Happy Easter

Happy Easter to our Family and Friends....

A Lovely Day

I wonder why it is when a special day comes around, it completely changes the way a child awakes and behaves in the morning?!  I wish every morning was a holiday, because this boy was happy, obedient, cuddly, fun.....(not the usual for a morning in our home)...

 A cute breakfast...and there was more than just heart toast, but it was gone by the time I thought of taking a picture.

 Noah had to make a valentine box.  He knew what he wanted, described it, but would not really help in making it.  So I dusted off my cricut (because I have not used it in a bit....) and cut out some sport balls so he could have his sports box!   It turned out pretty cute!

 Later that night we had a delicious dinner at home, we have been eating at home a lot, but staying home on Valentine's is way better than going out with everyone else!

 After dinner Noah received a few gifts.  He was pretty excited about getting his Mario that he had been wanting for almost 2 months.  He would talk about it all the time.  Feel the love!!

 We took a few family shots, which you would think would be simple, but family photos are never easy!

Happy Valentine's Day to all our family and friends!!

Coyote of the week

This kid has been struggling in school...with focusing, neat work, timely manner of completing his work...his teacher, whom we love, wanted to have a behavior contract with him to hopefully help him with doing better during the day.  I love that she wanted to do this together.  So we have been talking and working on doing better.  He started off pretty shaky and we both were wondering if this was going to work.  Then all of a sudden he had a fantastic week!!  He got double stars in every category for every day of the week!  We were thinking surely it was a fluke...but then it happened again!

We were so proud of him, Dad, me and his teacher!  She was super proud and awarded him the Coyote of the Week.  It was something that she wanted for him so bad.  She was sure that showing him how hard work pays off and us being proud of him would encourage him.  He's still been doing good and we are so happy for him.

100 years...

Today is the 100th day of school!

That is a little crazy to think of...but more crazy is that school is over in 78 days! 

How can that be possible?

Noah's class had to come to school dressed up as a person who is 100 years old.  He was not excited about this at all.  He said, "Mom, I'm going to school dressed as a seven year old, NOT a 100 year old!"  I even thought ahead (back to November 1st) and bought white hair color/spray on clearance after Halloween, espcially for this school day!  And it was NOT going to go to waste! 

He finally agreed to just white hair.  I made him button his shirt "off" a button, just because he says old people never remember anything, so of course that means they can't remember how to button their shirt.  He was fine once he got to school and saw his friends all dressed up.

 I think he looks pretty good for being 100!!

Noah & Madison....aging well together

 

Happy Birthday!

This guy really wanted to go bowling for his birthday....every time we drove past the bowling alley he would mention it.  He would say, "there's where I'm celebrating my birthday when I turn 7 years old!  Really, Mom, I am!"  And every time we would go to my parents, you had to drive past this bowling alley...there was no way around it.  So, guess what we did on December 27th?  Noah & all of his cousins (plus some adults), headed out for a delicious lunch at Chick-fil-a and then off to the bowling alley! 

There were a ton of pics capturing the great form of these kids, but this one is enough for you to get the gist of the day!

Noah with his cousins

All of us (minus the photographer, my sister Deanna)

Afterwards we headed to Grandma & Grandpa's house to open gifts and have some cake.  This kid loves Scooby Doo right now and he really loved his new shirt!

Did you know if you squeeze extra hard when making your wish that it just may come true?

"this was the best birthday" quote from Noah.  Glad you liked it so much buddy.  We love you and it's still crazy to think that you are seven years old. 

He is a tall boy, if you can believe, his cousin Savanna (far left) is only 7 months younger than him.  She is super short though, but look at the height difference!

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Happy Holidays!

We had quite a few friends ask to come by and see our home decorated.  Our December month was busy, just like most everyone else's.  It's crazy how busy the month becomes.  Our month was cut short even more because we were leaving on the 16th to go home to Ohio for Christmas.  So, on a whim we decided to just have an Open House and invite our friends over to see our home. 

This post has a lot of pictures in it, but it was requested from a dear friend...She said she was coming to my open house, but she never showed....I'm not quite sure why?!?!?!  And it has taken me two hours to load these pictures and it was not working the way it should...

so it is what it is (out of order and all!)  

Enjoy....and Merry Christmas!

Making their home....a family tradition

This family activity has become a yearly tradition. 

 We were kind of pleasantly surprised when we opened up the box and the house was already assembled!  That's like the hardest (and most frustrating part of the whole thing!) 

Gotta love Costco!!

     

My two boys really love making their Gingerbread House.  I really think that Noah just wants to put one piece of candy on and then eat one, put one on, eat on....repeat, repeat, repeat.....

He was super excited when Dad told him he could do the Gingerbread Men all by himself. Aren't they the best looking men you've ever seen?

They did a great job...wouldn't it be so sweet to live in a cute house like this?