May update

Since my blog entries for the Month of May have somehow vanished, here is a recap:

Last Day of preschool and picture with his teachers:







Memorial Day visit from Grandparents:


Katie loved watermelon and Kev is set for lots of pool time:






We turned the play set into a waterslide!

May blog entries...

Where did you go?

Road trip

I took the kids on a road trip to visit Tanya on her parents farm in Muscatine. Kevin had so much fun! It did not matter to him one bit that the tractors stayed in the machine shed; he was allowed to climb on them!




Tanya's mom took some great photos of the kids, I will post those soon if you have not already seen them on fb.

Easter visit

We were so excited to have My cousin Lori, her baby Ethan, Aunt Susie and my Mom here for Easter.

Dying eggs on Saturday night:




The kids got their baskets:


Ethan loved that bunny:






Here we are all dressed up on Easter morning:








It finally stopped raining on Sunday afternoon. We enjoyed a nice dinner while Ethan and Katie took a nap, then we were finally able to play outside.


Despite the lousy, cold weather we had a fun weekend together. I am so glad they made the trip to Iowa :)

Kev birthday, part 2

We celebrated Kevin's birthday at home again on April 4th, here are a few photos:




To Infinity and Beyond!


Hex Bug is really cool!

A shout out to Dad

Last weekend I was away on a reunion trip with my friends from college. We spent a great weekend in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nate spent four days alone with the kids. He did great! I had prepped my friends at preschool that Nate would be coming last Thursday. All the moms there were happy to see Nate and offered to help him. Of course, Nate could handle things by himself. Super Dad Nate even managed to repair the washing machine while I was gone! (He has never done a load of laundry since we moved here, but he did it while I was away and the machine broke). So, instead of spending his nights alone watching sports (while I was drinking beer in Nashville) Nate dismantled the washing machine to find the broken part, spent lots of time on the phone with Sears to find the part, drove both kids to the store to buy the part and had the entire mess fixed in time to watch the end of the Masters on Sunday. I was impressed!

4 years old!

Saturday we hosted Kevin's 4th birthday party at Backyard Adventures. All the kids and parents had a blast.

Daycare buddies who all got new siblings last May:



The May babies:



Super hero cake, yum!






Thanks Uncle Brian, we needed extra hands to help with Katie (the party was during her morning nap time).


Kevin's superhero friends and their siblings. The room got very quiet once the pizza came.



Gift opening time was hectic!




Today is Kevin's birthday. He thinks it's so funny to eat breakfast for dinner so we are having bacon and pancakes, his favorite. For breakfast this morning he wanted a turkey & mustard sandwich and potato chips :)