Buntrock Adventures

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Casey's 7th birthday party

Casey was so excited to invite his classmates and close friends to his 7th birthday party at the Waukesha YMCA. He choose to have a gymnastics party. I am pretty sure that everyone who attended had a blast. The birthday boy sure did!

We just arrived and we are ready to party!

Really mom?! Another picture?!

CHEESE!

The kids enjoyed jumping across the large trampoline.

Lilly and Cal got a bit tired.

Casey did a face plant onto a mat.

Joshua enjoyed the balance beam, as well
as everything else we would allow him to do!

The kids learned about patience as they waited their turn.

Caleb loved jumping off the springboard onto the tall mat.

Nice looking bunch of monkeys.

They sure are a silly group of kids!

Cupcakes for everyone!

While Casey was opening his gifts things got a little crazy.
We decided to play a "quiet" game to calm them down before their parents
came to get them.

FROGGER

Thanks to all of Casey's friends and their parents for helping to make this such an awesome day for Casey. A special thanks to Nana for helping us with Joshua:)

Upward Basketball

In the beginning of January Casey began his "career" in basketball through a program called Upward at our church. Upward basketball helps kids discover and build athletic skills, values, self-confidence and a love of the game!

Matt volunteers his time to coach Casey and 9 other boys. They have practice for one hour on Monday evenings and they play games on Saturdays.

It has been a very positive experience for Casey. Each practice and game he gets a little bit better and gains a bit more confidence.

After each game the coach gives out stars that the kids iron on to their uniform. The awards are for best offense, best defense, sportsmanship, effort, and being Christ like. This past weekend Casey earned the best defense award at his game. He did a great job staying on his guy and trying to get rebounds. He was super excited about this achievement.

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Listening as he finds out which award he has earned.

Casey's memory verse for the week:

Everyone should be quick to listen. But they should be slow to speak. They should be slow to get angry. -James 1:19b

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Christmas morning

I was awoken Christmas morning at 7:00 am by a very excited Casey who said "Merry Christmas Mom!" about 2 inches from my face. He ran downstairs to check out what Santa had brought. Of course he had stuffed our stockings with gifts and goodies.

Joshua joined us a few moments later with his smiling face.

He is very much a morning person.

Caleb decided to sleep in on Christmas morning. In fact, he didn't get up until 8:45am. Casey learned a lesson in patience! We did let him open one gift while waiting and stalled him by building a Lego set he had gotten the night before.

Before opening presents Matt read us the Christmas Story straight out of the Bible. It was a great way for us to focus on the true meaning of Christmas before diving into the gifts.

The boys were just as excited about giving as they were about receiving this year. It was so much fun to watch their cute little faces as they ripped open the paper and studied their treasures.

Casey picked out special trains for each of his brothers. He could hardly wait for them to open them.

Happy birthday Jesus!

Celebrate with family

The boys are very blessed to have so many grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins that love them so much. Christmas is the perfect time to share their joy with those loved ones.

We started the celebrations at Aunt Tracey's house a few days early. We got to share gifts and eat mouth watering ribs prepared by grandpa Lew. After spending some quality time we attended Riverglen Church for an early Christmas Eve service.

It was a great day filled with many fun memories.

This year we weren't able to see grandpa and grandma Buntrock in person, but we did get a chance to Skype with them. Each year they have generously given us money to pick out special gifts for the boys. We usually purchase what the boys wanted from Santa with this money. Who needs Santa when you have grandpa and grandma Buntrock anyways! Casey got some really cool space Lego sets, Caleb got a Duplo Lego train and Joshua got a kitchen and shopping cart. They really enjoyed playing with these Christmas Eve morning.

On Christmas Eve we got to celebrate with Uncle Andy and Aunt Christina in the morning. We swapped our homemade gifts and enjoyed some time together. Later that day the Reed clan and grandma Karen joined us for Casey and Caleb's Christmas performance at Mount Calvary. Of course there were gifts and Jesus' birthday cake afterward!

Shouldn't have waited until the end of the night to take the group photo.

Christmas day we headed over the Nana and Buppa's house to celebrate with cousins. The boys love playing with Dylan and Summer. It is always so great to catch up with family and play in Nana and Buppa's basement:)