He is 1 already!

Today Kody turned 1. He opened some presents from my parents & we had some cake. He loved that cake! lol

Kody eating Ravioli's

He didn't know what to think of it.. lolHe loved Kati's present.. even kicked her out of it.. Taking over the chair to open his other presents

He wanted to play with the candle

Digging right in!

I think this says it all.. lol

mmmm

Timmy & Randi's Services

Today we attended services for friends family that were murdered on March 1. Timmy & Randi were both killed & their 7 month old daughter kidnapped. The baby was found safe & is now in the care of family members. They had a joint service at the local high school then a burial for Timmy with full Military honors, his wife Randi was burried back east where her family resides. Then a reception followed, my dad watched the kids with exception of Kelsi. We were gone about 6 hrs.

Patriot Guard Members

Folding one of the flags

Presentation to his mother/sister

Presentation to his father

Camp Roberts, CA

Ben spent the weekend down at Camp Roberts... Here are some pics from his time there. He also received a wounded soldier badge/award during the award ceremony for being injured in Normandy & being medivac out. (car accident in France)

German Soldiers

Outside of Barracks they stayed in

Barracks

Ben

Cavalry

One of the period correct vehicles

Marching

Busy Weekend..

Friday night after school I took the kids to the public library to each pick out a book. That took some time and for some reason Kelsi just couldn't decide what to get, finally she grabbed something. We came home had dinner & I cleaned some more. Saturday I spent most of the day cleaning & trying to get the girls to finish cleaning their room. I had a friend over for dinner, visit was short but nice. Then came the time change... on the worst day it could have! lol Kelsi had softball preveiws at 10 am (mind you I didn't make it to bed till 1am) Have to back up a minute there.. Friday one of our small fish went missing so after a day I decided before going to bed Sat. night to take the whole filter system apart to see if it had gotten sucked up in the filter. I found our fish in the filter completely bent in half. Poor little guy! So that would be why I was up so late.. Back to Sunday.... my parents came over to watch the other kids while I took Kelsi to softball preview. We were there almost 2 hrs she had to field, play first base & bat. She signed up to be a pitcher but didn't preview for it as she slightly sprained her wrist batting.. or we would have been there longer! We headed home only to realize 10 mins. later that we had an hour to be at Kelsi's friends bday party & we still had to run to Carson (20 mins away) to get a present! So we rushed up there got the present in record time.. hahaa.. Made it to our party on time!! Only for the actual bday girl to be 15 mins. late. lol Kelsi was there for 2 hrs it was at a Cheer/tumbling place so she had lots of fun. A few hours after picking her up Ben got home! He had a good time.. :o) Believe it or not.. I took NO pictures all weekend. I do believe that is a first for me! lol

My German Soldier

Ben got involved with one of McKena's friends dad to do WWII reenactments. So this weekend is his very first one. He left at 0530 to head down to Camp Roberts in CA for the weekend, he'll be back late Sunday night. Its about 7 or so hours from here so they'll get down there after lunch & get settled in the barracks etc. Basically he will be playing war all weekend, should be interesting! I sent him with my old camera so I hope he gets some cool pics to share when he comes back. They are playing German soldiers & Ben is excited about it he says he already got to play the American Soldier so wanted to change it up a bit... lol Since we have visited so many historical war sites while we lived in Germany it def. has more value to him then it would to some other people.