Easter Days

Easter with Grandma and Grandpa on Friday, March 21.

Easter costumes!


The Hoffman Sigmeth clan gathered at the Hoffmans on Good Friday for some walleye dinner creations by Chuck and Mom & Dad brought a DQ ice cream cake with purple frosting (my favorite of course!). We celebrated Easter and my birthday on Friday as Dad (Gary) left for Florida on Saturday morning with a couple other drug pushers! Watch the CSI Miami episodes and you may see them!!! So Dad and his two pharmacist buddies went to see the Twins. They got to watch 2 games from behind home plate--sweet deal for a retired guy! Recently he called from a butterfly museum/sanctuary and the kids got to hear the birds squawking in the background as they talked on the phone to Grandpa!

On the actual Easter Day we did get over to Grandma's to find some Easter Eggs and candy the Big Bunny had left, but before we went over we celebrated at home...in our Halloween costumes! Chuck was downstairs and Maria insisted putting on Elmo and then Mitchell was ready to be Thomas the Tank Engine--toot toot! We had a great time dressing up and getting candy!

I've been on spring break this week-the first time CF has had a spring break! It has been wonderful! Chuck took a couple days off and we ran to the cities to take care of a few things and got to visit some friends. We also purchased a new MacBook Pro...I've been trying to figure out how to use it and Brent even stopped by to show me a few tricks. We've had Chris on call to answer a few of our questions-we may have to pay him some tech fees!

Mitchell is still doing well and still working on the potty training thing. Maria tells us when she has to go, so they'll probably both be out of diapers at the same time! That will be a nice savings each week! When they get into mischief and Chuck starts the count down he says, "ONE!" and Maria says, "two?" She is a little stinker and totally Daddy's Girl. She has this thing with ears as you can see in the photos! We played in our last snow fall--at least I hope it's the last one. We even attempted to make a little snowman, but he has since melted too! Maria has been trying on her summer attire--her swimsuit from Uncle Brent & Wendy may be a little small, but it sure looks cute!

The kids

Just some photos--Mitch doesn't stay still long enough to get good photos--he learned the sign for "Il ove you" at Weecare over Valentine's Day--that is what he is doing with his hand in the photo with Chris and Maria--he's not rockin' out! Maria has really warmed up to "Brother Chris"! They play around a lot when he visits. Maria was really into pony tails for a while--she fell asleep against the chair when we had company over! Chris looks quite handsome with his new hair do--or should I say with some hair?!

Team Triple Ds: Disco Dancin' Dorks

Amy & Mark











The fourth annual Volleyball tourney to support the 3 Day Walking team to fight for a cure for breast cancer took place on March 15, 2008. Chuck and I played on the winning team! Winners of the costume contest that is! We played with Amy & Mark Pickar and Krissy and Vince Neuman to entertain the folks at the tourney. However, it seems we were one match away from taking the consolation prize--we should have taken it all!!! Chuck was hard to recognize especially as he dominated at the net...Amy wore my dad's baby blue leisure suit and all you saw was her disco sequence hat zooming back and forth across the court setting up for the hits! After a bout of the flu at the beginning of the week Vince came back with avengance! Mark was the superstar jump server and Farrah, I mean Krissy, was always getting a piece of the ball--even lost her hair in one play! We had a blast and all in the name of fund-raising and fun! Grandpa and Mitchell even stopped in for a few minutes, but Mitchell was a bit uncomfortable seeing us in costume! Grandma waited out in the car with a sleeping Maria, but they enjoyed the kids while we enjoyed some fun times and muscle awakenings!

Grandma&Grandpa's House

Mitchell and Maria got to spend a lot of time at Grandpa and Grandma's this weekend. Chuck and I played in a volleyball tourney to help raise money for the DuBar Dolls 3 Day walk to fight Breast Cancer. Photos to follow in next entry. I am looking through the Sigmeth photo gallery and I found some fotos from last fall. We had a really nice day when we watched the farmer plow the fields while we enjoyed some coffee and cookies up on the deck! Then we had some races with Mitchell pushing his dump truck and Granpa pushing Maria in the wagon--Mom started the race with, "Gentlemen....start your engines!" Then Grandpa and Mitchell would rev 'em up and, "Go!" they raced down the hill! Grandma awarded the winners with trophies!