Mother's day 2013

So I am a little late in posting about Mother's day but oh well!!  We had a very busy mother's day.  On Saturday night Rob and the kids took me out to dinner at Long Horn (my favorite) and than we went to a concert in our downtown city park.  It was a fun night just the five of us.

Sunday we got up and went to church.  I was working the nursery that morning and had to be there early.  Of course Collin picked that morning to sleep in until 9:45 and we had to be at church at 10:05!  Luckily we made it in time :)

After church we went to visit with my grandparents for a little while before heading to meet up with Rob's parents at the park.  Our plan was that Rob was going to take the kids fishing while I went running and than we would all go to dinner.  Well when we got to the park I decided that since it was such a beautiful day and the kids were still in their "church" clothes that we should take some pictures.  I am really glad we did because we got some GREAT pictures.  Maybe my kids are finally at an age where we are sweating and cussing and yelling while trying to get family pictures or maybe it was just the bribery that they could go fishing if they smiled!

This was my favorite one of the day!

So I thought this would be a super cute pic and it is but right after the kids fell down.  Luckily no one was hurt!

This pic describes Spencer and Collin perfectly!

And this describes Katie and her attitude :)

My big boy

Sweet Collin-he looked so big.

Crazy girl!

Love this pic of me and my girl

My three biggest blessings!

Spencer took this picture and I love it!

Rob with his parents and kids

Rob and his mom

Katie was over pics at this point and mad that I wasn't in the picture with her.

Our little family

And this is real life-they would rather be throwing rocks than smiling for pics!

Finally fishing and Daddy caught a snapping turtle!

Field day

This last week Spencer had field day at his school.  Thankfully it was a warm afternoon because they had a huge water slide for the kids.  Of course Katie and Collin came along with me.  Spencer's teacher was so sweet and let Collin and Katie do all the activities that the class was doing. They loved it!

The first "event" involved Christmas presents and racing back and forth to the tree. Spencer's group won it!

Field day isn't complete without candy :)

Collin's speech teacher was in charge of one of the events.  We love her!

The big water slide.  Spencer wasn't so sure about it at first!

Of course Collin went right down!

Waiting to go again!

Katie had to try it too.  She was the littlest one doing it.  She loved it, went right under and came up laughing!

This sweet little girl took Katie down it again.  All the girls love Katie.

Do you see Katie in the back?

She was a little cold afterwards! Thankfully I had dry clothes for her.

This was another favorite!

Katie wasn't so sure about this.  Thankfully the tank wasn't full so she didn't get wet!

 

Last event.  They were suppose to throw underhand but of course my boys didn't.  It was more fun to throw it hard and far!!

We had a lot of fun.  

Zoo field trip and our weekend

Wow, I have been bad at blogging lately.  We have been a tad bit busy around here :)  So let's start with last week.  Last Tuesday Spencer's class took a field trip to the zoo.  This was originally scheduled for the beginning of April but the weather was bad so it was rescheduled.  I had asked my mom to babysit Collin and Katie so I could chaperone the field trip but there were too many chaperones so his teacher asked if I wanted to just drive myself and meet them there and than Collin and Katie could come too since I wasn't technically a chaperone.  I asked my mom if she wanted to come since she had already taken the day off to babysit.  So we all went.  It was a lot of fun and a beautiful day.

We had a group of four boys and than Collin, Katie and another mom brought her baby.  The boys were a little crazy and mainly just ran through the zoo.  I don't think they cared if they saw the animals at all!

This was most of the boys in our group!

Are we surprised that Collin is the kid in the middle?!

After lunch I was able to "check" Spencer out so that way I didn't have to go back to school to pick him up and we could go back into the zoo and hang out.  Spencer was upset because he wanted to ride the bus back.  The bus has been such a headache for us this year.  He hates riding it in the afternoons so three days a week I pick him up but he was mad that he couldn't ride it back from the zoo!!

I love this pic of these two!!

Katie loves the petting zoo!

We always get a picture on this lizard.

Grandma and the kiddos

The rest of our week was laid back and we didn't do much.  Friday I read to Spencer's class. I always love reading to his class.  They are so funny.  Katie and Collin came along and Katie was horrible climbing all over her brothers and not listening to me!

The weekend was laid back.  Friday night we went to watch our friends Rhett and Braden play each other in baseball.  After the game we went to my friend Erin's house for pizza while the kids played.

Collin watching Rhett at bat.

The girls watching t.v.

Saturday it was suppose to rain all day but it didn't so the kids spent a lot of time playing outside with our neighbors.  They even earned money helping our neighbor do yard work although I'm not sure how much help they were!  After the yard work was done all the boys rolled around and wrestled in the grass.

Sunday it rained all day.  After church the boys went over to our neighbor's house to hang out while we painted our living room.  Finally after living in our house for almost 10 years we are painting our living room and getting new furniture!!  Rob and I painted all Sunday afternoon and late into the night.  We got a ton painted but yesterday when it dried we realized that we were given the wrong paint so we have to repaint everything.  It is very frustrating but at least we were able to get a refund on our paint.  I'll wait and post pictures when we are done.  So far I love the color!!