Good morning!

I looked out the window this morning and discovered I had a new friend.

I planted this daylily a few weeks ago. I'm so happy it likes me!

First Field Trip

Jackson went on his first ever school field trip today. Jackson and 6 of his classmates, his teacher, teacher's helper, and a few moms all made our way to Tyler to hit up the zoo. We weren't the only ones who had this idea. The zoo was swimming with school groups today. Crazy!!! It was fun though and the kiddos loved seeing the animals. Here's a look out our zoo trip.

He's checking out the HUGE goldfish that live in the pond. They're ginormous.

Jackson and his buddy, Kai

Don't you love the mid blink look?

She made matching shirts for all of them.

Get ready for summer!

Our playgroup met at the spray park today and we all welcomed in the warm weather together. Take a look at how much fun the kids had.

Such a fun time and the kids were exhausted when we left. Bonus!!

Baking with Oma

Jackson is quite the cookie maker.

He was so excited to help Oma make sugar cookies.

He helped add the ingredients.

He helped mix it all together.

He helped with the cookie cutters and the decorations.

And he helped eat them.

They really were very good.

Great job, Jackson!!

***By the way, this is my 300th post.

Wow!

Thanks for sticking with me through all of them.

Here's to the next 300.

Oma's Garden

The kids and I spent last week with my parents, who are Oma and Opa to my kids. My mom is a fantastic gardener. I can see her glowing green thumb from my house and I live 5 hours away. Here's a look at her abundant garden.

Pretty, huh?

Memories in pictures.

Well, Fletcher is on his way back home but we have some fun memories from the last couple of days. Take a look at all of the things these little Newmans did side by side.

Fletcher was in heaven with all of the "new" toys to play with. I think he kept a Batman with him at all times.

Caroline kept a close eye on them.

They fought crime in the backyard for a while.

They went a few rounds in the living room.

We topped off the weekend with a trip to the park and pizza.

And here are my 2 favorites from the weekend.

This was an accident. They were running toward me and I snapped a little too late, but when I got it into the computer I found that I loved it. I love that you really only see their capes.

These boys love capes.

Here Fletcher was working so diligently with his stick under the tree. I heard him at one point say something about a "home for ants". Whatever he was doing, he looked very cute doing it.

Fletcher, we so enjoyed having you at our house. We hope you come back soon. I promise we'll plan more fun things and you can play with Batman as much as you want.