Fishing with Ethan and Eli

We took Ethan fishing on Saturday morning as part of the Fish-In program. Ethan and Eli went out on the dock and had a chance to catch 3 fish in 45 min. It was a pretty fun morning for Ethan and Eli since they have been wanting to go fishing for quite awhile. Ethan caught 3 small rainbow trout, and Eli caught 1 (the biggest one) rainbow trout.

Out on the dock at Clear Lake

afterwards with Hube, Ethan and Eli

Cleaning the fish

Ethan with the fish

Eli with the fishing pole

Eli eating the fish...yum yum

Do Right does it again.....

Chris played in the Rec League playoffs this past week at Eagles and his team won! Here is a picture of his team and a great shot of him scoring a goal!

Easter 2010

Uncle Joe and Ella

Eli searching for eggs at Grandma Jensen's nursing home

me trying to get a picture of Eli with eggs

Eli, Ella and Uncle Joe

We went to Boise for Spring Break and came home Easter Sunday, we had a lot of fun visiting all our family and cousin while we were there.

Mobuis Kids

Chris took the kids to Mobuis yesterday to see the Baby T-Rex from Walking with Dinosaurs. The showing was supposed to be from 10:30-11:00am but it only lasted 10 min!! I didn't even get a picture of the dinosaur, I couldn't believe it. We are usually late to everything, but good thing Chris was early today or they would have missed it.

Since we had to pay admission to see the dinosaur (did I say it only lasted 10 min!!) we decided to come back later that afernoon after the crowd cleared and let the boys play. It was Elijah's first visit and he had a pretty good time, Ethan even had a good time playing at the water works table and looking at the science experiments they had set up.

Ella watching the boys run around while she was content to chew on her fingers, I think she is getting more teeth already if you can beleive that.

Spider

the water works of Spokane

Sand and Water table

Ella and Lucky Puppy

Ella was having fun reaching and grabbing for Eli's lucky puppy the other night when we were reading bed time stories. She is starting to push herself up and really likes to touch your face and look at everything. It is so fun to watch her explore everything around her.

Job!!

I just found out that I am going to get to do a long tem sub job for the rest of the school year starting at the end of April. It is going to be in 6th grade and I am very excited, hopefully this leads into a job for next year (I have a good feeling about next year.) Even better, it's at the school I taught at last year so I already know all the students and I can see all my students from last year!! GO JAGUARS

I am still taking my classes at Eastern for my Masters Degree and that is going really well, I have learned some interesting things about education. I might even pursue an administrative degree when all the kids are in school and after I have worked for a few years.

Eli

at Eagles with his friend Evan in his learn to skate class, this is the part where they slide on their tummies...
Eli made this had at school, but wouldn't stop eating this pretzel so I could take the picture so the pretzel is in the picture...

at recess on his playground at school in a fish, he never wants me to leave so I usually stay and play with him for a little while...

Fun with Playdough

Elijah found some playdough in the garage that a friend gave us, that I totally forgot about...here is what he created!

Here is Ella just relaxing in her jumparoo with her finger in her mouth, poor little girl her teeth are really bothering her.

Ella is 4 months now, she weighs 16 pounds and she is 28 inches long. She has 2 bottom teeth cutting through so she has been in a little bit of pain the last couple weeks. She also just started eating cereal, even though she doesn't really like it. I took a few pictures of her "eating", or actually "wearing" the cereal on her face...so cute!!

Our Weekend

We went to the park

we took pictures while we were watching the olympics

Ethan showing off this braces..

All three of the kids cuddling on the couch

Go Canada

Chris is going a little overboard with the olympics trying to root for Canada. Here is what Chris and Ethan looked like before the USA v Canada Hockey game today....

Chris and Ethan getting ready to go watch the game at Flamin Joes

Ella with her flag

State Champions

Spokane Major Junior Chiefs

pointing to the cheering crowd

getting ready to go on the ice

getting his medal

Team Shot

Ethan's hockey team won the State Championship this past weekend in the Tri-Cities, they beat the Snow Kings 5-3 in the finals. Go Junior Chiefs!! Here are some shots taken of Ethan during the tournament.

We just brought the saucer and Jumparoo upstairs for Ella to start playing with, here are some pictures. She seems to like them both, but when she's in the jumper she is all over the place.

Ella, Eli, and Dad

Not sure what Eli is doing with his face in this picture, I thought it was cute though..

This cracks me up because when ever Chris holds her at night, she gets this look like she wants to eat him and slobbers all over his face. This is the look right before the attack...

This is the look I get most of the time, SERIOUS... she loves to be on her tummy and look around

Ella 3 Months old

Ella is 3 months old now and is getting so big each day. I still can't believe that she came into our lives and how much fun it is to have a little girl in the house.

She just started trying to roll over, she has done it twice, but I can't seem to get it on tape. She also laughed a little the other day, and I can't wait till she just burst out in laughter. The little things make me smile from ear to ear and I am so blessed to have such a nice family.

Teresa Shirley Bilesky

Chris' grandma or Nana as she was know to us, passed away on January 15th after having a stroke a few weeks earlier. We attended her funeral on January 19th up in Trail BC. Chris and his father Wayne gave the eulogy and they did a wonderful job. She did so much for our family, and her community, and she was very close to Ethan as he was groing up. Ethan has many fond memories of spending the summer with Nana and Dee and I am very thankful that she was able to spend that time with him. She will be truly missed by her family and friends, but we know we will see her again in Heaven. We love you Nana....

Happy Birthday Dad!!

We L-O-V-E you and miss you a lot!

Bunco Fun in 2010

I love, love the one night a month I get to hang out with all my Bunco friends, this month we had everyone finally back and took this cute group picture. Hats off to the New Year was our theme and we got to wear all these fun hats throughout the night. Can't wait till next month.

Chris turns 31!!

Between work, meetings, and our busy kids we managed to fit in a birthday song for Chris with a little birthday cake...

Chris looking super excited with his cake

blowing out his candles

Eli enjoying his piece!

Happy Birthday Chris, we love you!

Ice skating FUN!!

Sad News

We receieved some sad new Wednesday morning that Chris' grandma had a stroke Tuesday night. At the time, Chris and the boys were in Vancouver BC at a hockey tournament and I was still in Spokane with Ella. As soon as we could, we pack up and headed to Trail to be with her and thankfully she is slowly recovering from the stroke. She has little use of the left side of her body, but she is still able to talk to us and she has been getting better each day since. It is going to be a slow road back to recovery, but she is a strong woman and has many family members and friends that will be by her side the whole way.

We came back home to Spokane today, but I will keep you posted on how she is recovering.

More Family Pictures

Chris said that he used to take turns bouncing his brother and sister on his knee...so we recreated that memory

The Whole gang...Chris, Ella, Ashton, Wayne, Ethan, Chelsea and Elijah

The Siblings...Ashton ( the little brother, though it is hard to tell that with how big he has gotten over the past few years) Chelsea, and Chris. Ironically they are almost the same age difference as our three kids today.

The Kids with their Aunt and Uncle

Chris' sister and brother came down the day after Christmas to spend the day with us and do some boxing day shopping at the mall. We took a couple pictures since this is the first time Elijah has seen Chelsea since he was about as big as Ella. Elijah wasn't really sure what to think about her,but he ended up giving her a hug and a kiss before she left.