I'm back. Ok I never left..

So it has been a long time since I posted, but I have been busy.

The kids started spring break on Friday the 30th, and Travis had a Robotics competition Friday & Saturday. This was a lot of fun to watch and I was so proud of his whole team. These kids worked their butts off for months getting ready for this, and even harder during the 6 weeks they had to build it.( rules of First Robotics only allows for a 6 week build time to keep all teams fair) They sometime would work for 5 hours after school  4 days a week, all while keeping up with school. In the end they came in I think 44th out of 61, but they learned a lot and more importantly they had FUN!

Here is the product of their hard work!

The next exciting thing to happen was we bought a new van!!
Poor Mini ( yes, we named our van) was getting very old. She was a 2001, and had 180,000 miles. We had been to Wisconsin more times then I could count. We had been to North Dakota, Texas 3 times, and Disney World 3 times, not to mention I put between 300 to 350 miles on a week.

I am  now the proud owner of a 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan. I am also so lost when it comes to figuring out all the new high tech stuff on it. Poor van doesn't have a name yet, we are still calling it Mini for now, but hope to have a name soon.

There she is, now to figure out her name!

We did make it to the zoo on Thursday, and now are spending the last few days of spring break being lazy and getting nothing accomplished.
The only one main and oh so important thing left to do is color Easter eggs. Yep, we are one exciting bunch around here.

So...What have you been up to?? Do you have any suggestions for Mini 2.0's name???

I want to wish everyone a very Happy Easter. Don't eat too much candy or hard boiled eggs.