May

Well, since I have fallen behind, this post is just going to have to be a bunch of pictures for the month of May with a few quick headings! :)



Our little cuties!



Brielle in the children's play at EAC ("The Adventures of Mr. Toad") - she LOVED it!

The ending of the girls' gymnastics classes - medals from their show class!

I couldn't resist this picture - with Jared on the night shift, some bad habits have been formed around here with these kids at night, thinking there is plenty of room in bed with Mom now!! This is pretty typical of what I wake up to lately - or should I say escape from finally in the mornings - what sleep is there to wake up from?? :) I know, not very good about the disciplining thing, but when you're that tired, how can you even think straight to tell them "no" anymore! :)

The end of first grade for Brielle!! Where in the world did the year go... She sure loved her teacher, Mrs. Peterson, this year - lots of fun memories!

Timothy's first haircut!! Finally, right! That has been long overdue... I was finally convinced to cut off those beautiful little curls of his - but now that they're gone and he has transformed into such a handsome little boy, I just love it! He's all grown up, and looks exactly like his older brother these days!

Before...

And after...

Handsome boys after their haircuts!

Timothy has a new thing for walking around in Colette's dress-up heels these days - all I can say is I guess it's a good thing we cut off those curls! :)

At the end of May, we were able to do a Mesa visit, and had a great time with all our family there! The kids have a blast with all their fun little cousins!!

And that's about it for May - or as much time as I have to write about it for now! Life is great! :)

April

What a busy and full month of more wonderful things as always! We got our first family dog!! We surprised the kids for Easter this year with their own little puppy, and there is no describing the excitement around here! :) They are just loving this new member of our family. She is a Husky/Australian Shepherd mix, and she most definitely just pretties up our backyard every time we look out the window now! :) She's such a cutie! And so far seems like a really good little dog! We named her Arianna, but we all call her Ari for short - (we kept her name in line with the girls' French names)... :) Anyway, that has definitely been an exciting event for our family this month!!



We had a fun little Easter as always! Of course Ari was the main event of that weekend, but the kids definitely enjoyed painting eggs and having egg hunts and getting their Easter treats on Easter morning. (They were very excited that Ari got some treats of her own in a basket we set out for her as well!) :) Here's some pictures from Easter weekend - painting eggs & then Easter morning...





And then just a few other fun pictures from the month. Brielle and Colette had their big gymnastics show at the beginning of the month. They were so excited about that - especially Colette, who loves to get all dressed up and "pretty"! The show was at EAC's big auditorium - making it very fun and exciting for them to be apart of! There is also a picture of one of Timothy's favorite past-times these days - and of course my most dreaded - he just loves to take apart my kitchen cupboards and pretend like he is cooking with me... Guess he's just in that stage right now... And the boys at the end - I never realized that it would be Samuel that would love a family dog the most, but he is just head over heels in love with that dog!! She is how he has spent the majority of his days since we got her, and we just think it is so cute getting to see a boy and his dog outside our window all the time! :) Timothy too - he has now started saying "Awie" (for Ari) whenever he wants to go outside. They all just love her! Cute kids.Me and my girls! - How I love them! :)

And then one other thing that I just have to mention from the month of April - we found out that Jared got into EAC's Nursing Program!! Yay!! We are so excited and relieved!! He has been working so very hard and deserves it so much! We are SO proud of him!!! :)

Red Knolls!

Over Spring Break, we took the kids to Red Knolls for their first time, and it ended up being such a blast for all of us!! Definitely one of our best family outings! We had so much fun hiking and exploring all the "caves" - the only tricky part was the crazy wind, but that made going into the caves all the more fun! :) The kids haven't stopped talking about it, and we can't wait to go back again sometime!

Spring Break Mesa Visit!

We had such a fun Spring Break this year, which included a visit to our family in Mesa!! The kids have such a blast with all their cousins, Grandma's & Grandpa's, and aunts & uncles! I'm just going to post the whole bunch of pictures I have here - we had such a good time and we're so glad we were able to go! Always such awesome family! :)