It was quite a whirlwind getting ready for Zac's birthday. Five days before the big day and 4 days before a bunch of little pirates invaded our house for a party, my dad had a heart attack. The world and all thoughts of party planning stopped. Thankfully, my dad was released from the hospital and though not able to eat any cake, was able to celebrate with us. 
On Mother's day the kids of our church (about 20 of them, age 4-6th grade) performed the musical "God of this City" during the worship hour at church. they all did a fantastic job! Thomas, our child who is always seeking the spot light, had the role of "Zack" and not surprisingly shined in his role. Zac and Kelsey may have chosen to not sing all the songs but they did all the hand motions :) 
Last spring both boys were in little league baseball. The schedule about killed Jerry and I, and by the third game into the season the boys were bored. We stuck it out, gotta teach the kids sticking to your commitments and all that. SOOO, this spring no baseball! Swimming lessons! 
Our April 14th birthday people. Juanita, Jerry and Jenny. I suppose it must be a requirement that your name start with the letter "J" to be in the April 14th club? 
Thomas' birthday this year fell on Easter, which meant Easter fun AND birthday fun all in the same weekend = tired parents! The next time Thomas' birthday is on Easter he will be turning 21, pretty sure he won't want his mom putting together an Avengers superhero themed party for him that year...
We spent Christmas #1 in Moses Lake with Jerry's family, the kids cousin's Vincent and Cameron (along with their parents) were there as well, making Christmas extra fun. It also snowed on Christmas morning, quite a site for these kids from western Washington :) Christmas # 2 was spent in Centralia with my parents, sister Leanna, bro-in -law Jory and their 4 kids. We didn't have snow, but we had lots of fun and laughter. 
S L O W L E Y getting caught up on the Blog... All 3 kids had Christmas program at school. Kelsey's was an angel in hers, she was worried that she would, "be picked to be Mary, I want to be an angel cuz they wear sparkles in their hair!" Zac's first grade class sang "The Holly and the Ivy". Thomas' class (which is larger than it appears in the photo, some students are missing) sang a nice Christmas song but none of us can remember what it was! 
The evening before Kelsey's 5th birthday we put all of her sippy cups on the counter, the next morning the "sippy cup fairy" had replaced them with a princess mug just for Kelsey! 
