A photo session with 3 monkeys...

Last night was the annual 1st grade Fishy Show. Austin was so excited to participate. He had tie dyed his t-shirt and designed his sea creature on the front.

I decided that we needed to take some photos before we left...so I asked my 3 monkeys to pose for me...
"OK everyone...SMILE..."
(we have reached the age where no photo session is complete without a set of rabbit ears)

"Hey...Guys...Look at me..."

("Shawn, get your finger out of your ear!")

"Come on!!! Just smile like normal people..."

("Maybe if I get closer...")"Geesh...what the heck is that...let's try again...SMILE!"

"Well...I guess this is the best we can do..."

"Hey Mom, can we do a silly pose?" "Sure...go ahead..."

("OK...seriously...you look like your about to poop on him.")

Oh well...at least I can get a good photo of one kid.

Great job at the Fishy Show Austin!!

Her own sense of style...

This is my daughter...

She got a new bathing suit today and thought the appropriate coordinating footwear should be winter boots.

Of course she also chose this dress...

Little hippie...

Happy Birthday Shawn!

It's hard to believe that my baby just turned 9 years old. He is growing into such a great guy!

We started the birthday day with our traditional "special" breakfast. Shawn doesn't really like cake so this year I made him an icecream sundae. Boy was he excited...

Those flashes are too bright first thing in the morning.
The boys love to look at their first scrapbook while they eat breakfast on their birthdays.

Shawn wanted to compare his current foot to his newborn footprint...yikes...

I like to take a bunch of pics of them on their birthday...it is fun to look back through the years to see how they have changed.

He was excited to take donuts to share in school and then we went out to Domo 77 for his birthday dinner. Of course I forgot the camera!

Today we had Shawn's "kid" party. It was at Monkey Joe's...

He was so excited to sit in the BIG chair...

He was joined by lots of friends from school...

Tim posing with Austin's ticket stash...

Ella had a blast...

And everyone had fun trying out the BIG chair...

Austin invited his best buddy to join him at the party...

He had such a blast wearing out the games...

I think I need some of those big bouncy things at my house...

The kids had a blast getting all sweaty...

Oh my...

Taking a food break...pizza and cake of course...

The actual Monkey came for a visit...

Shawn seemed to like him...but Ella informed me that he was NOT real but just a guy dressed up in suit...in her most serious Cricket voice.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the cake...

And then it was off to play some more...

Thanks to everyone who came to party with Shawn!

And Happy Birthday to my handsome little man!!

HAPPY EASTER!!

This year Easter fell at the end of our Spring Break.
Our Spring Break was pretty much one big case of the stomach flu around here which made for some pretty sad faces. Unfortunately, Shawn got the "bug" on Saturday which meant that he missed out on the egg coloring.

Of course the Cricket was all about the egg decorating.

Austin was excited to show off his missing tooth.

Ella was pretty serious about her eggs.

While Austin spent more time showing off his new basketball jersey. "#4"

Look Mom...an egg...

And "Smurf" fingers...

All done...look how beautiful they are...

Shawn was feeling better on Easter morning but we stayed home from Church just in case (Oh Darn!!)

The bunny left the baskets filled with goodies.

The kids were so excited...

Cool shirt dude!

Now that they are getting older...the bunny is trying to be more creative with the egg hiding.

But not so creative that the eggs cannot be found...

More like..."funny" creative...

Gotta love the morning hair!

And the afternoon Leg o Lamb. It was so beautiful out so we cooked it on the grill. I will never prepare it any other way! It was fabulous.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! We sure did...