Summer can officaily start...

 Our kids got out of school last Friday. It seemed that every single person has been out for weeks so we were very anxious for this day to come! Brody is modeling the little teacher gifts we made this year. B&B treats and a cute note that said "you are SENT-sational.  We have been so lucky to have amazing teachers this year. Both my kids had Mrs. Dykes for  kinder and I can not tell you what an amazing lady she is.  She has even taught me so much...I just love her! She is almost worth staying here in VA so Ronan can go through her class! I said almost...

 I planned a little end of school bash for all the kids around here.  As the bus rolled in you could hear all the kids cheering and yelling...it was so fun!  Then we launched water balloons at them...they loved it.

 It was a mad dash to get to the water balloons....

 We had 2 giants buckets full of water balloons which were gone in about 1 min.!  All that hard work down the drain...but it was so fun to see how much fun they were having.

 This GIANT slip n slide is always a huge hit...

Then is was over...and now we are in full fledge summer mode!  

On tap for summer...YMCA pool, lots and lots of beach days, visit from friends and Great Grandma, Norfolk Tides baseball game, trip to DC temple, piano lessons, math camp, and hopefully organizing this place for our big move at the end of this year.  It's gonna be a great summer!!

dance

Last week Sadie had her dance recital at the Norfolk Scope. If you know VA, you know the scope is big and downtown which was intimidating to me, but we made it through the dress rehearsals and Sadie did great in the recital. They danced to the song "9 to 5" which was ADORABLE!! They wore fake secretary glasses (which Sadie didn't like to wear) and carried little secretary notebooks.  So so cute!

I stressed about doing her hair for weeks!  Her hair does not hold a curl worth a darn, so I gave sponge curlers a go.  BAD idea!! Her hair was basically straight when I took them out, so I went back to the curling iron and prayed the curls would stay. It was OK, but definitely  need to come up with a better solution next time.

This video is awful, (we were not supposed to video or take pictures at the recital, but I had to get some footage for the fam to see!)

Sadie is 2nd from the left.

Happy Birthday Ronan...and Me

 Ronan turned 3 on April 17th. It was on a Sunday in the middle of finals for everyone so we just chilled at home and had a little family party. He loved it. 3 is certainly a fun age. Ronan is leaning so much at such a fast pace and lives life to the fullest! He keeps us on our toes for sure but we love him so much.

 Opening a Birthday package. He got beyblades...so now every time we get a package he thinks someone sent him new beyblades.

We have this super fun bike trail next to our house so we took a bike ride up to Noah's school. I was a little nervous Ronan wouldn't be able to last the whole time but he did great and kept right up with the rest of them.

 Noah being the much better parent than I am let Ronan make and frost all the cupcakes.

My Birthday was 5 days later. We spent the day together...ate way too much food at Chipotle (as you can see) saw Rio (loved it) and had a great dinner with Noah at Bravo.

Easter

This Easter was probably my favorite Easter of all.  

Powerful, amazing talk by our Bishop...just what I needed

Uplifting music

Lunch with all our favorite school friends

Dinner with all our favorite church friends

Lots of great food...I remember how much I love deviled eggs every Easter

Skyped with my Fam to end the night

Perfect.

Barrister's Ball...

We went to Barristers ball last weekend...which was so much fun!  It is basically prom for the Law students..kind of funny.  We got to have a great fancy kidless dinner with great friends.

Womacks, Woods, Wilborns and Hartmans

Don't know what I'm going to do when this lady leaves me in May.  

Love you Nat :(

The theme for the night was "Kentucky Derby".  How cute does Jodi look? I was wishing I had a big fun hat all night!!

 

Hope and Jamie.  Jamie (on the right) will be moving to AZ after Law School and I could not be happier!! Her kids are the same ages as my kids...we love their family so much!!

So, some of you know that we were trying to transfer to ASU for Noah's last semester.  We just found out the Immigration clinic that Noah wanted to take is not being offered this next Fall semester...super bummer.  So with that and a few other things we have decided it would be better to stay and finish here in December. We both feel really good about staying actually.  I'm excited to have more beach time this summer!!

Say what??

Why does my weather tracker say we are in the 30's again???  I swear it's almost April! 

We had a little taste of Spring last week....please come back to stay!!!

Visitors from the WEST...

 May parents came to visit a couple weeks ago.  Since we just saw everyone in December we were not expecting any visitors for a while but we were pleasantly surprised when they told us they were coming!! We planned a jam packed schedule for them since we didn't really do much last time they were here.

 Straight from picking them up from the airport we headed straight up to DC to spend a couple days. You really could go there every weekend and see something new!

 The Capitol.  My favorite part of the whole DC trip.  We got to do a tour of inside the Capitol...super sweet! It was like being right back in Social Studies learning about the House and the Senate. There is an imaginary line in the middle of the Capitol that they literally do not ever cross. Crazy!!

 This is the inside the top of the dome...this is also the room where Presidents who have died lay and people come and pay their respects before they get buried.

Supreme Court...Noah's fav.

Museum of Natural History (Night of the Museum!)

 Our niece mailed us a Flat Stanly to take pictures with for her class project.  He made it all the way to the Lincoln memorial!

 The view of DC from Arlington Cemetery.

 Next on the agenda was Williamsburg.  

We walked through the Colonial Williamsburg, ate at the yummy Cheese Shop, drove through William and Mary, went to The Christmas Mouse store, and shopped at the Outlets...all in one day!!

This is out of order but we drove by the DC Temple so my Mom and kids could see it for the first time.  Amazing as usual.  It would have been great to go in if we had more time.

My Dad had been wanting southern fried chicken all weekend so we ended our trip with a yummy but seriously greasy need to take a shower now dinner.

I'm so thankful my parents could come see us and love that they took time out of their busy schedules for us. It meant a lot!!!