March 2010 ~ Part 2

Ok, so a continuation for March....PART 2!!

So while my family was in, we did a lot of different fun activities, and it was SO great to see them. I'm SO lucky to have a family that will make such a trech to come and visit! I loved every minute of it, and hope it can happen again soon!!!

Another event that happened in late March was our neighborhood's Easter Egg Eggstravaganza, so here are a few pics from that event. It was a lot of fun for the girls. They each had there own egg hunt, since it was separated by ages. They also got their faces painted, well Kate and Hailey did, Brooke wanted NO part of that! ha. Kate also did a sack race, which was fun, I think she ended up doing it like 4 times! There was also a #'s game, and Hailey ended up winning that one. So all things considered, it was a GREAT day of fun!!! :)
Another GREAT event that happened this March, was that our 4 1/2 year old, Hailey, learned to ride her bike without training wheels!! This was a big event, and we are SO proud of her!!! We were planning on buying her differnet training wheels, since the ones on her bike where totally worn out, but when I went to pick up the bike (I bought on Craigslist) we discovered it was Brooke's size, and the training wheels where way to small! So that meant, the training wheels just had to come off, and they did!

Well, I think that sums up our March for the most part! I hope you are all enjoying these blogs, its a great way to look and see what's going on with the Asimus 5! :) Enjoy, and Happy April!! :)

March 2010 ~ Part 1

Ok, so I said I was going to do a blog once a month, or at least try to keep up with it. So here we go, here's March's official blog! :) Enjoy!

March was another busy month for the Asimus 5. Kate had her spring break, and we were lucky enough to have my mom, and my sister, and my 6 nieces and nephews come join us for the week! :) It was also Kate's Birthday this month! On the 13th she turned 7 :) Here's a pic of me and my sweet 'baby' on her special day!

We had lots of fun and did lots of different activities. Our 'main' event was Kate's 7th Birthday!! :) Kate had an awesome birthday. The actual day of her birthday, the 13th, Chris and I had a parenting conference we went to at our church, that was amazing, and taught us so much about good parenting! So after the conference, we all went to Cici's Pizza, which was Kate's choice for dinner! Here is a pic at the restaurant, then we went to church, it was a great day. The next day, she had her party at our house, with 30 kids. We rented a Pink Princess Castle jump house, and had a pinata, and had a wonderful time with presents, cake, ice-cream, and lots of fun! :) She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake theme this year, so we went all out for her. My friend, April, makes cakes, and so she did Kate's cake for us!! It was amazing!! We loved it, and it tasted perfect!! :) :) :) Here are a few good pics from her birthday: Here is a picture of Uncle Chris and Rebekah / "Becca"Me with Samuel / "Sammy" in the bounce houseChris with Brooke in the bounce houseAfter the party was over, our week of adventure was just beginning! One of the days w+e took all the kids to a fun place called Going Bonkers!

Another day and we all went to the Ft. Worth Zoo. We went on Wednesday, which was not only Spring Break, but it was also half price day, and all I can say is the news helicopters were out, b/c it was SO busy!! Luckily, my mom had a great idea that day, and we put all the kids in their RED t.shirts for 'grand-kids' camp. We had lots of fun!! :) It happend to be March 17th, so it was St. Patricks day too...haha. So here we are are at the zoo having our St. Patrick's Day Picnic Lunch. Then we walked the whole zoo, including me standing in line at one point with 5 of the kids to touch a sting-ray. That was fun, and interesting. Then we passed all the 'main' animals, the rino's, giraffe's, the hippos, and even the elephants, which is when Chris got to join us for the day. After that, we ended the zoo adventure with the birds. Brooke LOVES birds!! So she, as well as all the kids, really enjoyed walking through the bird arena, and feeding them, while the birds landed on their sticks. It was so much fun, and the weather was perfect. So other than the mile walk to and from our cars, it was great! We did have 2 strollers however, and one large wagon, yes we were a parade in ourselves. Haha! Here's some of the 'zoo' pics. Chris with Brooke, Kate, Naomi, Becca, and Hailey, looking at Mr. Elephant.Here is a pic of all 9 of them, with our Red t.shirts, and our green leighs for St. Patty's day ;)
Here is another pic we took of all 9 of them in age order. From Left to Right: Josiah-7, Kate-7, Joshua-6, Naomi-5, Hailey-4, Nathaniel-4, Rebekah-2, Brooke-2, and Samuel-1. Again, in age order on the stairs. What a fun bunch of kids!! Love them all!! :)Well, I got through about half of the pics I have to post for the month, so look back for March update part 2!....coming soon! ;)