

KC Spring Break

Skywalk

Mommy and Mini Me

Union Station

3D Theater

Kaleidoscope

Susan trying to dodge the camera

Wizard of Oz

Munchkin Meryn

Munchkin Caleb

Munchkin Brendon

Caleb & Meryn

Delivery Train

Weirdos

Trevin & Brendon

We had Spring Break 2 weeks ago, so we decided to get out of town and have a mini vacation. We pricelined the Marriott for $50 a night instead of £50. It's a much better deal!(funny story) Anyway, we stayed up there for 4 days and did a bunch of different things. Went to Fritz's to have the train bring us food, ate ice cream at Sheridan's, went to Kaleidoscope, went to Crayola, visited the Wizard of Oz, Union Station to watch a 3D movie on the 51/2 story screen, and of course, shopped. We owned the pool at the hotel and even had most of the cousins come by to swim with us. It was a great time full of good memories.