10 years ago today ....

our baby Sam was born. He was eager to enter this world (came 5 weeks early) and has not stop exploring world around him since. Sam a few minutes old.

Pineapple baby. Sam was a small guy and as you can see not much longer than a pineapple. He is growing up into a fine young man ready for exploring the world around him.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM!!!

Where did the time go?

My Babies

My babies are at camp. Yep my boys are growing up and spreading their wings. We are blessed to have a nice little christian camp up in the white mountains and I cannot wait to pick them up next weekend. I am glad they are there with many of their friends as well.

(that is Emma feeling right at home, she and Jo did not want to go home. They wanted to stay as well.)

I am sure they will have a great time.

new hair do

Finally the boys let me cut their hair. They have been proud of their long hair but with the warm weather outside they were ready for the annual summer buzz.

Before:

AFTER:

Looking good 'boyz' .

LET THE SUMMER BEGIN!!!

Lego City

We have our own privite lego city going on in the boys room. We all worked hard over the Christmas break to put this together.

It is still going on.

The boys are slowly adding new buildings to their city.

Even Emma has her own car.

Lunch time - boys style

The boys decided the other day it was their turn to make lunch. I was OK with that. I make three meals a day plus snacks all the time so I could relax for a little bit. If you know my boys well it ended up being a big show in the kitchen. Safety first.

OK so there is a story behind the fire extinguisher and I am sure you are all dieing to know what it is. First of all there was no fire in our house. One side of the kitchen sink drain is leaking. That is it nothing more. I had to take the stuff from under the sink out so that is why the fire extinguisher is on the countertop.Like I wrote it was a show.

But they did manage to make pbj's and they did a great job.

They announced after that from this day on they will be making lunch every day and after I told them that we will not be eating PBJ's every day they changed their mind.

But I am not too worried about it. I am sure they will come up with something else soon.

Archery lessons

The boys have been taking archery lessons for the last four weeks. Yesterday was their last lesson so I went with them this time (since it was mainly a boys and dad thing) to take "few" pictures. There were so many rules that I was scared to walk around and take pictures so keep that in mind if you are wondering why all the pictures are of the boys backs.

This is Sam carrying his arrows back. I was shocked when I watched the whole group listening to their teacher who was only whistling. One whistle step forward, two whistles get ready, three shoot ... etc. (I am thinking asking Santa for a whistle:).

Anyway I was very impressed. The boys did a great job. I would not be able to hit the target at all.

Staples

I know I know. It has been too long since I posted. It has been crazy in the Steiger household. So just in case you were wondering what is going on well ....

we made one trip to the ER last week and yes those are staples on top of Sam's head. There is not a big story behind it. He was trying to get a cup for a drink and hit his head on the bottom of cabinet door (10 minutes after we got home from the Dr. office with Jo's ear infection). Yep life is good. He is doing great (staples are coming out next week).

Other than that, lots of coughs and sniffles we are doing great and are looking forward to the holidays.

My baby turned 9 today

Nine years ago our first baby was born. There was a big snow storm in Denver that day.

Sam was 5 weeks early but a very healthy baby ready to tackle the world. He was small but he hasn't stopped growing since.

Where did my little baby go?

!!!Happy birthday Sam!!!

Today I saw ...

... a Roman soilder with a hockey stick and a egyptian hat.Another soidier/hockey player.

(not quite sure what look Nate was going for)

What ever the look I felt very protected today.

Soccer Games

Our spring soccer league started this week.

This is our off year and the boys are on two different teams.


That mean two practices and two games.

Sam's games are early on Saturday and only four players showed up this morning (luckily it was the same for the opposite team) so they played four on four the whole time.

I was surprised Sam did not collapse after all that running for an hour.

Emma came to the game prepared as well. She has her own cleats and shin guards and a soccer ball.

You go girl.

Jo wasn't so sure about the whole morning at a soccer field thing.

But after awhile she warmed up and kicked her ball around as well.

Nate's game was a little later.

And he had a good game as well.

Brothers discussing the game.

What a big brother (Sam tieing Jo's shoe).

We had a very busy morning and that is just the begining :)