Extreme Close Up

Here's me practicing with the camera again. I did take some close up pictures of dad too but they were deemed obscene for the internet due to nose hair exposure.

Monster Truck

Legos are pretty much my favorite house toy. Of course I play with other toys but Lego is the fallback 'always fun' toy. Check out the picture of the machine I built today! The only problem is when I build so many trucks and spaceships that key Lego pieces fall into short supply. Then Macs and I really fight over the Legos.

Driveway = Raceway

Nice hat Macsers!
Macsen and my favorite thing to do is to go outside and race our buddy cars down the driveway. Mommy even got us some chalk so now we draw streets and street signs all over the driveway. We could do anything outside but we choose to just zip down the drive way and to stop before flying on to the street.

Mr Sleep

When mommy was out of town working this weekend Macs always wanted to sleep in dad's bed at night, even for his naps. Actually I think dad like to snuggle Macs too! Here is Macsen napping in daddy's bed.

Photography Practice

I've been practicing my photography skills some more lately. I call these my extreme close ups!

Easter Photos

The boys and their pre-church pictures!

Who Is This Guy?

Grace

A classic sequence from my last day of the hockey session.


How are you doing Brenden?


Faceplant!

At least I could stay on my feet!

Photographer In Training

Tonight I got a hold of one of mom's cameras so I began training to be my mom's assistant!

This is a picture of our playroom closet. A wide variety of items in here. TV table, toy kitchen, vacuum, castle, storage chest, toy car garage, all could turn into a toy at anytime.

One of the ladies at dad's office was getting rid of her valentine's candy (apparently need to get in some Easter merchandise). I thought I would take a picture because... it would last longer!

I thought it would be great to take a picture of a picture. Seems like I'm in a lot of those photos.

Here's a great picture of dad in his Awana Cubbies outfit. Nice shirt dad!

Whack!

I was building in the basement with my hammer and Macs got a little too close to my backswing. After I hit him I think he went on an all night bender as the picture above seems to indicate.

Bowsers

Macs and I like to pretend that we are both Bowser monsters that run around the house and tackle each other. The only way to stop us is to grab us by the tails and spin us around.

You'd be shocked at how often these Halloween outfits break themselves out in a given year...

Morning Sunshine

This is a typical morning in the house. Macs gets up around 5 AM or so. Then he requests to go downstairs and eat cereal. His favorites are Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Lucky Charms. Contrary to popular belief the cereal does not make his hair stand up on end.

I usually don't roll out of bed until 7 AM, sometimes later. By then Macs is sometimes ready for a nap.

Spies Like Us

This morning I put on my super secret glasses and began a spying campaign. Mostly I spied on Macs and mommy. Not quite sure how the glasses improved my spying abilities but maybe I was harder to recognize?

Mr. Hockey

On Friday we had a real hockey game against the hacks from neighboring Fond Du Lac. We had referrees and everything!

Here's me listening to the coach before our next shift. I think he was telling us to take out their best player but I don't remember. The Fond Du Lac parents were quite crazy. Goals scored by their team resulted in the whole Fond Du Lac section jumping in the air and doing fist pumps replicated by the team on the ice. Our fans were slightly more restrained.

Here's me battling for the puck after the face-off. As you can see I was pretty much the smallest guy on the team. I'm only five and I was playing against eleven year olds. How I got on this team for the scrimmage I am not quite sure. It didn't help that the game went until 8:30 PM. I am usually asleep at 7:30 PM!

After the game they handed out drinks, granola bars, and candy. It was awesome.

They even gave me my first hockey award! I can't wait to put it up in my room! Afterwards I was really exhausted and fell asleep sitting on mom's lap.

Brenden the Builder

Uncle Paul got me an awesome toolbox and real tools for Christmas. I have been really busy, this week I built a teeter totter.

Whoa

I can't beleive we have been such bad bloggers. I guess we have been a bit busy. We had holiday visitors and then all our activities started back up.


Here are a few from my hockey practices.

Slow Start

Just realized that we have not posted much for a while. I guess we're still recovering from the holidays.

Nana and Papa left last week after coming up mid-January. Grandpa, Uncle Paul, Gunnar, and Auntie were up the week after Christmas.

Lots of visitors!

I've started taking hockey lessons at the YMCA in Oshkosh. I skate twice a week and I love it. Macs likes to watch and cause trouble in the stands.

I'm also in swimming lessons and yesterday mom took Macs and me to the pool and we didn't want to leave! Dad was in Wausau getting beat up in a hockey tournement.

Christmas Concerts

This past week Macs and I both sang in church and I had my school Christmas Program. I got to play a wise man from the story of Jesus birth. It was really fun. Mom was there to video tape it, so maybe we'll even get it posted to the blog.

Here are some pictures of Macs singing in church. We also video tapped this, but due to mom and dad being on the opposite side of where we were standing they didn't get good pics or footage.

Thanks to mom's friend Heidi for taking these pics of Macs, they must have had front row seats!!!

B Day

Today was my dad's birthday. Mom cooked a really big cake and Macs and I ate most of it. Macs and me blew out candles more time then dad did.

Then dad took us to watch a cartoon movie at the theatre, it was really funny! Dad took me to skating this morning too. I am learning to skate backwards so pretty soon I'll be able to play with him on Sunday nights.

Happy Birthday!

LEGO

I have a love for Lego's. We make just about anything we can think with the lego's...race cars, rocket ships, fighter jets, houses ...

Today it happened to be an airplane.