Art show

This week at Caleb's school... I feel like I am always saying that. I can not begin to tell you how impressed with all of the things his school does to make things fun and exciting for the kids. Anyway, this week they had an art show at his school. Every student made something to be put on display at the art show. They sold them for a fundraiser to by new computers for the school. (Yes, the school only goes to Kindergarten and they have there own computer lab.) Also, each class had to make something to be auctioned off. Ms. Nancy had each child bring in a piece of clothing of there's. She traced each of there hand on it and made an amazing quilt.

A day at the circus

Last week Caleb had a "circus" at his school. It was so much fun for the kids. They had the gym at the school decorated like a circus tent. Each child's ticket into the circus was to dress up like a circus character. They had pony rides, snow cones, popcorn, hot dogs and many many fun carnival games. Both of the boys dressed up like pirates and they were very cute if I do say so myself. Caleb's favorite thing was the huge bounce house that they had set up. This made me laugh because last year I could not have paid him to get in one. Funny how things change. He is getting so big. He was also very proud of himself because he ate a hot dog with a bun.

Easter Sunday

On Sunday we had a very low key day. We went to church, we out for brunch, came home to have our final Easter egg hunt and color eggs. I was singing "Christ the Lord has risen today..." and Lydia thought I was crazy. I told her that maybe she would sing that at church like mom and dad did growing up. She later told me that they did not. I did not really expect her to since we go to a more contemporary church than we did as kids.

Saturday

On Saturday we went to yet another Easter egg hunt. This one was at Lydia's friend Mary Blakeley's house. They live on a farm and had a great place for the hunt.

Friday

On Friday we went to the Braves game. We have been to several others and we always have sooo much fun. Unfortunately it rained very hard and they had a rain delay after the third inning so we ended up leaving early. The kids were very disappointed! On Fridays they usually do fireworks after the game so they hated to miss that. Luckily we left because we found out the game did not get over until after 1:00! We are planning to go back in a couple of weeks.

Thursday

We did not do anything special on Thursday. The kids played outside all day and Robbie and I FINALLY cleaned out our garage. Sadly we discarded a lot of the kids old clothes and many other things I can not bare to mention. We simply do not have the room to save everything forever :(! It just means I get to buy everything new when our next one or four come! :)!Something funny that happend was an incident with Grayson and the potty. We have somewhat considered trying to start potty training Grayson. We potty trained both Caleb and Lydia simply because I refused to have two in diapers at the same time. And since I am not pregnant I have not been in any rush to do so. He is not even 2 and 1/2 yet! Any way, we have the potty out and sometimes he will try and sometimes he does not care. I was having Caleb show him how. Grayson watched him potty and then tried real hard to get something out but nothing was happening. He simply looked down at his "business" and simply said "it's broke". I could not help but to laugh.

Wednesday

On Wednesday we went shopping for Easter shoes and new spring clothes for the kids. We also took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese! Yes we are the best parents ever:)! As always they had a blast as all kids do.

Tuesday

On Tuesday night we went to the Atlanta Thrashers game. A nurse Robbie works with has season tickets and could not go that night so she gave them to us. After all according to Caleb, Robbie's favorite sport is hockey. Caleb and Robbie had been to one other game before, but it was the first time for the rest of us. We really enjoyed it. Especially the $13 we spent on ice cream for the kids. We rode the Marta to and from the game and this was probably Caleb's favorite part. People on the train were laughing because he kept naming each stop we were at. He LOVES to ride the Marta. He often says he wants to be a Marta driver when he grows up.

Monday

On Monday we had the laziest day ever!!! It was so much fun. We all slept in. We got up cooked brunch and later took a nap. We all took showers just to put our PJ's back on. We had family movie night and watched Madagascar 2. The kids always look forward to movie night. Ofcourse we had popcorn and other snacks. What would movie night be without snacks.

Sunday

On Sunday we went to Six Flags. When the kids visited Santa at Christmas time he gave each of the kids a free pass to Six Flags so we figured we would check it out. The kids had a BLAST!!! They had added so many things for kids since the last time Robbie and I had gone a hundred years ago. There were only about 12 other people in the park so on several occasions we did not even have to get off the rides to get back in line we just rode them again. There favorite ride was the log ride. I did not get any pictures beacuse it is a water ride. They won a lovely snake at the ring toss game that is bigger than all of them put together!! And lucky me I get to keep this in our house!!!

Staycation 2009

This year instead of going to disney world we decided to "stay" home for our vacation. Robbie took last week off and we had a very fun week at home. It was probably the most relaxing week we have ever had as a family. We did not have to pack or unpack. And the best thing is that we did not have to drive for hours in the car. On Saturday we woke up and went to breakfast and then we went to a local easter egg hunt. There were about 148,320... kids so it was a little crazy but the kids still had fun. Later that day Robbie took the boys to an Atlanta Hawks game. He had gotten tickets from a pharmaceutical rep so he figured it would be a fun and free boys night out. Lydia and I had a girls night and went and painted pottery and came home and watched the American girl movie Chrissa. We try every couple of months to take each child and do something special with them.

Robbie is 35!!!

Okay it is official Robbie is 4 years older than me! At least until July :)! Luckily for all of us he was off today. We had our tradional dessert for breakfast routine. Robbie is not a huge fan of birthday cake so I have always gotten him a birthday cookie. They are VERY good. Happy Birthday Robbie! We love you!!

Caleb's cute little pre-k class

Yesterday Caleb had his easter egg hunt at school. Unfortunately it was raining so it was held inside. Ms. Nancy had the parents send in an egg with each child's name on it so they could each find the eggs with there names on them. It was the first time I had seen it done like this but I thought it worked out very well. It gave each child the opportunity to get the same number of eggs.

Easter crafts

On Wednesday we finally had a few rays of sunshine and the kids were able to go outside and make some festive easter crafts. Lydia and Grayson really love making things and Caleb could take it or leave it.

It is Easter time!

Last weekend we had our annual easter egg hunt. Many of our friends and family were able to come and it is always so much for everyone. There were 17 kids and about 400+ eggs. I always think that next year we need to have more eggs, however I do not think you could ever have enough. It takes what seems to be about 1 minute for them all to be found. The kids also had fun coloring easter eggs with the lovely egg dye. This is every parents favorite activity!! Thankfully we had smocks.