Sweet Girls

Ruby and Louise.

These two have loved the snow this winter! 

President's day Weekend 2015

Hooray for the Presidents!  

We escaped the cold temperature of Indiana over the President's day weekend by spending time in Sunny Isles, Florida.  It was so nice to see the sun, ocean and sand and relax for a few days together.  

Hello sunshine!  

After breakfast on the first morning we walked down to greet the ocean. 

Silly me, I didn't think those boys would actually get into the ocean in full clothing!

Lucky Sam, he got to spend his special day on the beach!  

Happy 7th birthday Sam!

Nick made him a sandcastle cake!

Sam was thrilled with his birthday present; snazzy Michael Jordan attire!

A family self portrait. 

It's hard to sit still when you are 6, 7 and 8! 

As tradition, Nick lost a tooth on Sam's birthday, 3 years in a row now.  

We stayed at a resort that really catered to families.  The kids attended a kids camp part of the time where they made crafts, played games, played on the beach, ate fun snacks and hung out with other kids and adults that were a lot more fun than Eric and I!  They asked to go to the camp each day, which left Eric and I alone, on the beach, with books and a few cocktails!  

The temperature was in the low 70's, over 50 degrees warmer than where we had just come from!  The ocean was cool, but the pool was heated.  No complaints from us!

  

On our last night we went out to dinner at our favorite seafood restaurant, Red Lobster's.  (sometimes doing the easy thing, is actually the easiest!) Nick ordered the crab legs and destroyed them!  I think he just found his new favorite food!

One last look at the ocean before heading back home to Indiana.  

It was a perfect weekend get-a-way from the long winter, one that I think might just become a new tradition for the Horn family!

Authors

The kids all had an opportunity to write a book this fall at their school.  Nick's book was about football, titled Colts at Jaguars.  He wrote and illustrated it all by himself.  Sam and Ben wrote their books together with their classes.  Sam's class each wrote and illustrated a page in the book about what they are thankful for.  Ben's book was a fantasy, non-fiction book titled The Adventures of Sparkle and Scarlet.  Each child had a page to illustrate.  They wrote the book together with the help of their teacher.  

The kids all worked very hard on their books and spent the better part of the fall semester completing them.  

They received their books during the big book reveal night at their school! 

I was treated to a private reading of their novels before bedtime!

Happy 7th Birthday Sam!

We celebrated Sam's birthday a week early with a party with friends at our home.  It was everything basketball including the cake, games and craft!  

The kids made their favorite team pennants.

played hot basketball, 

and swung at a piñata!  

Eric was on safety patrol.

No one was injured during this game!

And of course, food!  Hot dogs and hamburgers were on the menu with french fries and grapes.

"Happy birthday to Sam!"

Sam was super excited to receive a Paul George jersey!

And a skateboard!  That look says it all!

At age 7 Sam wants to be a professional basketball player when he grows up.  His favorite color is still green and he roots for the GreenBay Packers.  His favorite foods are hot dogs and cheeseburgers. and he loves to play sports, especially basketball!

He is still the sweet and smiling, happy boy that he has always been!

2nd grade Vocabulary Day Parade

catty: an adjective.  deliberately hurtful in ones remarks, spiteful. 

Nick participated in his class Vocabulary Day Parade.  The students were asked to choose a word from a given list and dress in a way that would define the word.  They all paraded around the cafeteria for their parents and then told the definition using the microphone.  Big stuff for 2nd graders!

Nick chose the word catty.  He was looking forward to carrying around a set of golf clubs.  I had to break it to him, that was the word caddy, and the word he had chosen was catty.  Boy was he disappointed!  He continued on with dressing in a sports theme and dressed as a overly confident, boastful baseball player that was full of himself!