A Day In The Life....

So at the crack of freaking dawn we were in
West Jordan for A's orthodontist appointment.
 His teeth were starting to move b/c he lost his 3rd set of retainers, grrr.
Therese are his new ones. Doesn't he look excited?!

After I dropped A off at school I walk into the house and this is what I saw....
 B chilling on the bottom stair, still in his PJ's,
with his sisters headphones on and watching Netflix on dads iPhone 5.
 He has such a rough life!

Today we had beautiful Spring weather so B went outside and
showed his True Blue Boy Colors!! 

Then he comes home and E shows her True Pink Big Sister Colors!
This is my youngest daughter Isabel. Isn't she beautiful? 

                                     

RUN!!!

I have been an amateur runner for a few years now. There are a lot of runners in my neighborhood so many so that there are two Ragnar teams. The Ragnar is a relay of 200(ish) miles, each runner has 3 legs of between 3 mile runs to 10 mile runs on the Wasatch Back. This is me thinking about joining a team....March 26th 2013

CostaVida

I bought Costa Vida coupons from a cute neighbor girl yesterday. And since it was getting late, we were on our way home from N's soccer scrimmage, and we were close, we stopped for a yummy dinner.

While we waited for our food, the three littles and I played with the table paper center piece. These are our results....

Cute Girls Hair Ideas

I found this site a few months ago and LOVE it! Elizabeth and I have been experimenting with some since then. Elizabeth likes them so much that every morning she wants me to take a picture of her hair and send it to Grandma! Needless to say Grandma has quite a bit of Elizabeth hair pictures compiled in her e-mail!! I'll post some soon....  

Here is her link:  http://www.cutegirlshairstyles.com/

The last 6 months in a nut shell!

My computer died at the end of the Summer... Such a sad day! So 6 months later plus or minus I finally have my own laptop! Happy Happy Day!!
Just a brief update in photos;

                                   Our trip to Oregon...
          A BeAuTiFuL day at the Oregon Coast with the boys!

                                 Hiking up Multnomah Falls....
                               We had to work for this beauty!

First Day of School! 

Anthony (6th and last year of elementary before Jr High)

Nicholas (4th one of the older kids at school now)

&

Christopher (1st grader and 1st year all day)

Grandpa Pies (My Dad) came for a visit for my Birthday!

Royalty breakfast at school with the kids!

A couple of my friends from NE brought their girls out and spent the weekend with us. It was nice to have the boys outnumbered for once!

Grandma Ski came to spend some time with us! Took some fun pictures at Temple Square.

Anthonys 12th Birthday!!

Anthony got the Aaronic Priesthood and became a Deacon!

(I insisted I get a mommy moment picture)

School Carnival

Halloween!

Nicholas's 10th Birthday Party! Double digits.. Oh Ya!  

Family Pictures

Road Trip back to Nebraska for Thanksgiving

Jared, Benjamin and I took a quick weekend trip to San Francisco (Pier 39)

Jareds Birthday!

Christmas

Christophers Pokemon Birthday (#7)

6 months in the life of The Lewandowski's......

The Garden

It seems like the last few years that I have tried a garden I have been pregnant or had a new baby, which has been like the last 12 years, but that is another story for another time, which makes for a not so great garden effort. But this year, this year will be different! I hope! 
Jared and the kids even got the growing a garden bug. Everyone is growing something;
Jared -Yellow Bell Peppers (Even though he doesn't eat them..?)
Anthony -Onions (He eats them like apples w/a little salt)
Nicholas -Strawberries (Chocolate covered?)
Christopher -Watermelon (Because they are BIG)
Elizabeth -Strawberries (Definitely chocolate covered!)
Things I am growing; 
more watermelon, red and green bell pepper, honeydew, cucumber, lettuce, broccoli, 3 zucchini, and husky cherry tomato, roma tomato,juliet tomato and big bay tomato. I'm thinking about more zucchini and cucumbers but we will see....

With weeks of prep work my Mothers Day gift is growing well. With any luck, and if my children do not over water everything, we will be eating the fruits of our labors in a few months!

Beautiful Children

The kids were all ready for church the other day and all looking so nice and there was beautiful sunshine outside. So I lined them all up to get a few snapshots of them on the front porch before I herded them into the van. This is what I got. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

My Baby Benjamin.. loves brothers skateboards.

Elizabeth our ONE & only Princess

     

Christopher is such a HAM!

Nicholas... quiet CONFIDENCE.






Anthony... BOLD confidence!