Happy Father's Day!

We spent Father's day weekend with Nana, Paca & Aunt Katie visiting. We got up Saturday morning and headed up to Williamsburg to spend the day. We took Paca to get some yummy BBQ, spent some time at the outlets and made a special trip to sno-to-go for sno-cones and yummy treats! It was a fun day, but we were missing our Daddy! Sunday morning before we went out for lunch we decided to dress our "flat daddy" up in a superhero cape and mask and we had a little photo shoot! Here are some of our attempts! Happy Father's Day to our Superhero Daddy!! We miss you and love you lots!!

Last day of school!

Today was officially the last day of school! Garett had his last day of preschool on May 25, but was able to attend a few weeks of preschool camp so he was still going to his school. Today was officially the last day for all three boys! Caleb is officially a 2nd grader, Tyler a 1st grader and Garett is in pre-k! It will be crazy in the fall. Sophie will even start her first year preschool in September. Time is flying by!

Surprise from Daddy!

We got a special treat in the mail from Daddy today! We love getting mail from Daddy when he is away for long work! We were so excited to open it!! It was a special book called "Under the Same Moon." It is the perfect book since Daddy has to be far away from us, and it helps remind us that he is always thinking of us and that he is missing and loving us just as much as we do him! It was even more special because it was a recordable book. Now we get to hear Daddy's voice reading to us whenever we want!! We love it! Thank you Daddy! We love you and miss you so much!

Sophie the Diva

Miss Sophie can be quite a Diva. She has her diva glasses as she calls them (sunglasses) that she walks around in day and night, inside or outside. She even wore them in the movie theater! Sophie changes her shoes at least 10 times a day, carries around her purse and her babies, and her newest obsession is having tea parties! She is a girly-girl to the max and just keeps us laughing. She can even convince all of her brothers or "my boys" as she says, to have tea parties with her, she will say "Caleb, have tea party with me?" And all of them always say yes!

One of her many pairs of diva glasses

Happy diva with a corn dog & sunglasses! 

Ready for bed in her "fancy sandals" and headband! 

Can't go swimming without a headband! 

Have a tea party with me, Garett! 

Some videos of Sophie bug the Diva!

Sophie doesn't like being left out. She thought she was missing something, and she's so short she cannot open the doors, so she bangs on them and begs until someone gives in! 

Sophie enjoys her trampoline time alone when "her boys" are at school! 

Poor thing cannot open the refrigerator. Mommy decided to video her attempt before helping her get her milk out! 

Tides Baseball Game!

We got a fun treat today and got to go to a Tides Baseball Game! We always love going to baseball games, and we had great seats. It was a fun day to spend as a family and with some neighbors and friends!

Haircuts!

The shaggy boys were in need of some haircuts. With summer weather quickly approaching, they needed some hair cuts in order to avoid some long, shaggy, sweaty hair everyday! Mommy was brave and gave all the boys a good haircut. Pepper was checking out the pile of hair that was leftover!

Movies!

One of our favorite activities is going to the movies. We really love seeing movies on the big screen! We got a special treat and got to go see a 3-D movie at the movie theater on base near our house. Here's a few pictures with our silly glasses!

Memorial Weekend

We had a few visitors at our house for Memorial weekend. Nana, Paca & Aunt Katie came to visit and we celebrated Mommy's birthday a little early too! We had a fun weekend celebrating Mommy's birthday and it was Garett's official last day of school on Friday so we celebrated that too! We had some yummy crab legs, corn on the cob and other veggies. It was a fun weekend! Unfortunately, Sophie has been sick and ended up having to take an unexpected trip to the ER for another breathing treatment, chest x-ray and to get some antibiotics and inhaler. The poor little bug has been coughing all week, and they finally diagnosed her with pneumonia.

Halfway!

This past weekend was special, we finally made it to halfway through our "Countdown to Daddy!" We know the days can always change towards the end, but we are happy that we have officially made it past the halfway point. We are getting closer and closer to Daddy being home with us again! Yay! We cannot wait!

