Daddy Daughter Dance 2016

Well I forgot to order the corsage for Peanut so we got flowers and made our own.  Was a little big but turned out ok :)

 I made these pins for her hair and then followed one of the youtube videos to put her hair up.  Love how it turned out!!

Daddy and his Peanut before the dance

Photobooth time!

Northern Illinois State Meet 2016

Super proud of Peanut for getting 4th at State this year.  She was so nervous which is not normal for her.  I thought she was either going to puke or biff it bad because she got into her own head.  She did great but had a step at the end of her first pass which brought her score down:(  Our motto was just qualify for Nationals LOL. So she did!! We are headed to Knoxville Tennessee in June!!!

Super proud of her!! 

Layla, Lucy, Emma, Addysen, and Lexi

goofy girls

Lexi, Layla, and Emma

Monmouth Meet

Lexi took 2nd place at the Monmouth meet.  She had her best front pass score at this meet.  Super proud of this girl and all the hard work she does.  Next up STATE!!

It was nice to see the ROWVA girls all up there together.
Lexi, Emma, Layla, and Lucy

Hunter's 1st Turkey!!

Hunter was so excited this year to go Turkey hunting with Grandpa Carl.  I was so shocked to be woken up by Dirk 2 hours into the hunting time to the words "Hunter got one and it is a nice one".  I was so excited for him!!  As I took Lexi to tumbling I couldn't stand the excitement waiting for the pics to come from Dirk.  Hunter ended up shooting a 22lb turkey!  Super proud of this boy and can't wait for him to hopefully get his first deer this year!

Hunter and Grandpa Carl.  The gun used was originally Uncle Otha's.  Then it has been used by Grandpa Carl, Dirk, and now Hunter.  It is a family gun and such a special thing for all the Swanson boys to use!

We have 4 backflips

Lexi just keeps working at what she loves to do :)  4 backflips down...more to go

Hunter's Projects

Well in true boy and Hunter fashion he informs me at 7:45pm that he has 2 projects due the next day.  Let's just say I lost my cool!  So off to town Dirk went for a couple of supplies.  While he was gone Hunter and I mapped out what needed to be done and started working on the projects.  Good thing I have the cutter because pretty much most of the work was easy...just sticking on the vinyl letters and dots :)  Well we managed to get the projects done by around 9:30pm.  Not too bad for last minute!

His invention the Ever Lasting Marker

Bad toss game was the project for PE

3 backflips

Super proud of Lexi!!  She finally got her 3 backflips down :)  She just loves tumbling and is so excited when she gets new tricks.  Addysen spent the night this weekend and the girls were flipping everywhere!  It must have helped.

Easter Sunday

ready for church

getting a nice picture before Hunter starts changing into comfy clothes LOL

2 of the sweetest girls I know
Addysen and Lexi

Kamden, Hunter, Caleb, Ainsley, Evan, Sadie, Morgan, Addysen, and Lexi

love this group

the girls with the umbrella's I made them

Antler Scrambler and Fishing

2016 Antler Scramble

The kids had fun and the weather wasn't too bad this year.  After the scramble I took the girls fishing for awhile.  Addysen caught the first one!!

Lexi, Addysen, Emma, Hazel

all the kids

Hunter, Dalton, Jeff, and Dirk

Peanut with her antlers

getting ready to start

Addysen and her antlers

Dalton and Hunter

Ready to get her fish on :0

Emma, Lexi, and Addysen

she got the first fish!!

Addysen took a selfie with me :)

Finally a sleepover

Lexi and Addysen have been waiting for a sleepover forever...or so it seemed to them.  First Hunter was sick, then Lexi got sick, then Addysen got sick :(  Poor kids had to keep rescheduling the sleepover.  They had pizza, played games, and did tumbling outside and on the trampoline.

a little Sweet Valley High action

word search game

Georgia State Float

 One of Lexi's projects this year was a state float.  She was given Georgia.  Certain things had to be on the float like the state capital, bird, flower, and so on.  We had fun doing this project because besides the hot glue it was easy :)