Face Painting!

We went to Chick Fil A last night for their Family Night, which included face paintings. We have been to other activities where Zanie Janie was painting faces...however, there was always a long

wait. We were thrilled to see that it wasn't too busy last night!
Matt was trying to get a picture of Alex...but Spiderman kept jumping in front of the camera! Here he is - midair!

Birthday Portraits

We hooked up with our friend Kari to get some pictures of Katie & Alex for their 8th & 6th birthday. Kari got some great shots of them, plus a few of the twins! Thanks Kari - they look great!!

Birthday Surprise!

Katie asked if she could get her ears pierced last year. Matt & I discussed it and decided that she could once she was 8. We surprised her last week by taking her to get them pierced! She wasn't expecting it until her birthday, which is still a few weeks away. For any of you who know Katie...you know that she LOVES to talk!! Well, we learned that she is a nervous talker too! We took her out for dinner and then to the mall. We walked into the shop and she looked at us with a dumbfounded look on her face...we told her why we were there...and she wasn't quite sure what to think about the whole thing! She was excited, but scared and ran through EVERY possible scenerio of bad things that could happen while getting her ears pierced...or worse yet, all of the kids in school making fun of her!! Her little mind was working overtime!! At one point, the manager was marking Katie's ears with a marker and Katie exclaimed, "Why, that didn't hurt at all!!". She ended up doing really well - better than I expected to be honest with you! The earrings look beautiful on our beautiful little girl. Matt & I feel like she has passed a sort of test that little girls take to continue to grow into big girls. It is all happening too fast!

A New World Record!!!

Becki's mom & Becki took the kids to participate in an attempt to set a new world record for the number of people in a chain eating ice cream simultaneously. It was "sponsored" by a local college - Augustana College (to celebrate their 150th anniversary), and Whitey's Ice Cream. The previous record was set in 2009 in Spain with 2,500 people. All 2,694 of us got to try the new Whitey's ice cream "Augustana Viking Pride" - a vanilla ice cream with peanut butter, fudge swirl & oreo bits! It isn't official yet, but the record was broken!! It ended up being a very long night though...we got there at 4:45 to wait in line (start time of 5:30) and left at 7:30. All that time, we were standing and waiting...hard for 4 little kids to do, especially when they are hungry!! All in all it was worth it and will hold memories for us & the kids.

Here is Becki's mom with the kids - standing inside Erickson Field waiting for everyone to get lined up and eat our ice cream!!

Katie Hart's Seed Business

Katie has been quite the entrepreneur the past few weeks! She has come up with a seed business. She has collected a container of seeds from the school yard and wants to sell them! Here is the brochure she made at school last week:
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The Katie Seed Shop

Owned by Katie Hart, Assisted by Alex Hart

$0.01 Membership

$1.00 per seed

Buy!, Sell!, Trade!, Return!

Great Deal!!! Buy 1 seed get 1 free! Deal expires May 17th, 2010. 2 drawings in May! Get your membership now! You can get 1 seed free with your membership card! Enter for drawings May 17 & 18! Help save Earth before Earth Day. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, plant seeds! Just save Earth with seeds! Come today! You just wait and see! See you! Katie Hart (and Alex Hart)

Warning: Don't let 4 years old and under buy seeds. The seeds could be dangerous! Thanks, Katie & Alex Hart

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Katie worked on membership cards one evening - they are ready to go - are you willing to become a member??? She is VERY excited about this new business venture!