Paisley Visits the WIS

As promised, baby Paisley made a visit to Mrs. Madrigal's classroom to meet the kids in Adler's class. She was so proud to show off her new baby sister and the kids loved meeting her!

Crosby's Montessouri School Christmas Program

Crosby had her sweet Christmas program tonight at her school. It was cute as ever (her 3rd year!) and this year she was the main character. It was about a little girl whose Grammy (it was so dear b/c they called the grandma "Grammy" after Crosby's own Gram!) knitted her some Christmas mittens that all of the other animals (classmates) crawled into when she dropped one. Some of the pics/video are a little dark but you can see our girl in the back middle of the horseshoe in the knit cap.

Bruiser Goes to Montessouri School!

Daddy has been promising to take Bruiser to Cros' school for show and tell for some time now so last night he got a bath and off they went today! The kids loved him and Crosby was so proud to show off the puppy she got last year for Christmas. What a good and brave daddy he is!

Montessouri Open House

Tuesday night Crosby had her preschool open house so we ventured to Ark City for the evening. She had so much fun running around her school showing us everything.

Crosby LOVES her school. Her teachers just love her too! Miss Kori told me how much they enjoy having Crosby again this year and that she is always nice to the other children... she says that she is like a mother hen to them (she is the oldest in her class this year) and that she especially watches after the underdog or tiny kids in class. I thought that was so cool to hear. It is always nice to get a genuinely great report from a teacher. I have so much respect for what they do...I know that I would probably go nutty hanging around a million preschoolers all day!!! After we went to Sirloin Stockade for dinner. Kids eat for $.99 on Tuesdays so Heath thought this was PERFECT! (He is kinda stingy!) He kept joking with the girls saying that they could only order off of the 99 cent menu and that they needed to eat as much as they could so we didn't have to feed them for a couple of days. TOO FUNNY!! After we were stuffed (I couldn't eat as much as I thought I would, running out of room in there!) we were all sitting at the table visiting (Grammy went with us) and I noticed that Crosby started to get a little sleepy and Chel was taking care of her. So sweet!

I realized that Adler isn't in any of these pics but she was with us!! of course! She was by my side the whole time!

Adler's First Day of 5th Grade!

Adler started back to school today at the Winfield Elementary School aka the WIS. The WIS is 3 blocks away from the house in the old middle school where Heath and I both went (he even had the hots for me back then!!! :) She has Jennifer Madrigal for her homeroom and math teacher which is wonderful because she has known Jennifer for a long time (she is married to Teresa and Anna's brother David) and felt really comfortable starting at a new school with a teacher she was comfortable with. She also has several girls in her class that she knows from Lowell and she knew a bunch of kids in her orchestra class too. She is going to play the (Grandma Vera's)violin and I am really looking forward to seeing or hearing how she does with it!! Hopefully she takes after my mom's side musically!!! I was a little nervous for her but she did great and had a blast. She walked home with Davin and hung out with him after for a little while which she was happy about that too!

After school I went to spin and Heath and the girls had their first soccer practice. We decided to finish off a good day with some serious Mexican food at EL MAGUEY!!! YAY! The girls were being Super goofy at dinner and were getting along really well so I just let them have at it!! Well, its off to bed for us since we all have to get up early now!!!

School's Out For SUMMER!!!!!

Sing it with me!!!! Okay maybe just the teachers and kids are as excited about this as I am!! WOOOHOOOO!! I am so ready to sleep in, wear comfy clothes, have a clean house, and spend time with my girls!

Another FROG DANCE!!!

Last night we traveled back to Derby for the girl's second league fast pitch game and they won again!! Those games are really exciting--- especially when your daughter is up to bat or making a play!!! Our girls struggled with their hitting last night. They both struck out both times up to bat... but they are SWINGING and being aggressive. It will only be a matter of a few games before they are making contact consistently. Chelo played outfield the whole game but didn't see any action. This early in the season there aren't too many girls that can get the ball out of the infield. Adler played 2nd base 2 innings and caught the other 2. She works sooo hard behind the plate and never complains... she makes me sooo proud out there. Her work ethic is amazing when she is catching. She hustles after EVERY ball even if there aren't runners on the bases. It is neat to watch. Last night she even made a GREAT play!!! She threw a girl out trying to steal 3rd!! I was jumping up and down!! She even had to throw around the batter which looked tough to do.

And her is a picture of L. Fox and I giving a BIG PEACE OUT to the school year!!!! We are PUMPED to be starting our summers in just a few hours starting with A WHOLE DAY OF SCRAPINGBOOKING tomorrow-- SCRAPFUNATTIC here we come!!!

Oh and I almost forgot... I went to the OB yesterday. Baby Pumpkin is doing GREAT!!! The little heartbeat was 150 so I consulted the ancient Chinese profits (online of course :)) and they say BOY!!! We will sure see! Daddy Heath is DYING for a son!!! My sonogram is June 17th (we decided to wait til my 20th week---I didn't want to risk not being able to find out the day as planned...I just didn't want to hear the girls reaction to the sono tech if it was too early or they were 70% sure. SCREW THAT... my BIL and SIL were told they that the tech was 70% sure it was a boy and my beautiful NIECE Braylinn was born in December!!!! I want to be 100% sure!!! As Elo would say... I want to see if there are any franks and beans!!!!! And the best news of all... I gained ZERO pounds last month!! WOOHOO!!! It makes the 16 I have gained in the first 3 months a little easier to take!!!