What's the right size for a flower?

At least as big as her head.

First Tooth, Gone!

Teagan came running out of primary on Sunday exclaiming that he had a loose tooth.  After 3 days of wiggling and showing it off, it finally fell out.  He decided to not put it under his pillow right away so that he could show his friends.  

Then he promptly dropped it on the carpet and Zac is searching for it.  Whoops.

Summer Fun with Cousins

We had some beautiful spring weather and enjoyed it thoroughly with cousins.

 These boys are hardly competitive...except that they race EVERYWHERE.  They raced around the backyard until they were all completely "sweating hot."

 Eloise and Jax were racing too.

 Poor Ellie didn't stand much of a chance, but she is learning to be tough hanging around all these little boys.

 Then a few days later we got to watch Sasha and Lily.  It happened to be the day of Teagan's preschool field trip so we all packed up and headed to the zoo.  Luckily, Jake was there and helped me not loose anyone.  They were actually all really good!

 Have you ever seen a cuter bunch of kids?  I love that we have about 10 pictures of people in our family on this Tiger over the last 7 or 8 years.  I think I need to make a "people on the tiger" wall of pictures.

 The preschool then went to the playland and the kids loved it.  Below are Sasha and Teagan.

 All the girls went on the carousel and loved it.

 Lily

 Teagan rode the airplanes several times, they were his favorite.

 We love living close to all of these cousins, Teagan gets so excited to have them come over and play and I love watching them all interact.  It's so fun!

Poor baby

Poor little Eloise is miserable.  I thought it was teething because she's working on several, but the fever and snotty nose seem worse than normal teething.  She just wants to snuggle.  Although if Teagan tries hard enough he can get a little chuckle out of her.  The extra long naps today allowed me to clean the carpets, boo ya!  Let's keep the naps and throw out the fever.

Spider

Eloise figured out how to climb up the slide and monopolizes it.  She climbs up, let's go and...

Slides down, then starts right back up, she reminds me a lot of the itsie bitsie spider, or maybe "The Little Engine that could."

Mother's Day

Today was such a wonderful day, I am blessed with the most amazing family.  I woke up to breakfast in bed with flowers and a crown to wear.  Teagan came in our room several times to see if they could start making my "stuff."  He was just glowing with excitement to watch me notice the heart shaped French toast, and his adorable writing on my card, and the big blue necklace he picked out for me because he knows blue is my favorite color, and the red roses he insisted on.  He has the biggest heart and I have Zac to thank for that.  He is teaching Teagan to be so thoughtful and to be excited about giving.  The snuggling and tickling afterward felt like a scene from a feel good movie.

I love roses so much, watching them bloom is my favorite and they smell wonderful!

And we were so close to being on time to church!  Zac spoiled me and made me one of my favorites, pizza, for dinner.

I got to share Mother's Day with one of the wonderful mothers in my life, Shelly my mother in law.  She brought these gorgeous flowers for me to plant in my yard, I'm so excited about them!  She is so thoughtful and sweet.  I'm lucky to be part of her family.  She helped my hubby become the man he is today and my kids adore her as their grandma.

To top it off I got to surprise my mom (not too surprising) with a little trip the kids and I will take to see her.  I can't believe it's been 2.5 years since we've been to California.  It's just as much a gift for me as for her, but I am so excited for some serious mother daughter party time!

This might go down in history as the best Mother's Day ever.  I'll go to sleep with a smile on my face tonight.