Mother's Day 2013

I am one lucky mommy!!!!

Have 2 beautiful kids who make me so happy to be a mommy!

Was able to spend the day with my sweet family and had a great dinner at Carambas (my choice)....even had a special toast to me :)

4/26/13 happy 10 years!

What a wonderful 10 years it has been!

So blessed to have such an amazing person to share my life with....

My hubby surprised me with my favorite dessert and we enjoyed a fabulous dinner at The Pointe....

I love you Paul!!!!

:0(

Due to my 'playing catch up' blogging, I missed a couple of important events....SO, I am playing catch up even more now....
UGH!!!
will officially be caught up soon!

Mother's Day- 1st Grade Style

5/10/13

I can't say it enough how fortunate we were to be blessed with Mrs. Gagner as Ella's 1st grade teacher...

I had heard about the wonderful Mother's Day celebration the 1st graders put on and I knew it would be 'emotional' when I saw all the kleenex boxes on the tables....

It started with Mrs.Gagner tearfully reading a wonderful book called, "Let Me Hold You Longer"

If you get a chance, read it....Such great words and a sweet message.

Then we had a lovely snack and were pampered with hand massages and getting our nails polished.

 

 My portrait....

 Being silly....we took an upside down photo

 Ella and Mrs.Gagner

 My beautiful nails....Such a great job

Such a treasure is my beautiful Ella....



Mother's Day....Preschool Style....

 

5/9/13

 The Mother's Day celebration at preschool was a fun morning....

Loved seeing the special things that Logan made for me like a beautiful necklace and a book all about me (questions answered by him)...

We played games, ate snack, and best of all, just spent time together....

Don't you just love my bonnet???

 Logan and Mrs. Zane....

 Logan and Mrs. Doerr

Bridging to Brownies

5/8/13

 

Ella was a proud Daisy Scout this year at school...

It was the first year and she enjoyed all the adventures that the year brought....

A few weeks ago, she prepared for next year and Brownies...

 

Walking across the bridge to join the Brownies...

 

 Cake with her best buddies...

 Showing off all her patches...

 Such a sweet Brownie to be...

 the troop...

The final Cupcake Season

5/4/13

The Cupcakes worked hard at the tournament this year and won BOTH their final games and took home a championship trophy out of the 4 teams in their division...

Ella worked extra hard and did a fabulous job!

She looks so tall and grown up in this photo with her proud daddy

 Go Cupcakes!!!!

This is the last season all these girls will play together since Ella is moving to a more competitive division...

 She has so much to be proud of ! Love you Soccer Star!!!

International Festival

5/3/13

Ella's school has an event each year that unfortunately we had to miss due to soccer last year so this was our first experience...

Each classroom represents a different country and has food, posters, and a craft for the kids to do...

Lots of fun and lots to learn...

 

 How funny are these next two photos???

 Such a great event...

Had to take a photo of the pretty flowers on our way out...

Congratulations Ninja Turtles!!!!

4/20/13

The boys had a great spring season!

Such a wonderful group of boys!!!

 Yeah Logan!!!! Love the trophy!

 the celebration continued after church....waving the flags at the great race!!!

George Washington

Loved Ella's George....

Such a cute report she did and I loved helping her with it...

Who knew what crazy things George's teeth were made out of...

Sisters...

What a wonderful photo of my mom and aunt!

Thanks for visiting Ann...

Special Guests at Soccer

4/13/13

 

Logan's preschool teacher, Mrs.Zane came to watch one of the boy's games...

There were a couple of very happy Ninja Turtles

 

Preston, Mrs.Zane, and Logan...

 What a wonderful 1st teacher he has....

 Another special guest that day was the kids' Great Auntie Ann....

 And Grammie and Papa watched the games too...

 Both kids and Auntie Ann....

The kids LOVED every minute of having all these special people at their games that day...

Easter

3/31/13

What an exciting Easter morning....

They loved their baskets...

Thank you Easter Bunny....

 Papa and Otto....

 Finding eggs in the backyard....

 And an early 1st time in the pool....March!!!

 Always happy to swim....

 Logan loves Otto....

 And nothing better on Easter than learning about settlers with Ms. Ella...

Kenny learned alot :0)

I think I really enjoyed the day because I didn't take many photos :0(

Neighborhood Easter Celebration and Easter eve....

3/30/13

We are lucky to live in such a fun neighborhood....

The Easter party at the park is always a great morning....

The kids were happy to get their 'Easter gear' on and head over...

 So cute with the bunny....

 I love this look on Logan's face...he is definitely interested in checking out what the little girl got in her egg....

 waiting to hear 'go'...

 And then there was the hula hoop contest....

Ella waiting again to hear the word 'go'....

 And she never stopped....and she....

 WON!!!

What a proud little girl!

 Loved the face and hand painting....

 After a rest and getting ready, we headed to church...

After eating, we headed home to put the carrots out for the bunny....

And special pictures for the bunny as well.....