Dance

Another Father/Daughter dance has come and gone. I am SO glad that our girls get to have these sorts of special times. I feel certain they will remember this when they grow up. E had to go straight from a softball game - so she didn't get to get all dolled up, but that is ok. They all still had a blast.

Cravings

So junior has been craving lots of nutty things. Lately it has been Olive Garden Salad dressing and Pluckers chicken wings. Thank goodness for the 'Laugh Alot Girls' - I can always find a few of them to join me for the punishment!

I think we were all feeling pretty sick after this outing!

Easter/Birthday Bike Ride

One of our family traditions has been for JC and the birthday child to have a birthday bike ride. This year all 4 of the kids went along. They rode on the Veloway - even M rode around two times! I was the official photographer, so I didn't ride this time! :)

Sweet Angels Turns 10!

Double digits. Wow. We now have two kids that are in the doubles.

E turned 10 on March 23. Yep, that was Easter Sunday. Her birthday will fall on Easter Sunday again once in her life - 2060. Kinda weird to think about her spending her 62nd birthday on Easter.

She has become such a beautiful person. I love that she is kind hearted. She is a great caregiver and such a true blue friend. She works hard at school and in her extra activities. I love that she has a sweet spirit and a wonderful sense of humor. I love that she feels passion for all living creatures. I am so thankful for my sweet angel and all that she offers our family and everyone that she comes in contact with.

We had a great time with our traditional family dinner and party. Everyone was dying to get a piece of that cake. I don't know why though, they had been eating Easter candy ALL day long!

She got a new outfit, sunglasses and two new American Girl books from Grandma Cathy and Grandpa Steve. I know she loved opening the gifts, but I she like posing for the picture more. :)

She was VERY VERY excited to get a new Wii game from Darlene and Dave. All four of the kids have been singing and dancing to Boogie.

And all of the kids enjoy putting thought into what gifts to get each other. She got a silky gown from M, and tye dye dress from J and a pair of really cool purple crocs. from S. I think that is the best time of every birthday - being so excited to open the gifts that you know your brothers and sister picked out for you.

I am so so blessed to have this 10 year old angel in my life!

Big Smiles Good Music

Our preschool music festival was last weekend and once again a huge success. This is #4's last year in preschool, so the music festival was especially exciting for him.

He was very excited to see his very favorite children's musician, Joe McDermott. All four of our kids have grown up listening to Joe and he has been playing in the background of so many of our very best family memories. What a treat to see him play live!

And once Joe was finished, he got to see the Biscuit Brothers up close and personal.

We had such a great time. I am so glad that I got to share this time with #4. Boy he is growing faster than I can even imagine.

P.S. Don't you love his rockstar glasses. He made his very own Elton John design. Worked on them for like 30 minutes.

Proud Momma Proud Wife

There is nothing that gives me more pride than to see my children happy and peaceful, and my husband participating in all of the aspects of their lives.

For the last few months, JC has been the coach of #2's basketball team. This has been a definite learning process, JC has never coached basketball before and #2 and her friends have never played on a basketball team before.

I could go on and on for hours about his great accomplishments or what an aggressive basketball player our girl is, but I won't.

Just enjoy the photos and think about how much joy it gives my heart to watch this happen every week!

Science Mania

As you have heard many many times, we had a bad case of the flu in January. 5 out of 6 of us got it. And with me being pregnant, it was a real bummer.

Well, the only person that didn't get the flu was #2. The same week that we were all sick, she was working on her science fair project. She came up with the idea and worked very hard on all of the steps pretty much by herself. The science fair was at school and we didn't even make it out to see it.

Sure enough, she won 1st place at her school and an opportunity to take her project to the Regional Science Fair here in Austin. What a huge deal! There were between 10-15 projects selected from our whole school and #2's project was the only project by a girl in the whole group!!!


So this weekend was the big deal Science Fair. I don't know who was more excited, me or her. We went and got her a new outfit to wear (which of course, I didn't get a photo of) and had a nice mother/daughter breakfast before heading to the big fair. She was taken into the huge judging room, where she and hundreds of other kids waited by their projects to have a judge come and ask them questions. I sat and waited in the parent's holding room with my friend Becky (whose son was also there) for her to walk across the stage for pickup. Once we were able to talk, she said it was really really scarey. She said that the judge was nice and asked a lot of questions about her project.

She ended up winning a second place ribbon for her project. I told her that my pride in her accomplishment is overwhelming. She is the first person in our family to have this sort of academic accomplishment - and it couldn't happen to a nicer, harder working, sweeter kid.


I am proud to say that she actually learned about her topic and completed her project on her own. I know that she is proud of her accomplishment and that makes this all even better!

P.S.

Our favorite local weatherman was the host. #2 took this photo of him. It is a good way to see how many gazillions of people were there.