Paige comes to Visit

Whew! A marathon month is coming to an end.
    Our favorite highlight of the month was that my beautiful Sis-in-law came to visit. We are so proud of her! She just finished her first year of college, where she is a film student. We played tourist with her while she was here. First Stop... The Big Texan

We also took her to Wonderland Amusement Park, before we went to the park we stopped to feed the ducks. It was a beautiful day.

Then we hit the rides...

A visit to Amarillo is not complete without going to Cadillac Ranch

We took her to Palo Duro Canyon, the second largest canyon behind the  Grand Canyon.

Of course when we were not dragging her around there was some family Rock Band played

Before she left we even got her to eat Sushi for the first time!

We had a wonderful time with Paige. We made new memories, and she got us hooked on our new favorite show Supernatural.

Makayla.. the writer

Makayla's class recently published a school newspaper. Makayla wrote an article for it and since I was able to get an electronic copy I wanted to share with you!




https://sjca-tx.client.renweb.com/ftp/SJCA-TX/Email/8934/NEWSPAPER%204th%20Grade%20-%20May%202012.pdf

Mother's Day 2012

I had a wonderful Mother's day! Friday I went to muffins and mom with Christopher and had a wonderful time! Saturday we stayed home all day and did some things around the house and enjoyed some family time.
Sunday was great. We went to church and came home and James grilled for us (it's my Mother's day tradition). I'd much rather grill and enjoy my family than wait at a restaurant forever to get a table and eat. James managed to completely surprise me which is hard to do. I had told him not to get me anything because we are going on a mini-vacation next weekend, but he didn't listen and I don't mind. I have been asking for a radio for my kitchen pretty much since we moved in 3 years ago and yesterday morning James and the kids totally surprised me with it. I wanted something to listen to while I'm cooking and cleaning and because we have such an open floor plan, you can hear it anywhere! Saturday concluded with a family movie and cuddling on the couch.

The kids gave me lots of homemade goodies (which I love the best).

We were able to talk to all our moms and grandparents yesterday and they all received coffee mugs with a collage of our pictures on them. They were a hit! James' grandmother took hers to church to show all her friends (too cute).

I had a great day, I am so blessed! God gave me a wonderful husband and three precious children.

And...we're off!

 We are officially off into what is a very busy month of May! So, this week we had "Pet Day" for Makayla's class. Bayou did so good with all the kiddos.

Here is Makayla telling all her friends about our precious Bayou.

Thursday night Makayla had her Choir Concert. She has been talking about it for weeks now and she was pumped up. She did a wonderful job of course, she loves it and we love hearing her sing praises to our God. They sounded amazing.

Yesterday was Moms and Muffins with Christopher. It was so special. They sang for us and showed off some things they learned over the school year and of course treated us to muffins. Christopher is such a little gentlemen and I truly enjoyed yesterday with him.

This week, in the mailbox...

These beauties went out in the mail this week! We are so proud!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Yesterday was busy! 
First church then craft-o-mania! This week is Teacher Appreciation Week and we love our teachers so much. We made two gifts each for all the teachers including choir, p.e. etc. and their main teachers get a gift every day. Since the end of school is only 2 weeks away, (Yes! Two weeks away) we did our last day of school gifts too! Yes, all my ideas came from pintrest.

Day One
M&M jar with teacher poem

Day 2
"You are the hi-lite of my day"

Day 3
"According to my calculations this was a wonderful year"

Day 4
"Thank you for holding it all together"

Day 5
post-it note holder

Smore packs for the teachers

"Wishing you Smore & Smore fun this summer"

Goldfish for Makayla and Christopher's classes.

"You are 0-fish-ally in 2nd/5th grade!"

Bookworms

Anyone who knows Makayla knows this is what she normally looks like....

 However here lately this is what we see....

Christopher's teacher started a reading contest around Spring Break and she has really inspired his love for reading. We started him on The Dairy Of A Wimpy Kid series and he loves them!

He has read all the requirements for the reading contest but he is still reading. He loves it. He is on book 5 with one more to go in the series! In fact she sent home a note this week that Christopher had read 880 pages out of the required 400 pages!!
We love to see our kids love for reading and the looks on their faces when they tell the stories from the books. My favorite thing Christopher has done lately is he asked "Can I just read, not for the contest but just read?"

Here he is when he finished books 2-4.

 Makes these parents heart smile!!!