Kidergarten Graduation

For some reason all the pictures got mixed up and I'm not about to fix them so you can just put them together the way you like. Sam graduated from Kindergarten on May 18. Sam wanted his graduation party at Red Robin
So happy

Sam , Christian Bryston and 'the other Logan'.

We are so happy Grandma Linda was able to make it to graduation.

Sam and Mrs. Johnson. Logan is so excited to be in her class in a few years.

Sam walking out. This is his pointing/wink face he has been doing lately, its cute and funny that he does it every time I say any thing to him.

Before everything started I took Sam's picture by the stage so I could do it without every one else up there.

Sam shaking Principal Murphy's hand. I know its blurry but that's all I got.

We are proud of Sam for working so hard all year. All day every day kindergarten was a huge adjustment for all of us but he did so well. He adored his teacher and made lots of friends. We are excited to see what 1st grade brings!

Field Day

Sam waiting for his turn.
Sam won a blue ribbon for hitting the yellow dot.

Potato sack race. Go Sam Go!

Dad surprised us with lunch and POP! LUCKYS!!

Who can throw the ball the farthest?

Every year Pope Elementary has a Field Day. Every class has to have a parent there to help and since I'm the only one that doesn't work I was there all day. It was SO hot and poor Logan was miserable but he was a trooper. All the kids did really well and everyone earned ribbons for doing so well. Every one cheered for each other and was for the most part good sports. It was a fun day and I bet everyone slept great that night.

One more Egg Hunt!!

This is our last egg hunt!! We always have to have so many, and this last one was Easter Morning. The boys could find Easter eggs everyday but I don't want to hide anymore eggs ever! But they had a good time so that's all that matters right! Instead of candy in the eggs we put money. That was a lot more fun for me, sugared up is not the best quality in my kids .

Sam's Easter Party

Since I am the room mom, I get to be in the class LOADS. I put on an Easter Egg hunt and party. The kids had fun and Logan got to join in so everyone enjoyed the day. It had been raining so the grass was really wet and I had to hide the eggs around the puddles.waiting in line to go outside.

Looking for eggs.

Brothers!

Sam and a few of his friends talking about their finds.

Playgroup Easter Party

Having the big toy on its side made for an interesting Easter egg hunt this year. The kids really liked it and we had loads of new places to hide the eggs. It had rained hard all morning and we were worried that we were going to have to hide the eggs inside, but at the last minute it stopped raining so we put everyone's rain boots on and sent them out to play in the mud. I was great fun.

TIMBER!!!!

In April we had for about a week, storm after storm after storm! It was ridiculous, seriously! The first storm of the week, the wind blew really bad but not so bad that we were concerned. It ALWAYS storms at night here so it's not like we can see what is going on without running outside during the storm; so since our roof didn't come off we were able to fall asleep knowing there was going to be another storm the next night. In the morning I took Sam to school and he noticed that our neighbors flag poll had fallen over....weird, its a flag poll. I dropped him off came home and got ready for the day and I get Logan back in the car to run some errands, When Logan casually remarks 'why, the slide is upside down?' HUH!? I turned to look in our backyard and sure enough the slide is sticking straight up in the air. ( SIDE BAR: I told Dave and his Dad when they were building the big toy that they should anchor it down; with our little swing set I had to sit on the slide and Dave had to hold down the opposite side every time the boys played so it wouldn't tip over. Anyway, they told me 'Its so heavy, it won't tip over really it weighs so much it would be a waste to anchor it down.' ) After surveying the damage, I ran to the car to get the phone and call Dave. I told him it tipped over and he couldn't believe it. As I walked around the back looking closer I realized there was more damage than I thought. It wasn't just 'stand it back up' fixable. It was really broken, the roof wasn't that big of a deal Dave could rebuild it and put it back on, but the 4x4's that were the support of the whole thing were broken not in half, but split down the middle. We are going to have to take the WHOLE thing apart to get it fixed. It took Dave and his Dad over a week to build this and it wasn't from a kit, Dave thought it up in his engineer brain. There is no way Dave can do this rebuild this, it wasn't cheap to begin with and now we have to start over no way could we do it. Dave said he would come home and check it out since I tend to over react about things. He came home and we were able to get the slide, swing set bar and the bridge off before the weight of being sideways broke them. He said we could fix it, it would just take time because he could take a week off of work to fix it. Within the next few days he was able to stand the sections back up in the right spots only to have them blown back over by the wind so they stayed in the ground for a few weeks. Since April he has been able to work on it here and there. He has the sections back in place and anchored this time. We are still waited to have the time to get the roof back on hopefully this weekend. We are glad however that the strongest wind got our big toy and not our house. The wind didn't even knock over our lawn furniture, seriously it didn't even take the cushions out of the chairs. CRAZY!! The next storm a few night later that knocked over the big toy again also took our grill for a ride through our yard and Dave being determined not to lose anything else to these crazy storms ran outside, during it mind you, to collect the grill and bring it back and barricade it in before coming back in. Here are a few pictures of that day I found it.

