Mother's Day Tea

Thanks to my little men, I got some early Mother's Day gifts yesterday morning at preschool. They each made me a (foam) flower necklace, a placemat with their hand prints, a card with their fingerprints as petals on the flower, and we made a little crafty flower pot with the foam flowers together while we were there, and sang us some songs, read a book about moms....and served us cookies and punch! It was fabulous! Here are a few pictures...

And of course I have video too..... Garrett B-boppin the whole song....and Alex slow motion singing! hahahaaa crackin me UP! Alex is a ball of fun- he happens to live right down the street too! can't wait to play this summer together!! =) And yes, i did give the blog a face lift. first of all the picture was from LAST easter....and thought maybe since I changed what it looked like I might blog more. or maybe people will leave more comments?!? haha. at any rate....here's to future blogs!

Today...I will blog.

WOAH MAN. This is for sure some kind of record for who can blog the least.

Here's what we have been up to list style (in no particular order):

-boys still going to 2 day preschool and loving it (just registered them this week for next year MWF preschool at the same place! YEAH!)
-Lakeshore bball team just beginning districts- great record and so fun to watch!! Ryan and some of his friends have been helping the team at practice a few times and offer advice, which he's all about. GO RED
-I'm on a planning crew for a new thing at our church. March 24th. right around the bend
-Meeting with a handful of new couples when we can...new to the area, new to church. fun getting to know people (and going out to eat!!)
-Different group of people from church we get together for dinner 3-5 times during feb and march to get to know more people....just another way to get to know more people we've been churchin with. Soup night, comin up!
-lots of family comin at the end of march to live the dream in Mich! Can't come soon enough
-weather has been beautiful this winter. 2 snows, barely below 30 ever. LOTS of sun (compared to overcast for 4 months straight) and a few days up by the 50s! Feels like spring already- so I got out my spring decorations. =)
-I'm in the nursery today at church, which will be great for the Syd cause she usually doesn't like to be left....gotta go get ready!
-end with some pictures:
New princess puzzle for Sydney!

Group shot

Painting our signs for Joe's birthday (clearly sydney's says 'happy')

Joe and Susie went on vacation to Arizona areas and brought back these goodies for the kids =)

The end! Gotta get ready for church...yipee!!

Still singing Christmas songs. =)

Well, they were singing hilarious versions of this song cause they didnt' know the words, and then I get out the camera and it wasn't near as funny. OF Course. still cute. you get the picture. =)

(sorry about the camera hopping around...Sydney was laying/jumping on my back trying to brush my hair. haha

Preschool Program

So Tuesday was the boys' last day of school for a few weeks. The class had a little 'program' for the families and the kids sang some songs and gave us some gifts they made for us. So cute! check out some great action shots of the kids =)





And this video is my favorite song they did....the other videos were really quiet and I only got part of the song so this is definitely the best one. enjoy!

3 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!! WOOOOO!!!

Enough is enough.

OK PEOPLE. I've heard enough of this 'not posting' business. Here it is, read it and weep. or laugh, whatever.

Birthday Bash! Well, the birthday tornado has passed thru the Thomas household once again....I think it's aged us all. Starting line-up.....

SYDNEY!


We celebrated her bday with cousin Renae while we were in Florida....both a whoppin TWO years old!! count em, 2. only usually she says either one or eight. we're working on that. =)
Then was me....let's see if I have a picture.... sure don't. well, good thing we all know what I look like. Turned 29, next year is a doozy, better live it up- last year in my 20's! YIKES!
Then a few days later, Ry's bday...also didn't document that one. we had a hot date to celebrate us, dinner out without the kiddies. It was fantastic- will take any time aloooone with him that I can get. =)
And then brining up the rear, the big boys in the house turned 4 on Tuesday. Boy oh boy was there a celebration....might be putting more of those up on fb cause there's a million. Just a small little party, made the boys feel pretty special too, they each had their own bday 'helper' day at preschool and got to bring the class snacks.



Basically we've been opening presents for about 3 weeks straight, with one week off until Christmas extravaganza.....WHEW!! What fun, what fun. We are SO blessed, thank you all for jumping on the Thomas Birthday train and sending us so many birthday wishes. Until next year!

Halloween party

Well, the boys are well into their first year of school, so far they are really enjoying it. I'm also enjoying it. But back to them, I think 2 days a week is great for now....after all, they will be in school for....ever pretty much. I still have yet to figure out what they do each day, I have some idea from what the teacher tells me and because of the occasional newsletter she sends home, but if it were up to the boys to fill us in, noooo way. Haha. I think it's a combo or memory loss and a limited vocabulary. They can remember quite a few names of the kids and can kind of recall how they made the craft/project they came home with. Yesterday was their halloween party and they got to wear their costumes to school and the parents could go in to hear them do a little show the last 30 min of their time there. Check out this action!





and this video is so cute.

Their teacher is SO GREAT, we're really happy with where they are this year and are very thankful to live where we do. Many more school programs in our future!! =)

Last few months....

So here we have our last few months....
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WOW! LOOOOVE having company. =) Love livin life with some great friends and family even though we're far away. As of right now, we have week long plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but if there's any time in between, why not make a stop in Purrre Michigan. =)