Blake Leland

Baby Blake came almost a month early, which was a great surprise! He was a tiny little guy at 5 pounds 9 ounces and 18 inches long. He is named after his great Grandpa Leland Gappmayer, whom we love so much! We love having Blake in our family.

Christmas 2013

Tade started the Christmas Club at our house. In case you can't read it, it says, "Christmas club is here! In this club we sleep in forts, play games and a lot more!! Sine (sign) name if going in club. Please knock." All of us but Dad signed up, but he is the one the ended up building the fort and playing most of the games. :)

Playing the Wii. Also played a lot of card games and board games. I love that the kids are old enough to get the games and we can all hang out together.

Fun Christmas morning. Santa gave us all running shoes. The kids weren't super impressed, but I thought it was nice. ;)

My favorite thing about Christmas this year was that we had the kids buy presents for each other. They were so excited to give them to each other. I loved how they thought so much about each other and not themselves. It was great!

If You Haven't Heard...

This is the reason I haven't been blogging much lately. I am 19 weeks now and feeling much better. Hopefully, I will get back into a routine and stop being so lazy.

The last edition to the Gappmayer Family due out January 2014.

Fun and Busy June

We have been having too much fun (and been running around like crazy) to blog lately, SORRY! These are the shirts we have made up for Easton's yard sale. The kids love to "accidentally" all wear them at the same time.

We went to "trampoline land" with our Pass of all Passes. The kids loved it!

Surprisingly, Ashlynn was super brave and would swing off the platform. Not at all in her normal character. I love to see my kids branch out and do something that is hard for them. Reminds me to do the same thing.

We made coupon books and answered questions about dad for Father's Day. The kids loved it and Eric thought it was okay. (Poor guy always kind of gets jipped on Father's Day and his birthday, which is right at the same time, but he is a good sport.)

Grasshopper Business

Tade was given the idea by his Uncle Josh that he could collect grasshoppers and have his Uncle Tommy pay two cents a piece for them. Tommy would be able to feed them to his snakes and we wouldn't have as many grasshoppers around so it was a win win situation.

Each grasshopper got its own private holding cell.

Ash was in charge of watching over the caught hoppers.

He probably caught about 40 grasshoppers total. Gross! But he had fun!

This is the best picture I could get of him. I told him to give me his biggest smile. He was a pretty good grasshopper assistant for Tade.

Easton loved being outside with the other kids.

Love these kiddos! So excited for summer!!!

Little Lambs

Last week we went to my cousins house/farm and visited their baby sheep. These little lambs were adorable and almost made me think having an animal would be fun.

Tade got taken out from behind by their really energetic dog so he wasn't as impressed with the lambs because I think he was worried the dog would tackle him again.

Ashlynn loved the experience. She thought the lambs were great, especially feeding them.

Carter carried a lamb or two around the whole time we were there. He would not put them down, the poor little things. He was pretty kind and gentle (as kind and gentle as he can get) and loved the baby sheep.

Easton was less than impressed. The lambs like to suck on anything that they think they can get milk out of so Easton's toes became a popular attempt. He hated it! I just had to laugh.

Here is a picture overload of all the fun we had. Thanks Bobbi for having an iPhone!

Teachers vs 6th Graders

For the past couple years Eric has been involved in the teachers vs 6th graders basketball game at one of the schools he counsels at. I have never been able to attend, as it always seems to be on the day I work (I think cause Eric doesn't want me to come embarrass him). This year, however, it was scheduled on a Monday so I packed up the three kids that weren't in school at the time and headed over to watch.

All I can say is that it was so sad!!! The poor little 6th graders got killed by the teachers. They didn't even stand a chance. These weren't just any 6th graders. The last month or so the students picked teams and then had a tournament to see who got to play the teachers. So they were technically "the best" 6th grade team. I kind of thought that they might have a chance cause they weren't little boys (They were all taller than me.), but I should know that I can't even get a shot over Eric so what makes me think that these boys will be able to either.

Even though it was sad to watch, it was pretty fun also. The boys, who had been talkin' smack for the last few weeks, got put into their place. The teachers looked like amazing athletes and the other 6th graders had fun watching!

Not the best picture, but you get the idea! :)