just dance

As I write this Sam is here

doing this

with a tall dark and handsome boy.  

And I only have evidence of it because my sweet neighbors (who were invited to the dance, unlike stodgy parents like me) smuggled in my camera and brought it to me on the way home. So thanks, Rodriguezes, now I feel like I was there too.

Grandmas, look quickly because these might be yanked at any moment by a camera shy 14 year old.

And by the way, when the heck did I get stodgy and how can I possibly have a teenager?

Let the fun begin.

Spring In Our Steps

Spring has finally sprung in the great frozen tundra.  It has been a looooong hard winter, the longest of my life.  Seven hard frigid windy months.  Yes, worse than Maine, Washington, Montana and Connecticut.  Maybe even worse than them combined.  But this week we finally have tulips springing up in random places in our yard, the sun is shining and the birds are singing.  Maybe too much of that last thing since one of our neighbors is bird crazy.  In the way that some unmarried older androgynous women are cat crazy, but in this case we get to participate in the fun.  She has no less than 12 birdfeeders in her tiny yard, half of them technically in our yard.  But, alas, she is a nice lady and throws the ball for Sadie (who is technically a bird dog!) whenever she wants. Which is a lot.   A lot more than I do, anyway.  

Easter was fun. The kids were very dapper and we got to eat most of their candy so it was a win win situation, really.John got to golf Blackwolf Run last weekend, Kohler actually has a couple of world class golf courses...the PGA Championship is here next year.  Here he is warming up with his protege.

The kids are growing so fast.  Sam is making lots of friends here, even the boy variety:).  So she's happy but we don't see much of her, hence no pictures of her in this post.  Jack is a learning sponge right now, he says at least two new words every day and has begun combining them into little sentences.  Sophie is hilarious and so cute and definitely keeps us on our toes. She's known as the little Shawn Johnson in her gymnastics class, soooo much fun to watch.  

We're going to enjoy the next several months here, the parks, the beach and the lake are fantastic and it's so nice to get out.  We'll get some pics of those places up soon!  Here is a look at an afternoon well spent until then.