1st day of school

Here are the kiddos ready to head to school.

Notes on above photo:

I did not pick the matching shirts, Jacob did.

Merry is starting 1st grade, I think that is her nervous smile.

Grace is starting preschool, green is still her favorite color.

Jacob is starting 3rd grade and he still does not like to pose for pictures.

Adam is just along for the ride.

Our house is yellow now, not blue. I feel much better about life.

We really need to mow the lawn or better described the weed patch.

I wish some one would put her bike away.

Patriotic finery

 Taking pictures after church never is a good idea.

This is why I hardly take pictures anymore, I have such a cooperative crew.

Merry's kindergarten graduation

Merry's kindergarten graduation (luau).  Thank goodness her teacher remembered to bring her camera.

Her teacher took 1st and last day of school pictures of her.  I think she grew 4 or 5 inches.

Here are a couple of samples of Merry's writing that I thought were pretty entertaining.

Ham and cheese with rolls, who knew?

Jacob is 8

Happy 8th birthday to Jacob.

My rendition of angry birds.

Jacob's baptism.

Brian, Jacob and Papa.

Happy Mother's Day

I have the best kids in the world.

Maybe we should have taken this picture before church.

I have no idea what happened to Adam's eye.

 

Miss Grace is 4

Happy Birthday to Miss Grace.

Her balloons have a sad tale.  We went to the dollar store to get her 2 green star balloons for her birthday, then stopped at Sonic to get slushies during happy hour.  On the way home we stopped at the fruit stand to pick up a watermelon (the watermelon caused Grace to get a rash on her face).  Pulling out of the fruit stand, Merry some how squashed the slushy cup in the cup holder on the door, so slushy was running down the door.  I told Merry to roll down the window to dump the rest of the slushy out and out flew Grace's 2 star balloons.  Needless to say everyone in the car was crying .  Brian took Grace to Tampa to run some errands in the evening and stopped to get some more balloons unfortunately the dollar store had run out of helium.  So he had to drive back to the original dollar store to get some more balloons, this time 4 balloons for all the running around.  So Grace had her balloons after all.

Grace is obsessed with owls and the color green.  She asked for a green owl birthday.  

Luckily 9 inch rounds turn into an owl pretty easily.  

She asked for an owl suitcase.  I asked her if she had ever seen one before, but she had not.

Thank goodness for Target, they have everything.

The fancy cake innards copied from BH&G.

Grace modeling her birthday shirt and owl print bows.  

What a cutie.

Happy Easter/birthday

Happy Easter and happy birthday to me.  This is the last year my birthday will fall on Easter, unless I live until 113 or something like that.

Decorated Easter eggs, always a good time.

Me in my Easter finery with my birthday cake.  I think the candles lie.

The eggs ready to be eaten.  I actually asked for chickens for my birthday, Brian being much older and wiser said we had to have a chicken coop first.  Instead he got me a kindle, which I have spent the entire month of April reading every Georgette Heyer book.  I know, sick obsession, but now I am done and I can finally get around to building my chicken coop.  

If you are wondering where the pictures of the kids are, I was on holiday from taking pictures as it was my birthday so there are none.   Maybe next year.