baseball season

Our lives have been given over to baseball for the spring. E is rocking the team - playing his heart out and making a couple of incredible plays! His pop fly catch on Saturday is going to be legend in our family.
Here are some shots.

read to the dogs

Read to the Dogs is such a fun program that I've known only as a librarian - but it was such a treat to see E take part in it as a reader! Read to the Dogs is a way to improve reading skills and make a new friend. The therapy dogs are from the Dove Lewis Animal Assistance program.
E read to Copper - a super sweet basset hound with his own trading card! E read to him for almost a half-hour. He chose books about dogs and other animals, thinking that "Copper would like that." E was really comfortable reading to Copper and said he really liked it. Can't wait to try it again. Video below:

kitchen remodel

It's begun. Here are a couple of shots before and one day into the project.

Check out my crew!

tulip farm

Martha and I struck a deal with the kids - if they frolicked in the tulips long enough for us to get some good pictures, they could hit up the trashy carnival ride fun. It worked! I couldn't help but think about all the the times we'd been there before so I added a few shots from 2005-2009 at the end of the post.

sweet friends at the tuplip field

easter love

We had a fun Easter. Ems was talking a mile a minute the entire day and E was happily alternating between his new army men and working on a video game he and his dad are inventing! I was knocked out with a chest cold so I only had to show up for the good parts, shuffling my way back to bed in between photo ops. Hope your day was full of bunny ears and chocolate too!