Early May stuff

May is flying by...

but we're having fun in the meantime.

We all went out to dinner after Meemaw watched Colin and Maggie on spring break...

Girls picture!

Silly faces!

Boys silly picture

Olivia had her first communion the other weekend.

It was a beautiful day and we had a nice party after at the Wells' house.

Congrats Olivia!

Our family hit up a Royals game

Attempted to get a family pic on the way, but then realized you couldn't see Eli in his rear-facing car seat.  Whoops!

We had wonderful Diamond Club seats.  It was a hot day but our seats were in the shade by the middle of the first inning.  So fun!

Eli spent the majority of the time playing with a straw in his bottle of water.

The kids spent the majority of the time begging for cotton candy.

Another try at a family pic

The kids had a blast - and don't worry...they got their cotton candy after all!

Brian and I went to see Garth Brooks in concert a couple weeks ago.

It was great, just like 10 years ago when we saw him in KC.

He's quite the entertainer, even though we stayed up WAY past our bedtime that night.

We did a post-Garth concert picture because Brian was certain his eyes looked "tired" in the first picture.  I told him, maybe that's because we have 3 kids and we ARE tired.  Hmmmmmm

We got our house repainted.  It was in desperate need of a new coat of paint, some wood rot fixing, new caulk, etc.  It looks great.  We had quite a time picking a paint color, but ended up with a greeny-gray color.  

Brian re-mulched and I power washed the deck (which he re-stained a few days later).

Our house is getting some TLC and it's looking great!

Easter weekend

Easter weekend was started off by Maggie losing her FIRST TOOTH!

The story behind it is pretty funny.  She didn't even have a single wiggly tooth the day before it came out.  She was eating dinner one night (watermelon, to be specific), and she accidentally stabbed the bottom of her tooth with her fork when she was eating it.  Of course, there was drama and tears involved, but the end result was a SUPER wiggly bottom tooth.

She messed around with it the next day, decided she didn't want a wiggly tooth any longer, and then pulled it out after dinner the next night.  She was pretty proud of herself.

The tooth fairy brings $5 for the first lost tooth.

She was pumped to find it in the morning!

We then headed down to Belton to have Easter with the Dudley side on Good Friday.  It was  a little bit rainy that morning, but then it cleared out and was beautiful and sunny in the afternoon.

Girl time!

These 3 played so hard all day!

It's so fun to watch them run crazy together and laugh a ton!

Eli tried hard to hang with the older kids - he loved playing with some new toys, though!

Sweet Arleigh Jean

Fun Aunt Tiffey had eggs ready to be colored.  

After rest, the kids were ready to hunt for some eggs in the backyard.

Finished the day off with some bikes and balls in the cul-de-sac.

Such a great Easter celebration with family.

Colin had a birthday party the next day at a really neat arcade place.

He had so much fun.

On Easter morning the kids were ready for their Easter baskets.

Maggie got a couple NumNoms, Colin got some Pokemon cards, and Eli got the movie Moana.

They got ready for church and started a quick egg hunt in the house before we left for mass.

We even saw a cute little Easter bunny out our back window that morning.

Moose just sat and stared at it for a long time.

Goofy kids...

All dressed up - we had someone take our picture outside of church that morning

We came home, changed, then headed to Grammie and Granddad for some more Easter celebrating with the Teson side.

Maggie and baby Bennett

More egg hunting...

We are so blessed to have such wonderful family that we can be with during the holidays.

Happy Easter 2017!

April pics

Here are some April pictures from my phone - I haven't had a chance to grab the pictures off of my good camera - but I still think these are pretty great!

Eli will take a shower with Colin and Maggie usually, but sometimes he just needs a good scrub in the kitchen sink.  He loves it in there - So much fun splashing water EVERYWHERE!!! :)

We took Brian out to lunch for his birthday last weekend.

I forgot to get the waitress to snap a family pictures of us - so I just took this in the van before we came inside once we got home.  The lighting isn't the best, but it turned out cute!!!

Eli is pretty funny right now entertaining himself at Colin's soccer games.
Don't worry, he didn't get stuck! 

Eli's daycare provider was sick one day last week, so I was able to stay home with him and visit the kids at lunch.  It is always so much fun to surprise them at lunch!

I love this look from Eli - he loves his brother so much!

Colin read to Eli a few night back - it was sweet to watch

Eli found some froggy rain boots - insisted on clomping around the house in them all night.

On one of our walks around our neighborhood - I just love the look of tulips in bloom

We went to the Corporate Challenge kickoff walk last weekend.  So much fun!  

Very kid friendly and lots of activities for them to do.  

Saw the Star Wars people there

Maggie got her face painted and glitter was EVERYWHERE!!!

Yummy free yogurt!

Our fun family of 5

Made it to Grammie and Grandad's for a yummy dinner to celebrate Brian's birthday.  Colin got soap on his shirt, so he took it off.  Next thing we knew, Daniel 'needed' his shirt off, too.

Cousins are so much fun!

Eating some delicious dessert

Colin had a soccer game in Belton so we spent some extra time visiting Tiffany and Chad and Meemaw.  I got some Arleigh snuggles in, she sure is cute!

I can't even describe how windy it was out on the soccer field, but it was a great day to watch Colin run his legs off out there.  He tried so hard and is improving immensely.  I hope he sticks with it - he's got a good foot on him!

Colin with his boy cousins