Mother's Day

We celebrated Mother's Day by heading to my parents for a baby shower for one of my sisters-in-law and to stay over to celebrate the holiday...the last with all of us till my brother leaves for his mission. 

This is at the shower after all the gifts had been opened! It was a lot of fun to get together as a family to celebrate the new little girl that would be coming into it! 

This was on the menu for  dinner Mother's Day weekend! A family favorite of what I like to call "Pop" Chicken because you marinate it in a combo of sprite, soy sauce, and oil.

We had some time for some random shots of the kids!  I especially love this one of Julia!

Fathers-n-Sons--Female Version

Us girls spent the night painting nails and eating an amazing fondue! It was awesome!

We then watch a chick flick that I can't seem to remember the name of! LOL!

The next morning we had an amazing breakfast of smoothies and pancakes!

Fathers-n-Sons---male version

Anthony took the boys to my parent's fathers and sons activity. They had a blast playing on the toys and doing the other activities that were there. 

They had this thing there that you could spin in, but thankfully, my kids weren't allowed to do that. Sitting was a good alternative. 

They all slept in the van! They folded down the seats, turned on a movie, and got comfy!  What a great end to a fun day!

Peter's 1st Grade Program

In May Peter had his 1st Grade program! They did a patriotic theme! 

Bad photo of Peter walking in...sigh..oh well

Searching for us...They did an amazing job singing and even brought me to tears at one point with the rendition of "I'm Proud to be an American."

The support group! 

Newest Member of Our Family

This is our new van! 

A 2005 Town and Country! 

It took us 3 very long days to decided on it. We spent most of the day Monday driving around looking at cars, most of Tuesday night, and finally decided on this Wednesday. 

It has only 80,000 miles on it, which is the lowest that any of our cars have had, and has been treated very well. It has the awesome Stow-n-Go seating that I have wanted for like forever and a DVD player, which our kids have absolutely loved.  It has side pockets in the doors for garbage or whatever! (Did you know that A LOT of vans don't have that? I thought it was a basic feature!) My favorite feature is the power doors that I can open from my key chain or a button inside in the van.  It makes grocery shopping so much easier! 

It has been awesome to have a new van...

just wish that it wasn't because of my accident. 

Andrew's Preschool Graduation

Andrew graduated from Preschool near the end of April. He had an amazing teacher that challenged him and encouraged him to be the best he could. Thanks to her, Andrew is reading! Sadly, Ms. Jeni moved shortly after this! She is, and will continue to be, very missed. 

Some of Andrew's classmates

Andrew's special present that he made for us

One last hug for his teacher that he has had for two years

Now he's off to conquer Kindergarten!

Parent's Day

In April they had Parent's Day at Peter's school to honor and thank all the parents for their help and support. Anthony and I both got to come and have lunch with Peter at this school. He was so excited to have us there. 

If you look closely, you can see my oh so lovely knee brace in this photo. I got a new one a few days after this and wore it for almost my whole summer. I may do more on that later.