Cool Riders

Poppy has created two monsters. On Saturday, he took the kids around the neighborhood for 30 minutes letting them take turns "driving" the Corvette. They had so much fun!!! On Sunday, they begged to do it again!!! I hope they don't expect one of these for their 16th birthday!!!!

Positions

Happy Friday!! Yesterday, Jillian's dance class opened the doors for parents so we could see what they have been learning this spring!! As always, Jillian did great. She takes the singing very seriously!! Her dance moves are secondary.

This is my favorite song that they do. I have very clear memories of working at the barre at my dance studio when I was little and learning the positions.

Rocco was soooooooooooooo good during dance class. I gave him my phone and he worked on putting together some puzzles and memory games using some of my apps. What did we do before phones???

Hadleigh was very good too. She read her Elmo book and drank a bottle then she decided to pee all over my Dad. Ha!!! I guess her diaper was not situated correctly and let out some leakage. It was so funny! Well, probably not for my Dad!!

Crawling the "right" way

Yay!!!!! At 14 months, Hadleigh has decided to crawl the "right" way. She is up on all fours and moving like a champ!!! I have been meaning to video her in action for several days and just couldn't get the time to do it. You will crack up at the end of the video at what she is crawling for!!! Seriously, every child loves a phone no matter what age!!!

Easter Weekend

WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD!!!

On Saturday, Summer and I had the brilliant idea to take the kids to the park for some "exercise." In reality, it is more like herding cats and stopping for water/snack breaks ever five minutes!! Since SA has gotten some rain, the park was gorgeous and green!!!

Here is Gavin and Jillian on their bikes and Rocco on a scooter...
The babes had a relaxing ride in the shade!!!

Poppy surprised us and showed up at the park for some exercise too!

Then after we hit the bike trails, we hit the playground!!! The double slide is a hit!!!

Doesn't H look like such a big girl???

Here is the 100th stop for a snack...

We really are sooooo blessed to have both of our families so close. Saturday night, we had dinner with Bryan's fam. Lots of cousins = lots of chaos and fun. I think Hadleigh favors Bryan's nieces Leslie and Jenny. This is Les....

This is Jen...

Jillian and Rocco LOVE playing with Katie and Ashlie joined the fun too.

We turned on the music and they wanted to dance!!!!

Time to dye eggs!!!!

This was just a few.....

Then late at night, the Easter Bunny went to work!!!!

I cannot show ya'll any photos of Sunday morning because my children refused to wear any clothes. I am not kidding when I say our children opened their baskets with no clothes on. How weird are they?? Well, they said it was too hot!!!

But to church, they put on their finest!!!!

After church, they changed clothes and got to open some presents from Grammie and Poppy!!

I ADORE this picture of Jillian and my Grandma. She is 94 and helping Jillian with her princess puzzle. How precious are moments like this???

Jillian and Gavin hunted eggs for HOURS!!!!

They were hiding the eggs in really hard places!!!!

While Bill-Bill, KK and Roc had partied too hard and zonked out!!!!

The End.

Happy Easter!!!

Hope you are having a wonderful Easter with family and friends!!!

Wave those Palms!!!

Last Sunday was Palm Sunday and the kids did so well in the Palm Processional. This was Rocco's first time and he did great. Jillian is an old pro and she was so happy to have Gavin with her this year. Gavin kept wacking her in the head with her palm and Jillian was laughing down the aisle. It was so funny!!!

This year, they started so fast that we barely had time to reach for our cameras. Rocco was first and we barely got the shot. He loved seeing us in "big church!


Then these two!! Again, Jillian was giggling the whole way down the aisle.


Summer and I got this nicest compliment from Gavin and Jillian's teacher. After Sunday School, she came up to us and told us how wonderful and sweet these two are in class. She said they participate in the stories and ask questions and it was so GREAT to hear this!!

This is them on the way out of church.....

Alright!! We are done!!! Where are the eggs????

We sat the whole crew down before the egg hunt began. Poor Hadleigh-boo was not feeling well. Took her to the doc yesterday and double ear infections a-gain!! YUK!!!

It was such a great day!! I finished another year of being "in-charge" of our church's egg hunt. This year I fixed the problems we had last year with the baby division but we did not have enough eggs for the 4-6 year old division. It is hard to get it all right!! There is always next year.......

94

On Saturday, my Grandma turned 94!!! 94 people!! She wanted a birthday party and so we obliged. Some of our family met at Hermans & Son Steakhouse in Hondo. When you are 94 with 6 children, you accumulate a HUGE family. I think Hadleigh and KK are her 21st and 22nd great-grandchild and she even has 2 great-great grandchildren!! This is a pic of some of our fam!!

I thought this turned out to be a cute pic of our fam!! (well, Rocco's finger in the mouth is typical)

It was HOT!! 90 degrees already!! All the boys in the orange looked soooooooo cute!!!

The restaurant had this huge area to play!!

Jillian was sharing her cake with Poppy!!

Here was the best part. Look at this old oak tree. Isn't it gorgeous???

When you look a little closer, there was something in that tree. What is it???

Three baby squirrels!!!!! Aren't they precious?? They were so cute that we kept debating if they were real!!!

Such a great day and my Grandma was so happy!!!!