My first Tri-athalon

Well, I accomplished what I did not know if I could do..
Jaime, my mom and I did the Danskin Tri-athalon on
Mother's Day this year. We did this as a relay sort of...
Jaime did the 1.4 mile swim, I did the 9 mile bike and then we
all 3 ended with the 2 mile run through the Magic Kingdom..
It was very rewarding and I think next year I will do the whole
thing with Jaime. Its going to be a Mother's day i will never forget..

Hope your Mother's day was great...

My ballerina

This is Ellie's first year taking dance.
She is going to have her first recital on June 7th.
This is her costume she is modeling for me

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

HAPPY MOTHER"S DAY TO ALL THE AWESOME MOMS
OUT THERE

Who Says I cannot cook in a purple apron at a purple and pink kitchen

Noah was having so much fun the other day
playing with Ellie's kitchen.. I have one upstairs
and one downstairs (thanks to our neighbors who
grew out of theirs)
He loves this one because it has a phone..

calling Daddy

not there, back to cooking.

Mickey coma

This friend of mine sent me this email today about Noah...
I have always said my children are in a comatose state
when it comes to TV with Disney, Elmo or whatnot...Right now Noah LOVES
LOVES MICKEY.. Today one of my friends and nursery worker caught it
on film and sent me a nice compliment as well. My boy was surrounded
by girls but does he notice....NOPE
thats my boy....

Hey Darby,

Today I happened to have my camera with me at church to bring to Homegroup to show someone who also just got a new camera, and so I took a couple of pictures for you (since I know how you love to have photos!) of Noah in the nursery when he was in his Mickey coma because I just thought it was adorable and thought you would laugh at having a couple of photos. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of children I watched at Northland while I worked there, I don't think I've ever come across one who was as attentive and focused on the TV as he was this morning! He was a joy to watch too - I can't believe how well he is talking and communicates about everything! And he is very polite - says thank you after everything I gave him! Keep up the good work =)

~Kim

Happy Birthday Andy and Meredith

Happy Birthday to my 2 best friends...
Andy Happy 35th and Mer Happy 40th

Honey your the best friend I ever had and I am so
blessed to have you as my husband, friend, confidant,
lover and partner for life... Hope the next 35 are just
as special as you are to me..
LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK
Darby

Hanging with the cousins

Our cousins came over to play one morning
and here are a few shots I got from their time together

Big Kids Easter egg hunt

Looking hard for all the eggs

camera pause for mamma

Finding them mama

Noah and Sammy wandered over to see what they
could find in the big kids hunt...

Noah and Sammy's Easter Egg hunt

We had two egg hunts at Papa and Omee's this
year.. One for Noah and Sammy first..

Noah loved looking for eggs....

Sammy had lots of fun too, he stopped to see what
was in the eggs...

Noah and Daddy cleaned up... Noah did not
want to stop looking so he headed out to help
the bigger kids

Easter Morning Easter Baskets

Checking out what old Mama Easter Bunny
brought them

Look Mama, a race car egg...open it

More candy

Ellie's Easter Party at school

I was one of the room mom's that helped put on
the Easter party for Ellie's class. They had
so much fun..Ellie is telling the class 2 clues for her
Easter egg surprise..

Ellie and Mrs Cyndi doing the jelly bean game

Mom and Ellie

Ellie and her cupcake easter basket she decorated

Bunny bowling and duck toss..

Happy Easter

Happy Easter from our family to yours