Good News!!!

So we got the best news ever last Friday. After all the Chemo, Radiation and Craniotomies Spencer is Tumor Free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a pic of me and him last Sunday while watching the super bowl, I just love his smile it's contagious!!! Not the best pic of me so focus on him. Thanks for all the prayers!

The big party!

The Tinkerbelle Cake with pink and purple icing of course!



We spent our afternoon at Chuck E Cheese celebrating Rileigh's big day. Aunt Leigh and cousin Avery and great aunt Linda and great uncle Lewis came up from Evansville, Nana and papa Freund were there and Uncle Shawn, aunt Jill, Noah, Spencer, and Hunter were also there to join in the fun. Rileigh also had her 2 best friends from preschool there Lainey and Jillian. Grandmas Joan and Sandi and Grandpas Mark and Mike were unable to attend because they were sick, we hope you all feel better soon! Here are some pics from the celebration!!!

Happy Birthday Big Girl!!!!

Today is my 1st baby's 5th birthday.... I can't believe how big she is getting! She constantly

amazes me with the things she knows and big words she uses appropriately. I can't believe she will be in kindergarten in the fall. I love the fact that she still wants hugs and kisses all the time and only occasionally wants to live with another family (she is dramatic after all). Here are a few pics of her over the last few years, and one from today. She brought Hannah Montana cupcakes to school today to celebrate her big day. She was also very excited because it snowed all day today and she loves snow, she is a winter baby for sure! Sunday we will be headed to Chuck E Cheese for the big celebration with family and a couple of friends from school. So we will post more pics this weekend.

Age 2 1/2

She was almost 21 months when Grant was born, she seemed so big to me when he was born, she looks like a baby herself.

These next few were taken when she was about 18 or 19 months old.

Here she is playing with her cousins Noah and Spencer. They were jumping on the bed which they were not supposed to do but as usual they did it anyway.

What to do on a cold day.....

So today we went to the Childrens Museum of Indianapolis so the kids could run out some of their energy. They too are tired of this cold weather and are ready for spring to be here. I know we haven't posted much lately.... sorry not a lot going on around the Lancster household. So here are some cute pics that we took today. The kids had a blast and as usual were not happy about leaving but mommy and daddy were ready so we coerced them to leave by getting them some cotton candy (you gotta do what you gotta do)... Thanks to grandpa Mark and grandma Sandy for renewing our membership so we can have another year of fun at the museum!!!

The first place we had to visit was the Dinosphere one of the kids' favorite displays.

I'm pretty sure the goggles go the other way but who am I to say???

Watch out Rileigh!!!!!!

Grant watching the trains go by..... his 2nd favorite place to be.

Rileigh's 2nd favorite spot... It was nice because it wasn't too crowded today so we got to go 3 times in a row.... how exciting!!!!

Who knew Captain America would be visiting the museum today.... he looks vaguely familiar....

Rileigh at the mirror wall checking herself out... she is a girl.

Rileigh's teaching the dinosaur how to brush his teeth.

Saying goodbye to the musuem. They were doing some construction and a lego exhibit is coming soon so we had to pose by the Lego Construction worker.

Dinosaur cookie in one hand cotton candy in the other...... he may never go to sleep tonight :)

Christmas

Opening her Vsmile games


Very excited about Hi Ho Cherry-O



Play-dough!

Look I can be a scary dragon when I get out of the bathtub!!!

Well this was a very interesting Christmas for sure. There aren't many pictures because I forgot my camera at home when we went to Warsaw and Evansville/Jeffersonville. So that said we did open up gifts at our house on the Friday before Christmas (I know I know it was really early). We were really busy every day up until Christmas and since we were out of town we didn't want to have to drag all the gifts to my families house and Chad's mom's house. Anyway this whole Christmas season started off poorly since Grant had a bad habit of opening presents (not just his, everyones!!!) he opened a record 13 in a 30 min time frame. Then the Saturday before Christmas Rileigh was standing on the rocking horse instead of sitting on it and lost her balance and fell into the tree which in turn fell over. Rileigh was fine a few ornaments did not make it through the ordeal. We got the tree back up with no problems and then on Tuesday the day before Christmas eve Chad and I both came down with the stomach flu... go figure. We ended up feeling better on Christmas Eve but I will kinda be glad to see this Holiday Season come to an end. It will definately be one to remember!

Preschool Musical

Singing Away in a Manger

Rileigh's preschool had their Christmas program tonight and it did not disappoint. It was all 3-5 year olds all singing together..... I was quite entertaining. Rileigh had a part in the program where she placed a heart on a banner, she was very proud of herself. We weren't sure if the program would take place since we are supposed to get an ice storm sometime this evening. (ugh) When Rileigh walked in she was holding hands with her "best" friend Lainey, it was so cute! We got pics of her and her two best friends at the end of the program. Her class was supposed to go caroling at a nursing home yesterday but due to the weather the field trip was cancelled and Rileigh was very upset, so I am glad that there were no issues tonight with the weather.

Ok I was trying to upload a short video of the kids singing but as usual blogger does not like my videos for some reason and after an hour of attempting I gave up..... maybe another day I can get it to like my videos :(

Ri and her best friend Lainey

Ri and her other best friend Jillian

The Christmas Play

Rileigh played Mary in the church play this weekend. It was quite hilarious

since the 3-5 year olds played the part of the manger scene. Rileigh and Riley were Mary and Joseph, they were pretty good did their part it was the shepherds that were funny. One of them kept taking his staff and raising it as high in the air as he could and then lowering quickly back down. We thought he was going to hit someone on the head it was quite comical. Here are some pics of my child looking oh so innocent.