5th grade grad

 Merry finished her 5th grade year.

 She finished with academic honors and received a special citizenship award,

 We are so proud of her.

Merry with some of her sweet friends.

Merry plays basketball

 Merry played basketball for the first time this spring.

 Her height was definitely an advantage.

She didn't love sweating or not being in air conditioning.

Who can blame a girl.

You can tell Eliza and Grace were really into watching the games.

Happy Mother's Day and Universal

 Happy Mother's day.  Me with all my sweet kiddos.

 Last weekend we went to Universal Studios with Brian's work.

It is a good thing we didn't have to pay for the full price of Universal tickets because my kids really just like swimming at the pool.  Adam spent 7 hours straight playing a swimming. 

I think he knew every kid by the time he left.

Happy birthday Grace

 Happy birthday dear Grace.

 9 years old is pretty fabulous.

 Grace is the little mother of the family.

She is the one who worries if Eliza has a hand to hold to cross the road and if Eliza is buckled properly.

 She is a fierce defender and will argue if she sees any injustice being done.

She loves soccer and anything cute and cuddly.

We love our sunny Grace.

Jacob at soccer

 

 Jacob played for a competitive team, his middle school and a rec spring league.

This is a bunch of pictures of him in action.

 Or non action.

 Night games are always fun.

 That foot just looks strange.

 Fierce defence.

  I will get my knee on it.

 Clearing the ball

 Getting ready for the corner.

 The other kid is pretty flexible, but Jacob has a better angry face.

Blocking a free kick.

For some reason I have no school soccer shots, maybe next year.

 A flying leap.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter.

All the kids in their Easter best.  This picture was prior to the egg hunt so you can see how excited all of them are to be in the picture.

No I am not falling into Brian, one of the kids just took this picture on an angle because the camera was too heavy for them to hold up.

Eliza count her eggs.

Eliza posing for the camera.

Grace looking for the eggs

Eliza stealing Jacob's candy.

 Pretty Merry.

 Adam looking very concerned that one golden egg never was found.

The group of egg dyers.

Happy birthday to me

I had another birthday, it seems like these come up more often the older I get.

We had a great day full of soccer and hanging out together as a family.

Brian bought me a new dress.

So I let him be in my birthday pictures.