A great day

What a great day I have had today. For those of you who don't know, today is my birthday. The day started out with a delicious breakfast of buttermilk pancakes and strawberries, made by Aubri. Then the children sent me outside to see what my wonderful friends made for me.  It was a new mailbox custom painted by Keri. It is sooo cute!!!! It even had warm strawberry muffins in it that were the best muffins I have ever had! Thank you so much Keri and Taffy for being such great friends! I love my present!!!  

Next we were off to church where Jhett refused to go to nursery but that is nothing new. When we got home, Kevin and the kids made me a yummy dinner of hamburgers with cheese and bacon, raspberry, orange green salad, with caramelized almonds and chips and dip. The strawberry cake is in the fridge waiting on friends to come over and enjoy it with us.

I also received some thoughtful presents. Aubri made me a CD of my favorite songs, Kielee and Aubri got me a gift card to Panda Express and Kevin and all the kids got me a new bike, and seat for Jhett to ride in. I am so excited to go riding hopefully we can get Jhett's seat on tomorrow.

Thank you to all who made my day a great day!!!!

Kevin @ almost 40 and Me at 36 we still look good.

36 years and 6 kids later

Inside the mailbox.(it's an inside joke)

One side if the mailbox

The other side.

Aubri The SMART

Aubri received the Student of the Year award for the 8th grade this year.  The plaque was really cool. I tried to take a picture of it so you can see what great things her teachers said about her. Hopefully you can read it. She was also named student most likely to succeed for the 8th grade. This award was voted on by her peers. Way to go Aubri!!!!

The Kids

Shelby singing "It's Lonely Out Here in Left Field"

Jaxon and Mrs. Sanchez with his award

Really quick I wanted to add that Jaxon got the Character Counts award for Trustworthiness  at school last week and Shelby was in a play called "I Need A Vacation"  Jaxon was soooo excited and Shelby had a solo and did a great job. Kevin and I are so lucky to have such great kids!!!

Mother's Day....

The day before mother's day I was bringing sheets down the stairs and tripped over some toys. One caught on one of my toes and I kicked it off. It really hurt! Awhile later while I was hopping around, I noticed my toe was starting to get bigger and bigger. Then it turned purple. So for Mother's Day I got to hop around church with a broken toe!! On the plus side, I got to wear sandals to church (which I never do)!!!

Oh, I want to say, that I have a great daughter, Aubri got flowers for me for Mother's Day and planted them in the planters in front of the house. They look great!!!

A few more Pictures

Tuff Tracy

Indiana Jones

checking on the kids

Racing through the Month

Well, what an exciting month it has been.  I returned home from California to find all well at home. The kids were still alive and Kevin was too. My flight was delayed in Las Vegas and I didn't get in until 12:30 AM. Lucky for Kevin he got to pick me up and then get up for work that same morning at 5am. The next week was a blur of things to do.  Laundry to wash, a teacher breakfast, teacher dessert day, teacher luncheon and teacher appreciation gifts and ice cream. My friend Keri drew amazing pictures of the our school teachers and we had them copied and framed. Check them out on her blog.... (Keri and Russ), add that to 4 baseball/softball games, practice, trying out swim team, and working on the yard... it is amazing how fast a week can go. 

Pictures

Krid and me on the kiddie roller coaster
Tracy and Cami on Big Thunder

Us with Pooh bear

In line at Big Thunder

Again on Big Thunder