Visit to Nana Judy and Bapa Ron's house

10:55 AM

Our family went up and visited Daddy's family last weekend! Here are some pics!

We all went to Storybook Land!

Walking in (Bapa, Uncle DJ, Nana Judy, some man I don't know, Aunt Rachelle and Noah and Blake)
Avery was feeling a bit crazy, and posed for numerous funny pics!
Getting ready to walk down the yellow brick road!
giddy up!
the girls, with cousin Noah
figuring out this contraption, with Aunt Rachelle!



Nana and Bapa bought all the kiddos a treat. Noah and Blake got these noisy sticks...
and the girls each got some rings!

also, while at Culver's, the girls made a pickle sandwich, and thought it was picture worthy ;)

Muffins for Moms

10:53 AM

Olivia invited me to "Muffins for Mom" at her preschool!
She ate 4 mini muffins, and we had a nice time visiting at her school together! :)

Teacher Appreciation

10:50 AM

I always like to do a little something for our teachers during Teacher Appreciation week. This year we made a door banner for Avery's teacher, and a banner for the staff lounge!

Avery's teacher LOVES to bike!

above this banner were some flags that said "We Love Our..."

Hope they feel appreciated this week!

Birthdays

10:34 AM

Daddy and I both had our birthdays in the past couple of weeks. I turned 33 on April 29th, and he turned 38 on May 8th. The girls always know just what to do to make us feel special ;)

Mom's cards:

from Avery-

from Liv-

Dad's cards:

from Avery-

From Liv-

I also received a wonderful bouquet of flowers from the garden of some members of our church!

Quick Visit...

6:20 PM


Nana Judy, Great Grandma Hilda, Great Uncle Allen and Great Aunt Janet stopped by yesterday! Livie was smitten with Aunt Jan!

Winnie LOVED her, too!


I didn't have the heart to scold Janet for jumping on the trampoline, when only little kiddos are supposed to!

Look how much fun they had.... :)

Speech

12:25 PM

My little peanut graduated from Speech on Wednesday!


She has been receiving speech services since she was 2.

With the exit tests she had to complete, she scored very well, and only has 2 sounds (r and sh) that she still needs to learn :)

We are grateful to her speech teacher from this year, Jennifer, and her speech teacher from the last 2 years, Rachel!

and her "old teacher" Megan.

Crazy to remember that we once were testing to see if she had hearing loss, and beginning the road to getting her talking!


We are so proud of you Liv! Way to go!

oops...forgot to add...

12:17 PM

I found some more pictures on my phone from our Big Town weekend!

We stopped off at Barnes and Noble, and Olivia was so funny. The second we walked in the doors, she booked it to the Children's area. Not for the books, but straight for the stage! HA! Here she is dropping a book about Tim Tebow that she was reading to us :)

We also ate at the WONDERFUL Mr. Goodcents! Anyone who lives in or around Big Town NEEDS to go there! SO much better than any other sub joint around!
At the mall, there was this Santa looking guy who was giving train rides around an area of the mall. The girls had such a fun time!
Winnie is on day 22 of her heat. Seriously....enough is enough already....
These beauties arrived this morning for me! For the past 2 weeks I have been "working out". It is beginning slowly, but I am sticking with it. Trying to eat better, and going to do the 30 Day Shred and Couch 2 5K (maybe) :)

Weekend trip to SF!

8:55 AM

Our family just returned yesterday from a 2 day FUN weekend to BIG Town :) A couple from our church gifted a night at a hotel with a water park, and we were finally able to go enjoy it!

We woke up and headed out super early on Sunday morning, to make it to church! We attended a church that Daddy preached at when it was a new "sister" church plant when we lived in Big Town. It was great to see some familiar faces, and also a former preschool student of mine (who will be 15 this year!!!).

After church, we went to Red Lobster and stuffed ourselves to the brim! Next was a little mall shopping, some Target, Barnes and Noble, and some driving around to show the girls where we used to live!

Avery had some money to spend, and of course...she bought books!

This is the children's hospital in Big Town. Couldn't believe how beautiful it is! This was a block of houses when we lived here!

Next, on to Falls Park!




A nice lady taking a boys senior pictures took a few pics of our family!





After Falls Park, it was finally time to check in to our hotel! The girls were SOOOO excited! We swam and played for close to 2 hours.

There was a super fast slide at the water park, and Avery was brave enough to go down it with a floatie on. Olivia went down as well, but only on Mommy's lap, or Avery's!


After taking the following picture, some ladies sitting nearby made the comment "Oh, you're going to have your hands full with that one".... :) Yes, Livie is our spicy little girl!



Don't you love their suits? I got these 50's inspired suits on clearance at Land's End last year! Love them! More modest, and we like that!


The girls (and mommy) loved the hot tubs!

We then went out for some supper, and some more driving around Big Town. It's amazing how in 8 years a town can change! We ended up having supper at Mr. Goodcents, which was a favorite of ours when we lived there! YUM YUM!

Then, back to the hotel for another hour of swimming! :)

The next morning, we swam some more, and then headed on out for some shopping and lunch. We were lucky enough that Nana Dianne came out to our house a few days earlier, and volunteered to stay with Winnie while we were gone (by the way...on day 17 of her heat...grrr).

A very nice fun filled family trip!

Learning to READ!

12:11 AM

Olivia has been working on reading, and she has been doing a pretty great job! :)

See for yourself :)


It's pretty darn exciting! Avery learned how to read 1 1/2 months before she turned 5 (see here), and Liv is now learning 1 week before she turns 5 1/2! She'll have such a great start to Kindergarten in the fall! :)

Yeah Livie! SOOOOO proud of you! Keep it up!

ADDED: I found the video of Avery beginning to read! :) So cute!

4...

8:40 PM

miscarriages, that is....

4...

3 in our church family, us included....

1 more in our family...


a young couple from our church, who found out they were pregnant right at the same time we did, lost their baby during the night last night....

4 miscarriages, within 2 months...

Do I wonder why? yes...a lot

Do I trust in Him? Completely, totally...

still doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like heck....

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