team green

If anyone deserves a medal for Olympic Day 2012, I'm for sure I earned one bringing Graham along to cheer on the athletes.  He made a beeline for the playground equipment and created some events of his own.

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and only managed one shot from my cell phone, since I couldn't lure Graham off the monkey bars long enough to get close to the action.

It took herculean wrangling and wresting to get him back in the car to run home for lunch and  pick up the camera for tug-of-war at the end of the day.  So much for my efforts to rush and get back for the main event, because I missed Harrison's group by literally 10 seconds.  Thank goodness for friends who notice your absence and snap a picture of your kid for you.  Although, I'm still pretty crushed that I missed it, especially since Green pulled out the victory.

Admittedly, Sawyer has much better pictures from his events which took place the following Monday (the Kindergarten classes have their own Olympic Day - AM vs. PM) 

Sawyer did not miss a chance to perform his all-star moves for the camera.

Such grit!

And here is a quick snap of Campbell during her clapping warm-up the morning of Olympic Day. It took a lot of weeding through pink to find an outfit that showed her support!

Great job GREEN team!

lucky in love

in full swing

Another season of baseball is underway.

Harrison has moved up to AAA/Kid Pitch Division and whoa boy, kid pitch is certainly interesting (and slow. so, so slow).  Every time Harrison is at bat I hold my breath hoping he doesn't get hit with the ball. 

His main position this year is first base, and he is seeing a lot of action and doing an awesome job!

Sawyer is on Minor B/Coach Pitch, and the games are similarly slow moving - but you are less likely to get pegged with a pitch ;)

Sawyer is an intense little player.  And it seems appropriate that he is on the "Scrappers" team this year.

Another Scrappy-Doo - Graham.  He keeps the fans entertained.

I know he already can't wait to be old enough to play.  I'm trying not to imagine practices/games/snack stand duty/picture day X 3.  Daunting.

baby bunny

Tisket, Tasket, Easter Basket

The night before Easter Harrison put in a special request - "Mom, can you let Dad hide my basket this year? I just don't trust you to hide it good. No offense"  Sheesh, I guess I'm only good enough to shop for the contents around here!

Harrison - Legos, a water gun, Pokemon cards, a daily Devotional, flashcards, and candy.

Sawyer - Legos, water gun, Pokemon cards, Chipwrecked and candy.
Graham - Water gun, Mr. Porkchop (he is toy story obsessed right now) Drill N' Fill playdoh and books.

Campbell - Personalized beach towels, taggie blanket, books and barrettes in the birdy box.

 

This sweet little sweater is a treasure that Jonathan's grandmother crochet many years ago before she passed away.  She wanted to leave something for her great grandchildren to have even though she wouldn't have the chance to know them.  I thought such a special day was the perfect occasion to have Campbell wear it.

After church we went to my mom's for an Egg Hunt and dinner, it was nice that Jonathan's parents joined us there so they could see the sweater being enjoyed too! The starting line for the Egg Hunt!

Which truth be told is more of an egg pick-up...not too much hunting required for the 200+ eggs strewn in the backyard.

Graham was happy to snack along the way.

He continued to entertain us once we moved inside, too.

It was a beautiful day, and my mom's food was a-mazing (as usual!) I ate so much, I didn't even have room to sneak any candy from the kids baskets...until the next day ;)