Happy May Day, Love __________

Parker made a May Day craft in class that took about a week. He cut, pasted, stapled and wrote very diligently to perfect this flower basket. Inside the basket was a rolled up note that was hand written, "Happy May Day. Love _________".
He was told by Mrs. B to tiptoe to a neighbors door, hang the basket, and RUN LIKE THE WIND and hide so that they wouldn't see who the flowers were from.

He was a little nervous as he approached the door...he lingered, looking confused as to where to hang the basket. Finally, after about 30 seconds (and I'm sure our sweet elderly neighbors were enjoying watching as well) he dropped the basket, knocked, and ran!!
Our neighbor opened the door right as he was running and Parker stopped dead in his tracks and explained what he was doing.

He walked back a bit discouraged that he was "found"...but I assured him that it was more about the thought about it than the mystery of the "sender".

We got a call later that evening from our neighbor Janelle and they were touched by his craft and thoughtfulness.

Happy 5th birthday, Colton!!!

Colton had a super fun 5th birthday with mom, dad, and Parker. (We are doing his family party on Sunday).

His day started off with a trip to Starbucks to enjoy a glazed donut and a gourmet chocolate milk. He sat in a plush velvet chair that was fit for a birthday boy.

When Park got home from school he gave Colton the birthday present he picked out for him. THE IRON MAN MASK that he drools over everytime we go to WalMart :). Also in the birthday bag was a hot wheels motorcycle and a box of cracker jacks. We finished the night off with a hostess cupcake and ice cream. (I'm making him a Pinterest inspired cake for his family party). But hey, the hostess cake was just as good!!

Grandma and Grandpa came over the night before and brought him and Parker a HUGE waffle cone ice cream and gave Colton a wallet with $10 in it!

T-ball practice!! Go Yankees!!

Friday night was Parker AND Colton's first t-ball practice! I emphasized the "and" because Colton had been dying to be a part of a "team" for well over a year now.
It was so cute, he kept kind of "half-looking" around at Aaron and I and giving us a shy thumbs up with a quirky grin on his face.
We are the New York Yankees and 8 of Parker's schoolmates (not all in the same class, but the same grade and they all know each other) are on the team.
Practice started out with a pep talk from coach Ty and then went into a big circle of a meet and greet with each player saying their name and their favorite ice cream flavor :)

After that they went right into stretching and a short jog. Parker led the group running, the boy has a great stride that helps him run fast!

Taking grounders with Connor

Stretching their arms out

They then broke up into groups and had 3 stations with parents helping. Aaron helped the kids with fielding, while there was a hitting and throwing stations as well.
We got a lot of comments about how strong Colton's throwing arm was. Both kids hit well too.
At the end of practice we huddled and said, "gooooooo Yankees!"
And what practice wouldn't be xomwte without snacks at the end!!
See you at practice next week!!

He was SO SO EXCITED to be pracitcing on a REAL team!!

Running the bases

Asst coach telling Colton what to do for base running

Playing catch

Rounding 3rd

Colton gets ready to swing

Parker is "fielding"

Aaron's going to have a talk with the coaches about changing Colton's swing---he's got a NATURAL swing and they are trying to "mis" correct it---NOPE--not in our family!!

Got the grounder!

He swung hard, now he's watching it sail!

They had to throw their own ball as hard and as far as they could and then go and run as fast as they could to retreive it and bring it back

More stretching

Colton's fielding grounders

Aaron is teaching the boys the correct technique for fielding stance and hand position

Throw it Colton!

Being goofy

Darn!  I was a second too late---Colton had JUST looked at me "slightly" and gave me the thumbs up "I'm excited" gesture.

New Hair Color for Krista

A friend of mine is a stylist and offered to cut and color my hair yesterday. It has been AGES since I have colored it and didn't take much length off because I'm trying to grow it out. I am still getting used to it---but it's growing on me (no pun intended). Haha.
Pardon the picture of me, Aaron asked me to text him a picture right after I got it done, I told him it was gonna be a "hot " picture of myself ;)

Hey! Where'd you come from!?

It rained overnight 2 nights ago. For some reason we had left Colton's shoes out on the front porch (I think he stepped in poo or something?)
Anyways, upon grabbing his shoes we found a 'four legged friend' who had stopped overnight for some shelter.
Colton captured him and named him Chip. Parker then adopted him and renamed him Josh.
He is still alive in the jar today and the boys have filled up a large cap with water (his bath, duh!) that we find Josh/Chip sitting in very frequently.

Work Day at Gramma and Grampa Goat's!

We spend a Sunday each spring out at gramma and grampa goat's house. Let's get something straight here...SHE'S not a goat, she used to have goat's and that's how the boys associated her with them and the name has stuck ever since :)We enjoy doing this every year to help Aaron's gramma and grampa since they are getting older and are not able to really do this kind of work anymore. We always roast hot dogs and marshmallows in Gramma's fire pit which is a huge treat for all of us...it's a great time. This hopefully is also showing our kids what it means to help other people out of the good of their hearts and also instill a good work ethic in them.