Celebrating Will!

 Will turned 14 on a very snowy Thursday! We had some donuts and opened some presents and then we dropped everyone off at school and took off to find some adventure.

 

Mostly we needed to get Will some summer clothes for Hawaii, so we planned to hit Spokane, but the roads were a little sketchy. So we headed to Ltown instead and had time for loads of shopping, some Costco pizza, and home to crash for some Olympics.

It was a busy evening! We went to Ben's basketball game at 5 and headed to Applebees for wings for dinner. And then it was Kayte's basketball awards dessert and some open gym.

I love love love hooky day with just Will. We had SO MUCH FUN!

Later that week, we finally got in some chocolate cake at grandma's house, and more presents! 

  I am so proud of this kid. He is so driven and disciplined. I can trust him to get a job done well. He has big dreams and I love to watch him work towards them. He has a teachable and tender heart. I just love him so much!!

Happy 14 years, Will! Thanks for spending your day with me!

More basketball.

How we feel about being creamed:

Bringing it anyway.

Snow & Sun!

The next day, the sun came out! Honestly, we haven't seen it that much this winter and it was so nice! 

Kayte and Ben took advantage of the gorgeous evening (and the extra little bit of daylight) to do some sledding with Piper. :)

Valentine's Day

The kids no longer do the little teeny Walgreens Valentines. No, no, no. We've entered into a whole different season. Now the JH and high school kids try to outdo each other in the gifting department.

It's kinda fun. :)

And Joe managed to surprise me with a blizzard which just carried me all day long! This is our first skiff since Christmas!

It landed on a busy Wednesday this year, and Joe and Kayte left before 6 for Mock Trial practice and work. Then after school, Sara had her final basketball game of the season and wrapped it up with a win. That's 5-1 for the season!

 

Coach!

We went home for a heart-shaped pancake dinner and some really great Olympics.

Joe and I took Friday to go out to Black Cypress to get our rib eye and cocktails...SO GOOD!

Little Henry Beiler

We headed up to CDA to celebrate the latest Dower addition in little Henry. So good to see family, and this kid was a charmer.

Kelly makes us lunch.

Basketball season keeps rollin'

 The younger two Casebolts are certainly holding their own on Team Casebolt. Ben's season currently is 4-2 and Sara's has only lost once.

Check out that form!

Up and out

Kirk is building a new road south of our house and over the hill to two more lots. He's naming the road Swede, in honor of his Swedish grandparents. Since our driveway links in to that road, we will soon be getting a new address! Time for a new stamp!

Game over.

So the girls lost their final game last night at districts. It was a long season, but we are looking at building up and getting prepped early for next year! We celebrated the season with boxes of donuts in the parking lot :)

Love these girls!

Superbowl!

 We did Superbowl with the Wilsons this year. I ate a whole pan of jalapeno poppers myself. The Eagles slayed the Patriots. It was a good day.

This girl was pretty determined to watch every minute...such a little sports fan.

Date night.

While the kids were at the ball, Joe took me to Tapped for my favorite burger: the jalapeno popper burger. Fat cream cheese, jalapenos, and bacon. It's pure genius.

Knights Fest

Man, I love this week! So many fun activities and absolutely zero homework! It is the best!

Kayte took a baking class and made cake pops.

Making coconut cream pie for the competition, it got honorable mention!!

Kayte and Will both played basketball this week with their knights fest teams and they both ended up in second place!

Kayte's class did 101 dalmations.

And these yahoos are dressed up as pirates for the Peter Pan theme.

Kenny had Jasper and Theo and Will over to make a cake and a pie for the baking competition. They didn't win, but they had so much fun and made these costumes out of tees and duct tape. These guys are just the best.

Kelly and I crashed the feast day and watched the class films and skits...they were so good! It was such a fun day!

Getting ready for the Knights Fest Ball...I pinterested this hair! Look at how it turned out!!

Such good looking kids!

...and these guys!! :)

Such a good week!

Ben's season starts!

Ben is super fun to watch on the court. He is confident and in charge, and he just loves the game.

 2-0 this season already!

Pictures by Sara :)

Home

We got home Sunday afternoon in time for a much-needed nap. The Vegas souvenirs are a little lame, so we decided to take the kids out to dinner instead and catch up. We did a little Panda Express and then came home for game night! Catan!