Lee Family Happenings

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Zip Lining...

On Halloween we all went to Camp Good News for a party.. We had a great time. The zip line was one of the highlights of the day. Isaiah, Caleb, Abigail and Mommy ALL got to try it out! (Isaiah was a veteran zipliner, but for the other 3 it was a first time adventure.) I was so proud of them for being so brave! It made me want to be brave too!!

This little girl had not one ounce of fear or hesitation... Hmmmm.... Should I be worried??

Last minute hesitation.. I thought for sure he was going to back out...

And he's off!! Yay Caleb!!!

This really is Isaiah.. He was just too fast for the camera!!

Random

Monday, October 12, 2009

9 months!

September

Abigail got her very first "real" haircut at the beauty salon. She cut about 5 inches off!

Mom came to visit and the kids FINALLY got to go up the look out tower in Peoria Heights. It was just a wee bit sunny up there!!

The fishing trip... The weekend of the first annual boys camping trip it rained for 4 days straight... It was rescheduled for October but they got to go fishing later that week..

The "Daddy date"... Check out the pink sequined shoes with the red dress... Oh yeah.

More work on the golf course across the street... A bunch of the tractors (usually 7-8) were parking right in front of our house at the end of each day.. Very exciting of course...

Hiking...

Micah and Anna having fun and Anna learning to crawl..

Friday, September 11, 2009

Family Time

A couple of weeks ago I got to spend 4 days with both of my sisters, my mom and my mom's sister, Vernie. Mia flew in from Colorado so we could see how cute she looks pregnant and we had a shower for her while she was here.. It was so fun to be all together!!

The 11, soon to be 12 grandkids...

The audience at the "Circus" that the kids put on for us..

My beautiful sisters...

Field Day with Mom and Vernie :)

Emily - "Ok, auntie, now one with me in the middle and the boys on both my sides hugging me.... "

The big boys fishing in the back yard and wishing their Uncle Steve was there... For some reason they didn't catch any fish...

Sisters.. Auntie Vernie (from California!)surprised us and showed up the night before the shower!! How FUN!

Steve's Grandma Pearl... Soon to be Great Grandma Pearl. :)

Fort Lee

Early this summer Scott and the boys finally got to construct their long-awaited fort... The plans (that have been in action since Isaiah was 3) always had been to build a tree house... But then we moved into our house here and alas - no trees. But as usual nothing could stand in the way between Scott Lee and his dreams... No trees for a tree house?? No problem.. After weeks of taking inventory of our "scrap" wood, (that we had been collecting - and moving from house to house -for over 8 years) designing, sketching and creating on paper, the 3 of them settled on a design... And after 2 seconds of looking at it, Mommy (as usual) shattered their dreams and spoke MODERATION into the plan.. :) No, I actually just casually mentioned that maybe the 10 ft. long tunnel from our house's 12 ft. deck to the fort and the 100 ft. long zip line across the yard were not really TOTALLY necessary.... :) After deliberation they conceded and made a few MINOR adjustments to the plans. The girls and I went on a walk that Saturday and when we returned the surveying, leveling, and measuring had been done and there were 6 holes dug. Of course, in true Scottie Lee fashion, some of the plans changed along the way, but this is what we ended up with a few short weeks later.... (Oh yes, and take note of our neighbor's siding and fence that had blown down in the wind storm a couple of days earlier.... Most of our neighbors lost shingles, 8 ft. sections of fences - blown across 2 yards, siding, and 2 wooden playground sets were picked up, thrown 500 ft. and then smashed to smithereens... But not Fort Lee... Oh no - Not Fort Lee... And that's Scottie Lee construction for ya.) :)

All of the kids ended up being able to help and the two big boys learned a lot and were great workers.

And other than the swings, rope, and a few random pieces of lumber, it all came out of our garage!! We even "helped" our neighbor clean out his garage and got a few more pieces that enabled us to add on to build the swingset/monkey bar section of the fort! Thank you Tracie and Brian!