Birthday Cookies

Ethan really wanted to have some sort of birthday celebration at school.  But since school is out before his birthday, we had to do it early.  I brought him a happy meal and some cookies to share with his class to celebrate :)!  It was fun to see him in his element and join him on the playground!

Mother/son selfie!
(I had just finished playing tennis, still sweaty and red cheeked!)

Crazy 1st graders!

On the playground with these 2!
 Zach and Ethan

Garden Path Field Trip

Ethan had a field trip to a local garden center on May 9. (I know...that was a while ago!)  Atley and I got to go with him.  It was so fun!  They learned about different plants and then had a fun scavenger hunt through the beautiful gardens there!  I just hope all the kids didn't trample the flowers too much!

Field trip fun!

Checking items off the scavenger hunt!

A picture with my bookends :)

Getting to plant his own flower

This one is just for fun!  I asked him to look and smile for a picture and the photo to the right is what I got.  I thought I recognized that look and dug up the other one!  Ha!

Just a goofy boy!  Almost exactly 3 years apart :)!

Phone Dump

Here's another phone dump post :)!

I took the girls to the park after preschool! April 19

Fun double swing!

Nora and Atley

April 21 at Krave

All 4 coloring on the wall at Krave

April 28

Ethan and his trash sculpture he made for school!

May 2

This is how I found Atley one morning...stripped down and happy!

 May 2

We met daddy downtown for lunch!

And then did a little shopping and meeting Honest Abe!

May 7

Blizzards all around!

Pre-K Fire Station Field Trip

A couple weeks ago Nora's pre school class took a field trip to one of the local fire stations.  It's a great tour and the kids had a blast!

Decatur Fire Station #1

In the fire truck!

Hanging out on the back of the truck with Callynn

Watching Mrs. Barney get all dressed up :)

It's a heavy hat!

Class Picture

And snack time after the tour with my girl :)!

Phone Dump

I'm catching up!  Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks.

April 8

Sitting on the table... She was pretty proud.

April 9

Ethan- all geared up for his first soccer game at 18 degrees!

April 11

My Cardinal fans watching the home opener!

April 15

Not the most quality photo, but they love to dance together!

April 16

Such a good big brother pulling his sisters after his soccer game.  (Also, note the difference in attire from last week- it was almost 80 degrees by the end of this game!)

Weekend in StL

The first weekend in April we celebrated Ethan's best friend, Zach's (and our next door neighbor) birthday.  We headed down early on Saturday morning and spent the whole day at the City Museum.  It was so much fun!  (And exhausting!)  We so enjoy spending time with this family.  I can't believe how blessed we are that they moved in next door! We spent the night and went to the zoo the next day.  What a great weekend!  Enjoy some pictures from our fun weekend!

Nora- climbing all over!

Showdown with the sumo man!

Zach, Ethan, Nora, Liz

Atley LOVED the ball pit!

They loved this area of the museum!  

That was a fast slide! Ha!

And, Nora's turn!

Nora- outside fun!

Atley did great while we climbed around outside (and my thighs were burning!!!)

Ethan and Zach

My favorite picture from the whole weekend!

Lock them up!!

Watching shoelaces being made :)

I took a turn climbing around with Nora.  We're  bumping into the ceiling here!

Our family of 5, exhausted after a fun filled day at the City Museum!

And this is why we were exhausted! 

The zoo was a lot of fun too and the weather was perfect!

Atley was very interested by the penguins!

The polar bear was so fun to watch!

Not exactly ready for this pic ;)!  

Nora and Ethan- hanging out with the giraffe!

Pool Fun!

On Ethan's last day of his Easter break, I decided to take the kids to the Taylorville YMCA about 30 minutes from our house.  It has a great pool for kids!  They loved it.  There's a lazy river that we did about 98 times! I got my workout in that day for sure, walking all those laps! And I think Ethan and Nora liked this whirlpool thing the best!  The water had a whirlpool current that took them around and around in circles.  I had to literally drag them out :)!  It was hard to get a lot of pictures since I was in the water with Atley the whole time, but I managed to get a couple!

Excited to get in the water!!

Snack time!

Nora and Ethan working the tire swing!

She loved splashing!

3 happy kids :)!