We got a new cousin and were so excited to meet her last weekend! The kids kept wanting a turn to hold the baby and couldn’t get over her tiny little fingers. π





Welcome to the family, baby Greer!!
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We got a new cousin and were so excited to meet her last weekend! The kids kept wanting a turn to hold the baby and couldn’t get over her tiny little fingers. π





Welcome to the family, baby Greer!!
A very happy belated Mother’s day to all the mommas in our life who continually show up for the important stuff!







Birthday parties, dance recitals, sports games, school concerts…we sure are glad we get to share all of the big things with you!! We love you!
Spencer’s baseball season wrapped up last weekend and what a fun season it was! He had his same coach from fall baseball and a sweet group of friends on his team. Spencer is a monster hitter and can drive that ball pretty hard! He never once had to go to the tee and even hit a homerun or two!






What a great spring season at the ballpark with these three!

Can’t wait for the next sport!
What a fantastic spring baseball season for Maxwell! The Orioles were a special group of kids with an awesome coach and I am so incredibly proud of how well they all played this year. They hustled, had great attitudes, and ended the season in 2nd place overall for regular season play. We made it through the first round of the tournament in a nail biter game beating the Red Sox by 1 run in the bottom of the sixth. Unfortunately we got beat in the semi-finals and couldn’t pull out a tournament win like we did for the Mid-Season Tournament but that’s ok. This team played great and I wish we could do it all again!

Maxwell has been working on his hitting with a batting coach and is making great contact with the ball. In one of the tournament games he almost got it to the fence! I see homeruns in his future! He played first base all season and owned it! He can stretch his body out to catch that ball and keep his foot on the base!! He had a few double plays, fantastic catches, and got the game ball more than once! I just love love love to watch him play!

Other skills gained this baseball season? Learning to blow a bubble! ha! Maxwell would chew bubblegum every game and perfected this skill between innings!

The most fun of it all? Making new friends and getting to hang out with a great group of boys.




Of course, Spencer and Samantha had plenty of opportunities to watch him play too! π Β They didn’t miss a game and are the very best baseball siblings!

Of course, the icees don’t hurt!

We had other visitors out to watch a game including Susan and Lulu…

I feel so fortunate that we got to play on this team with Coach Welden. I wish this team could stay together every year!

Go Orioles!! Also, please read this…


The sweetest…even if I was at all of those games too! π
It was a great season but all good things must come to an end…but not baseball! We’re on to play summer all stars! Go Spartans!
We got all science-y around here and grew some butterflies! I ordered this butterfly kit a while back and then finally ordered our caterpillars about 3 weeks ago. We had fun watching them grow from tiny caterpillars…

into cocoons and then into butterflies!

The boys thought it was cool to watch but Samantha was the most interested in it all. It was pretty fascinating! All of the butterflies managed to sneak out of their cocoons while no one was watching and it was fun to hear Samantha go into the kitchen and squeal with delight when she saw another butterfly had shown up! After several days we released them…


but they didn’t really want to go! Maxwell got them out and helped them along.




Samantha said she then saw a bird eat one of the butterflies. ha! I’m not sure if that is entirely true but, oh well…circle of life! A fun experiment!