Goodbye Butterflies

For science this year we decided to study butterflies. What better way than by getting the butterfly garden. The kids really enjoyed them. We keep them for a week before we decided to let them be free. Hannah was very sad about the whole thing as they were her "favorite pets".

So pretty

There were five Painted Lady Butterflies in all.

Parker watching them try and escape

Blake watching them fly away

Payton's First Communion

Yesterday was Payton's big day. She was so excited and has been talking about it for weeks. We went all out for her, complete with a professional up-do for her hair. She could not be any more beautiful. She loved it all. The small party afterwards was just icing on the cake. But by far her favorite part of Saturday was that her "fairy" godparents made it. It meant so much to her for them to be there on her big special day.

The "Fairy" Godparent (aka Eric and Jaynie)

Payton looking as beautiful as ever.
The complete look.

Random pictures of Hannah

Thinking of Hannah. How fun it has been watching her grow. All the memories keep flooding back with each picture.

Crawling baby


One year

Two years

Three years

Four years

Hannah's 7th Birthday

I am little late posting about Hannah's birthday. I have been slacking on my blog. But here she is seven years old now. I remember just yesterday she was born and was so tiny and was the sweetest baby EVER. She is still super sweet but is not so tiny anymore. She is growing up to be a beautiful young lady. I wish they would all just slow down. So for her birthday it was all about her. First up was breakfast:

Hannah's breakfast of champions- choc. chip pancakes and bacon

The birthday girl

Then birthday gifts: chixos & an mp3 player
Next up was a mad rush to Chucky Cheese, Build -a-bear and MacDonalds.

We finished up with birthday cake and dinner at Firehouse Pizza.

How sweet is she?

Baton

This year Payton is still loving twirling her baton. She has been to three competitions so far. She has one coming up in May. Depending on how she does she may go to Regionals in June. She has gotten lots of second places and we are just waiting on her to get her first First place in her new age division. She wants it so bad. She needs three first places wins to move up so she can start doing a Show Twirl. I hoping this is her year.

Easter

Horsing around after church
This is what it is like to take a picture of a two year old

My sweet little boy

Payton looking oh so grown up

Hannah still missing her teeth

Look the whole gang and no one is crying

Our First Nature Study

A nature study was in order this winter. It was in honor of the new philosophy (Charlotte Mason) that I have been researching. I wanted to show the kids (and me) that even though it was winter... there is still lots of colors outside. So we set out to Forest Park Nature Center. The kids really enjoyed hiking, but it was still icy so we had to be careful. Parker found the color white right away.

Some colors were easy to see.

Others we had to hunt for..

My little troopers

They loved just watching