Almost Wordless Wednesday Forest Park

Grant found a bird that had a problem with it's wing and couldn't fly very high or very far....

So he was trying to tell the bird to fly up in the air... it was so cute....

He just kept talking to the bird and it looked as if the bird was just sitting there listening to him

My little Graduate

Tonight Rileigh graduated from preschool. I can't believe how fast she is growing up, she is such a big girl! The kids sang several songs that they learned throughout the year. Rileigh's teacher who is pregnant was very emotional she loved her class. Grant will have Ms Lisa next year in her 3 yr old class, so she will be able to keep up on Rileigh's life for at least the next year.

Rileigh waiting in her classroom. With her "cap" on.

Rileigh and Ms. Lisa

We were cracking up because Rileigh is at least a head taller than every other kid in the class!

Ri with her best friend Lainey

Relay For Life

Today was Relay For Life in Westfield. My nephew Spencer is in the running for most money raised! Shawn and Jill are signed up to walk at 3am tonight and they have been there most of this morning. I just want everyone to see how well Spencer is doing and Thank You ALL for your prayers and support! Here is a pic of Spence and Grant eating donuts before we got rained on.

Happy Mommy's Day!

I woke up Sunday morning to three people standing by my bed with breakfast of bacon and eggs and a cup of coffee. It was awesome! We went to church and during the singing Grant wanted me to hold him and while I was he kept kssing me all over my face it was so cute. After church we headed to one of my favorite places... Olive Garden. I then got to go to the gym and work out and then take a nice relaxing bubble bath, with NO interruptions!!!! It was a great day! I love you Rileigh and Grant (and daddy too!)

My baby boy wishing me Happy Mother's Day

Rileigh can't make a straight face for the camera these days so this was all I got... oh well that's how she is.... goofy

My CRAZY kids!!! I love them!

Dinner fun!

Friday night we went to a mexican restaraunt and they had a woman that did face painting sitting by the door. At the end of dinner we stopped by and this is the result. The kids had a blast and was an incentive for them to eat their dinners!

Grant had to have the snake on his face!

Riliegh wanted the rainbow with the pretty designs.

The Easter Bunny

We went to Evansville this weekend to celebrate Easter with mommy's family. On Saturday the Easter bunny visited (a little early) and we got to paint and stamp eggs and get the Easter baskets and have an egg hunt at Great Gradnmom and Poppy's house. We got a lot of eggs and candy!!! We had a good time with our cousins Avery, Makayla, and Madison. Grandmom and Poppy had a lot of fun watching the kids run around their yard hunting for the eggs.

The Easter Bunny showed up while we were taking a walk around the block... that sneaky bunny!

Wow a bunny webkinz!

Candy goes immediately into the mouth.

The Easter Bunny was very good to us!

Stamping the eggs!

Avery taking a turn with the orange bunny.

Good job Grant!

Avery acting silly!

Indoor Game Day

Since it is 30 something degrees outside we needed an activity to do indoors to let out some of the energy so we decided on golfing... Grant got this Gator Golf game for Christmas so we broke it out and played golf in the living room. I got this short video of the kids playing it is too funny. Grant was trying to sit while waiting his turn but kept leaning back in the chair and falling over.

Update Grant is almost completely potty trained "crossing my fingers" He still has one or two accidents here and there but has been wearing big boy underwear for the last 2 weeks... yeah!!! He is really funny about it he won't flush the toilet until he shows me that he went in the potty, he told me today that he wanted to show Rileigh. He's very proud of his bodily functions.

Sleep anyone?

While Rileigh was at school today I decided I was going to lay down with Grant and try to take a little nap, well we can all see how well that went.....

Oh well Grant and Rileigh are going to Grandma Joan's and Grandpa Mike's for the weekend so I can sleep then.

Little Bakers

Today we decided to bake some brownies and the kids wanted to help. Rileigh was busy playing at first so Grant added all of the ingredients to the mixer and did a wonderful job, then Rileigh decided she wanted to help so she turned the mixer on a little too high so we all got dusted with a little chocolate powder, oh well. Next the kids wanted to lick the spoons, probably the best part of baking! I was suprised Grant liked it he usually only likes tanilla (vanilla) things.

You can tell Rileigh LOVES chocolate!!!!!

Grant wasn't quite as messy but like I said he likes tanilla better than chocolate.

Yummmmm eating our tasty work!

Funny Boy

So I am still potty training Grant... wow I never knew boys were really that much harder than girls to potty train, Rileigh pretty much just did it, no problems. So I took some funny pics of him the other day sitting on the potty, he was reading the Sunday funnies... we were cracking up it was too cute!

Before I was caught watching him...

Mom I will not be happy about this when I am older!

Here is a video of him singing in the bathtub.... he sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star all the time. I thought it was cute.. he may not like me for this when he gets older either.... oh well that's what moms are for, right?

Hearts, Flowers, and Candy

I have not blogged much this month or last for that matter but my laptop decided that it did not want to work anymore so I had to have HP send me a new hard drive which means I lost everything on my computer (at least it was still under warranty).

Anyway this past weekend we along with most of America celebrated Valentines Day. Chad and I went out to dinner and a movie the weekend before the big day because we had a babysitter available. The day before of we took the kids to Steak N Shake and gave them some candy after all they couldn't wait one more day for candy. So the day of we got a call from Shawn and Jill who invited us out to an early movie and dinner with them, and best of all Chad's younger brother and his girlfriend were going to watch all 5 kids (what were they thinking?). So we went and had a great time together. We hadn't been out all together without the kids since before Rileigh and Spencer were born. The funniest part of the evening was when Jill and I started to mess with Evan, who is pretty gullible... We sent him a few text messages telling him we needed to get a hotel room because none of us could drive home and that we would see him in the morning, needless to say he was pretty happy to see us when we arrived home!

These were my gift from Chad... yummmmmmm 6 chocolate covered strawberries from Shari's Berries http://www.berries.com As you can see I ate 3 of them in the first 12 hours!

Good News!!!

So we got the best news ever last Friday. After all the Chemo, Radiation and Craniotomies Spencer is Tumor Free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a pic of me and him last Sunday while watching the super bowl, I just love his smile it's contagious!!! Not the best pic of me so focus on him. Thanks for all the prayers!

The big party!

The Tinkerbelle Cake with pink and purple icing of course!



We spent our afternoon at Chuck E Cheese celebrating Rileigh's big day. Aunt Leigh and cousin Avery and great aunt Linda and great uncle Lewis came up from Evansville, Nana and papa Freund were there and Uncle Shawn, aunt Jill, Noah, Spencer, and Hunter were also there to join in the fun. Rileigh also had her 2 best friends from preschool there Lainey and Jillian. Grandmas Joan and Sandi and Grandpas Mark and Mike were unable to attend because they were sick, we hope you all feel better soon! Here are some pics from the celebration!!!