Air Conditioning

It was so hot this day!  We were waiting for Mike to come home and turn on the air conditioner!  Look how hot the pups look!

Hoops

Here's a few pictures of Zack : )

This one made me laugh, he looks like a giant!

Nature

Flashback to 18 years ago...I'm a few weeks shy of having my first baby (my Kyle).  Mike and I did yard work all day, including planting bushes and flowers.  And I mean, all day!  Flash forward to today...I'm a few weeks shy of witnessing my first baby graduating from high school.  My yard work today looked something like this: I took a nap after going to the nursery to pick out some flowers. After about 10 minutes of weeding and planting, I go in and drag Mike and Zack off the couch to help me.  After planting about 30 flowers, we're done for the day!  And I know there will probably be Motrin in our near future!

Everything these days circles back to Kyle for me, and I know this is the natural course life takes, but gosh it's really difficult to grasp the fact Kyle is not just "growing up" but has grown up.

A weed and a flower...I think they're both beautiful!

Chris : )

I love my Chris <3

Spring

In my family, springtime means baseball time!  Of course most practices are usually rained out in the beginning of the season, but this week, we were able to get the first few of our regular season games in!  Chris is the only one playing this year so thats been a change for us.  Here's a few pictures of the first few games and the people I watched them with!!

Chris on 1st : )

My Dad and Nephew, getting a hot pretzel!

I don't know what he was doing, but isn't he cute?  Look how long his hair is getting!

Gotta love a zoom lens for sneaking into no-moms land...the dug out!

Bobby, peaking around the corner to see Chris!

Little Dude...he was in rare form during the game! lol

And this is from Thursdays game, Zack watching the game from the car and me, well, torturing him with my camera!

McKenna

Here's a few more of McKenna from Easter : )

Easter

McKenna Moment~~
My poor neglected blog...really my hopes are to regain my momentum but its been difficult with the sports.  Here is a pic of McKenna!

Same pic, 2 different edits...

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And yet one more baseball moment~~

102-365 / Apr 13

And another baseball moment~~

101-365 / Apr 12

Third base moment ~~

100-365 / Apr11

Basketball moment~~

99-365 / Apr 10

Baseball moment~

98-365 / Apr 8

Season opener moment~~
Spartans began their season this evening.  Unfortunately they lost, but there's a lot more basketball to play this weekend!  Today's picture symbolizes "team" to me. I'll be posting alot more pics on my Spartans blog!

97-365 / Apr 7

Stunning moment~~

Nicole looks absolutely beautiful in this photograph! Thank you Nicole for indulging me!

96-365 / Apr 6

Transformers Chess Moment~~
Yes, Chris beat me ;)

95-365 / Apr 5

Essential parts of our family moment~~

Dogs do become like kids/family...they can annoy you and bring you joy...all wrapped up into one!

Mojo : )

Toby <3

94-365 / Apr 4

She still loves him moment~~
Chris used to play a game called "lets torture the cats".  I'm not even kidding : )  Obviously things never got out of hand or else Pepper has a short memory, b/c she still loves him!

93-365 / Apr 3

Meow Moment~~

92-365 / Apr 2

Baby A Moment~~
Nicole got her temps today!  And she drove for the very first time. We made it down the street, practicing stopping at each mailbox. I'm proud of her!!!

91-365 / Apr 1

Denial only takes a Mom so far moment~~

Zack got his temps today!  I'm proud of him and happy for him! And yes, he is behind the wheel of our new car...

90-365 / Mar 31

Its a whole new world moment~~
Chris can see!  Yeah!!

Isn't he precious???

89-365 / Mar 30

New Car Moment~~
Its been quite awhile since we bought a new car, but it was finally time. My goal was to drive Big Blue into the ground, which is basically what we did accomplish!

How did I live without heated seats and bluetooth?

88-365 / Mar 29

Visitor Moment~~
This sweetie comes to visit every morning!

87-365 / Mar 28

What a kid, part 2

86-365 / Mar 27

What a kid : )

love that blown sky! hahaha

85-365 / Mar 26

throwing sticks:)

84-365 / Mar 25

this really struck me.  I mean, REALLY struck me. I always aimed my sights towards Mary and its a wonder I always fell short. But here it struck me that I should view myself as one of the women of Jerusalem, while aiming my heart towards the perfection of Mary. He loves us all.

83-365 / Mar 24

A mothers hand

82-365 / Mar 23

81-365 / Mar 22

Catching up on my blog!!  Feeling better and got out with my camera today!! I actually took these (and the rest of the upcoming days, on 3/28/11)

Zack remembers being here

My childrens' knees were on these kneelers, in prayer for a family member