Spring is here!!!

Kayla invited Ellie to go get manicures for her birthday!

March is reading month... It's BLUE day today!

My sweet girl looking all grown up. I love you, Ellie.

This is happening! Luke has business cards and flyers that he has sent out and his roster for the summer is booked!! Ben taught him all last summer how to mow and trim. This summer he is ready! It was pretty cool to see him communicate with adults in a "professional" way.

Drew and his buddies did a flag football camp with the SCHS football coaching staff and team.

We can feel it. Spring is around the corner and this calls for a walk to play at the park!

St. Patrick's Day!! The trap is set!

Grateful for these three little leprechauns!

Oh, man. That Lucky escaped just in the nick of time!

Celebrating Harlow turning 5!! We love you so much, Harlow!!! Elle stayed for a sleepover!

The next morning, we wrapped up with Drew and Elle's last basketball games for the season and their team parties.

During prayer, Caleb put his arm around Drew. 💙💙

The best big sisters around! Yep, that is our little doing push ups in the background.

We love Coach Megan!

Coach Dad is our favorite though.

Besties. Drew & Caleb

Besties. Kayla & Ellie

Cousins came for Ellie's last game!

Gavin held Drew's hand most of Elle's game... So sweet.

All the little boys on my lap. 

( So sorry...I didn't get any clips of Ellie's game because of these two squishies!)

Coach Sydney is the best!!

Right after Ellie's game she got dressed and headed to Rochester High School for Rochester's Battle of the Books! This was the first time we had a kiddo compete in this and so we learned about the process as we went. Basically, you are on a team and between the team you read and know really well 12 different books. At the competition, you sit with your team and together you answer questions about the books you've read. Jodie coached our team and they had a ton of fun! They were dressed as "Readers are Leaders".

The team!

Each team was huddled together on their blanket. They were given a question out loud and one leader from the group would write the answer and wave their answer sheet in the air to be collected. (Take a guess who did this on their team??)

Ben and I, all the parents, had to watch from the stands. We gave our support and positive vibes and then scooted out after round 1. :)

They didn't win this year but had a lot of fun and read a lot of books. That's a win in my book!!

Living her best life, and now off to a birthday sleepover!

We finished the weekend with Ellie and I attending Oxford High School's Little Mermaid Spring Musical! It was SO good!! The cast were roped to fly in the air on stage (to make it look like they were swimming!) 

Drew Bear.

Luke started the week of Spring Break with an all night baseball tourney. Good thing they had the week to sleep it off! The first game started at 10:30 and they got home around 4 am. Only baseball coaches would do this!!

3 highlights from the tourney: 

1.    They won!!!

2.    Luke rocked being lead off batter

3.     Luke was called into pitch the last inning! (pics below of him pitching) He has never pitched on this team. EVER! As he was getting his catcher stuff on, Coach said, " You are pitching Big Luke!" Well, Luke went in and had 3 strikeouts in a row!! I was not there but Ben was and everyone went nuts (as crazy as a bunch of 40 something parents and coaches can get at 3:00 am)!!

Now off for Spring Break 2023!!