Puddles!

We had another rainy day here so when the boys got home from school (and were already wearing rain boots) it made perfect sense to jump in puddles.

 

I'll be looking for rain boots for Emily now since she had such a blast running and trying to jump in the puddles!

Happy Mother's Day! 2014 edition!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day today with my kiddos. :) They (& Daniel) surprised me with a bike this morning as well as a new necklace. We had bought a bike seat for Emily in anticipation of getting me a bike so we finally had a place to put it. She loved it. We had a great family bike ride this morning (as well as this evening!). I'll try to upload the video Daniel took of us riding tomorrow sometime. It's on his phone so I'll have to figure out how to get it.

Here's my new necklace:

It's got all 3 of the kids' birthstones in it as well as a mom heart. I simply love it (and I did a great job of picking it out and suggesting Daniel buy it!!).

Some fun pictures from our day...

And then I wanted a nice picture with the kids (& Ringo eventually!)...some of our attempts...

 

 

Why not try to get a nice picture or two of the kids (separate)? Jacob is more than happy to put on a nice smile and let me snap photos.. Zach on the other hand gives me a few different phoney baloney smiles. Emily wouldn't sit where I wanted her to.

 

The boys opened up our garage fridge and saw grape soda and requested they each have a can.. and they thought Emily should have one too. We told them they could split one and they had to share with Emily if she wanted any.

One soda, two straws. Zero fighting.

 

Then they put it down.......... 

and Emily enjoyed the last little bit.

 

More cuteness..

 

I ended the day with a call with my mom to catch up and am ready for bed!

happy kids + happy mom = Happy Mother's Day!

 

 





What a GREAT day!

Of course I've already posted a few pictures on FB but I needed to blog about my sweet, smart oldest boy, Jacob.

Today was the first grade awards for the third marking period (and nope, Kindergarten isn't doing awards this marking period either!). I got the little note in his report card about it and marked it on my calendar.

Getting his commendable attendance award. He missed one day this marking period for being sick. Stinky stomach bug!!

Cheeeeeese!

Getting his Principal's Award for having all A's.

 

Cheeeeeeeeese!

(And as my neighbor put it as he smiled as soon as he stood up there, I have them so well trained! They know to give me a big grin for a picture as soon as possible!)

And I wasn't prepared for this one so I didn't have my camera out until they were getting ready to get down but this one was a student success award for leadership.

Showing off his certificates! So proud of him. :-)

There's only one reason why they're both so happy (with each other) after school....

they both got on blue! And you know what that means....

 

We went out for ice cream after dinner!!

It was cold and rainy so we went to Coldstone where we could eat inside.

Zach chose cotton candy ice cream with gummy bears.

Jake chose strawberry ice cream with Reese's peanut butter cups.

(and yes, I tasted it and to me it was as awful as it sounds)

And Emily drank about half of my strawberry mango smoothie. Fewer calories for me!