Beginning of May

Neil and I spent an evening after dinner outside with the bottle of bubbles.  It was so fun just the two of us while Ken took care of Isaac.

The three boys.

Not sure who took this picture.  But it’s so cute.

Abbie loves orange julius and so do I.  We’ve also been adding strawberries to them and man is it good, but it sure fills the blender to the top.  Since there are so many of us now we always end up making a second batch.  Lucky us!  And if there are any left overs we make them into popsicles.  Yummy!

Doesn’t it stink when you reading and someone disturbs you just to take a picture!

I’m trying to remember to be in more pictures for my kids.

Mark and I went to Sportsman’s Warehouse and used some of his birthday money to buy some more arrows and a shooting glove so his fingers don’t hurt so much when he practices shooting in the backyard.  He was so excited to show me his target.  I think only two of his arrows missed on this round!  So exciting!

Neil and Isaac and I went to cheer on Mark at the Hershey’s Track meet this year.  He did the standing long jump, the 200 meter, 400 meter and a 4x1 relay.  We got there and found him just as it was his turn to jump.  Then he asked if he could come and sit with us.  That sure makes a mom feel good!!  Here he is running the 200.  He won his heat and I could have had the perfect finish line photo with the hands in the air and the tape breaking across his tummy, but I was cheering instead :-)!

He was starving after his race so I gave him the 1/2 peanut butter and jam sandwich I had brought for part of Neil’s lunch.  Then he had to run the 400 right after.  He was so tired from his first race and didn’t have more than 10 minutes to rest.  I didn’t get to see this race because they combined heats without telling us, so Neil and I were waiting to watch his heat, and he had already run :-(.

Neil was getting hungry and didn’t want to eat the cheese that I had brought for him, so Mark shared half of his bagel sandwich.  I thought that was just funny, so even though Mark was starving he still only got the same amount of food.  But here are some funny pictures of Neil eating 1/2 of Mark’s sandwich.

Mark’s last race was the relay (even though he won his heat in the 200, his time wasn’t in the top seven, so he didn’t get to run again for the finals of that race).  He did a great job on his hand offs!  One other thing was that Mark took Neil over for the lollipop race, but the gun scared Neil so much when it went off to begin the race, that he wouldn’t run at all, so Mark picked him up and brought him back to sit with us.  Maybe next year…

That night we had Jessie’s band concert.  My kids favorite was the t-rex song they played with part of the band screaming at certain parts like the dinosaur was coming to eat them.