Where did the week go?

I cannot believe another week went by and the Steiger household is not slowing down any time soon. The boys had their big Grand Prix race at Awana last week. The boys designed their cars and this year even Emma had her own (she did not race since she is still little but they let the 'cubies' race for fun). That was good news for the boys since Emma's car was the fastest out of the Steiger cars. We spent most of the day at Awana racing. Fil was one of the judges seat so I was busy chasing Jo around.
We brought home two trophies. Nate was first place for speed and Sam third place for design. I cannot believe I do not have pictures of the cars. Like I wrote I was too busy chasing Jo so I did not have free hands to take too many pictures.

That was the just the start of the week.

The boys worked on their IOWA tests all week long with Fil (while I was busy cleaning and working on several projects) everyday for 1 1/2 hours. I am glad we are done for another year. I have been looking into next years curriculum but I will write about that another time.

On another note Jo is pretty much potty trained. She is doing great and I am looking forward to being done with diapers completely (she still sleeps in diaper at night).

(Jo fell asleep in Fil's arms after the race)

We ended the week with a luncheon celebrating our church's four year anniversary.

I wish I could write that our lives are slowing down a little bit but the snow is gone and we are busy not only inside but outside as well. Spring activities are lined up and we are all looking forward to enjoying warm temperatures.

New place

In the last few weeks we were busy helping our church move into a new building (at least the boys did). I stopped by the day before our first church service to see how "hard" the boys were at work. The girls 'tested' out the new nursery and I believe they both like it. Jordan is doing so well in the church nursery each week and she warms up to most of the church members.

Last Sunday one of our friends walked by the nursery during church and Jordan look at him with her big brown eyes and asked:"Where is mommy?" He told her that I will come soon and she said:"OK" and went back to playing (by the way she is a big talker in our family).
Here she is testing the new chairs out with her evil smile.

And here is the innocent look.

Emma and Jo being silly.

By the way I did find Fil hard at work (working on the sound) and the boys taking apart our pastors office (with his sons) some things will never change.

I hope our lives will slow down a bit now. With the kids activities and two new Bible studies (one in our house) and many more extra things I feel like my calendar is overflowing. It is also winter. What will we do in the spring. We have plenty of snow on the ground but the kids are tired of playing in it (part of it is that it is so high that they have to climb mountains of it from the driveway to play). We had a taste of spring in the last few day but we have a long way to go.