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Happy Father's Day Ben! You are a wonderful father,I couldn't ask for a better dad for my children. We all love you TONS!

Reminiscing

May

May was a crazy month. I know that some of you are wondering about my pregnancy blog. I deleted it because I am no longer pregnant. At my first doctor's appointment we found that the baby had stopped growing at 6 weeks and 1 day so I had a D&C the day after the appointment. It was pretty rough for both Ben and I, but we are feeling much better. We feel that that little spirit will join us again when there is a body that is sufficient for her.

On a lighter note, a lot of great things happened too! Here are a few highlights.

Ben has been building a playhouse in the backyard that the kids are very excited about. The pic below was taken at the beginning of May, and Ben has changed the design since. I will post a newer pic soon.

 Noah had an art show at school and graduated from 1st grade!!! Where did my baby go?

 Ben and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary. Every year we get a cake from Granite Bakery the same place that did our wedding cake. YUMMY!

 Hope had her first sucker. I know that 21 months is a long time to wait for a sucker, but I have a choking phobia, so I don't care.

I refinished some picture frames for Hope's room. I still haven't put them up, but they turned out a lot better than I thought they would.
I was actually trying to get a picture of Elmo, and the kids got in the way. :)

Noah will be spending most of the summer here (YAY!!), so I am sure that I will be posting lots and lots of pictures soon.

Easter

Better late than never to blog about Easter! Noah displayed his incredible artistic side once again and made a Pikachu egg.

We had a great Easter!
Hopie got a big fluffy Easter bunny that she uses as a huge pillow.

Spring Break Wahoo!!!

Noah got to spend Spring Break with his mom this year. Grandpa Jeff was in town to start it off and we had a great time visiting. After grandpa's visit we just lazed around for the whole week and took it easy. I felt kind of bad about it, but if you were to ask Noah what he wants to do on a vacation it would be to play video games and he did plenty of that. Every now and then I told him he needed a break and to go play outside. He would for a while...




Noah is one of the top readers in his class!!! He likes to read to Hope, and since she loves books too, she is more than happy to listen.




There was lots of just chillin out, which is what we do best.

My Little Smarty Pants

This post is solely to brag on Noah.

I got Noah's report card last Friday and he has almost all 4's which is the highest possible. The lowest score he got was 3.25 in telling time and they just barely started learning that concept. I'm so proud of my little monkey.

Not only is he smart but he's super talented. He looked at the cover of his new Wii game to draw this picture. Come on....you know he's gonna be a famous artist one day! :)