Luke and His Pal!

Luke LOVES the dog! He is his pal! P.S. Do you like the hair cut??? It got buzzed last night! P.S.S. Thanks for the t-shirt Grandma!

Roller Skating!

Anna had a birthday party for one of her former classmates today. The birthday party was at the roller rink in town. Lets just say, that skating in not her forte!

Finally the cake!

At least we had something to look forward to on the way home from our shortened trip to Chuck E. Cheese. We all sang Happy Birthday to Anna. As you see, she picked out a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I tried to encourage her to get a sprinkle cake with pink icing...just to be girly. She wanted no part of it! After cake, daddy taught the big kids how to play the card game War, within 20 minutes Jake sighed and said, "this is a long game daddy". He wasn't kidding. I finally begged for it to be cut short. Glad today is done, and glad that Anna had a day FULL of special things! Tomorrow is her buddy Nick's birthday...he's in Colorado now, but they still like to share their birthdays each year! Happy Birthday Nick!!!

Chuck E. Cheese

Looks like we all (well most of us) had a great time, right? Everything was going great, the kids were wild (as they should be!) and playing every game that they set eyes on, and then? Jake went potty all over the play structure. (Not kidding) Well, there goes that trip to Chuck E. Cheese (sigh). We have probably 60 or so tokens left to be used, I feel the worst for the poor girl that had to clean our little "puddle" up! Anna and Jake had fun, Luke found that he liked to play with a steering wheel only, everything else made him scream...and boy do I mean SCREAM!

6 Years Old Today!

The first day of being a 6 year old is a bit different than I thought! She is a little overwhelmed and has been a bit whiney and demanding! Oh well. We had fun at Libby Lu's and made cookies too! We have to make a cake still and I think we are going to Chuck E. Cheese when the boys wake up!!

The Beach Ball!!!!

One of Anna's school friends, Alex, gave this to her yesterday. Can you tell Luke likes it?

The Big Party!!!

It's done, finished, and I am never doing another one...well not until Jake is 6! We had 23 children in our backyard..and I am happy to tell you that no one sustained any injuries! YEAH! The trampoline was a hit...of course! A couple times we had 7 kids on at once (augh)! They are faster than I am, but again, no one got hurt. The pinata was too much fun, everyone loved it! Afterwards, I threw all three kids in the tub for a clean up session! All done, packed away in bed and AnnaJoy was so thrilled to have all of her friends over to play! (It misted just a little, mostly during food time, by the end the sun came out...for the first time today!)

Time To Say GoodBye....

It was Field Day today for AnnaJoy's Pre-K class, along with the other 2 Kindergarten classes the kids had a blast. It was WAY colder than it was supposed to be, so one of the mothers donated her coat for AnnaJoy. (I felt like a terrible mom at that point! I checked the weather and everything!) They played all kinds of games outdoors, but before all that started, I walked in to Mrs. Estefan reading the white board (the kids all helping) and had to take a photo of what they read. The last photo, I just felt like being sentimental...it's like saying goodbye to another chapter in my daughter's life. I feel like it goes by so fast that I am missing it! All the children got little medals for doing a good job and watched a video too. Then it was off for a few more school activities before we closed our chapter to Pre-K. Thank you Mrs. Estefan, I hope I can keep up with what you have taught our daughter!!! We miss you already!

A Sign...or just bad timing????

This is an insanely busy week for us, as the school year is wrapping up Wednesday for Anna and Friday for Mike. As some of you know, we are throwing a rather large "kid" birthday party for AnnaJoy, which I invited her entire class to...and we are blessed that most everyone is coming. (A nice way to start the summer...I may end up in the looney bin, but that's not the point). Well, also as everyone knows, Michigan weather doesn't always cooperate when we want it to. I am praying for a great day for the entire Wednesday, as there is Field Day for Anna in the morning and her party in the evening...my point???? This evening after Anna's bath she was doing her usual get ready for bed routine when I heard a very LOUD crash of the towel bar and knew exactly what had happened. Anna was very frightened and apologetic...not helpful at the time!! To my horror the towel bar is no longer in the wall and there is a nice looking hole...in the dry wall...in the "public" bathroom of my house. Did I mention that the party is this Wednesday...like in less than 2 days? Is this a sign from God saying, "Bad idea Holly...I tried to tell you?" Or am I just already going crazy and it is just Anna being a kid (naughty) but a kid? Maybe this means we should get her back in gymnastics??? Maybe the circus? (sigh)