June ~

The news is out and we are all excited it is finally JUNE.

The biggest most exciting news is my cousin from Texas and her husband and five kids are moving to SLO.

They bought a horse farm in SLO and will be moving there mid June.

Here's a cute photo of all of them, kids are all a little older now:)

How fun for all of us, this will be the third family in San Luis.

"No expectations Becky, but we'll see you on the 4th".  Yeah.

How fun for the kids to be around each other and the great outdoors this summer.

The other news is .... yeah it is finally summer.

We have goals and agendas all summer, not huge trips (at least not until Sept...), but little trips and big agendas for learning and growing as a family of five.

Since Daddy will be so busy this summer we have plans to acquire some new skills, discover new areas, make lots of yummy jam and berry treats and see lots of family.

Yeah.  Yeah. Yeah.

My goal is to keep the kids on a morning routine all summer.

Choirs/learning in the am and play in the pm.
(oops and can't forget on attempting to ready my bible every day, can't survive without that...)

What are your plans?

Princess & Pirate 4th Birthday Party

Nolan and Taryn's 4th Birthday Party.

We love you Nolan and Taryn and are so thankful for you!

We can't believe you are FOUR already it has gone by SO fast, too fast.

We love you and feel so blessed to have you as son and daughter, brother and sister.

You are both a gift from God and a joy to raise!

Super fun to use itsy this year and purchase pdf files to do the party.

 A little decor.  I know a little over done this year, but super fun.

We had breadsticks for swords, meatballs for cannon balls (mini party ones from trader joes, fruit cabobs, malt balls and some heathly snacks and stuff for adults.

We had two tables pirate and princess with a craft on it to begin with.  We started with decorating swords with jewels (oriental trading company), and crowns for the girls again (oriental trading company).

                                     We'll start with the princess

 Taryn doing her crown

 The girls were invited to wear dress up.

I also had a ton of dress up in their rooms for them to change into or change throughout the party.

 It was cute i think Taryn wore three different dresses.

 I had the kids get their swords and wands and play a little game of balancing the money on their swords and wands and dump in bucket...didn't work to well, but o'well. They had fun.

Moving on from the cute princess's to the adorable pirates!!!

Nolan making his crown.

 We also had two more games hunting for treasure in water and pin the pirate patch on the pirate.

And then there was cupcakes and cake.
A friend from our bible study made the cupcakes and I purchased the little cakes.
Okay these little cakes are PERFECT for pre-schoolers, plenty for everyone and just too cute.  Great for twins.
The toppers for the cupcakes were all from Nancy's on Itsy.

 We had a princess cake (barbie really) and a pirate cake.

 Of course we needed a new princess outfit for the blowing out of candles.
Is that outfit #2?

Goodie bags for the kids

 Had to throw this one in there this was her little friends princess outfit i think this is outfit
number three.
Very fun and o'so cute.

One of my favorite parties to have, spend a little too much time doing it, but it was fun.

The morning two days later Nolan says in his bed,

"Mom I loved my birthday party".

Well for a mom that just makes it all worth it.

Our Karate Kid

Dylan.

He's our Karate Kid.

He's been doing Karate for awhile now.

He just got promoted to "purple belt".

Keep up the great work Dylan.

We are so proud of you.

Karate has been really good for Dylan. 

Here's the kids in action on belt promotion day.

Princess and Pirate birthday party coming up next...

Catching Up

Easter (so late) better late than never.

These are little jelly bean goodies i like to hand out to kids during Easter to share with them about how much God loves them.

 Easter in SLO

We hid So many easter eggs this year. 

 Nolan looking for Easter eggs

 Cambria

(the oldest cousin)

 Taryn

 Aubrey

 Brenna

 Dylan with Aunt Sharon

 Sharon (doesn't she look so great!)

 Avilia Barn

(one of my fav in Spring great for kiddos)

 Dylan was a little excited that day!

 All the cousins

 CUTIES!!!

Tuesday

May 1st was a super busy day; however it was a day I will not forget.

I had to get the kids off to school and Dylan to a important Dr.'s apt.

It was rush rush rush in the morning

(and for the record I really dislike rushing in the morning).

I noticed Nolan was hanging out in his bed for a long time.

No biggie I'll just get him going last, so i did.

I climbed up to the top bunk and said, "good morning Nolan" and (nicely)

 "let's get going Nolan..."

He said, "Mommy. Mommy.  I prayed"

I said, "Great Nolan."

"No" he said.

"I prayed Mommy and asked Jesus to come into my heart FOREVER and EVER."

"AWWWW NOLAN how wonderful..."

(kiss...hug...forget about time...call daddy...)

It was the sweetest thing ever.

Yeah Nolan!



Pasting + Praying = Good times

Yes. Yes. Yes.

I've been working on their party stuff and i'm exciting about it!

How fun it is...definitely more work so if you aren't into cutting and pasting i wouldn't recommend.

I love paper projects so it's fun for me and I needed an outlet since Jason has been working SO much lately.

Anyway,

so I'm cutting and pasting a lot,

but I'm also reading more...

Including this great book a friend of mine mailed me.

Highly recommend. 

I bought some extras on amazon and have recently either lent them out or given them away and everyone just loves it as much as me.

It's so challenging and encouraging and we need this right now as moms :)

So my book choice for the month is definitely :)

"A Praying Life"

by

Paul E. Miller

Hope you enjoy it as much as we have!!!

Happy praying and "pasting".