Braking with the Massive Monkees

Last weekend, Oliver and I met Mike and Layla down in the ID for some brake dancing with the Massive Monkees...

Working on his jumps - Oliver is wearing the orange shirt

Massive Monkees in da house!

Now working on his floor moves

Layla paying attention in her cute shoes

All the kids are on the floor free styling.  Oliver had a ton of fun and we look forward to going back!

End of March photos

Here are some fun phone photos taken in the last 1/2 of March....

Oliver and friends at swimming on their noodle raft once again...they have so much fun!

Oliver and Ruby cuddling in the morning.  I know it looks like Oliver has Ruby in a headlock, but Ruby is really laughing!

Everyone having potty time

With the turn in the weather, we've been outside using the swing set a bit more

Ruby trying out golf at Sports Authority

More time outside

Ruby and Oliver taking a break from t-ball practice down at the field below the house.

Fiona, Oliver, and Ruby at the adventure park

Ruby learning to climb early 

Kendall and Oliver have so much fun together.  Here they are at the park getting their swing on

Time for snacks in masks

Ruby looking cute as always

Grandma Joan getting out with the kiddos and enjoying the sunshine!

Good morning sunshine

First T-Ball Practice

Oliver had his first t-ball practice on Tuesday.  His team is the Red Sox...unfortunately now he wears a Boston hat around (hope he doesn't want to wear it to the Mariner's games)

Oliver and his buddy Drew practicing throwing and catching.  Oliver is wearing the red shirt and is in the midst of his follow through

Team meeting

Lining up to run around the bases

Showing off his new helmet and jersey

Go Red Sox

Taking batting practice

Now we will see how the season goes...turns out Little League T-Ball meets 3 days a week (yeah, 3 days a week for 4-6 year olds...crazy)

Recent photos

Here are some recent phone photos...although some are blurry - they are still super fun!

Ruby is loving the camera more and more...

Brother and Ruby playing and wrestling a little bit with each other.  Oliver is getting pretty gentle with Ruby...most of the time.

Sometimes we make cushion forts, sometimes we make towers to jump off of

Ruby in the ball pit

Keeping an eye out for mom...when will she get home?

Cutie pie

For Bogey's rehab, we need to take her on short walks multiple times a day.  Oliver has been joining me some of the evenings and brings either his flashlight or his Thomas lantern.  Safety first!

The kiddos are definitely playing more together...or at least finding activities in which they can both be entertained.

Ruby counting beans...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine...

The Kruse family moved to China for a few months so we caught up with them on Skype this weekend.  Ruby and Oliver getting some smiles out of Taylor

Now it is time to say hi and wave to Hayden

This weekend we went to a fundraiser at Holy Family and sat with the Farrow family.  Above is Ruby giving Jane a wet willy in the middle of dinner....just for fun

Oliver sporting his new cool red glasses at the event!

Gwen, Oliver, and Ruby playing ring around the rosie

St Patrick Day is always a special day in the Stevens house, but this weekend a leprechaun or two left us some fun reminders of the special day.  They wrote all over the windows, left green jelly beans around, left some real gold dollars for Oliver and Ruby, turned the milk green, and even the cracker gold fish turned green

We then all sported our green up on the slopes.  This trail connected us from West Summit to Central...

Unfortunately the trail dropped us into a black diamond run that Oliver wasn't too comfortable skiing.  Arnie to the rescue picking him up and getting down the steep and bumpy section

Ruby coloring some angry birds

And then seeing the camera...

And posing with the big smile!

Family names...

Oliver is a big fan of giving everyone in the family character names for a recent show, play, cartoon, or game that he has been entertained by.  See the most current list of names each of us must use and respond to...I think we might have missed a couple as well.

OLIVER IS:

THOMAS
PABLO
WORDGIRL
SPIDERMAN
DIEGO
BUDDY
MAX
BROTHER BEAR
CURIOUS GEORGE
MAVERICK
BLUE BIRD
MARTIN
MARCUS

KELLY IS:

JAMES
UNIQUA
BECKY'S MOM
MOMMA BEAR
ALYSSIA
MRS P
CHARLIE
RED BIRD
EVIVA
FRANCINE
WONDERWOMAN

RUBY IS:

HENRIETTA
TAWSHA
BOB
SISTER BEAR
TINY
JESTER
YELLOW BIRD
JIMMY
MANNY

MIKE IS:

GORDON
AUSTIN
BECKY'S DAD
PAPA BEAR
DIEGO'S DAD
GREEN LANTERN
DON
COUGAR
GREEN BIRD
CHRIS
JESSICA

Crystal Mountain Weekend with the York family

We spent the weekend up at Crystal Mountain with the York and Swantek families.  We ended up renting a 2 bedroom condo with the Yorks and their two kids - Aaron and Jacob.  Saturday was a bluebird amazing day and Sunday was a ton of fun too - but not so sunny...check out the adventure below:

Oliver and Daddy on the lift making funny faces...

Now we are getting serious about the mountain ahead

Jacob holding onto Aaron's harness as we hang out

The two little skiers ready to roll

Oliver was done with the chitter chatter stuff...let's get to the top of the mountain for some blue runs!

Oliver and Nancy after just going to the Blue Run called Downhill (the steepest run Oliver had done to date).  Downhill was his favorite run, but now it's Mr McGoo

Keeping a slow and steady pace

Of course Oliver also had to find the tree trails and go in and out of the trees.  

Ruby back at the condo playing with the corded phone...what's that?

Oliver and Aaron taking in some Diego time after skiing - I'm not sure if they can see the screen from that far away

Ruby and Jacob looking out the window and watching the skiers go by

So pretty!

Jacob trying on the ski stuff getting ready for next year

Oliver and Aaron went up the gondola with Nancy and Scotty

Scotty and Oliver heading to the top of the mountain

Ruby and Jacob playing on the ski school stuff