Wednesday, May 29, 2013

More fun days!


Megan has lost her 3rd tooth! She looks so cute with the front one gone! In this picture she was working with her excavating thing to find the gems!

Emily looks so enthused! She did smile but she just sat there still as can be while she got her hair cut!

Here is an after picture of the three kids with their new do's! Jacob was about 6 months overdue, Emily's looks the same because we just trimmed it a little, and Megan loves her cute bob haircut and her bangs look better now because Megan has a mishap with her scissors in art class to give herself bangs!

The kids inspecting each other!

The very loud "cheese" that everyone in the salon heard!

Ahh, the prize at the end...the lollipop. 

The girls are enjoying time together acting goofy!

Fun Summer Days


The kids started out with 2 forts, then decided to combine them into one giant fort, they even have a door complete with doorbell, mailbox, and more! 


We met up with Nicole and her kiddos as Southwest and Megan was in heaven because she was able to help in the garden. There is all kinds of produce growing!

Needless to say she was loving it!

Nicole was dog sitting Lola the little dog and we were dog sitting Dolly, the big black lab. Shoney enjoyed having her friend around and their dog-vacation continues because now Shoney's staying at Dolly's house while we go to Iowa to visit Uncle Matt and Aunt Alicia.

Another proud picture!

I'm sad I didn't take more pictures but it was a fun day with the kids enjoying the freedom of my school and the fun of their friends...with the normal amount of screaming but oh well!

Friday, May 24, 2013

Who knows!

Wow! The school year is complete as of yesterday we are all officially finished! We now have Jacob's last year of preschool and Megan's 2nd grade to look forward to! Megan was sad on her last day because she says she wants to stay in 1st grade. I remind her that her and her friend Kambry might be in the same class again next year and I think she's nearly in summer mode now! Jacob keeps talking about how he is so excited about being in Miss Lisa's afternoon class so we'll see how that goes! 

I'm excited to be home for the summer and have so many lists going that should keep us fairly busy. My first couple of days have started off rocky with lots of screaming and fit throwing I think they are trying to test me! I also managed to break my computer somehow (from everything I understand the hard drive is toast but a computer guy friend is looking at it next week). Then I was the one running the lawn mower when it stopped working and then I also managed to break Megan's outdoor chair because all the kids were piled on my lap and the chair was under my feet...definitely not the start I was looking for but hopefully things will look up from here!

Megan is part of "American Heritage Girls" which is similar to Girl Scouts but is more Christ-centered and is aligned with Boy Scouts. She's participated this past year but hopefully next year we can participate in the volunteering side of things too. That's what I love about the program too is that they focus a lot of their energies on service to others.

Michael and I enjoyed a date night complete with the Opening night of Iron Man 3. There was also a comic convention in town so they dressed up and came to the theater to take pictures. Apparently the dressed up guys with guns didn't sit so well with some of the people who thought it was insensitive after the theater shooting for Dark Night. 

Jacob loves playing in my office at school. He says he's having his "small group" in my office. Small group is part of his day at school.


This is a picture of a fun thank you giant card that one of the families made. I am really going to miss them!

Emily was helping after soccer and then started pouting into the balls! We are blessed to have a soccer coach that helps the group of 1st graders practice and scrimmage. There are about 20 kids on the "team" and Jacob plays with the younger siblings for about 20 minutes before the big kids get started. It's very relaxed and fun, exactly the type of soccer we need!

Emily came to drop Jacob off one day and posed for a quick picture!

Jacob loves to pretend. He is pretending ship and castle here.

Emily has embraced her ladybug ride she got for Christmas!

It has been very cool this spring but one day it was unusually hot and we decided to get the sprinkler out. Megan and Jacob love it...Emily wasn't a big fan which surprised me because she usually is a dare devil!

I love this action shot of Jacob!

We went to the lake with only Jacob and Megan. Overall they did great!

Megan posing on the horse for a picture!

Rock climbing at the park!

On the way home Jacob couldn't quite make it and so cutely fell asleep with his hand in the animal crackers!

Emily continues her love of Minnie Mouse and we are letting her. Here she is all dressed up.

Wow! It's amazing how different a day can be from a single picture. In this picture the kids are at Hobby Lobby sitting so sweetly smiles ear to ear. However, the entire morning was screaming and yelling and just not a good start to the day.

Megan posing with her 1st grade teacher Mrs. Gonzales. We are really going to miss her! Megan made such progress this year!

The kids use the giant lego bricks everyday. Their current favorite thing to do is make a cage on one side of the hallway and pretend to be animals (usually tigers).

I have to admit our summer nights are fun so far. The weather has been cool and the kids have enjoyed the freedom of playing in the yard. Tonight they found a turtle, researched what it needed, and then kept peeking from the deck to look to see if it was exploring yet. Megan is in heaven!

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Zoo part 2

Overall we had a wonderful time and can't wait to come back again!
The kids are checking the monkey out!

I took over 5 pictures trying to get them all turned and looking am me, this was the best one of the bunch but still not exactly what I wanted!

I love these toothless grins!

Giraffes!



Emily loved climbing on the fences. We had a nice relaxing day so we took our time!

For some reason the animals look better when they are up on  the fence!





I admit, I staged this one but the girls hold hands here and there so it was cute!



Zoo fun! Part 1

After closing on our house we decided to take the kids to the zoo to celebrate! It was one of the best zoo trips we've ever taken...we forgot the stroller which was for the best because no one complained about walking and Emily is little miss independent so she loved walking!

Emily led the way through the tunnel. This girl has no fear, she'd walk off a cliff if it looked good...we are in for it bigtime!

Fascinated by the little fishies!

Another fun picture!

Jacob was calm cool and collected looking at the fish swim!

Emily only allowed this to happen for little bits here and there!

Megan and Jacob looking at the elephants.

Big fish this time!

Cheese! Every other time we've been to the zoo the beetle is always too hot to sit on for a picture so this day was perfect for a picture!

Butterflies!

Megan was in heaven in the butterfly area!