Spring Recital 2012

Its that time again...

I love recitals. I love my students. I love music.

This year my own little Olivia joined in on the piano fun.

We even played a duet. I'm not gonna lie, it was precious:)

The Good Earth

Anyone else read that lovely book in HS?

Its harvest season down south and we've been enjoying all sorts of produce this week from our garden and a local berry farm.

Here's our zuccini, tomatoes and green beans.

We also grew basil.

Why are some tomatos still green you ask? Those darn birds keep eating them before I can pick them! So it's ripen on the window sill or fried green tomatoes for me:)

I use all the above (except for green beans) to make this scruptous meal...

grilled stuffed zuccini,

recipe and photo courtesty of Our Best Bites- seriously best cook book i've ever owned!

On Tuesday our play group went blackberry picking.

It was dang hot but oh so fun:)

 My friend Abby even spotted this awesome chrysalis

and tonight we turned that bucket of berries into this slice of heaven:)

mmmmmm gotta love fresh produce!



Family Festival

Last Saturday was a Family Festival at Kolby's school.

The theme was Hawaiian.

We dressed up, ate cotton candy and snow cones, got balloons, face painting, bouncy houses and carnival games. We ended the night with a bucket of chicken at the duck pond.

Ahhhh I love family time!

Aloha

My Brave Brave

Such a great season!

Kolby really came out of his shell this year.

He was hitting awesome as usual but this year he also played "pitcher" (remember its tball) and rocked it! He got all 3 outs several times. He and the first baseman were unstoppable.

So proud of my boy!

Unofficially they won every game but one, they tied.

Can't wait til next year!

Especially after 3 yrs of t-ball we are ready for coach-pitch and an actual score:)

Go Braves!

End of the year party.

The deadly duo- Chris and Kolby:)

Why did the chicken* cross the road?

...to get Kolby to paint her portrait:)

* I'm not sure what's with all the poultry references lately...but now that i think of it some fried chicken sounds mighty fine:)

Here's Kolbs at the school art show last week.

His piece is titled:

"The Rooster Went on His Walk"

What can I say, my kid is a creative genius:)

We're so proud of you Kolby!

I hear on a weekly basis how great you are in school.

Your art teacher, PE teacher, and music teacher tell me how talented you are.

Your kindergarten teacher says she wishes she could clone you:)

So much talent and goodness all wrapped up in to one adorable boy.

I'm so blessed to call you mine!

Spring Chickens

Here's my 2 spring babies sport'n their birthday dresses from the neighbors-grandparents.

Since they had birthdays recently we got to go for the 2 yr and 5yr well check, yipee skippy:)

The stats:

Naomi-

height: 33 3/4in(42%)

weight: 25 lbs (46%)

FOC: 20 (100%)

BMI: 15

Olivia-

height: 39in (3%)

weight: 31 lbs (2%)

Blood Pressure: 97/56

BMI: 14.33

poor thing has lost a lot of weight since her surgery:(

Last time we checked she was 34 lbs, still a tiny little thing:)

I was just thinkn, wow I'm really glad my mother doesn't post my BMI for all the world to see. Haha

Mother's Day Cards

Kolby: "You are the best mom in the world because you give the best hugs ever!
 I love you around the earth and all around space and back around the earth and back on earth"

Olivia: "I want to be like mom because: She always makes me feel better, she always makes me good, she reads me good stories, she teaches me about Jesus, she loves me very much."

Naomi: "Knock knock, who's there? Poopy-head.

Eat your heart out Hallmark, you've got nothin on my kiddos:)