Siera's Locks of Love

Siera got her hair cut for Locks of Love over spring break. She really likes it... no tangles! but at the same time is ready to grow it and cut it again

Here are Siera's 'before' and 'after' pictures.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Locks of Love, it is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.

What a wonderful thing to learn at such a young age! Love you Siera!

Faster than the Speed of Light!!

Michelle sent me some pictures of Siera at her first Track meet. The results weren't quite in when they left at 10:00 pm but as soon as I get them I will post them. Michelle said that Siera is

super fast and that they are thinking about buying her some spikes. WATCH OUT!!!

From the looks of these pictures Michelle had better watch out Siera is about to pass her up on the Height Department. We are all so proud of you Siera and all the fun new things you have been doing! Keep up the Awesome Work!!! We Love You!!!!

Welcome to the Family!!!

As most of you already know Andrea and Vincent Argondizzo were married on Valentines day. February 14, 2009 in Las Vegas.

We are so happy for them and wanted to welcome Vinnie into the Stearman Family. We are so glad that you guys are happy and so in love.

We wish you all the best! And Vinnie WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!!!

Cereal Box Fort

The weather in Virginia has been frightful, and the kids . . . not so delightful.
Since the weather here has been bone chilling cold, which makes it hard to stay out for long periods of time. We decided it was a great time to pull all of our cereal boxes from the attic and build a cereal box fort. We saw the idea in Family Fun magazine last year, and thought it would be a fun project for a day just like that one.
We used a glue gun to stick the boxes together. The fort has 3 sides and the front opening, plenty of look outs to keep an eye out for the enemy, but no roof yet. It's big enough for both kids to chill out inside.
According to the kids, we have somewhere between 50 and 70 boxes. No we don't eat that much cold cereal for breakfast, my kids usually get a hot, healthy breakfast. We do, however, like to eat it for dessert. YUM!

Wonderworks

We went on a science field trip to Wonderworks a couple weeks ago. It was so awesome. Todd and I had as much fun as Gabriel and Cali did.

The whole concept behind Wonderworks is that it started out as a top secret laboratory on a remote island in the Bermuda Triangle. In an attempt to harness the power of a man made tonado, the experiment went terribly wrong and the whole building was torn off its foundation and landed upside down in the heart of Tennessee.

Inside the lobby, everything is upside down. If you look up, you see the floor and front door upside down. You have to go through an inversion tunnel so that, you too, can be upside down.

Once inverted, you can stand in the middle of 65 mph hurricane force winds, sit at a table and experience a 6.5 earthquake, lay on a bed of real nails, scale a rock wall, feel how cold the water temperature was when the Titanic went down, or have your brain waves read. That's just 1/4 of the first floor. We were in there for 3 hours and still didn't do it all. Every 'experiment' had an explanation next to it; the how and whys of it all. If anyone ever comes to the east coast, I highly recommend going. (There are more pictures on Walgreens.com.)

Love to all,

Corinna

Happy Birthday Cole!

Cole turned five yesterday! He had a great Birthday! We took him and 3 friends to the Classic Fun Center where they have a Pirates Cove and Bounce Houses, Roller Skating and video games. It was in the early afternoon so we were the only people there! It was really nice. Then Tank took him to a Jazz game and he got to go on the court and meet the Jazz Bear and a few players. I will post more pics when I get them up!! Happy Birthday Cole we love you!!!

Here's to Healthy Kids

Gabriel and Cali just got their yearly check up and we are happy to report that they are both healthy and growing faster than expected. Gabriel is 9 years and 9 months, 60 inches tall and weighs in at 78 pounds and Cali is 6 years and 6 months, 51 inches tall and weighs in at 57 pounds.

I hope this finds everyone just as healthy and happy as we are in Virginia.

Love to all!