Marin Turns FIVE!

We celebrated Marin's birthday with her friends at our neighborhood pool.

She was so excited about swimming in the DEEP side of the pool.

Here comes Oliver!  The kids loved the slide.

Most of them took a jump off of the diving board too--and so did their daddies!

Mid-air Marin.

 Fashionista Leah and Jack 

Sloan wasn't digging the party.

Baby Joshua watching his big sis.

Sweet Taylor and her little brother Leighton's head.  Cutest blondes ever!

Cake time!  Mia and Marley were watching closely!

Make a wish baby girl!

How is it possible that she's FIVE??  

We are blessed to have such sweet friends.

Full arms and a grateful heart to have these loves in my life.

Piñata!!

 Best friends.

Right up Oliver's alley!  

Smack it, Easton!

Mia!

Quinny!

We had a fun morning with friends…more pictures to come in the next post!
Happy Birthday, Mar Bear!

Off She Goes!!

Marin has been begging to take the training wheels off of her bike, so this weekend it finally happened!

She's ready to give it a try on two wheels.

So excited!

 

She's been riding her Strider bike (no pedals) for about a year and it seems like it is a pretty seamless transition to a pedal bike.

Jason had to run to keep up with her! 

Taking the curve...

She's got it!

Squealing and jumping, she was so proud of her ride…so were her mommy & daddy!

 

Memorial Day Weekend

We took advantage of the long weekend to make a trip to San Antonio.
Little did we know we were driving into one of the worst rainfalls on record in San Antonio!!
They got up to 17 inches of rain in about a day.  Fortunately, there was an indoor/outdoor pool where we spent most of our time shielded from the rain.  We contemplated going to Sea World, but the rain answered that question for us.

Here are just a few pics of the kids in our room.
Marin has been reading to her brother and they both love it!

Sloan has an interest in cats, and says, "Meeeee-ohhhh!" whenever he sees one!

Two monkeys taking a rest from jumping on the bed.

We packed everything up at check-out time and hit the pool one last time.
This was only half of our stuff...

Should we stay or go?  Stay!!!

 

Preschool End of Year Program

Marin's little preschool class has been working on a few songs for months now!
She was so excited to finally 'perform' them for us.

She has one more day of school before summer is officially here.

 

Marin's best friend, Mia.  They are inseperable at school!  

The four year old classes singing 'My God is so Big' and
'Who is the King of the Jungle?  Who is the King of the Sea?'

All classes singing 'God is changing me Little by Little.'
Not a dry eye in the house...

 

I'm so happy we get to keep her 'home' for one more year!
I'm in no rush to let her grow up!

 

Shenanigans

The kids have been having 'a ball' playing in this little pool for the last few weeks.

The giggles were endless!

Monkey see.  Monkey do.

We filled it up and moved it outside now that it's getting warmer.  

Big fun!