Isaiah's Preschool Graduation

Isaiah "graduates" from preschool!

Mom & Isaiah at graduation

Simeon, Isaiah & Elias at graduation

See below to see a TERRIFIC version of "To God be the Glory!"

Summer is almost officially here...well, for Isaiah, it is here. He's thrilled.

I'll be posting as much as I can:)

Baseball Begins

It's hard to believe that ALL of our kids are in baseball this year! Above, you'll see Kyler (our nephew) followed by Elias & then Isaiah. They all play on the same t-ball team. I'll post pics of Simeon soon.

Isaiah's Black Eye, 2009

Well, he did it again! For those of you who remember, 2 years ago, Isaiah got his first black eye. It was quite traumatic...an ER visit, CT scan, many eye dr. visits, etc. But, it was determined that it was just a soft tissue trauma & he would recover...eventually. Well, he did...took about a month to fully heal & looked NASTY in the meantime, but he did heal. And, I guess he just hasn't had enough injuries lately because, while at Grandma & Papa's last weekend, he decided he needed another BIG black eye. Therefore, he slammed his eye against his brother's head. Well, I guess it didn't really happen that way, more like this...3 boys, jumping on the trampoline, one right next to the other & heads crash. Anyway, the first picture is of him on the way home & the 2nd is the next day and the 3rd is that same day (the "next day"). He was a bit embarrassed by the "huge, big, ugly eye" (as he called it), so he wore a pirate patch to school to cover it. This was the only way Mom could convince him to go to school;). Whatever it takes!!!

Spring Break 2009

After getting the boys up at 4 am to drive to Louisiana, a treat to keep the peace was in order. At only 9:26, I gave them all a "whistle-sucker." It worked!

Isaiah ate his quickly, but liked it!

Our Spring Break trip started at 4 am on Monday, March 23. The boys got into the van and, instead of sleeping more (as Mom thought they would), they watched some movies. They started getting a bit restless, so I gave them suckers which they quickly disposed of. The trip down wasn't my favorite time...14 hours with multiple fights, but we made it!

Beignets and Breakfast

Simeon tries his first beignet...and likes it!

Elias tries a beignet, too...he likes it, but doesn't like that the sugar flies in the back of his throat when he breathes!

Isaiah has a beignet in there...just can't see it!

Isaiah & Sammie pose with the gator in the coffeehouse!

All the kids with the gator in the coffeehouse...Chance, you'd better get your hand out of his mouth!

We ate breakfast at the coffeehouse in Gonzales, LA. It's a 150-year-old house that's been converted to a restaurant. We love it there!

We got the kids to pose for a little picture before going to see the gators.

Here we go...let's see the gators!

Looking at the alligators...there were 2 of them.

This gator, the smaller of the 2, swam over to us to see if we had anything to feed it.

After eating breakfast, we went out back to look at the alligators. They were resting across the swamp from us until they smelled us. The small one swam over to see us...it looked kind of scary as it swam! Once it got there, the kids were shaking the chain link fence - until Bridget told them to stop! The gator, if hungry & thinking you're food, will not stop at a little fence.

All of the kids...Chance, Simeon, Elias, Isaiah & Sammie outside Mike the Tiger's habitat, posing with the tiger statue.

Simeon poses by himself.

Elias poses with the statue, too...he decided to "pick the tiger's nose."

Isaiah gets to pose, too.

We went to LSU to see Mike the Tiger. It was raining, but we wouldn't be distracted...we HAD to see Mike!!!