Happy Birthday!

I celebrated my 33rd birthday!  My birthday fell on a Wednesday this year and I went out to lunch with my MIL Susan, Aunt Lisa & Aunt Cathy, Grandma Marge, and Brock.  We ate at the Mexican place in town (so yummy!) and Brock enjoyed the huge sombrero they bring you out to wear when they sing!  He also enjoyed the fried ice cream!  

For dinner, my mom took Brock and out to Katie's Greek restaurant in Omaha.  We followed up that with a little shopping at ShopKo!

That weekend we ate dinner at grams with the Bales side.  

Happy Birthday to me!  :)

Happy 1/2

Brock learned about his 1/2 birthday in kindergarten.  Many kids who have summer birthdays celebrate at school on their 1/2 birthday.  He has been counting down the days until his 1/2 birthday.  He also was looking forward to a day when Matt and I said he could "be the boss". 


Since Daddy was in Des Moines, Brock and I went to Pizza Machine in Omaha for dinner. 

Happy 1/2 Birthday to the best 6 1/2 year old we know!

Week in Review January 17- 23

Our Neice Keagan celebrated her 2nd birthday this week! Happy Birthday little girl! You are growing up so big!

I am still continuing to sell Scentsy Wickless Candles and enjoy all the people I meet through that. I now have three people signed up under me. The extra money I earned over the holidays was great! Monday night I helped Rachael get started with her Scentsy business at her kick-off party. Wednesday I had a party in Omaha and drove home in a few inches of snow. I am loving my 4-wheel drive Escape I have now since I traded in the daycare van!

I am still working in a 3rd grade classroom while the teacher is out on recovery from a surgery. I have 2 more weeks of full days and then a week of 1/2 days following that. I have been there since two weeks before Christmas. It is nice to know where I am going to be each day, and expecially nice that it is so close to home!

Matt still has practice each night after school and gets home around 7 if there is not a dual. This time of year/ weather also keeps his busy with the Glenwood Volunteer Fire Dept.

Friday night Gram and I took Brock and the Bales' boys to a hotel in Council Bluffs. Brock loves spending time with his cousins and loves to swim! The four boys were in the pool from 5-9:30! The only time they got out was to eat some pizza by the pool!

Brock is pretty proud of his underwater handstand he can do now. He is second from left!

Isaac was excited to get his own bed and made gram and I sleep together. The 3 youngest boys were excited to make beds on the floor!

Saturday Brock attended an open gym party at the YMCA for a Kindergarten buddy. Matt was in Sioux City for a wrestling tournament. The snow started coming down and we were supposed to get 3-6 inches by the next day at noon. Our cousin Kaycee was hanging out with us waiting for the team to get back when we got a phone call from Matt that they had been in an accident on the way home.

The bus was hit head on by a car. Luckily, everyone was fine. The bus went up over the top of the car and landed on top of it. Matt quickly jumped out to help the girl in the car. The car was totaled and the bus not drivable. It took forever for the police/ rescue to release everyone and then they had to wait for the Glenwood superintendent and transportation director to come to get the team and bring them home. Matt said it was very scary and he can't believe that they girl driving the car was not injured. What a night! Thanks to God for keeping everyone involved safe that night!

Brock celebrated his 100th day of school on Friday. This next week for show and tell he has to bring in a collection of 100 things. He decided on 100 legos. He worked in his room this morning to come up with 10 groups of 10.

With all the snow we received last night we had to do a little more sledding this afternoon. The cold temperatures didn't keep us out long however.

Enjoy this last week of January!

Big Birthday Bash!

Brock had his first friend party this year. Since his birthday is 10 days before Christmas and in the middle of wrestling season- it is always a busy time of year. I told him to invite everyone because we were not going to be having a party each year! He only wanted boys so he invited all the boys in his class plus about another dozen who he is friends with from other classes. I think there were 21 kindergarten age boys!

A Star Wars party like no other!

45 minutes of swimming- thanks to all of our helpers (A.J., Grant, and Ryan)

A little time for open gym

Time for cake...

All in all....the party was great!!!

6 Years Old!

The night before Brock was born, Matt had a dual several hours away. I was not supposed to eat after midnight because of my surgery the next morning so I went to Oasis for dinner in Glenwood. I have gone there each year the night before Brock's birthday to remember the feeling I had of knowing I was going to be a mom in just a matter of hours.

This year Brock and I went with Granny, Joe, and Kenzie. He opened some gifts from them, enjoyed a ice cream sundae from the owners along with "Happy Birthday", and some cupcakes I had brought from home.


The morning of his birthday Matt and I let him open his presents from us. He was pretty excited about all of his star wars and lego toys!


Birthday night he had a choice of what he wanted to do for dinner. He decided he wanted to have the neighbors over for pancakes. They decided they wanted to dress to impress when they came over. Brock quickly changed into his suit coat for a few minutes before deciding he would rather wear his singlet for the rest of the evening.

Grandma Susan and Papa Dennis also stopped over with gifts!

Star Wars cake and crazy candles!

Dave

Part of Matt's birthday present this year was tickets to see of of his favorites- The Dave Matthews Band. We went with our neighbor friends Mindy and Jason. A great time was had by all!

Happy Birthday Keagan Grace

A year ago today Keagan Grace Dyer was born! Her mom sent this picture to us this morning. She is getting so big, even since the last time I saw her in December.

Happy Birthday sweet pea!

Week in Review January 17th

This past week we were busy as usual.

• On Monday I had a Scentsy party in Glenwood. I sold over $1,000! That will be $250 profit plus a sales bonus! Whoot Whoot!


• Roni turned 50! Happy Birthday to you!


• LC beat Glenwood and Glenwood beat Underwood in a double dual Thursday night.


• Friday - Saturday Matt was in Basehor, KS for a tournament. Glenwood placed 7 guys and came out 5th out of 32 teams! Good Job!


• Sunday we had dinner at Grams to celebrate birthdays of Roni, Ron, Sarah, Silas, and Mel.

Brock's 4th birthday

Brock turned 4 on December 15th. As usual, he had several different celebrations. On December 12th he had is first preschool Christmas program. His grandma and grandpa Dyer came down to watch the program and then over for some birthday cupcakes following the program.

Another celebration was held on Saturday the 13th. He chose a Superman theme this year. Brock has really started to get into the super heros.

Of course mommy made the amazing blue cake!

And mommy made this cute reversible cape. Batman on one side/ Superman on the other. Thanks Laura for helping me!

Monday the 15th ~ Brock, Mommy, and Daddy went to Pizza Hut for birthday dinner. It had been a long day with Granpa Duane's funeral earlier.

Mommy was lucky enough to be able to attend the birthday celebration at Brock's school on Tuesday the 16th. Brock got to hold the Earth and walk around the sun one time for every year he has been alive.

Daycare cake for our party

Celebrating after school with our daycare friends