My little flapper

Elena has been dressing up like crazy lately. I find her dress up dresses all over the house because she is changing them so often. She is such a girly girl.

Ice Cream at Grandmas

Went to Grandmas after church on Sunday and had dinner and ice cream. We played outside on the grass until it was time to go.

The kids found butterfly wings but no whole butterflies.

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Elena started pre-school on September 7th. She was super excited and not scared at all. She didn't even look back which is very much like her. She has been waiting to use her new princess lunchbox and she is loving every second of it.

Patrick is 5!!!

I can't believe I have a 5 year old. Its just strange. Patrick turned 5 on September 5th. I took some pictures of him the Sunday before.

The morning of his birthday I got up early and bought him some balloons and they were waiting outside his door. For breakfast I made him cinnamon roll pancakes which were really good but I probably won't make them again because there was soooo much sugar in them.

Patrick found Birthday hats in the cupboard and wanted to wear one all day.

I told him that he could do what he wanted to and he wanted to go to Grandmas house and go to her park. I let him drive the golf cart (while he sat in my lap).

There are two playgrounds at the park and each one has a age range. We never follow it but he was actually part of the 5-12 playground crowd.

I asked Patrick what he wanted for lunch and he said Jack in the Box which is weird because we haven't eaten there for a while. I'm surprised he didn't ask for iHop which seems to be his favorite restaurant right now.

When we got home Jesús was waiting at the door and told Patrick he couldn't come in until he got all his 5 year old protective gear on. He said that when you turn 5 you get hurt a lot and you need to wear knee pads and elbow pads to protect yourself. He asked if Caleb had to do this too when he turned 5.

However it was all really because we got him a scooter. He was super happy. This was the only present he got his actual birthday because he was going to have a birthday party later.

Patrick wasn't sure where he wanted to eat dinner so Jesús told him about a place where you can eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor. Still I'm surprised he didn't pick iHop.

He got sung to and got all this goofy stuff put on him. He loved it.

We stopped at Target on the way home and told him that he could pick out one present so he picked out the Optimus Prime mask and let Elena wear his spiderman mask.

I'm so happy we have this sweet boy in our lives. He has made our lives magical since he was born and I am grateful everyday that I'm his mom.

See you later Friend

I don't use the term BFF much, or at all because it makes me sound like an immature teenager however I use it now. My BFF is gone. I'm sad. They left Sunday morning for the airport to move to Florida. I went over Sunday morning for a final goodbye and to give them their house keys back. I'm glad I went and I was so good and didn't even cry, unlike their good bye party where I sobbed like a infant. Not very pretty. We promised to text everyday and so far so good. But I miss my friend and I can't wait to meet up with them when they get to Texas in a year.

Always a silly picture

I'm even going to miss those rugrats! Patrick cried in school because Roegan wasn't there with him.

BC Football

When we were younger Mom and Dad would take us to the BC football games. It was fun to sit and chat and watch the game. Well they asked if we wanted to go last Saturday and we were very excited, especially Patrick. Jesús has never been so I was excited for him to see it. We had a really good time.Checking out the competition
Elena was all over the place, I was afraid she was going to roll down the bleachers.

Elenas party

For Elena's birthday we decided we would make it super easy since we're moving. So we decided that we would go to Rosemary's for some ice cream. We had our family there and the Colas. Elena wanted to celebrate princess style so I made some princess cupcakes. I think they turned out kinda cute but I definitely want to work on learning to decorate cupcakes because it was fun.

Of course we all enjoyed the ice cream. Like mother like daughter!

Elena and a mouth full of sundae with Reese

Probably the only 5 seconds that the boys were sitting down long enough to take a picture

Elena got her very own dollhouse

Grandma and Grandpa with the birthday girl

One thing I didn't consider was whether or not Rosemary's would let us bring in the cupcakes and of course they didn't. But they did let me put them in the freezer until we left. After we finished unwrapping presents we went outside to let Elena blow out the candles and sing to her.