Happy Mother's Day to me!

It may have been my best Mother's Day to date! The plans were a little rocky for a while, but everything turned out fine, and I had a fab day. Slept in, took Ellie for a nice long walk, watched Mike clean, then had everyone over for lunch (that Mike cooked!), ate lots of my favorite foods (beer can chicken, souffle, corn, chips) got presents, had a great time!! It should be Mother's Day every day! Here's some pictures from my day:

Kindergarten roundup

Today was Sydney's kindergarten roundup! She has been looking forward to today for a LONG time. She was so excited to go that she almost couldn't eat her lunch. Once we got into the car, Sydney told me that I didn't need to walk her up. "What?" I asked her, No, she told me, I can go up myself! Hrmph. I told her that the mom's have to walk the kids into the school and then she could walk down to the classroom by herself. She seemed to be satisfied with that, so we were off.

Once we got to the school, she saw her friend, Stella and they held hands and walked down to the kindergarten room together. No tears or anything!

When I went back to the school to pick her up, she walked right out with Stella (holding hands, of course)

She had a big white bag full of things from kindergarten. She said she had a very fun time, and she is ready to go to kindergarten every day! Yay for her!!!

Such a proud girl!

In other news, today is May Day. After school, the girls went in the back yard, and made me some May Day baskets. Very cool!!

National turn your TV off week

Briana came home from school on Monday and informed me that it is national turn your tv off week. And that includes no playing the wii, and using the computer all week too. Of course I encouraged her to do it, especially since they got a reward at school on Friday if they did it. It was a long week, but we made it through. I had to sneak my TV watching and computer playing while Briana was at school or in bed. That's tough to do! But since I am such a devoted parent, I had to set a good example while she was around.
Tuesday morning, Briana woke up and got out the scotch tape. She taped over all the buttons on all the tvs, all the buttons on all the remotes, and she taped the laptop shut! She even taped over the buttons on Mike's xbox (way to go, Briana!) and she taped the basement computer mouse to the table. And if that wasn't enough, she hid the taped up remotes! I had to spend quite a while searching for them after she was at school on Tuesday. Luckily, Sydney saw where she hid them, so she clued me in.
On Friday at school, Briana got an ice cream sandwich and a coupon for a free kids meal at Chili's (with the purchase of an adult meal, of course). So tonight, we are going to Chili's for dinner. Yay!

Star Student!

Briana is the Star Student at school this week! She is very, very excited about it. She gets to do all kinds of special stuff, including being Mrs. Bahe's helper all week. She also got to fill out all these papers about herself, and they are posted on a bullitin board in her classroom for everyone to see. She got to take four things for show and tell today, and she took, Tacky, her new teddy bear, her Baby Animals book and her yellow chick. Here are all her papers that she filled out about herself:

Today she gets to show them all to everyone in her class and tell them about them. Not only that, but it is spirit week at school this week, so she gets to have pajama day the same week as she is the star student. Very exciting! She is a star in my eyes every day!!

Happy Easter

It looks like we have survived another Easter. Hooray! We started off the weekend with some egg dyeing on Saturday morning.

Saturday afternoon, we went to Arlene's house for our first egg hunt. The kids got a ton of candy.

Their baskets were FULL!

The girls with Charlie

All the kids after the egg hunt.

Back row: Shaun, Charlie, Ayden, Morgan, ?

Front row: Jack, Lila, Briana, Sydney

This morning, when we woke up, the Easter bunny had been here! The girls already knew he had been here, because they heard him last night. Briana said that at 2:00, she heard something in her room, and then she saw the Easter bunnies ears. Sydney is pretty sure she saw him too. I guess he's not as sneaky as I thought he was.

Ellie also enjoyed her first Easter.

Then for our last egg hunt of the season, we went to Mamaw and Papaw's house.

All in all, a good time was had. I think the girls may have seriously eaten a pound of sugar today. They both had tummy aches at one point or another. All in the name of Easter, right?

So much to say!

I have finally cleared enough space on this tiny computer to download more pictures. I think I will start with Sydney's SUPERSTAR picture from preschool.

It's pretty much been the best week of Sydney's life so far. She got to have her All About Me paper put up on the bulletin board with lots of pictures of her, she gets show and tell every day, and on Friday, Mike and I get to go up to preschool for a special show and tell, which is going to be Ellie. Very exciting!!

Last week, Mike went to Breckenridge in Colorado to go skiiing with some of his friends from work. I think he had a really, really good time (I don't think I was missed!).

There's Mike on the slopes.

Mike and Rod Baumann on the slopes.

Rod, Dave Jordon, Brandon (don't know his last name) and Mike. That's the whole group who went, except Dave Jordon's wife who was taking the picture.

A black diamond slope? It looks like it to me!

It's April Fool's Day today, so I made this awesome pizza for the kids and me (Mike's out of town).

Isn't that awesome?! It's actually a cake! I am going to try to make a meatloaf for dinner and frost it with mashed potatoes to look like a cake too, but I haven't made it yet so I can't post a picture.

Finally, here is a cute movie of Sophie and Ellie's first meeting.

A story by Briana

Just in case the pictures are too dark and you can't read it, here is what it says.

When I woke up Thursday morning I ate breakfast and went to school and did my morning work. then we did our pencil packet. We had snack and mommy came. She left at 11:15. Then we had lunch. We did recess and did SSR. then we did our math packet and we did 4 pages. Then went outside for recess again. then we came in and we put everything away. Then went to Mrs. Willems room for a video about clouds. We did our afternon ruten and went to P.E. We did our streches and runed around the gym and played a game. then we lined up and got a drink. We went to our room and went home. When I came out I saw a fluffy thing and I ran to see it was a puppy. I was so surprised that we got a puppy. Like on Feburey 6 we where going to, but momy didn't no how to train one. So we did not get a fur ball pupy. I was so sad that I ddin't go to school on friday. Even thow I got a crab and picked up Sydney at preschool and went to mcdonalds. On tursday when we got to daddys work and showed them all his friend came and saw her. her name is ellie.