a little bit of farmer!

We had Eli's 4 year pictures taken back in April!

It was supposed to be warm, so I had shorts and a polo picked out for him.

Well, in Kansas we never know what we are going to get.

So we had a change in plans last minute, due to weather!

This is probably more Eli...being out on a farm.

(The belt/beltbuckle he has on was Aaron's from when he was little. It has his name engraved on the back. It was sooo cute!)

I love this smile!

Thanks again, Meg for capturing our sweet boy!

cruise

We spent 5 days on this....Doing a lot of this...
With some awesome friends that were celebrating their 10 yr anniversary!
It was perfect!

We will go again! (for our 10 yr anniversary!)

More to come...

poem

Every year I send this poem home with my students.
I take a picture with each one of them and put it at the bottom.
This year I struggled getting through it!
I have loved this class and will miss them dearly!

I'm glad I was your teacher
I've come to love you so.
I can't believe the end is here.
I hate to see you go.
Remember all the fun we had
and all the things we did
but most of all remember...
You're a VERY SPECIAL KID!
Love,
Mrs. Kirtley :)

another milestone

Today was Eli's last day of preschool! (I wish I could say that I've had my last day too!)

They had a little program and celebrated with a circus theme!

It was cute!

I am so glad that he still has another year of preschool!

This Mommy isn't ready to send him off to Kindergarten just yet!

After the program we went to the classroom and had popcorn!

Ms. Karri was Eli's teacher! She was awesome! Eli learned so much from her!

Ms. Renee is the directed and helped out in the classes! She is awesome as well! We were so lucky to have Eli in preschool there!

Eli will go back to preschool there next year, but he will have a different teacher b/c he's going 3 days a week, instead of 2! We will miss Ms. Karri! Thank you for all you did this year!

(I don't know why it's leaving all that space at the top...it did it on my last one too!)

Easter Eggs!

So we waited til the last minute to dye Easter eggs!

We decided to dye them Saturday afternoon!

Cole had just woken up from his nap, so he's a little out of it!

Eli did GREAT!

glasses

Cole got glasses a week ago.

Poor boy got my bad eyes!

We noticed a few months ago that he was having a lazy eye.

I mentioned it to our pediatrician and he sent us to a pediatric optometrist.

I was hoping that I wasn't right. That maybe I was just imagining things!

Unfortunetly, I was right! It's very slight and he was impressed that I noticed it already.

But, it's a good thing I did. Hopefully the glasses will correct things and he won't have to have surgery like I did.

He does AWESOME with them! He rarely takes them off. I think it's usually when he has smudges on them.
I could not be more proud of this little guy!
He's far exceeded my expectations with them!
He's been such a trooper!

And, how adorable is he?? Such a sweetie!!

I hope this NEVER happens!!

Our friend, Derek, works for the Police Dept. He also works for Aaron with the guttering business. The other day he stopped by and this is what happened!

Eli got arrested! (Notice one brother is arrested and the other one is holding a gun?!)

Put in the police car.

Yes...what one brother does, so must the other!

They had fun. We did talk to Eli and tell him that it's fun now to sit in a police car, but how serious it can be when he's older!

When Derek left he turned on the lights and sirens. I'm sure our neighbors were wondering what was going on! That better be the last tme I see both of my sons in the back of a police car!