Fun and Games at our House

For some reason our yard has always been a natural gathering place for our neighbors. It's one of the things I look forward to when the weather warms up and school lets out. Tonight, I looked out and saw a giant pack of kids who were getting a little too rough during their free play. I quickly went out and started organizing some games like red light/green light, freeze tag etc. Then it kind of evolved from there and we did some spoon-egg relays, tug of war, red rover and even the limbo. It was such fun. The only real challenge we had was Andrew so deseperately wants to keep up with the big kids and there are times when he just can't. The last picture just kind of breaks my heart. Here's to a fun summer with our neighborhood!

Our Favorite Tree

I'm not sure why, but the kids have one tree that they always climb on and play under. It's not just my two kids, it's all the neighborhood kids too. In any case, I snapped some cute pictures of both the kids sitting and playing in their favorite tree.

Happy Mother's Day

Five years ago, I celebrated my first Mother's day as a mom. Last year I got to celebrate it as a mom to two precious little ones. What can I say? This isn't a milestone year, but I still feel like I'm the luckiest mom on the planet. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms. May your day be relaxing and fun!

Art Show and Park Visit

Tonight we got to attend Lily's elementary school art show. It was really sweet as every single student in the school had something on display. Here's Lily's artwork and her smiling proudly before it.





After 2 weeks of sick kids, we finally had a day without fevers, medicines etc. It was so nice and I could tell the kids were just happy to feel good. We headed on over to a local park with a lot of gardens and had a picnic. Then we spent a good amount of time exploring the frog pond. Both Andrew and Lily loved spotting the tadpoles and frogs. Every time one of the frogs would make their strange little gutteral sounds they'd run in the direction it came from. We also spotted 2 turtles and 2 snakes. One snake was resting in the reeds and a teeny, tiny one was swimming in the pond. I'm not a snake person, but even I though the little one who was about the size of a pencil was cute. It was such a nice afternoon.