Happy Mother's Day! The kids all helped Jamie make breakfast for me. Jamie got me these beautiful roses. Aedan made a mug in school for me with a poem and his picture on it. Harrison made an ABC mother's day book which was so cute. Keean also made me a card at church. I love those gifts that they make and can't wait to show me! I am so lucky to have such a great husband and kids! I love you!

These were just some cute pictures I wanted to post of the kids in their Easter outfits. This picture of Harrison - typical :) They are all great kids and Jamie and I are thankful that we have them FOREVER :) Each child is unique and offers balance in our family. The kdis keep saying they want more. But I think mom and dad have to be on board with that one :)

Before ....and ......after my half marathon race! It was a lot of fun and I will plan on doing it again next year. I went with my brother, Pieter. He was quite the trooper since, I don't think he really wanted to run again. He has ran this race for the last three years. But he hid great and maybe I will talk him into coming next year :)They had the race set up great with a lot of water stops and plenty of live music throughout the whole race. We also got to run on the race track. The race track was about 2 1/2 miles and during that stretch there were no bands because you can't have equipment or people on the grass. They had cheerleading squads from the area cheering us on during the race track. We also ran past an LDS church with the missionaries passing out water. That was fun to see missionaries on the race course! My time was 2 hours and 5 minutes. Not too bad. My goal was 2 hours so I wasn't too far off. I plan to run a half marathon in September at jamie's work. That one is a bit tougher with more hills. We'll see how I do!

Aedan had a field trip to go to Ceasar's Creek at the end of the year. They got to see all kinds of animals in the wild like bats and their nest of little bats waiting to hatch, snakes, turtles, tadpoles and other fun stuff. They got to go on a nature walk to see native plants of ohio. It was a lot of fun to get to go with him since I don't volunteer in the classroom. He had a great time too.

Harrison's birthday was great fun for him. He decided that he wanted to have an extra video game instead of a party (jamie's idea :)) so we had a family party and opened presents. These are all the presents he got from family. He loved them all, but we usually can't go wrong with presents for Harrison :)

Harrison has been wanting to get a kite to fly for the longest time so we finally broke down and bought a $5 kite at wal-mart. We went across the street to fly it and they were entertained for quite a long time! They loved how high it could go. They loved running with it. We've done it a few times and now the kids help each other get it up in the air. That's the hardest part!

Harrison and Keean had their first soccer game this Saturday. Harrison just missed the deadline to play with the six year olds by about two weeks, so he ended up being able to be on the same team as Keean. Jamie is coaching them together, so it's alot of family fun! They both did a great job. Harrison scored a goal, and Keean got to kick the ball! Keean was a little nervous, but by the end he got the hang of it. Go RED!