Dave Turned 30.....

like 3 months ago! Go Me! So for Dave's big birthday the boys and I decided to decorate his pick up at work. We made sure we did it right before shift change so all those leaving and everyone coming would be able to see it. I moved his truck to the end of the parking lot right near the entrance and we tied balloons to it and had intentions of having the banner above his truck but the wind was blowing so bad that we opted to close it inside the doors to make it stay. I was so proud of myself, I mean really I'm so cool; until I realized I didn't bring the camera! Of curse Dave can't drive home with all that attached to his truck so he will have to cut it all off before I will have a chance to see it again. Lucky one of the Japanese guys took this picture on his way out to show his wife and I was able to get a copy. Then at home I wanted to do more, really because I thought and still think it was funny, I decorated our house for his party. I had a caution sign that said Old Zone all over it but I kept blowing away, so its gone in the picture.

To make up for making fun of him all day I made him a Prime Rib, twice baked potatoes, and Cheesecake. It was really good if you want to know! Happy Birthday Dave, so late I know! We love you so much, thanks for working hard for us so I can spend all your money buying things like Prime Rib!! HeHe

Chattanooga Aquarium

We made a deal with Logan. He potty trains and we will take him anywhere. So while Dave was in Japan, my Mom and I got him completely potty trained and per his request we headed to a 'Huge Fish Aquarium'. Dave and I took Sam to Chattanooga when I was pregnant with Logan and it was so cool we decided that was the perfect one. There are 2 different 4 story buildings filled with giant aquariums; it really is awesome! When we got there and were buying our tickets they had loads of other things we could do there. We had planned on doing the Imax Theatre but then we saw a boat tour of the Tennessee River, so we changed our plans! It really is only a vacation if there is a Famous Dave's!

When you get to the first building you hop on an escalator and go up 4 flights of stairs to the top and then walk down through the exhibits until you get to the gift shop. This is the top.

This is the boat we will ride in for our tour.

Who doesn't love Penguins!

Shark Cage; we have so many pictures in here.

In the background there are 2 trainers in there giving their speech about the sharks. One would spoke while the other had a stick to hit the sharks with if they got to close.

Then they came to say hi to the kids, the boys loved it.

Sam and the Jellyfish.

Logan and......I don't know.

Our tour was right a noon so we had to leave in the middle of the first building to get to the dock and the go back to finish. The boys really liked it.

They let us get on top of the boat and use binoculars to see the different birds and stuff out there. The boys had a blast searching for different things.

The tour was about 2 hours long. Logan ended up falling asleep on the way back to the dock, which was great because by the time we got back he was ready to go again.

I know this isn't a great shot of me but Logan is so cute I couldn't leave it out.

Logan and some Seahorses.

We go to pet Sturgeons. At another spot we got to pet stingrays an baby sharks and I'm not sure why I have no pictures of that but it was really fun.

The boys tried to count all the seahorses, they got all the way up to 187

before they got distracted.

BOYS!

We had to go back to the shark cage before we left.

We are so glad that Logan is potty trained and chose to go to the Aquarium, we had so much fun and love spendin time with our family. Good Job Logan!