Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hot fun in the summer time!


First rule of golf? Safety first.


The boys putting army men in a green slime.  Parents kept telling them they couldn't play with the slime.  Well, today was their lucky day. Slime time! Then, after the soldiers were stuck in the goo, attack with air soft guns!


Earlier in the summer Joel thought it would be funny to "be an alien" and wear numerous swimming goggles.  I have to admit....it was funny!

Fun with Grandpa

Spent the day with the grandparents last Saturday.  For the boys it was: we-get-to-do-whatever-we-want-cause-we-are-at-grandma & grandpa's house. And that's the way it supposed to be.  It was a chance for Jason to get another air soft gun (cue Tim Allen grunt).
This is them with airsoft guns.


The look of determination on Jeffrey's face.  THAT COKE CAN IS GOING DOWN!

July 4th

Some pictures of the July 4th fun.  I know I have more somewhere on this computer.  Let me see if I can get the hamster to move the wheel faster to find them....

Joel's first (and I think he last) firework.  It was a smoke bomb.  Lots of smoke, not a lot of pop.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

High School Graduation

After celebrating his own graduation, Joel couldn't make it through High School graduation


Graduation Pics

Getting Ready for Grad



Got my Game Face on!

Game Face is gone...trying not to fall asleep while principal rambles on!

World's best Pre-K teacher: Mrs. Gruhlkey

Joel and his awards

Jeffrey and his awards

Brothers always



Accelerated Reader Award


Jeffrey won a chair. Each year the reading teacher challenges students to get 200 points in Accelerated Reading, if they do they get a chair. Each book in the library is worth points depending on its reading level etc. Anyway, he won a chair last year and he wanted to do it again this year. He got 202 points. We are proud of him because he was able to do this while reading books at near a fourth grade reading level and keeping straight A's and being a good kid! He does enjoy reading and what really helped was the Wimpy Kid series books. He tore through them in a couple of weeks and wanted more.....unfortunately....there ain't no more! So we took him to see the movie instead!

Pre-K Grad and Awards

Joel graduated from Pre-K...We found out he can spell his name and color good! Whoo Hoo! Kidding aside, he received the two highest awards you can get. One of them was Citizenship Award (meaning overall great kid) the other award was Character Counts (only a handful of kids in the whole school got this). With Character Counts he received a Wal-Mart gift card with five bucks on it. When he saw the card he said, "I GOT A CARD!" We told him it had money on it and then he said, "I GOT A CARD WITH MONEY ON IT!" Jeffrey racked up with four awards in the assembly: Near Perfect Attendance (he missed one day! We tried so hard to take him that day but puke and everything wouldn't allow it) All 'A' Honor Roll. (Very Proud of him) Citizenship award (again...good kid!) and Music Award (who knew?!). We later found out that his teacher gave him Handwriting award and Math Facts award! We found those awards in his backpack and asked him about it and he said, "Oh yeah, my teacher gave me two more awards." (He didn't get communication award)

Joel's Pre-K Graduation and Awards assembly

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Hey Soul Sister!

Can you guess where this child is from?

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

EASTER!

Some pics of Easter weekend spent at my parent's house in Midland!

Leanna, The Queen of Cakes, made this cake for Easter.  I can't seem to flip the pic so you gonna have to flip your head.

Boys getting ready to decorate

Grandma showing 'em how it's done.  She's the pro!

We dipped Eric in yellow dye and this is how he turned out.

Forget using the tool, use your hands!

Jeffrey being careful

Perfection!

CHEESE

Hold the egg holder and use your hands.

Not sure why "the face" but for some reason he is giving it to me.

Didn't get too dirty.

Are you looking at me? Are you looking at me? You must be looking at me because I'm the only one here.

Decorating done, let's hunt!

One more pic with the grandparents



Did we get 'em all?

Friday, April 2, 2010

What about Jeffrey?

I can't believe I haven't posted too much of Jeffrey's stuff!  Anyway, he has been playing Little Dribblers basketball and here are a couple of pics for you to enjoy.

Tip-off! (unfortunately we didn't get the tip)

Jeffrey is a defensive machine. I'm not lying.  His offense....well....that is just a time that he isn't on defense.  In fact, in his last game he was guarding one of his friends so well that the kid stopped dribbling and shoved Jeffrey and yelled, "STOP IT!" It made Jeffrey's parent's proud.


GO RAIDERS!

Game 2

Joel playing 3rd base and being pestered by a big blue bug that kept circling around him.

1st base and heading to second.

Looking to score from 3rd.  (what happened to 2nd?)

You make the call! Did he touch Home Plate or not?  The answer after this commercial break.
He did, this picture was taken a moment after his back foot came off the plate.

They don't give you chaw till you get to the bigs, until then we chew double bubble.

This groundhog was just outside the fence behind homeplate.  He was not afraid of anything.  A kid tried whacking him with a bat.  He was successful only at annoying us and kicking up dirt.

Easter at school?!

Joel's class hunting eggs at school.  I should point out that some of these kids are in kindergarten.  This is a mix of Joel's Pre-K class and the Kindergarten class.  The weather was awesome.  I think it hit 90.


Joel concentrating

Ah...nothing says Easter like filling up a hole in Spiderman's head! 
(someone needs to tell this kid it is Easter not Halloween!)

Joel's buddy Trent. 

How can you say "no" to this face?

Jeffrey and his buddies Lane (left) Brent (right)

Joel and Trent playing quietly (notice destruction of room)
Poor kids ain't got nothin' to play with.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

T-ball action!

Some current video!  Here is Joel's first game.  A clump of a hit, some fielding action and another hit.

Christmas on the Pecos

More Christmas video for you.  This is a brief look at Christmas on the Pecos.  Every year in Carlsbad NM, you can ride in a boat down the Pecos River looking at these massive houses that have been decorated for Christmas.  The boys really had a great time!

Blog site

Too look at any video just go to: http://fortner4.blogspot.com/ There you can see video and pics of what is going on.

Wii fish!

Some video from Christmas.  The boys got a wii and a bass fishing game came with it.  Here is a clip of Jeffrey fishing. He really gets into it!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Tee-ing off!

T-ball started tonight.  Joel's first game of the season.  He is the youngest and smallest on the team, but he did great!  I'm attaching some pics of the game and I hope to get a little bit of video on here.  The best way to see any video is by visiting: http://fortner4.blogspot.com/

Pregame warrior face!

Riding the pine!  (this is just waiting on his turn to bat)

Making contact!  He said later that he "knocked the fire out of the ball!"

Trotting to second base.

Ready for action!

Beating out the throw!

After game posing

His pic for the Ol School baseball card

Pretending to be asleep going home

Both boys hamming it up!