a day to celebrate

on 5/15/2011 we reached a milestone. Lucas had been seizure free for one year!! We were so excited to reach this first for him. While we will never forget the week spent trying to diagnosis him and control the seizures, we are thankful they are controllable, the medicine works and Lucas is growing and thriving. We had a little celebration for him with our family and friends. congratulations sweet boy, we love you!!!

Surrounded by family*surrounded by friends*surrounded by love

We had everyone that came sign the guest book with their thumbprint, turned out super cute!!

Thanks Pam Q for designing this for me!

Lucas with his biggest fans!

the thumbprint guestbook and all the kids!

robbie, tyler, madison, amelia, lucas, bella and avani

Pre-K graduation

Amelia graduated from Pre-K. we are so proud of her and all she has accomplished. I hope she loves kindergarten next year! I hate admitting my baby is growing up, but she is!

need a hug?

Lucas is your man! He wakes up so happy and gives the best hugs!! love him so!

Friday fun and PSA

Lucas has tumbling on Friday mornings. I take the back roads through the "country" part of our town to get to his classes. Usually the cows are out by the road grazing. if we have time we stop and open the van doors and talk to them. That entails Amelia saying "mooo, moo, mooooooo, moooo" etc. She thinks she speaks cow i guess. Lucas then starts up with "mooo cow, moooooo cow, moo cow" etc. That makes Amelia continuously tell Lucas that it is not "moo cow" just "moo" and to stop saying "moo cow". Lucas ignores her and continues to say "moo cow", which makes me giggle! they are so funny! here are the cows/moo cows in action!

move it now mister!

my favorite baby! how cute is he?!?!

a cow college

On to the PSA part. How sad that these cows are subjected to your litter. Amelia was quite upset that these momma cows and their babies had to eat around your water bottle and Gatorade bottle. She kept asking me to get out of the van and go pick this up! if a four yr old can find the trash can, so can you! otherwise,

Please Keep your trash in your car!

love these three!

Our new neighbors!

we have received SO much rain lately that these 2 guys have taken up residence down the street from us. There is no real pond by us, just the rain made ones. From what the weather man says, they should be able to file for a change of address!

rodeo day at school

Amelia had rodeo day at school. I think she made a darling cowgirl!

chocked full....

of sass!

So funny!!

family shadow pic, 2011

few random fella's

Big Lou's solo ride!

friends

there is no replacement!

Amira, Hannah, Allie and Amelia

my ballerina

pre-recital

funny girls!

recital, first position. love her!

perfection

easter 2011

love them!

hunting for eggs at aunt debbie's

Easter 2011

We were busy bunnies getting ready for easter! We managed to die the eggs and not the kids this year! Both Mia and Lou were able to help this year which was so fun! And they must have been kinda good based on the loot the easter bunny left! The both got mini pillow pets, shoes, books and some candy! Not bad kids, not bad at all.

typical day

when you live with two monkeys!

tradition

I love tradition. I will have to look to see when this one started, but we love going to eckert's, and their is always something to do in every season! Spring is the annual Easter eggstravanganza! It is always a fun time and we love when the P family can join us! He are some shots from the day.

down on the farm

We were invited out the Three Springs Farm by my co-worker friend Angel. We wanted to take some pictures of another co-worker friends baby with the little chicks. well those little chicks grew up quick and just like that, we missed them! we were all bummed out but we decided to go anyway! We had a wonderful time. The kids loved it, Amelia was a natural at chick wrangling. She went right up to them, scooped them up and carried them around. Lucas was more shy, but he did like feeding the goats ice cream cones and feeding the chickens mini marshmallows. Amelia was pretty bummed when she learned daisey the chick had to stay at 3 springs, but she was excited that she could come back and visit her very soon!

St. Patricks Day Celebration

St. Pat's is a tradition for us! I love the parade and love going! I hope my kids will grow up loving it too! I think from the smiles we are off to a great start!

My boy!

love this one. it captures him so well!

i need to make a mental note to check my kids noses before trying to take their pics. eww!

tornado alley

one of my biggest fears is tornadoes. silly right?? as if i have any control over mother nature! We had a tornado come through our home town and here is some of the damage. We, thankfully, we overlooked this time. I was a mess that night, mainly because i was at work watching the tornado head for my family, which made me feel more helpless!! So, so thankful my family was unharmed!

silverlicious

We were invited to the Silverlicious Party by our friends Nicole and Mia recently. it was a lot of fun, reminded me or organized chasos! The girls were able to make a crown, wand, received a nice goody bag and a delicious strawberry-chocolate smoothie! And it was all free. Well, free plus the cost of 3 new books Amelia decided we needed!