Happy Mother's Day and Happy Birthday JoJo

I hope you are able to click on this picture to make it large, so you can read what I got for Mother's Day from Thomas. I absolutely love this. His comments were sweet but, very funny. I had great Mother's Day and my family bought me a bike, so now we can all go on bike rides together and I won't be left at home.




Yesterday we celebrated Joseph's Birthday and Mother's Day together with My parents and my sister and her family. The first few pics are from yesterday. Yes, I realize he looks a mess. That was his third shirt of the day. He had been outside for hours, had a water gun fight with Grandpa, ate a hamburger with lots of ketchup, so he was very dirty... just like a 3 year old boy should be.



On Saturday night (his actual Birthday) We had dinner at CiCi's Pizza after Thomas' baseball game, and then came home and he opened his presents from us.



I think he was a pretty happy kid, and all the kids had fun playing with the Play-doh... who doesn't like Play-doh.

In a couple weeks, we will have his Birthday party in the backyard with a few friends. He picked a Toy Story theme for his first party with friends.

Happy Easter

We colored eggs earlier in the week. Joseph had a great time coloring eggs for the first time.


Savannah... looking so much older to me these days.
Addy and one of her eggs.
Thomas and one of his eggs
The finished products!
Joseph looking at the goodies in his basket

Savannah excited about a chocolate Kit Kat bar.
All the kids checking out the Easter Basket Goodies!

Happy Easter

Meeting Nugget, Monkey Cove and Easter Eggs

Monday, April 18, 2011

So, finally after many anticipated days of arrival..." Nugget" decided to show his face. My sister went in to the hospital on a Monday night and he didn't arrive until Wednesday. His name is Salem, but since he was know as Nugget for many months, I think he has a nick name that might stick.
My kids are very excited to have a new nephew. They are anxious to go see him again.


Bri and her cute little baby finally went home on Sunday... can't wait to go hold him again.


Our weekend plans completely changed due to rainy weather on Friday and cooler weather overall this weekend. We had intended to take the kids to a Royals game on Friday night, and then camping in our new tent on Saturday night. Friday night rained and Saturday night we worried might be too cold for our first camping experience in 2 years.... so we decided to surprise the kids with a trip to a hotel with a small water park... We told them we were going out to eat for dinner and it took a little over an hour to get there. Addy said " It must be really good if we are driving that far" During the day I had been secretly packing clothes for the night, swim suits, snacks etc. Somehow we got it all in the back of the van without them knowing. When we pulled up to Burger King (we wantet to eat something quick so they could start swimming) they were a little perplexed. We said peak in the back of the van and then they saw the swim bag and clothes and became very excited when we said we were going to a new place called Monkey Cove.



We swam for a few hours Saturday night and again Sunday morning. Then stopped for lunch on the way home. We were all tired but had a great time.



Sunday night we grilled out chicken and had corn on the cob and Addy said "this is the best weekend ever" We love these weekends when we can have lots of good quality family time.

We finished up the night by coloring Easter Eggs, because there just won't be any time this week. I work M, W, F, and S night this week, and there is also Swim team, Baseball, and Softball practice and Girl Scouts this week.

Savannah has braces!

Spring Break 2011

We grilled hamburgers and the kids had a picnic under their swing set
The dogs sat patiently nearby waiting for some food to be dropped
We talked about going to the St. Paddy's Day parade, but instead slept in late that day, and hung around the house... also went out for a late lunch. Then I headed in to work later that day.
We also took a short trip to Collyer to visit family. 4 kids and 2 dogs... lots of activity in a Mini Van. George wasn't sure what to think on our way there, but he did much better on our way back home.
The kids played outside most of the time at Grandma and Grandpa Bray's house







They also had fun playing Croquet with their cousin Jake... who is a giant teenager that the kids think is the coolest guy ever. We think he is really cool too because he lets the kids climb all over him and bug him to death.


We got back in town on Sunday, and the kids had no school on Monday so we went to Heritage park, and played on the beach and waded in the water.



We went with the Beldens again... our friends who are like family to us.



The kids found lots of shells, and even a baby crawdad.

Addy and Jocelyn... two girls who I think will have a life time friendship. They have known each other since KDG... never once had class together, but have one of the best friendships!
Today is back to reality... the kids are back in school. I think for the most part they had a pretty good Spring Break!