Graduation....

I'm pretty sure we can count Myles' year of preschool as a success! I think the thing that made me the most upset about preschool being done was the fact that I knew Kindergarten was the next step....Best part was the summer we had ahead of ourselves.
As I put this post together I was reminded that I needed to compare the beginning of the school year pics with the end of the year pics and was SHOCKED when I saw the change in the kids. I had forgotten that we had moved into the new house during the school year as well as just how much Natalie has grown in a year!!! It's looking at pics like this that remind me just how quickly time flies AND how happy I am to have to blog to look back at to remember this stuff because I feel like I would forget it all!!

 

Ty really seemed to lose his baby face this year! 

 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? What happened to my babies!!!! 

All fancied up for preschool graduation.

Love looking at all their expressions and wondering just what they were thinking.

Getting his diploma from Miss Megan. This woman was made to be a preschool teacher.

Natalie's allergies were in full force this week and you can certainly see it in her eyes here.

Such Goofballs

Such a great group of teachers!!!

Soccer Fun

This spring we decided it was time to let Myles get involved in something besides just school and church and soccer was the activity of choice.  I of course assumed that between Nat's soccer skills and my love for anything sports related we had a mini David Beckham on our hands.  Turns out I could not have been more wrong. :-) I'm not saying that Myles doesn't have the skills, but his desire to be aggressive and fight for the ball were CLEARLY not present this first season. Myles was the kid running behind all the other kids, and when the ball happened to come towards him he would MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!! That being said, I'm not sure why I expected anything different. We are always telling him to be nice and share and not try to take things way from other kids and he is a rule follower all the way. We finally accepted that he really liked playing soccer his way and was  in no way disappointed that he didn't score goals so we shouldn't be either. He had one of the nicest and more compassionate coaches we could have asked for and Myles loved every second of it, so it was clearly a successful first year!

Team Huddle

This is truly about the only time he kicked the ball....when he was in charge of kick off.

Not sure if you notice but Myles is the only one from the Wave here....his team is in a team huddle at the other end of the field and he doesn't even notice it. :-)

Myles and his best buddy Nathan. Love that they even held hands for the picture.

Team Wave 2012

So lucky to have Nana and Papa get to watch a game!!

Papa and Nana Visit

Nana and Papa visited us way back in the Spring....yes SPRING, not summer, and I am posting pics now.....Whatevs....

Not sure how many times I've said it, but I will say it again.....We have the best neighbors in this neighborhood!!! Our sweet neighbor just happened to have 2 nice apple trees he had won and wanted to know if we wanted them! Free apple trees?? YES PLEASE!!! Luckily Papa was in town when we got them so he got to help us plant them. I'm always assuming that if I plant them I am pretty much putting them in the ground to die. Thanks to dad's help they are alive and doing well.

Sharp tools and cowboy boots. Yep, that's how we roll.

Look at those muscles!!!

So proud of all their hard work.

Natalie and her new best friend.

Few things can top Nana and Papa time!!  

Family Pictures

I can't wait any longer to post the newest pictures that my sister-in-law Amanda took for us. I'm always AMAZED at her talent and how she can take a crew like mine and make us look even CLOSE to put together, but she always does. It's still SOOO Crazy to me that we will SOON have a fourth little one added to the family photos. We are really starting to get our groove with three and now we are adding one more....Let the real fun begin!
 http://amandamitchellphotography.blogspot.com/

For some reason it took Natalie a bit to warm up and give her sweet smile in the family pics.  Luckily by the time we got to her pics she had her usual charm turned on. Oh well, 4 out of 5 is not bad.

Clearly Natalie is into the swinging stage. After switching the order around we got her to stand on her feet without trying to be a monkey.

LOVE this one!!

Miss Sassy pants trying to tell the boys where to go and what to do.

I am all to aware that saying "We are done after this one" are famous last words, but I WILL day that we will not EVER try to compete with the Duggars 19 kids.

Still am amazed and thankful he asked me to marry him!!!

All my little ducks in a row.

 

Myles has a smile that just melts my heart!!

Ty's smile just fits his personality.....mischievous!!!

Every little boy needs to have a stick just in case!

This picture means more to me than anyone would guess by looking at it. When I changed Natalie from her sweater to this dress and put her down she IMMEDIATELY lit up and said "Pretty" and began to twirl. There was just a moment there when I was able to watch her being my sweet little girl and I wanted SOOOOO badly to freeze time. Thanks to Amanda's quick thinking she caught the moment and even though I can't technically freeze time, I will ALWAYS have this moment frozen. SOO very thankful for that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clearly she found her smile when it was her turn to have pics taken.

 

 

Last, but certainly not least....Baby Snuggles, as we have affectionately named baby #4.

 

Seriously people......I feel like I am going to POP!!!!