The weather has been so nice lately.  Paige loves swinging on the swings.  If she doesn't have a friend to swing with, she finds one from her toy box.

Luke received a book from his St. Phils classmates in the mail last week.  He was so excited to see how all his old friends were doing.

 We got Ali's baby swing all set up. First time out, she fell asleep within minutes.  Guess she finds it nice and relaxing.

 Getting our Halloween costumes ready early?

We've got the big sunglasses out & Paige wants her ears pieced so badly that she has been taping things to her ears -

 or she puts hair clips on her ears.

 Celebrating Mimi's birthday.  Paige loved making the cake -

 And helping to blow out the candles -

A treat at the spring fair in the center of town -

 Paige and her little neighbor friend, Adriana -

 Nothing beats a mid-afternoon nap #superrelaxeddog -

We're eatin'

Ali girl started solids today!  Paige was SO excited to help feed her.  Just oatmeal cereal for now until she gets the hang of it.  She is growing up!

Mother's Day -

We had a nice and relaxing Mother's Day!  I was able to take a walk with the neighbor in the morning.  We just hung out most of the day, the kids went to one of the neighbors to go swimming as everyone is getting their pools open around here.

My three babies -

Lots of cards and pictures -

 Luke made this at school -

 Paige had a Mother's Day night at school.  The kids did some songs, the teachers read the below that each kid made at school, I got a nice jewelry box and bracelet that Paige made & we had an ice cream bar.

 Paige's picture of mom -

Songs -

Sox Game -

We took Luke to a Sox game when he was 1.5 years old (and free to get in!).  He was interested in the ice cream and stared at the huge american flag the whole game.  Now that he is all grown up, it was time to really take him to his first Sox game.  Jay and Luke used our two tickets this year.  He was SOOO excited to see the Sox vs. Reds.  The game was on a school night so he didn't last the entire game (which is probably better because it went into extra innings).  I think they got back around 10PM. Late but super fun night for daddy and Luke.

Nice group picture at Chase's First Communion

Ali found someone her own age to play with -

Ali's Baptism

Ali got baptized today!!  Finally....but we'll blame the move on that one.  Unfortunately grandma and grandpa weren't able to join us and Kel and Scott were vacationing in Mexico but had a good crowed otherwise.

I told the kids that we were having a party at the house after the baptism at the church.  Luke said, "why do we have a party for Ali getting dunked in holy water?"

I told Paige that we would make chocolate chip cookies the day before the baptism.  She said, "I don't think so mom.  I don't like chocolate chip cookies and I plan on eating a lot of cookies so we better make a different kind."

There were 10 babies getting baptized at the same time and all were girls...crazy!  It was a very nice ceremony.

Vacation Week

We had a pretty low key vacation week.  I took some time off to hang out with the kids.  We went to a movie with our neighbors one day and Chase's birthday party at the trampoline place another day.  We spent a lot of time outside playing with neighborhood friends and walks to the lake.