Bella, Gabe and Josiah

Gabe had a camp this last week, so it was just Josy and I at home. So we decided to go on an adventure. Um, apparently this kid of mine is growing up because he was totally fine on this very long hike and he kept wanting to make it longer. We found things I’d never seen before, ran into some wildlife, talked about our hopes and dreams (which turned into an elaborate story of his dream the night before) and just had a really fun time. I love this kid.    

I have no idea how Josy managed to turn 6. It just does not seem possible. But here we are… So we invited his whole class over to celebrate. The cake was all Gabe. Josy said Legos and underwater. I made and frosted the cake. And then Gabe used his creativity to do this test. I was very impressed. He had a vision and he definitely made it work! The birthday boy want excited about his party at all… We went to the play area with all of his friends. It was a lamest piñata ever. Kid number 2 (who was not very old…), took out the entire thing. He had a wonderful time and it was a great way to celebrate our sweet boy.  

For Mother’s Day, we went in a family hike. It was a pretty nice day weather-wise and it made up all excited for fun summer weather and activities. Spoiler alert: we’re will waiting.   And then we got home and discovered that the water main had broken and our front yard was flooded.

Since I’m doing this all backwards and trying to remember events from months ago, I can’t come up with anything extra to say about Easter. But we had a fun time doing all of the Easter things. We went to the Easter egg hunt. Josy continued his tradition of only picking up the red eggs, which means he didn’t get many. And then he did not want to be in the picture with the Easter bunny. My sunrise service buddy Pat was ushering at the early church service, so I got to get the meat on the grill between the Sunrise Service and the regular service. I had to get my family Easter picture Obviously Easter dinner needs to end with a plank competition with one of the friends that came over, right???  

There was a fun video that I saw on the internet about dying Easter eggs in the toilet by splattering food dye on them. It looked really interesting, so we’re decided to try it. I refused to the toilet part, but we replicated it pretty well in the sink and the eggs looked amazing!!! And then they all turned out pink. Every single one of them. However, when you peeled them, they were incredible!

Back in April, Gabe had an eye appointment with his specialist, so we decided to all come up for the weekend, so we could spend some time with Grammy and Grandpa Jim, as well as Uncle Tim. Conveniently, these pictures all loaded backwards, so you get to see the trip in reverse order… These boys love each other so much. Froyo! I think Josy’s favorite part of starting with Uncle Tim is that Uncle Tim lets him drink water out of the fancy glasses. Gabe and Uncle Tim made everyone breakfast. We found a trampoline park, so the boys practiced there American Ninja Warrior skills. The boys stole Dad’s jacket and coffee. My seat was on the opposite side of the aisle, which was fine except for takeoff.

The last few months have been complete and utter chaos. I’m not going to go into details here, but it’s been a roller coaster that I’d like to get off and not get back on again… But rest assured, we’re still here! Since there’s no way to completely catch up on life since early March, here are a few pictures to sum up the good parts of life… (And there’ll be completely out of order…) The water main broke. Luckily I have a handy husband who can fix such things. Last day of school crepes! I asked Josy what he wanted for breakfast on his last day of kindergarten. He said pickles. Okay, then. We did some exploring. Gram’s Birthday Lunch Swim lessons We’ve spent a lot of time at the baseball field. Gabe now has midweek games, which means that dinner gets a little interesting. So sometimes the answer is takeout in the car. Gabe got to pitch for the first time.  We had one nice day. So we ate dinner and did some weight lifting on the beach. More swim lessons. This one has finally clicked w...