Savannah's bday party and first school days

Ok, so maybe I am 2 months behind...but here we go. Savannah was very excited to start 2nd grade. She had picked out her first day shirt several weeks before and was so excited to have Miss Beaton (and be in Ellie's class!!). Her birthday was on Saturday after starting school on monday. She decided to have the neighbor girls over for a sleep over and go to build-a-bear. Really she had been planning this trip to build-a-bear since about Christmas. We all had a great time. It was so fun watching the girls pick out their animals and walking thru the mall was fun too. The sleepover was fun too. Savannah decided to have the girls all sleep together in the basement. She said it was her favorite party ever!!

Christmas in June

For Christmas Mike surprised the kids and Mommy with a trip to Disney!!! It was so fun. All 3 kids loved meeting all of the Disney Characters probably the best of all. Megan LOVED the princesses and the princess castle. Elliott's favorite thing was probably the fireworks followed closely by the airplane ride. Savannah loved the characters and riding all of the rides (especially the ones that scared her the last trip). We were so lucky to have my parents join us to help out and they seemed to enjoy themselves as well!! How could you not watching our three munchkins at Disney!! Oh and may this serve as a reminder for planning our next trip, IT IS HOT IN ORLANDO IN JUNE. :)

Yankee's Star!!

Savannah is playing tball this spring for the Yankee's! Ok, well maybe it is just little league but she is having a lot of fun.

The "BIG Race"

What a weekend!! Savannah ran (yes ran) in her first 5k friday night at the Illinois Marathon 5k. She walked a very little bit and finished in an impressive time of 39minutes!! Most importantly she had so much fun and we had a blast watching her. Mike and Andy ran the marathon the next day and I ran the half marathon. All in all we ended up with 10 medals between the 4 of us!! Since Mike, Andy, and I ran the 5k and the big race the next day we each got an extra medal for the I-Challenge. Yes it is all about the bling. Savannah was very excited to wear her medal to school this morning and show her friends!!

Elliott's Baby

The babies are developing their own little personalities for sure. Megan has started going to the "BGP" (big girl potty), although very very irregularly. I think she mostly just likes to wash her hands after and she knows that if she at least sits there for a few minutes I will let her wash her hands. Oh well, it's a start.

Elliott has started proclaiming that he is not a big boy, he is a baby. If only he would stay so sweet an innocent (well at least when he is not bugging his sisters by running off with toys he "borrowed" from them while they were playing with it). I took this picture this morning. Megan loves playing with dolls, but she (of course) loves her hand-me-down dolls not her so cute American Girl Bitty Baby. Elliott though likes to hold "him" while he is watching tv. The doll is definitely not a boy, "she" has a pretty purple outfit on and all. Oh and "her" name is Elliott!!

The kids were so excited that Daddy had to mow the other day. This was Megan and Elliott's first ride on the tractor. How fun!!

Spring Break 2011

We had a great time with the Peterson kids over Savannah's spring break last week. Thinking over the week we packed a lot of stuff into 7 days!! We arrived late Friday night. Saturday was Mike's birthday!! Satuday night the parents went on a fantastic birthday date to the Angus Barn for the California Wine Dinner (yummo). On Sunday Mike and Andy went on a long run. They are both training for the Illinois Marathon the last day of April (I am doing the half marathon). The kids had a great time playing in the morning then we headed to Monkey Joe's ("bouncing place" as Megan calls it) in the afternoon. The big kids (Grant and Savannah) were completely wiped. The rest of the week was filled with museums (Raleigh's Natural Science Museum and Durham's Science/kids museum), shopping, eating, and playing. We had such a great time, thanks again Petersons!!

The first 3 pictures were taken on our way home from their house at the Winston-Salem Children's Museum (which was very cool). There was a great Krispy Kreme donut exhibit. The lone picture of all of the kids facing forward was taken at REI, go figure. We heart REI and there are 3 stores in Raleigh. We had to visit each one of course. The picture of Sarah and Megan was taken at the Durham museum that has an awesome outdoor dinosaur bone digging pit. The kids could have played in that pit all day. Savannah and Grant are posing outside of the goat and cow exhibit.