hahahah....Chris!

Christopher said the funniest thing today ...

ready for a laugh?

"Daddy, I have peas and noodles in my feet."

Hehe..he cracks us up!!!

Weekend of Birthday celebrations!

This past weeked was an absolutely beautiful weekend spent with absolutely lovely family members!

Saturday we celebrated the first birthday of Little Miss Lily! Lily is super adoreable and is already super smart and an amazing "athlete" following in her parents footsteps! She started walking well before her first birthday and will soon be jogging the beach boardwalk with Mom and surfing the waves with Dad!

Her parents, our cousins, threw her a beautiful first birthday where the theme was Fun, Family & Friends!! The kids splashed on the slip'n'slide and jumped in a few kiddie pools! The BBQ was delicious...and then of course Mom...aka "Martha stewart" made the most beautiful deserts...only the best for her Lily-pie!

                                     

On Sunday, we celebrated my sister, Jessica's birthday! This was a special one! It was her first surprise birthday celebration, thrown by her amazing fiance, in their new home!!! It was also their first time hosting a pool party...(it was nice lying back nad not being the host of the pool party this time..hehe!)

The kids had a blast in teh pool and got to meet their soon to be new cousins! They all got along so well! 

                   


           

 I do beleive she had a great time with her friends and family who love her so very much:

    

And then there were gifts...

               

                                                            All grown up gifts....                       Still young at heart gifts!

Happy Birthday Lily & Jessica!!!

Monster Mini Golf Party....ooooohhhooohhh....

So the kids get to enjoy a kids birthday party when they turn 5! We don't do a big all out party each year for 4 kids...(yikes!), but when they turn 5 , they choose what type of party they want, and get to invite 10 friends. (of course, with siblings, we had 21 kids there! ) Chris chose Monster Mini Golf, an indoor -glow int he dark facility. It was a blast, the colors and art were fantastic. The kids were all smiling and seemed to all have fun!  Here 's a little look:

  

 

               

Chris Graduates Pre-K!

 

All about Chris these past few days (posts)! Birthday, Birthday party, Pre-K moving up ceremony...

He did it, he completed Pre-K, at the same school the girls attended pre-k, and the same school where he will attend elementary school. He made many friends, he loved his teachers and he LEARNED sooo very much! I can not believe how far he came this year! We are so very proud of him!

It was wonderful to hear from his teachers that he was a delightful, loving little boy in school and was always kind to his classmates. That he also always smiled...each and every day!

 The moving up ceremony was beyond adorable and of course, I got a little choked up

 Can't believe he will be on a bus and off to Kindergarten in September! 

Field Day...a fav day for our kiddies!

Sarah, Rachel and Chris all participated in Field day this year at school! Chris has been waiting all year for this! They all really enjoy this "free fun " day at school...and I am sure they enjoy the ice pop at the end, too!  Most of the activites range for each grade so they get to do different variations as they get older.

            

                                        

              

                      

  Christopher put all effort into making field day into a Sport Day! (See his "hurdle jumping" and cheering for his classmates!)

Christopher turns 5!

My Goodness...Little Chris is 5! He has been practicing being 5 for 2 weeks...he is being more helpful with Andrew and offering to do big kid stuff! He keeps telling me, I'm not a toddler anymore, I'm a kid! It's super cute!

 The birthday boy got to choose what was for dinner...he chose:

                                

 

He completed a mini scavenger hunt to find his birthday gift:

   

 

He got a new bmx style bike with pegs (these are for performing bike stunts...)

            

Happy Birthday 5th Christopher! We Love you!!!

My funny writer...

I have not had the time or means to post in such a while, I do have a list of what I want to post, and am sure I will get around to it soon! Dave has been working non-stop & traveling for weeks...and it is just me and 4 little ones and the craziness of wrapping up the end of the school year (parties, gifts, ceremonies, events...)

I just wanted to quickly write this post as it does not require any photographs or anything. So back to the title.. My funny writer:

Today, I dedicated a few hours to clearing out the school year stuff. Cleaned out the homework drawer and basket, and cleared through the MASSIVE amounts of papers, art and books that the kids are bringing home daily in their backpacks!!!!

I came across Sarah's school journal notebook. This is nothing private like her private journal in her bedroom, just a notebook that they write in when they have a few minutes in the morning of class. I started reading through it, seems like she wrote about 3 times a week.

I knew...know that Sarah is a good writer, her spelling, vocabulary and grammar are incredible and she is also an EXCELLENT reader. But, what was proved to me tonight as I sat here reading ( thought I would just read only a few since I still have a kitchen floor to mop, run the dishwasher, move the laundry into the dryer, vacuum and get the day ready for tomorrow...) ...sorry back to what was proved to me while reading all these entries...she is quite funny in her writing. I was so entertained while reading that I had to share a few,  especially since I know that at least Grandma and Aunt Kerry are reading this!

Hmmm...i have nothing really to write about...so...

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes?

I have nooooooooooooo clue why zebras have stripes. 

I mean its like asking why the Museum of Natural History is sooo big 

or why a mouse is so little!  

Today is Tuesday. I am buying Tacos! 

I am buying the turkey tacos and not the vegetarian tacos. 

They are just made up of veggies and NO MEAT! 

It is really wrong to do that to a taco!

Today is Thursday. I have gym today and we are riding the scooters.

Rachel is telling the story of how we met in her journal today. 

If you want to know....then go read her journal...'cause I'm not telling her story!

Friday, finally!!!

The Week seemed to go on forever! 

Imagine if it was Monday after Monday after Monday...

That would be HORRIBLE!! There would be no weekends!

 What's a week with no weekends??

So...there just a few shared entries... hope you enjoyed! 

I will post soon of Memorial Day weekend, Chris's 5th Birthday, Moving up ceremonies, potty training, the huge leak in our in ground pool, etc. Next week...I play catch up on my personal things... right now..the last few weeks have been only about survival...! LOL