Spring break day 1

Our spring break is much later than almost everyone else's this year due to a late Easter. 

We decided to take a few days and travel this year - so we rented a log cabin in southwestern Iowa.  Along with the cabin (which is over 100 years old), we also get access to two fishing "lakes."

We drove down today and after unpacking the car, headed straight to the lake to fish. 

The bass are unbelievably huge. 

After fishing we headed back to the cabin. The boys are snuggled up watching a movie while we wait for the thunderstorms to roll in. It was 85 degrees today and the high tomorrow is only 55, and the storms on the radar are pretty massive. Looks like we will get a good light show and perhaps some hail. 

Titanic research

Today Nate came home with a project to research a passenger on the Titanic, Arthur Larned Ryerson. He has to research the passenger, write up what he learned, then give an oral presentation about his passenger. 

He has been doing research on this all afternoon/night - we had to force him to go outside to play before dinner!  And look where he went right back to after we finished dinner?  

And yes, in case you are very observant, he is documenting what he learned using PowerPoint. He wants to print off the slides to make the poster he will use in his presentation. 

I'm kind of speechless. 

First soccer game!

Today was Novak's first soccer game. It included lots of pretending to be a superhero, a game of tag on the field, talking to random sideline observers, and not very much soccer. 

To his credit, as of today they had played a whopping 15 minutes of practice and most of them had no clue what to do. 

But it was still fun, nevertheless!

The highlight of the game had to be when he was playing goalie and "stopped" the ball (in the goal).  Afterwards, he looked over to us and yelled, "Mom!  Did you see? I got the ball!  With my hands!  I want to give you a big hug!" And he ran over for a hug. 

Pot of gold

I found this in Nile's folder today. :)

One track wardrobe

If possible, this child would wear a Batman shirt every. single. day. 

Luckily we have three (long sleeved ones). Each time we do laundry the outfits for the next three days are set. These shirts are in heavy rotation...