A Monkey's Day at the Park

When I went home in March for my Spring Break, I took Ethan to the park for some "just us" time.  I had already planned to have Jay and Lily over for a "camping" trip at Grammy and Papa's and wanted to spend some quality time with Ethan as well.  He had a blast!  And it was very hard to convince him that it was time to leave and go pick up Jay and lunch.  I'm sure that there will need to be many more trips to the park.

Stairs that look like a Gator

I see you!!

Cheesing while swinging!

Just a few shots and no, there are no pictures from the camp-out, but we did have s'mores :)

Birthday pictures (as promised)

Ethan - age 3 w/ Aunt Robin

Jay - age 5 w/Aunt Robin

Lily - age 3 w/ Aunt Robin

Since we didn't have much time during the weekends of their birthdays, I decided to take our birthday pictures Easter Sunday.  This way we were all nicely dressed :)

Here is a picture of each child with his/her birthday present:

Jay w/ his Avengers Scooter

Lily got a Gator tutu and
bow!

Ethan w/ his Mickey Mouse
coloring book and puzzles

Jay has pretty much mastered the scooter (and Lily is already asking for one).  Lily wasn't over thrilled with her tutu at the time (she even called it too fancy), but hopefully I will get some good pictures of her in it during football season.  Ethan, I am told, puts his puzzles together almost every day.  And since the coloring book is Mickey Mouse, then it was a huge hit!

Can it really be the end of June already?

Where has the time gone?!  I just realized that I failed to post birthday pictures of me and the kids and will have to do that soon!  We had a rather uneventful birthday season this year as we only had one party for 3 kids' birthdays.  Jay and Lily were taken to Disney for their birthday instead of a party. and Ethan had his party the weekend of his birthday.  Pics and more info will be posted later.

My time has been spent with work and school (surprise, surprise).  I don't know what I'm going to do come January when I no longer have school as an excuse for my time :).  Yep, that's right. In case you've missed the previous announcements, Graduation is less than 6 months away (that is as long as I pass this semester. . . .Business Finance is NOT my friend)!!!!  I'm so excited and yet in disbelief a bit to the fact that it's almost here.

Work has been really busy (and yes, although I am writing this while at work, I'm forced to take lunch breaks :)) as we went to a new system on April 9 and GN season is upon us!  I've put in for a promotion and am praying that it is where God wants me to be (or that he'll show me where that is).

I'm spending the 4th with the kids, so hopefully there will be plenty of pics and stories to share after that (and yes, I'll get on soon and post the birthday pics mentioned earlier)!

Try and stay cool!