Spring is finally here....

We're finally seeing warmer temperatures and thankfully little rain. The boys have started Tball and this will be their second week. we'll upload video and pics soon. Andrew did really well and seemed to enjoy it. Matthew was busy running the bases over and over and never tired of it. They were all so cute with two of their little friends from the neighborhood playing with them on the same team. Their coaches are our neighbors along with Sean helping out as well as a few other parents. Coaching 3-5 year olds is pretty much impossible so it's basically teaching them the fundamentals and letting them have fun as a team.

So the March of Dimes March for Babies was a success. Our team raised almost $4000 again this year. We came really close to surpassing our goal of $4000. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Your donations are greatly appreciated and you should feel good that you made a difference. All babies should be born healthy and we'll keep walking and helping to raise money up until that happens. Unfortunately we know the heartache and pain of having a premature baby. We pray that there will come a day when all babies are born healthy AND full term.
We thank everyone who joined us and walked with us. You really showed your support and we are grateful to have you there with us.

Andrew's 5th birthday just passed. He is now 5 years old and is really becoming a grown up little boy. He's so smart and is still so bull headed! "He knows everything" and loves to make the rules. We celebrated his birthday at the March of Dimes March for Babies. We had a celebration after the walk. The kids had a blast on the playground and loved the Fantastic Four themed party fun. Of course the Pinata was a huge hit and they really loved wearing their party masks!. Wait till you see the pictures of some of the boys wearing them! We then celebrated ON his birthday as a family. Andrew wanted to go to Friendly's for dinner after school. So we went and had dinner and he got to choose his ice cream sundae! Then we came home and he opened gifts. His Favorite gift he got was his Tuxedo!! Believe it or not he really wanted one. He literally begged us for one. He wanted to put it on as soon as he got it. Now he says he's saving money for shiny shoes! He got into the tuxedo idea after watching the movie "Flushed Away" and wanted a tux like the mouse in the movie. He looks so handsome in it. Sean even ordered him a "lot" of like 40 character figurines from ebay... of course he LOVED them.

The boys' Nana & Grandpa got them a Cedar playhouse/cabin for their combined birthdays. I put it together in time for Andrew's Birthday and the boys got to see it as soon as we got home from dinner. They have been playing in it every day since. There's a little porch on it with 2 benches. There's 2 entrance doors and 2 windows with little shutters. There's even a little flower box. We plan to do some landscaping around it and have the boys plant their own flowers. The flowers they planted along the house last year have grow huge this year. They love watching them grow.

Mothers day was very nice. We had a great weekend all together. Saturday was the boys off to t-ball and I had lunch with 2 of my girlfriends. Then we went out for drinks. Mother's day we had a nice breakfast at our house with our parents and then PopPop took the boys so we could go golfing for the day with another couple. We had a beautiful day and it was just perfect.