School activities

The kids had their first music performance at the school. My parents, Kevin's parents, Grammy and Karen, Paul & Allie came! They sang about 6 songs, then headed off the stage. Luckily the kids were lined up right next to each other so I was able to get pictures of them all together.

I was lucky enough to take off work and surprise the kids on their last field trip of the year. I put them on the bus in the morning, told them to have fun on their field trip and I would see them after school! Since my niece just got back home from College a few days before and we haven't seen her since Christmas, I thought it would be nice for her to surprise the kids with me.  So she met me at Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton and we surprised the kids. The first thing that they said to me was that I lied and said I was going to work! Well it wouldn't have been a surprise if I told them, so yes I did lie!  Their teachers were so amazing. Caitlyn's teacher let her come with me and the other two classes so we all could be together. We had a great time walking around the nature park, eating lunch and playing on the playground. We got to see some snakes (the instructors showed them to us before we took our walks) an owl, hawk and other neat animals.

I originally wasn't going to be able to make it to the kids field day because our field day at my school was scheduled for the same day. Since our kids were still SOL testing, our field day got pushed back a week, which meant I could come to the kids field day! They had all different activities set up outside and inside! The first stations were sno cones, water activities and bounce houses. After about an hour and half, we moved over to the next station, which was carnival games. Once our hour and half was up, it was lunch time. We all went into Ashton's room and ate lunch together. After lunch, we did the inside activities. They had a dance party, photo booth, movie theater and snack area. They had so much fun!

UVA & ODU Baseball Game

We took the kids out of school early to go to the UVA @ ODU baseball game at Harbor Park. It was suppose to be a night game, but since the Tides had a game at home that night, they had to change it to a noon game. I knew the kids would love to miss school to go to the game since their 2 favorite players that play for ODU were seniors and they wouldn't get to see them play much after they graduated. Before the game the kids got their pictures taken with them. Of course we sat right behind the ODU dugout. Kevin and I were wearing our UVA shirts and the kids were in their ODU shirts. UVA ended up winning the game.

Connor Myers and the kids before the game

Nick Lustrino and the kids before the game

Brittany wanted her picture with her favorite player getting ready to bat

Connor and Nick with kids after the game

UVA team bus

Kids and new member to the family!

Last month we got a new member to the family! We got a Miniature Schnauzer! We got her when she was 7 weeks old and is now 14 weeks old! The kids love her!! I can't believe in a few months the kids will be 6! Where as at the time gone?! Brittany just lost her 2nd tooth, Caitlyn has lost 1 tooth and Ashton doesn't even have a loose tooth yet! They are almost done with Kindergarten and going to be 1st graders soon. We took the kids to see Beauty and the Beast at the Ferguson Center with Karen and Paul. The kids loved it!! A few weeks ago, we went to our first home ODU game when they played VA Tech. It was FREEZING out!! Connor came up and talked to the kids before the game. The kids were excited about that!! Brittany got excited when Nick said hi to her before the game started too. Connor and Nick are the kids favorite players for ODU. They became their favorite players last year when they played for the Peninsula Pilots. They would always give high fives to the kids after the games or take a picture with them and it meant a lot to the kids and us. We are starting Machine Pitch baseball this season! I'm not sure how the kids are going to do with it, but Kevin has been working with them before pitching to them instead of using the tee. Season starts in April! Not too much else has been going on with the kids lately. Stay tuned for Baseball pictures next month!

Watching ODU warm up before the game

Christmas

We had a great Christmas!! We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas with family and that's all that we could ask for! Spent Christmas morning at my parents house, then had Christmas lunch/dinner at Kevin's parents house and ended it at our house to see the presents that Santa left for the kids. It was a nonstop day, but we all had a good time. 

Grandma and Grandpa with their Grandchildren

Cousins

Halloween

The kids had their last tee-ball game on Halloween. After tee-ball, we spent the weekend at the campground. The campground was almost full so there was tons of campers there to pass out candy. I took the kids around the campground, while Kevin took part of his cousin's Haunted Walk through at their campsite. After trick or treating was over, the campground had a lighted golf cart parade, which we entered. After the parade was over, they did awards. We won 3rd place! When we went on the parade, we saw a haunted walk through that we wanted to go to. Ashton said he wanted to go to, but the girls didn't. So the girls stayed back with Kevin's parents and we took Ashton to it. He did pretty good until the very end. The last guy scared him. I was very proud of him!