Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend with my sweet boys.  I am so blessed to be their mom!!  It started on Friday when I got to go to Landon's school for a Mother's Day celebration.  It was from 1:45-3:30 and it was jam packed with activities and fun. When I walked in the room, I got a heart button to wear with Landon's picture on it! Landon and I had a packet to do together that included word searches, word scrambles, tic tac toe and more fun games.  Mr. Ditzler had his mom there to help out and they read us a book and took a polaroid picture of us.  We made a frame together to put our picture in.  Landon had a card for me and also gave me some violets to plant!  His class made two videos for us to watch.  One was each child saying what he/she loved about his/her mom and the other was just a slideshow of pictures put to music.  The class sang us a Mother's Day song that was really cute.  And, I got a recipe book with everyone's favorite recipes from the class.  It was a wonderful afternoon!! 

Here is Landon holding my card he made me.

Here are all the parts of the card…

Mommy and Landon 

My new cookbook…

The frame we made with our picture...

 My violets to plant...

On Sunday, the boys let me sleep in and made me delicious crepes for breakfast.  Landon and Keegan made me cards at school, and Landon also made me a candle holder in art class.  Matt got me a manicure, facial and massage, which I cannot wait to use!!  We headed to church and Landon sang two  Mother's Day songs in church with the children's choir.  Both boys made me sunflower crafts in Sunday school.  We spent the day riding bikes to the park, playing basketball and just playing outside, and we ended with a steak dinner on the patio.  It was a wonderful day.  I'm so lucky to be the mom to two of the sweetest, funniest, and most amazing boys.  Being their mom is by far the best job in the world and I am so blessed to have them! <3 nbsp="" p="">

The candle holder Landon made and Keegan's card...

My gift certificate from Matt…

The sunflower pictures the boys made in Sunday school….love them!

The flowers each of the boys picked out for me...   

Me and my sweet boys...

This might be the last year I can hold both of them at once :(

Later on Sunday, we played basketball together.  The boys put on their Cavs gear and held a broom when the Cavs swept that afternoon!!!

 

I am also blessed to have the most amazing mom ever.  I miss her like crazy and wish we lived closer, but love our daily talks.  Thanks for always being there for me, supporting me, and loving me no matter what!  I couldn't navigate this crazy world without you.  Love you, mom!!

Happy Belated Mother's Day to all the moms out there.  I hope you enjoyed your day!! 

Piano Recital

Last Friday, Landon had his piano recital.  There were 50 people (including his teacher) that played and it lasted a little over an hour.  He was 28th. He played "Christmas Time is Here" from Charlie Brown and did a great job!  Landon wore a snoopy shirt and hoodie with his dress pants :)  Since Landon's piano teacher goes to our church and is the accompanist for the children's choir, the piano recital is always at our church.

 Here is a video of him playing…

Landon with his teacher, Mrs. Swisher

Special Visitors Day

Keegan had Special Visitors Day at his preschool last week.  Matt's dad came here to go.  Matt also went and I was able to go for the first 15 minutes and see his show before I had to go back to school.  Since Landon had lunch and recess at that same time, Matt picked him up from school and he was able to be a surprise special visitor for Keegan. Keegan didn't know he was coming, but loved having his big brother there.  Landon loved going to, and getting the chance to see his old teachers.  Everyone had a blast and Keegan did a great job singing his songs!

Getting ready to sing with his station group

 Dancing with Papa

 Keegan with Papa and Landon

 Daddy and Keegan

 Doing a craft

 Great pic

Thanks for  making the drive to come to Keegan's special day, Papa!  I know he loved having you there and we really appreciate it :)

Update on Keegan

Keegan has been busy lately too.  At the beginning of March, he got 3rd place in a coloring contest at Dunkin' Donuts.  He won a gift card and he was so excited!

Here is a picture...

 I took Landon to "Pump it up" to play one night through the PTA.  He had a blast going on all the inflatable slides, the obstacle course, and bounce house, and playing baseball.

Here is our little Cat in the Hat for Dr. Seuss day at school...

Since we got our piano, Keegan has had a lot of interest playing it lately.  I'm sure he will be like his big brother and start lessons in year or two!

 Keegan still LOVES puppies.  Unfortunately, he is still allergic and will break out in hives and start itching if he is around them.  Frank, a dog down the street, got out one day and came to play.  Keegan loved it…he said he was just like his big puppy.  Frank is absolutely huge, but Keegan had a blast playing with him.  It was only for about 10 minutes and we had to give him a shower instantly after (even then he still itched that night), but he loved every minute of playing with Frank!

Landon still plays with our next door neighbor, Lilli.  Her little sister, Leia, is 6 months older than Keegan and the two of them have been playing really well together this spring.  Here are a couple cute pics of them...

 

 Keegan just started soccer for the first time this spring and he couldn't be more excited!  He loves it and we love watching him!  Look how proud he was the first time he got to put on his uniform for a game...

Some action shots...

Last week Keegan was snack leader at school.  Since it was train day, we decided to make some train snacks.  They turned out super cute.  Keegan also took Thomas fruit snacks and Sesame juice boxes.  He said his friends loved them! 

 Here he is being Thomas at school that day!

Update on Landon

Landon has had a busy spring.  When we got back from spring break, he brought this letter home...

His art work from school was chosen to be part of an art show that displayed the art work at our library in town.  All of us also got invited to a reception in honor of the students who were chosen.

This is Landon's picture of sunflowers that was chosen...

This was a complete surprise to Landon and he was so excited! It was on display at the library for a month, so we went a couple days to see it.  Here he is by his piece of art.  Thank goodness he inherited Matt's art skills and not mine!

This is Landon the night of the reception at the library.

So proud of this little guy!! <3 p="">

For Teacher Appreciation Week, Landon had something special to do every day for his teacher.  One day, he had to draw Mr. Ditzler as a super hero.  Here is his drawing and what he wrote to him…

 Last week Landon had a choir concert at school.  It was with the entire 1st grade.  However, his grade is so big that there had to be 2 concerts.  His group had half of the first grade, which is 170 students.  Here is the program...

This is his half of 1st grade on stage...

Here are a couple pictures of him singing.  He is 3rd from the left in the top row.

 If the 1st graders are currently taking piano lessons, they had the option to play a song in the middle of the concert.  Landon (along with 8 of his classmates) played songs.  Landon chose the song, "Christmastime is here" which was funny!!

He looked so big up there and did a great job.  All of the students did a great job singing and playing the piano.  It was so fun to watch them!!

The next night, Landon lost his 6th tooth.  Here he is with another hole in his mouth!!

Landon also started playing soccer again, and will start baseball as well in a month.  Here are a few pics of him playing soccer!