no more pencils, no more books

woo hoo
last day of school!!!!

congratuations on a great year!
we are so proud of you :)

you made lots of awesome friends this year
AND
you learned lots!!

nice job olivia & garrett!!!!

now on to planning a fun summer...

it's officially...

SUMMER!!

and it's also official that a certain 3 year old has NO fear of the water.
time to find some floaties that don't have holes in them :)

nope, never a dull moment around here...

it's official...

josie is a big girl...

with a big girl bike!

just yesterday

it seems like just yesterday that this crazy boy was starting D4s...

it's been a great year
and i can't believe it's over :(

ryan has had such a fun year.
he's ridden the bus alone, gone of field trips
and made lots of friends.

and best of all, he found a kid JUST LIKE HIMSELF.

no joke, these boys are crazy and so much alike.
i love it!

congrats on a great year of preschool, ryan!!!

you are one awesome kid who's growing up -
why can't you stay 4 forever???

***

ok, i do find it pretty funny that his teacher
is wearing the same shirt in these 2 pictures :)

good results

josie has held onto naps longer than any of the other kids.
lately, though, it's been a struggle.
she will still nap - it just takes her a lot longer to fall asleep in her bed.

so i finally gave in and started the -
"you don't have to nap, just watch this movie on my bed" routine.
i must say i'm pretty pleased with the results :)

outtakes

i had good intentions of putting up some {belated} easter pictures but...

aren't these outtakes just a little more fun?

soccer weather???

we are halfway through the soccer season
and the boys have only played 2 games and barely had any practices
all thanks to the rain :(

and the 2 non-rain canceled games were COLD, COLD, COLD.

this is the first year that garrett and ryan aren't on the same team.
garrett's moved up to the league where the games look like real soccer games,
not just adults herding cats {ha ha}

hopefully we'll get some decent soccer weather soon
because, seriously, it's spring and pictures like this are just wrong...

{ok, wrong but hilarious!}

one lucky girl

these are the babies i love...

and these ones too :)

i'm definitely one lucky girl!

happy mother's day

2011

hand me downs

can you spot the hand me downs in these pictures?

{there are 2}

did you figure it out?

the dollhouse & skirt were both olivia's.

i LOVED this skirt on olivia, but what i'm more excited about
is seeing someone playing with this dollhouse.

the dollhouse was one of my most favorite gifts for olivia.
i thought for sure she'd love it.
it was cool for a few days, but it's pretty much been sitting
unplayed with in her room for a long, long time.
{kind of makes you think of the sad, forgotten toys from toy story - ha ha}

but now this is josie's FAVORITE toy.
ok, maybe it's her second favorite toy behind the netflix app on my phone
{when did 3 years get so tech savvy??}
either way, i'm just glad it's getting some quality attention now!