kindergarten graduation

Luke and his awesome teacher, Mrs. Jennings

A family picture

with Grandma Sharla

with Grandma Barb

with one of his best buds, Jaxon

He was very proud of his certificate!

with the proud parents!

Luke has loved Kindergarten, he's so excited to go to first grade in the fall!

Haircut

Carly's hair has finally gotten long enough for a haircut. Since Abigail took the liberty of cutting it last fall, I have been triming it little bits at a time to make it look presentable. I wanted it to grow out so badly, that I never wanted to cut too much off. Last week I realized it was too stringy and uneven, so I decided to give her a little bob. When it grows another half inch, I'll cut it again to make it more of an a-line, and then I will let it grow and grow. She wants to be Rapunzel. She's such a cheese for pictures, I just thought these ones were cute.

I asked Abigail to keep Hailey entertained while I cut Carly's hair.

Happy Easter

We had a great Easter weekend!
Between the two Easter egg hunts from Grandparents, and the Easter bunny stopping by Sunday morning, it was a wonderful, crazy, sugary holiday.

Carly searching for her purple eggs

My handsome boy!

The Jenkins grandkids, after their successful hunt

Here's the best picture I got of the kids in their Easter finery. The sun was so bright, Luke couldn't even open his eyes.

We moved to the shade, but obviously it wasn't any better, nobody could look up and Luke's eyes were full on watering. I guess we'll try again later, at least you can still see how cute they looked.

My bright-eyed baby girl

The Dawson grandkids with their loot

I'm not sure what the sad face was for, but cute anyways

Carly with her baby Tabi (short for Tabitha (I have to name my girls' babies the names Ben wouldn't let me use for our children) She takes her baby EVERYWHERE, and I'm always finding bits of food in Tabi's mouth, kinda gross. Carly's a good momma.

quilting + birthday + Kael

When Luke was born, I decided instead of a tied quilt from my Mom, I wanted a hand quilted one. My Mom thought I was being overly ambitious, but being the sweet, loving, lady that she is, we did it. We quilted a crib size quilt for Luke, then she bound it by hand also. When grandchild #2 (Abigail) came along, my Mom decided that we had to finish what we started. She decided that she'd do a quilt for each new grandbaby. All us girls come to help for each quilt. I love that each of my kids have a special quilt sewn by Grandma, Mom, and Aunts.

Here are my kid's quilts. Luke's on top and Hailey's on the bottom. Luke's, being the first was really simple, just big squares, but on each one we get a little more brave with the patterns. On Carly's we did circles, and different material for the binding. Each quilt looks better and better.

My Mom, Shannon, and Jessy, working on our 8th quilt, for baby Kael.

Although we are no experts, our stitches are getting considerably better with each quilt.
Sometimes, it's surprising that we actually get any work done, while trying to watch the kids. I love getting together with these guys to quilt.

One of the days we got together to quilt, happened to be Shannon's birthday. So of course we celebrated.

We made Kael's quilt just in time, because this sweet guy decided to come a little bit early. Jed and Shannon had their little guy last week, and he is oh so handsome!

cruisin'

Ben's Grandma Ruth took his parents and all of Larry's siblings on a 2 week cruise to Hawaii. So lucky! They came back so tan and relaxed looking, now I'm just itching to go somewhere.

The kids were so excited to see their grandparents after such a long trip, especially when they realized their suitcases were overflowing with surprises.

The three girls got matching outfits from Mexico

The girls in their little grass skirts. When Abigail saw this little bikini top, she thought she was supposed to wear it under her shirt. So funny.

complete with coconut bra, the girls wear these outfits all the time.

And why is Luke wearing a coconut bra? Well, when the kids first saw them, he thought they were gorilla muscles. He especially loves his coconut monkey bank, because it smokes a pipe. My kids have watched too many old looney tunes, because they think it's cool to smoke pipes and cigars. Luke thinks that cigarettes are bad, but pipes are cool. At least we got it half right, we'll have to keep working on it.
These kids are lucky to have such fun grandparents!