Fun times in May

The month of May has really flown by!  Here are some things we have been up to:

Tournament runner-up for Team NO FEAR Gators!

Afternoon walks with mom to spot rabbits, ducks, fish, turtles... 

1st Dance Recital

Flowers from family for recital

Celebrating Mother's Day with Mimi in town with us

Field trip with classmates to local museum

Receiving her first gymnastics medal

State Champs!



Blah...

Let's just chalk up the absence from the past few weeks to being in my first trimester blah's... ok? Thanks.

I finally have started feeling like I have come out of the rut that is the beginning stage of pregnancy... the yucks.  Some days are still better than others.  I had a good few days earlier, now I'm back in the heartburn in my throat yuck, burping all day yuck and miserable feeling after eating yuck...

Yeah! On to brighter subjects... we have been one busy family during this spring baseball/tball/dance season.  The kids are loving all their after school activities and I'm loving the fact they are so tired when we get home that falling asleep is easier and easier.

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We have some exciting news in our family....

Easter fun

Easter festivities this year for us... an all weekend hosting affair.  We had friends and families join us for our first ever glow in the dark egg hunt.  It was so much fun! (Idea from Pinterest) I found packs of glow sticks in the Target dollar spot... gotta love stopping by there.

The kids pitched in and 'cracked' the glow sticks while the adults crammed the eggs shut.  Word of advice: use large eggs. *Small eggs are not conducive for stuffing glow sticks in. *Tape does help!

The night pictures really don't do it justice... it was pretty to look out and see all these little glowing eggs everywhere!  And the kids absolutely loved it! This will definitely be an annual tradition for us!

Easter Sunday we all headed to church and gathered again for a traditional egg hunt. 

Only problem with egg hunts is once is never enough. :)

Color Madness - ATL

A first for me - I ran without timing myself and really didn't care. It was for fun and with friends.  I participated in the Atlanta Color Run on Saturday morning... definitely a race you have to do! I'm so glad I had the opportunity to do it and to be around friends at the same time.

Checking in for the race... we decided to buy an extra race shirt,

so we could end up with a clean and a colored version.

The before pictures:

During the race:

just passed through green station

On to the pink station:

(notice the bright pink in the air right above the heads in the photo?)

Finished!

Overall - a ton of fun! We are already talking about doing another one!!

Spring-cation

The rest of our Spring Break we spent at home... relaxing and resting; practicing and playing some baseball. We even had a special visitor fly in for the occassion!  Mimi spent the rest of the week with us.

feeding the ducks at Oxford Lake

playing in the water hose (a fave for my kids)

Mimi and Payton drawing with chalk on driveway

Dinner out for a special night

local reptile expo where RJ fell in love with this gecko

 RJ playing a new position - catcher (He loves it!)



Spring Break Getaway

We were able to get away for a couple of days at the beginning of Spring Break and it was so much fun! We spent a couple of nights in Chattanooga, TN visiting the aquarium, IMAX theater and a children's museum.  Highlights of the trip for the kids:  butterfly garden, petting sting rays at aquarium, IMAX movies, and Top it Off frozen yogurt.