The kids seem to share Michaels love of running!

OK, this post catches me up from March! I went ahead and posted all of them so that when we get back from vacation I can hopefully update right away!

The kids have asked Michael to train them for races. So the training has begun!

This girl wouldn't stop running. She loved it as much as the other two!

Cheese!

Punk wouldn't let me take his picture! His favorite part is running as fast as he can and racing.

Our kids all have the tomato syndrome when they get hot!

I think it's safe to say that Megan is going to be a runner. She absorbs what Michael tells her, this day she ran a mile and a half and wanted to do more. She's my crazy kid who would rather run around the playground than play on the playground when she was little. I am excited for her that she has this love and we are excited that we can help foster it. She is officially training for her next 5K in October! She loves to run the distance more than sprint so it's going to be interesting with all of these runners in the house!

May fun!

These two are a hoot!

Here we are planting our indoor greenhouse so that we can have a garden in the backyard this summer! Jacob said on several occasions that "PopPop is really a genius." He couldn't get it through his head that PopPop didn't invest this thing!

Emily is fully potty trained and this is after her first session! She loved every minute of it!

The trio is really growing up!

We worked super hard on landscaping this year. We pulled out all of the silly plants in the front and added perennials that are doing well! We also have now completed the other part in front of the windows too! 

Megan is in gardening heaven!

This was her first Conservation Kids Club meeting at the Runge. Michael and her helped clean up the creek and she loved it!

As the year was ending one of our parents snapped a shot of us serving cookies! The one of the left is Nicole and the one in the middle is Jessica (who has Shoney while we are on vacation!)

This is a picture of the three on the last day of school. It's hard to believe the year is over!

This is the group of shakers who worked like crazy mixing syrup for our fundraiser...who knew how much physical labor goes into a "shaved ice."

On graduation day my buddy Anthony posed for a picture. I am really going to miss this guy next year!

Spring Sports

Megan loves being active and she decided to try something new this year...volleyball! Jacob also tried something new...soccer!

Her team!

In the moment!

Her cheering squad!

I've never seen Jacob as happy as he was out on the soccer field. He loved every minute.

Here is a picture of part of his team!

This is Jacob and his best buddy at school. They both share a love of batman!

Fun group!

We had a blast with this crew who stayed the night on a Saturday night!

We managed to get them all up and ready in enough time for a picture before church!

These two on kindergarten visit day. We are really hoping they are in the same class!

The kids all made their own pizza and here they are pointing their's out!

They made all kinds of fun forts together and they all played together, it was great!

Happy Birthday Emily

There are several more pictures I will add as a bonus Easter sometimes this summer!

Here is Emily's cake, The pink one is supposed to be Minnie's dress.

Luke and Emily both have birthdays close together and they both celebrated at Easter at Sue's.

To say that Emily is obsessed with Minnie is an understatement! It was definitely the theme for her this day!

Happy Easter!!!

Random pics!

Megan and Jacob ready to shoot!

Emily was sweeping the water table!

He's so goofy!

This is the little guy who stayed with us for about a week...definitely a life changer having him and his 7 year old sister here...can you tell he loves books!

Here I am reading to the same two plus Jacob and Emily. Who knows where Megan was running off to!

Jacob's awesome creation at school.

Easter egg coloring at "Miss Nicole's" house and the kids like to say! We went to see Rio 2 and then colored Easter eggs, it was a blast!

The girls decided to dress up!

Jacob is double buckled, one for himself and one for his air bear (which used to be Michaels!)!

Emily gets a ton of laughs with her crazy eyes and this picture doesn't even come close to the craziness in person!

This is a little more like we are used to seeing!

Mmmm, SnowBiz!