Blake's Graduation

Blake with his 2 godsons! What a trooper!

Grandma with the kids!

Chase and Tyson

The graduate and dad

Charlie with Grandma

Charlie with Aunt Joellen

The ENTIRE family!

Truly amazing!

Memorial Day Weekend:

thursday 6pm - head to Iowa

friday 8:30am - out the door to Gilbert, IA to help my sister, Kelli, get ready for the party

friday 11:30pm - back to Des Moines to sleep at my sister Jenni's house

saturday 10am - nephew Noah's baseball game

saturday 11:30am - back to Gilbert to finish getting ready for graduation party

saturday 4pm - Blake's Graduation Party begins!!!!

saturday 11:45pm - back to Des Moines to sleep

sunday 5am - out the door to airport for my friend, Jeannine's wedding!!

sunday 5pm - wedding in Indianapolis, IN

monday 8am - back at airport in Indianapolis

monday 3pm - land in Des Moines airport and head to Gilbert

monday 4pm - nephew Blake's baseball game, then back to Des Moines

tuesday 6:3opm - nephew Blake's soccer game

tuesday 8pm - drive back to Manhattan

wednesday 1am - pull in driveway at "Mommy's House"

And this doesn't include while I was busy with the party stuff and in Indianapolis Joel and the boys went to the zoo, 3 more baseball games, and a graduation party for Joel's cousin. (more pictures to come) Do we know how to fill a weekend or what?!?

Congratulations Blake! We are so proud of you! Love you ALL!

I Got A New Camera!

Tyson Stories

Tyson has been on a roll lately. He is learning so much everyday and his vocabulary is really starting to blossom. Multiple times a day he makes us laugh, so I thought I would share a few of them.

1) Tyson and I were walking through Wal-Mart yesterday doing some grocery shopping. The place was filled with flowers for Mother's Day. He looked at me and so preciously said, "Flowers for you Mommy?" Of course I had to buy them! Happy Mother's Day to me, right?

2) We were all sitting down a couple weeks ago watching the Miss America pageant. (Sad, I know!) As we were watching it Tyson says, "Like you Mommy." Of course I thought he was talking about the beauty, but it turns out the girls name was Kristen. Tyson says, "Kristen, like you Mommy." Who knew he was paying that close of attention?

3) It was time to get the boat in to have it looked at before we take it out on the lake. We went as a family and picked it up today. We dropped it off at our house and loaded back up in the car to go to the bank Appreciation Day. We are walking back to the car and Tyson runs to the back and says, "It's gone, where did it go?" We asked him what he was talking about, and he says, "The boat! It is missing!"

4) As you all know potty training has been a nightmare for us. We have tried everything! One thing we tried was to have him run around in the backyard with no clothes on to get him to see the pee come out. (I am not kidding when I say we tried EVERYTHING) Well, he has decided that it is really cool to pee outside. He drops his pants wherever he is and just lets it go. I guess I can't complain too much since he is not peeing in his pants!