Mommy had a half marathon in South Carolina this weekend with Aunt Katie and our friend and neighbor Darlena, so we celebrated our halfway weekend in North Carolina with Nana & Paca. We celebrated a little with Mommy when we saw her again on Sunday too after her weekend away!

Gymnastics

All of the boys have been doing gymnastics for awhile now, and with all of the classes Sophie has watched she always says, "I want to do gymnastics!" So she was finally allowed to do a trial class in Garett's class which is meant for ages 4-9. Garett started in that class when he was 3 going on 4, and Sophie is quite a bit younger since she won't be 3 until September, and is already starting, but she is so flexible and already seems so interested. She definitely seems to have some natural talent when it comes to gymnastics, so we will see what happens! They were impressed with her ability to listen and follow directions (most of the time ;) ) so they allowed her to join the class. She's been going and absolutely loves it! Sometimes her attention span is a little short when waiting her turn, but as she's gotten used to it, she is doing much better at staying in her class and less time running out to mommy. :)

Sophie can get herself up on the wall like this in order to stretch and can get up on the bar and pull her legs up all on her own. She is strong for such a tiny thing. She also enjoys jumping on the trampoline and practicing her forward rolls. We'll see if we have a little gymnast on our hands! 

Mother's Day!

Since Daddy couldn't be here for Mother's Day we tried to give Mommy as much love as we possibly could, although we would do that anyways! :) Caleb man had a baseball game over the weekend so we spent our Saturday morning there, and we got to take Mommy out to brunch with Aunt Katie on Mother's Day! We even got in some fun in the sun due to some beautiful weather! It was a great weekend!

Teacher Appreciation Week

Garett's preschool did a fun week of gifts for Teacher Appreciation week and he absolutely LOVES Ms. Jodie so we showered her with a few fun gifts this week! Garett's favorite was being able to get her some flowers from our garden to take to her one morning. Mommy was even able to snap a picture of him before heading off to school with his flowers! What a sweet boy!

Baseball

Caleb has really been enjoying baseball this season. He is playing for the Red Sox and his team has done very well. They have a great coach who has been more focused on teaching them the basics and building their skills than just winning. It is nice, because everyone on their team gets their turn to play, and the time is put in to help each child become a better player.

Lily's 2nd Birthday

We traveled down to Raleigh this weekend to celebrate cousin Lily's second birthday! Aunt Sarah & Uncle Richard had her party at a fun park in Raleigh, unfortunately the rain had other plans. We didn't get to play on the fun playground, but due to the nice picnic shelter we still got to enjoy Lily's party outside. We had yummy fajitas and all the fixin's including Paca's yummy guacamole. We didn't get many pictures of the party due to the rain, but we had a great time celebrating with Lily! We got to spend the night in Raleigh in a hotel- one of our most favorite things to do! We got to go swimming and just enjoy a nice little getaway. Mommy got this fun picture of us looking out of our room window. Sometimes it's easier to get a picture of all four of us from the back! :)

March of Dimes

This year Mommy was on a March of Dimes team called "Rockin' Mom's Walkin" and she raised money for the March of Dimes and today we walked 5 miles for the March of Dimes! Way to go Mommy and the Rockin' Mom's Walkin for the money they raised this year!!

End of Spring Break!

Our last day of Spring Break seemed more like summer than spring! Mommy even got out the slip 'n slide for the first time this year and we had a blast!

Cupcakes!

While Mommy was running her fourth half marathon of her deployment challenge, Aunt Katie helped the monkeys make her some celebration cupcakes! It has become quite a tradition to enjoy a cupcake after half marathons, so we decided she would need some when she got home! We made her some yummy vanilla cupcakes with sprinkles in them, some yellow icing and we even used some sprinkles to spell out, "Way to go Mommy!" We are so proud of her!

Easter/Spring Break

We headed down to North Carolina to spend Easter weekend and the beginning of our spring break down there at Nana & Paca's house. Uncle Richard, Aunt Sarah & cousin Lily came down on Easter Sunday too. We got to have some good hang out time, we dyed Easter eggs, had an Easter egg hunt with cousin Lily, opened our treats from the Easter bunny, Mommy & Nana, and we even got to visit the zoo which is having a very cool dinosaur exhibit right now!