May Madness and Ainsley's Kindergarten Graduation

Holy month of May, Batman! It's been very fun and very busy.... This is what we have been up to - non-stop every day....

• Anderson's 4th Birthday
• Alexandra's First Communion
• Piano Recital (had to skip the violin recital!!! :( v. sad)
• Ainsley's Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony
• Finishing up PTO Responsibilities
• Last Day of School
• Our turn to host the Munger Place Porch Party
• Broken Retainer Emergency Ortho Visit
• Sick Dad
• Sick Doggies
• Allergic Reactions with ER Visit - Alexandra
• Poison Ivy Spreading - Ainsley
• Home school Planning Meetings and purchases
• Total House Reorg, Purge, Garage Sale, Charity Runs
• Memorial Day Parties

Here are pics from Ainlsey's Graduation. She was soo sweet and cute. She wore her favorite dress even though the teachers and myself tried to change her mind b/c it was a tad short for sitting on stage. She was NOT having it - that was her favorite dress and THAT is what she was going to wear for the most important day of her life! I'm glad she got her way b/c she was sooo adorable up there!!!




Here is buddy trying to hide from my camera. Later, he was sitting in Ms. Akin's lap for the last 30 minutes of the ceremony... Not sure why he got that "priviledge...." Probably being a little too wiggly... He was quite happy though to get to sit in Ms. Akin's lap. It was so cute!

We will miss you next year White Rock Montessori!

More First Communion Pictures

Kerry took some wonderful pictures of Alexandra's First Communion.... Here they are - thank you sweet Lanie!!! :)

We Love You Alexandra Elizabeth!

Alexandra's First Communion

One of the most special days in a long time. My parents and my brother came from Tulsa and Kerry from San Antonio - we had a fun time hanging out. Alexandra really felt the importance of what she was about to do. The day started great - she was very excited to wear her dress and veil that we had made just for her and she picked herself from sketches.

Some last adjustments before I left to go to the church and she went to sit with the other First Communicates.

The Church was beautiful with all the pink roses! It was PACKED with all the children's families there. Father John did a great job with the Homily talking to the children. Just a fantastic ceremony, Mass and music. Very beautiful and special.

She spent a year preparing. She was very excited. I happened to get a picture right as she looked back at us! Yay! :)

She got a beautiful necklace and many other sweet precious gifts from everybody. Her and Ainlsey and Anderson got lots of fun attention from Lexi's Godparents! Here they are, lauging and cracking up! Fun and special times!

Fun Fourth

The party was fun, pump-it-up is kid heaven. They were cute all running around with their super hero capes on.

Here they are watching the "instructions." Waiting to get started...

Going down head first!

All the Superheros worn OUT!

Cake Time!

Happy 4th Birthday to my SuperHero!

I love you, AnderMan!

iPod Touch

For the raffle at the school, we offered the child who sells the most raffle tix an iPod Touch. The idea came from another mom and boy was she on the money! All the kids were talking about that iPod Touch or "iTouch" for short - everyone wanted to win it.... It had a huge buzz. The class that sold the most got a Pizza Party and all were excited about that as well.

Of course MY kids were just as motivated. They didn't seem to care that I did not have time to take them out to sell raffle tickets..... In fact, they made a plan. They would each sell their own tickets but give Ainsley all the credit for tickets sold. Then, after they won it, they would all share the iTouch equally.... Pretty smart I thought - I was quietly proud of their little plan..... Incidentally, they changed last minute for Lexi to get all the credit - I never figured out why - didn't overhear that conversation.

So, not only was I incharge of all the auction details, I had to shlep my kids to Starbucks (on 3 different occasions), around the neighborhood and finally standing outside of 7-Eleven at our lowest point. I finally told the girls while standing outside of 7-eleven that WE HAD TO GO HOME!! I could not stand out there with them anymore - I had a million Auction things to do....

So, when we got home Ainlsey dug out $15 out of her piggy bank, Anderson $5 out of his and Lexi $5 out of hers. So, I thought that was nice of them to do that as I was reminding them this is just a donation, they are NOT going to win. They said, we KNOW mommy! So, I matched their $25 and that was IT!

But, we found out on the last day you were allowed to turn tix in - that a little boy brought in 86 tickets. Wow, we knew we hadn't sold that many..... The kids were bummed out, but I had been preparing them all along... We moved on and got over it pretty quick.

After the big event - Monday afternoon my raffle volunteer emailed me with the news of the raffle winners - Lexi Lewis had sold 98 tickets!!!!! That was the #1 spot by 13 tickets. I had no idea she had sold that many, in our head we had about 75 or 80.... They sold 98 tickets and WON THE IPOD TOUCH!!! They could not believe it - sooo excited. I was really really excited for them....

OF COURSE, they looooooooove that thing!! Anderson loves it and they are really taking turns with each other... They play only on screen days (weekends) and an occasional exception here and there.

Way to go little Lewis'.... My little hard workers!! :)

Top Secret!

Of course, I'm never too busy to plan my kiddo's birthday party! He decided he wants a Super Hero Birthday Party, so here is the invitation. He is pretty excited....

The kids will receive a Plain File Folder with CONFIDENTIAL on the outside. On the tab it will say, Mission #4 (get it?) .

Then, on the inside they'll find this:

Meet George!

Here is our new little poodle for Lincoln to have a friend and us to have a lap dog! :)

"Who is THAT??"

Pictures say a 1,000 words.....