One Thing - 5/12/14

Our Mother's Day yesterday was sweet...

Lydia and I hung out during Sunday School

During nursery, the kids made Mother's Day cards. I just LOVE how Silas wrote out my name "jooili."

After church, we picked up some lunch to enjoy at home.

Everyone surprised me with a thoughtful gift...

A Dutch oven! I have been wanting one for quite some time. Now to try out some new recipes!

All of us rested/napped in the afternoon. Then, we went to another graduation party that was held at a church about a block and a half away so we were able to walk. We enjoyed visiting with people there until the thunder started rolling. With the threat of severe storms, we decided we had better make our way home. Not too long after we got home we needed to move to the basement. Thankfully, even though the sirens went off and we were in tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings, all we got was very heavy rain. And, we got about an hour and a half of quality family time playing together!

I am so thankful for our family and the time we have to spend together whether or not it is Mother's Day. But, the extra hugs and the extra "I love yous" sure were sweet!

One Thing - 5/11/14

I'm so thankful for these 3 who have made me a mom and am anxiously awaiting #4 to join us soon!

One Thing - 5/10/14

We celebrated the high school graduation of one of our church's high school seniors this afternoon. Evann and her family are some of our kids' favorite people. Evann is so sweet to our kids at church and babysits for us occasionally. Also, when I play piano for our worship service every other month, Lydia (and sometimes the boys) sits with her family. We are going to miss her in the fall when she goes off to college! 

Even if Evann didn't let Lydia play with her phone, I know Lydia would still love to hang out with her. But, playing with her phone is definitely an added bonus! :)

One Thing - 5/8/14

After dropping Jonah off at an activity, I took Silas and Lydia to Runza for some ice cream. Yum!

(And Sy's cold really needs to go away. The soreness under his nose has him looking a little like an infamous dictator!)

One Thing - 5/7/14

As of this morning, we have a preschool graduate in our family!

Silas looks awfully proud of his big brother 

 Jonah got the math award for writing his numbers up to 107. And, he got the alphabet award for writing all of his uppercase and lowercase letters. 

One Thing - 5/6/14

Yesterday, we received a bound book of pages that Jonah had made throughout the year practicing all of the letters of the alphabet, numbers 1-10, and colors. For each one, he practiced writing the letter or number and then drew a picture of something that began with that letter or that matches that number. These were a few of my favorites:

One Thing - 5/5/14

,'Today, I had the privilege of being a driver/chaperone for Jonah's last preschool field trip. We visited the Lincoln Children's Zoo. It was a beautiful morning to be out! I loved having some time with him and his classmates. (And, I figured that at 37 weeks pregnant spending the morning chasing a few 5 year old boys around a zoo might do some good!).

Jonah participating in the penguin show by counting how many fish his penguin Lima Bean ate.

Riding the train at the end of our day

This evening, our whole family got to spend some time together outdoors as we went on a walk/bike ride. I'm hoping we can get lots of these walks in throughout the next couple of weeks. We're anxious to meet our baby brother!

Another lovely bouquet of dandelions

Lydia LOVES to be outside!