Hello. It is me. I am going to try to catch up on a few things we have been up to the past couple of weeks/months....
The girls had their final dance recital nearly a month ago. It was so wonderful as always. Unfortunately with Mike having to take care of Cole and me helping Michelle wherever needed, I didn't get any dance pics. And I mean ANY! This is it. This is a quick shot of us trying to round up the girls for one last pic at the end of the recital. She had about 60 students this year...and it was her last year teaching. :( It was great and I will miss her teaching and so will my girls. Thanks Mic for all your hard work! We loved it and we love you!!
(While I am really sad that I didn't get any other pics than this, I am grateful that MJ is willing to watch Cole during the ongoings because that my friends is NOT an easy task!!)
The girls started piano lessons this year. They have really enjoyed it and have the best piano teacher there is! She is so great with the girls and I have been impressed with how well they have picked it up. Their final recital was last Saturday and Grandma Lori and Crampa Jerry came to watch. It was a short recital and a quick visit but we loved it all!!
Here is Cole at 9 months old. (April 12th.) I am taking pics in a laundry basket and just thought I would throw this in. He is really growing.
One night before MJ left for work at Ray's, he slipped an Oreo to Cole and this is the result of the scrumptious treat. I was of course on clean up committee. Yay.
The one true thing that Cole loves is swinging. We have had a beautiful spring and have been able to spend some time outside. He could sit and swing all day.
The girls found my camera and decided to make a photo shoot with their brother. Here is his western attire. There are many, many more strange outfits and pics on the camera, but I spared you from our interesting selves.
Tonight I decided we should go for a few pictures and MJ wanted to show us a fun place on the river he found. So we took a few pictures of the kids and it was an ok event.
Cambree is finishing up her 4th grade year. She has loved her teacher, loved her classmates, loved piano, dancing, ski school, friends, activity days, and pretty much everything in her life. She is such a great girl. And will be 11 this fall!!! WOW!
Aidan misses preschool. He is looking forward to going in the fall. He can count to 100 now and loves to tell you all about it. He loves throwing rocks and climbing fences. We are having a battle of wills with this kid and working on some discipline around here. He is excited for summer and it will be wild with him this year.
Brinlee is finishing up 3rd grade. She was able to pass of her times tables and received an award of one extremely large jaw breaker. She was able to suck it 1/2 way down in 2 days and had several cankers from the effort. She is always full of some funny story and has a lot of spunk. It is never dull when Brin is around!
Wow. I don't know what to say about our baby Cole. It has literally been the longest year of my entire life. He has cried/screamed/cried/screamed/cried....every single day for the past 10 months. (He turned 10 months old yesterday.) He is never, ever content. We love him to pieces but WOW. He is a hard little person. He finally started crawling on the 5th of May. He is getting better and better everyday. I think he has allergies and I am beginning to wonder if he is just allergic to us. We really do love this little fella but he has sure been a challenge and that is the plain and simple truth. Someday I hope to look back on these days and remember them with fondness or at least laugh at how mean he has been. Right now it is a struggle to get up in the morning and face the day...
MJ has 2 weeks of school left like the kids and then we get to be so lucky because he has to bring home his many pets. He is a pet owner of a gecko, a tarantula spider and a madagascar cock roach. Gross. We also own a guinea pig already. And our house is overflowing with children so don't ask me what we are going to do with all these things!! Yay summer.... :/
I am still doing the mom thing! I love it and am so grateful everyday that I can stay home and enjoy my kids. The good times and the bad times. I am looking forward to summer and have some fun things in mind of what we can do. It will be wonderful... I hope. What doesn't kill me will only make me stronger! :)
