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It’s here! It’s finally here! Lauren used the birthday money she received and a little saved allowance to buy an iPod nano. It’s all hers. She had it engraved Property of Lauren Duerksen.
Her playlist:
Hannah Montana
Disney Mania
U2 – Atomic Bomb
Shrek

It’s only the beginning. . .

We had a nice weekend.
Friday we ate pizza and watched a movie (the Greatest Game Ever Played). Then i scrapbooked until 1:00 AM. . . . love that.
Saturday night we went bowling here in Newtwon. We were at Eastgate Lanes near 135 and we pulled in the parking lot – 2 minute drive from our house and Scott yells “Are we in Wichita?!” and then Lauren says “Are we in North newtwon?” i said “we are 2 minutes from our house guys.” “Where is this place? I have never been to this part of town!!” They were cracking us up. Then we go insided this cute little bowling alley and it was “Cosmic” (much nicer than i expected actually) and talby shouts “This place ROCKS!” We bowled for almost 2 hours on 2 lanes. Annie couldn’t wait for her turn – dancing all around inbetween to the very loud music. once it was her turn she would squeal with delight, get her ball, drop it on the lane HARD and then run back to the ball machine to wait for it to come back up. never loking at her ball down the lane (rolling very slowly). i was in a very bad mood when we left to go bowling so i didn’t bring my camera. boo hoo for me. leason learned. It was such a good time. Craig and I tied with a 99 the first game and then a much improved game the second round he beat me 118 to 112. at least he won once.
Sunday was church and big lunch, naps , playing at the Rec Center and our small group bible study. nice weekend.

this is annie favorite book right now – NO DAVID! very cute to hear her “read” it to herself. “go to rum da-nid!!” gotta love the boots with the p.j.’s – all on her own. she was getting herself ready to got the zoo – not that we are actually going.

Girly time with mommy, talby and annie.

Annie making the sound of an elephant trumpeting! you can almost hear it!

Craig told me today that Sean has not been present on the blog yet. I quickly defended myself “he doesn’t like to be in pictures!” But I do want to make sure no one forgot about our middle child. Sean is 6 years old. He is in kindergarten and is learning how to spell words and read. He brings home one or two of these pages a week with the big picture and a sentence he wrote himself underneath. This one says:
“the boy is gooean uawt on udat. the boY is eat eanu burefiscs.”
(translation- the boy is going on a date. the boy is eating breakfast) How cute is that? I just love to see him learning so many new things.

some of the gifts a 12 year old girl enjoys –
a cosmetic case filled with goodies
an electric blanket for her cold bedroom
an i-Dog with a sweater set (for iPod)
stack of new books
travel Scrabble
clothes
more i-Pod accessories
and the favorite for anyone – MONEY!

What a nice birhtday. The first time in many years that i felt Lauren really liked her gifts. good to see her so happy.

I took the kids and my grandmother to my parents’ house for the weekend. Craig stayed home – stripped wallpaper & watched the super bowl. We all enjoyed our time. Especially the swimming. Sean went down the BIG slide by himself! Big time stuff. i didn’t get a picture though – too scared to bring my new camera to the pool. But I was very proud.
Today is Lauren’s 12th birthday. WOW. Family dinner and presents tonight.
This picture was from last week – playing a little hide and seek.

we are the proud owners of 6 tadpoles.
no names yet.
doesn’t every house need 6 frogs hopping around?
the pet shop guy said on the phone that they are small to medium frogs. we went to pick them up and the woman said they are pretty good sized bull frogs! great. we will just wait and see.