a cute girl and her preschool program.

our sweet mabel has finished her first year of preschool.  she had the cutest program and sang the cutest songs.  she had the greatest teachers and learned so much this year!  we're looking forward to next year with her cute cousin bella!! yeah!

being silly while getting "sugared up" with cookies.

go dodgers!

a few highlights from the season.  his last year of shetland, totally ready for pinto (machine pitch).  these days this boy lives and breathes baseball.  i'll have to post the addition to his bedroom wall, 4 of cory's old bats and connor's trophy bat.  he dented it in his first machine pitch game, which he's so proud of!

one of his loyal fans. 

number 11.

rounding 3rd as he runs the bases to finish the game.

he was a little sad we lost the semi-final game in the post-season tourney.  but, he's excited that we have lots more baseball to play!  hello all-stars!

baby animal days.

a few weeks ago...maybe its been months, who knows, we went to baby animal days.  it was so much fun.  connor was away at a father's & sons with gpa packer so we took the girls over.  the girls were lovin it.  especially elsie...she loves her animals!

checkin out a baby peeper.

the girls with their cute cuz, chelsea.

a baseball-lovin boy.

oh how i love this boy who loves baseball.  

we finished up the regular baseball season this week.  next week we start the post-season.  gotta love baseball season!  he is our boy who loves to bat, loves to practice grounders and pop-flies (he even lets his mama practice with him), loves to go to his games, says incredibly thoughtful prayers before his games, he's starting to be interested in watching baseball on tv, can't wait for his baseball camp, and most of all - he loves to  s l i d e!

go dodgers!

rocket men.

one of our memorial day activities was building a rocket launcher and rocket.  cory and connor were in heaven!  it was pretty impressive to see how high the rockets went!  thanks to help from gpa and spence we had a fun saturday full of playin.

orders.

you know you've had a lot of work done on the house when you hear this:

today while playing mabel gave the order to "just re-stucco everything..."

that's kinda how i feel and sums up the last few months...

an afternoon with the ducks.

last week i thought to myself, i should try and do a short daily blog entry, just for a week, showing the "everyday" things we do.  i thought it'd be a fun memory.  yeah...didn't happen.  maybe i'll get to it soon. :)  anyways, one day last week we spent an afternoon at the park feeding the ducks and playing at the playground.  we had a great time.

elsie is our animal lover.  any animal she sees she gets so excited and always says this cute, short "hi."  she was in heaven with all the birds. 

she finally resorted to just eating her bread.  she's a smart girl.

connor tried to launch one out to the swan in the distance.  he would have made it except for the branches in the way.  

connor and mabel loved this.  i remember playing at the same park when i was little and loving a similar one.

one of our treasures.