Spring is coming! Maybe.

I couldn't resist these Violas and some Pansies when I was shopping recently. It was a little early to plant them, but they were a good buy. I waited about two weeks before putting them in the ground, but they are in now. Aren't they pretty?

BUGZ! Kaiky's first grade musical

Kaiky was so excited about her first grade musical, BUGZ! She was a firefly and got a yellow t-shirt and antennae to wear in the production and keep forever.

Big Birthday!

Jen, me, Dory and Nora celebrating!

At the Hop!

Recently, Kyle performed in the third-grade musical production, "At the Hop!".

Here is a short video of one of his performances. He is sitting in the front row, first boy on the left, next to the boy in the black leather jacket.


Proud performer with his two biggest fans.

See any resemblance here?

Queen of the Hoop

Since Kaiky couldn't hoola hoop at all at her birthday party, she's been practicing every day in her room.

Check out this video. It's funny and phenomenal at the same time!

Happy 7th Birthday Kaiky!

Kaiky is now 7! Yay! Wow, how time flies!

She had a great birthday party, an "undernighter" which means that her guests all come in pajamas, but don't stay overnight. I love it!

So she had all of the girls from her first grade class at school as well as her long-time buddies — Madelyn, Ava Claire, Josie and Bella. We were sad that Cori and Eddie weren't able to come.

We had a fun-packed evening with a hoola hoop contest, pin-the-tail-on-the-pony, hot horse shoe (hot potato using a real horse shoe courtesy of Dory and Gravano), pizza and cake.
Ava Claire and Kyle playing pin-the-tail-on-the-pony.
Madelyn, Bella, Kaiky and Josie play hot horse shoe.

Cabin Fever

For fear of sounding like a broken record, (and also to think that my kids don't even know what a record is...yikes) I won't say it's cold here again. But it is. So the kids are getting pretty stir crazy and we're doing pretty much anything for fun.
This weekend Kaiky did a lot of drawing on her new dry erase board she got from Ashley's birthday party.


She drew her "best horse ever", which definitely required some photos. And then we took turns drawing on the board. I could only come up with a lame drawing of a teddy bear. Amazing how the use of computers "deleted" my drawing abilities!