Brianna's Kindergarten Graduation

Brianna graduated from Kindergarten on May 26, 2011. We are so proud of her. Mom Mom flew out for a few days to be here for the big occasion. Thanks Mom for coming. We loved having you here. Grandma and Papa came for the big night too. Thanks.

Brianna and her friend Mia

The 2 kindergarteners in front with all the preschoolers behind them.
Getting her diploma and her tassel turned.
The cutest cake made by one of the preschooler's Mom.
Kierra and Ethan with Brianna.
Enjoying the outdoors.
Smiley boy. He is growing way too fast.

Brianna's Busy Birthday

Brianna turned 6 years old on April 30th. The partying started on Thursday, April 28th with cupcakes at school. The girls also had their trike-a-thon for St Jude Children's Research Hospital on Thursday. On Friday night we had a small birthday party at home with 2 cousins and 2 friends and then the 2 cousins stayed all night for a sleepover. They had a great time. On Saturday (her actual birthday) it was just us and we took her out to dinner. On Sunday we had a small birthday party for Brianna and Auntie Amy and Great Aunt Nancy at Grandma and Papa's house. What a lot of birthday parties for such a little girl.

Brianna with her crown her teacher made.

Trike-a-thon at school.

Brianna having a blast riding her bike at school.

Kierra riding her bike at school.

Ethan enjoying all the noise at the birthday party

Friday night birthday party gang

Playing dress up

Sleepover. Everyone finally lying down at midnight. Mom barely staying awake.

12:30 am. Everyone asleep except..... Kierra. I convinced her to lay down by lying down with her and thankfully she went right to sleep. Finally mom gets to go to bed:)

Sunday birthday party

Ethan

We also got to visit with Wesley's grandma and 2 cousins and their children on Sunday evening. Great Grandma with all 5 of her current great grands. There is one more on the way:)

Brianna's birthday bicycle. She had pretty much outgrown her little bike. This one is a little big but she can ride it and hopefully it will last longer as she continues to grow.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from our house to yours. Hope you all enjoyed your celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Our precious children

Ethan not too happy about taking pictures.

My two handsome guys.

Mr Smiley

10 weeks old.

This is getting boring mom.

All right that is enough.

He was done and let us all know very loudly that he was not happy.

Kierra's first day of school and Brianna's school program

My baby Kierra is growing up. She has wanted to go to "school" for a long time and the Lord worked it out that she will get to go to school for the next 6 weeks. I usually don't discuss things that are too personal and for sure not financial information but God worked a miracle for us and for that reason alone I will share this story so that HE can get all the glory and praise. We have wanted to send Kierra to preschool but financially that wasn't possible. Kierra has had difficulty with potty training and so we discussed that if she wanted to go to school that she had to learn to go potty on the big potty. The school was willing to help her with this job too but it was still the financial issue. Just in the last 2 weeks Wesley got an unexpected bonus at work (this was approved last year by his company to be given this year) and it was almost the EXACT amount needed to put Kierra in preschool for the remainder of the school year. God knew LAST year that this situation was going to come up and knew the exact amount that would be needed. Isn't our God good, and caring, and ALL knowing. I wish I could remember this more often and for every detail in life. I know it but I sometimes have trouble putting faith to action. Kierra has done very well and worked on going potty so last Tuesday she got to start preschool. She gets to go 2 mornings a week and she loves it. Brianna also had her school program and open house recently. I can't believe her Kindergarten school year is almost over.

First day of school

I think Brianna was as excited or maybe more excited than Kierra

Kierra's teacher, Ms Becky

Ethan

Can't have a post without at least a couple of pictures of Ethan

Brianna, Kierra, and Brianna's friend, Mia

Brianna and her teacher, Mrs K, showing Grandma her school projects after the school program.

Snow in April???

If April showers bring May flowers then what do April snows bring? We woke up Saturday morning to a beautiful white view. Yes it is snow in southern California in April. What a surprise. It truly was beautiful. Not sure if some of the flowers and the grapes will survive such a surprise but we will see. Brianna was thrilled of course but Kierra only lasted a few minutes and then decided she was cold and came back in the house. Brianna and daddy played in it for quite a while. It lasted a lot longer than I thought but it was all gone by mid afternoon.

We told Brianna to come look out our window and this is what she could see. It took a few seconds before she realized that is really was snow.

Ethan's first snow. Had to take him out for a picture of course.

At first Kierra didn't want to go out but then decided she did so she got dressed and went out but didn't last long.

Some of the mountains near our house. It was still pretty cloudy so you couldn't really see very well.

Ethan's first trip to Bass Pro Shop. The girls will teach him to love it as much as they do I am sure.

P.S. I am way behind on blogging so there are 4 new posts including this one. If you are interested keep scrolling down.

Ethan

A friend of mine from work crocheted these bags and hats for Ethan. They had matching booties too! Thanks, Maggie.

Daily happenings

Asleep on daddy's arm. Ethan's first marshmallow roast. Daddy and the girls camped out in the backyard on Friday night after we got home so Ethan and I joined them for a little while in the evening. But we were smart and slept in the house in a nice comfy bed. Daddy and the girls had a wonderful time "camping." Kierra holding and singing to Ethan. She is such a good little helper. Ethan all dressed up for church on Sunday morning. Kierra told me the other day that she was "feeding" her baby. Not sure why she needed her sunglasses on in the house but she must have thought she needed them.
She wanted me to take a picture of her with her baby. Smiley boy. He is smiling more and more. This is the cutest little flannel shirt. He was so cute all dressed up. Smiling again. Playing with his new toy. He likes is for a little while and then wants to be picked up again. Big sister Nana holding and putting Ethan to sleep the other morning before school.