Summer is Here

 Michael's last day of Pre-K - he cried when I picked him up. He has loved his teachers & school. He only missed 1 day the entire year!

 Michael & Kate ran into the kitchen & said, "Mommy! We're deer!" So clever :-)

 Michael's last soccer game was Saturday - his team won & Michael scored 4 of the goals! It has been a very successful first season of soccer for him & I see lots of soccer in our future. He LOVES it!! 

 Michael's Pueblo hut that he made at school

Michael & Kate definitely have their moments, but lately they have been playing together pretty well. This week they have been taking vacations - their vacations are always on the first landing of our staircase. They take all their "friends" (stuffed animals), pillows, blankets etc on vacation. I love their creativity!!

David is ONE!!!

On Saturday we had a little party to celebrate David turning ONE. Really can't believe it - this has been a fast year. We love this little guy so much & thank God for him!

Michael & Kate were so excited to celebrate David's birthday. Although it was funny, Kate kept telling everyone, "Today is my birthday!" I love how seriously David is studying his cupcake in the bottom right pic :-)

There is no question - He LOVED his cupcake! 

 Some present-opening help from Big Brother

  Now I just hope David keeps his sweet baby cheeks just a little longer...

Michael & cousin Henry :-)

A Great Soccer Season

BB & Papa, Uncle Matt, Aunt Amanda & Henry & Uncle Steven (or Muncle Steven as Kate renamed him this weekend :) all got to watch Michael's game this weekend! He was SO excited!

 Love this pic of Kate & Uncle Matt 

 Henry is so happy to be sitting with BB

 Michael with this two awesome uncles!

Love these guys!!

Michael's Pre-K Graduation

 On May 8th, Michael's school had a music program & Pre-K graduation. Mommom was in town & got to come! We loved our evening including her :-) After a sweet program (tears) we celebrated with some of our favorite Mexican food - Poblano Grill. 

 The 2 Pre-K classes performing their songs.

 Michael receiving his diploma from one of his teachers, Ms. Patricia

 Michael has LOVED his teachers this year - Ms. Patricia above, and Ms. Kiley below. He keeps telling me that we need to ask them for a map to their houses so that we can visit them this summer :-)

Michael with his sweet friend, Zachary, who we've carpooled with this year.

Vegas!

We had a fabulous vacation to Las Vegas last week - 5 days - sleeping in - eating yummy food - great company - seeing the sites. We stayed at Caesar's Palace & had so much fun traveling with our friends, Jonathan & Daree. 

One of our favorite meals - Olives in the Bellagio - we ate as the sun set & watched the beautiful Bellagio fountains.

A view of the strip from the top of the Eiffel Tower in the Paris Hotel

The Bellagio fountains from the top of the Eiffel Tower

A gondola ride in the Venetian

Ready to see Cirque Du Soliel, The 'O' Show - AMAZING!!!!

One morning we took a limo ride to Hoover Dam - also amazing.

I tried on this Oscar de la Renta gown - $12,000 price tag. WOW!!! 

We ate a delicious steak dinner at Homestead Steakhouse in Caesar's Palace.

I think the lobby of the Wynn was my favorite - gorgeous REAL flower balls hung everywhere. And it smelled heavenly.

Dale Chihuly is one of my favorite sculptors so I really enjoyed seeing his work in the Bellagio

Flower balls in the Wynn

Jumping for joy that we have 5 child-free days ahead of us :-) Freedommmm!!!

We had Serendipity's frozen hot chocolate 2 different times...yummy!!!

My First 5K!

This morning I ran my first 5K in the OKC Memorial Run - "We Run to Remember" with my good friend, Tracy Norris. It was hard but so much fun! The run was downtown & began right by the Memorial. I've heard that at least 25K people participated! Wow! I've been doing the Couch to 5K program since January & I NEVER dreamed I would do any sort of running event. Running has never been my favorite form of exercise. We ran it in 40 minutes & we were so proud of ourselves! We plan on doing another one together! Unfortunately I only have blurry phone pics :( 

 Waiting to start - 6:30am - People as far as the eye could see & the new Devon Tower in the background! 

We're ready! Let's do this!

 Almost to the FINISH!!! Once we saw the finish line we sprinted to the end!

I love my medal with the Survivor Tree on it - a beautiful reminder of all who served, suffered & lost on April 19, 1995. 

Our Soccer Star!

 1. M about to score his first of 2 goals this game! 2. The little boy to the left of him is named Brayden. He is the coach's son - Andy & Coach Buckingham have agreed that he & Michael play really well together so we're going to keep them on the same team next year! 3. M has really improved in being aggressive & going after the ball! 4. Yes, they blew up this large green dino DURING the game - you can only imagine how distracted the little 5 year olds were - so funny!

Michael is really enjoying soccer & has improved so much since he started in March. Yesterday BB & Papa drove up to watch him play! He was SO excited to have them there! Andy made me laugh - originally he told me he would coach in a few years, when M is a little older. But he is now the assistant coach :-) And he's already agreed to continue next year!