Dakota's graduation

We attended Dakota's preschool graduation this morning. He looked so handsome! The class sang songs that they had learned throughout the year, they recited the pledge of allegiance, and then received their certificates. It was wonderful. Next up....Kindergarden!
Our little family. Rory took issue with standing in wet grass.

Rory, running around.

Told you he looked handsome.

Dakota getting his certificate from miss Linda, the preschool director.

Test

This is a test video to make sure it all works before Dakota's graduation day. Dakota is just 2 1/2 in this video, enjoy.

Memorial weekend fun

I love it when we get long weekends. Or rather when Fuad gets a long weekend. We did nothing but relax and play all weekend.Saturday we just played outside all day, Sunday we had some friends over for hot dogs and hamburgers, and the kids all got to play. Dakota and his friend Kayla get along SO well. They never seem to argue or anything. And Rebecca and their youngest son, Kyle are only about a month and 1/2 apart. So I am sure they will be friends also. Then today we just played board games and watched movies. just a fun family weekend. Like I said, I LOVE IT!
Dakota was pretending to be Santa on the rooftop. he is so cute!

Rory and Dakota, with Rory blowing kisses!

My sweet little girl!

Rory giving Rebecca a kiss, he is so gentle with her. (most of the time.)

Now it's Dakota's turn. He felt left out on the love fest!

memo boards...

I have decided to make memo boards for each of the kids. That way there is a place for pictures, drawings, etc. This is the memo board I made for Rebecca's room. It was my first time doing this, but I think it came out ok. For a kids room anyway. 1 down and 2 to go!

cookie pizza

Dakota is the leader in school tomorrow, and since about February he has been asking me to make cookie pizza. Well I finally told him we would do it, now that I have Rebecca on some sort of routine. We had fun and it turned out really cute!
The "cookie" made up of shortening, grated orange peel, sugar, egg and Bisquick mix.

The cookie with icing and gumdrops on.

Dakota with finished cookie pizza.

Rory in his underoos! we are still potty training, but he is coming along with it!

Another round

For those of you who have had the pleasure of meeting our sweet Dakota, you also know how he does not let ANYTHING go. So when he realized that Rory and I picked strawberries he began the process of wearing us down until he got a turn also. Didn't take long because we were right back out there filling up another box! I agreed because I got to get better pictures, and because I want to freeze some more. So here are more pictures of us at the strawberry field. Enjoy, I know we did.
A close up of the strawberries.

Rory was on box carrying detail while Dakota picked the best strawberries. What a team!

Rory got some strawberry juice on his fingers, along with dirt. He couldn't decide weather or not to lick it off...

Fuad giving Rebecca a taste. Don't worry, she didn't eat it.

Dakota with our "almost full" box.

Rory, me, Rebecca, and Dakota in the strawberry field

Dakota and Rory, eating. Go figure!

A pet parade with strawberries on top!

What a busy day we had. Today Dakota's class had their pet parade. Now I know you are probably wondering why Dakota brought a stuffed snake, when we actually do have a cat. Well, I was mainly afraid that Belle would be scared senseless with all the other animals like hamsters and other cats...not to mention dogs. So we opted to bring a stuffed pet. Much safer. Dakota was amazed at how many of his friends also have pets. Real pets I mean. He said everyone can have stuffed animals, but not everybody has REAL pets! He is too funny. Then once it was over Rory, Rebecca and I went to the local strawberry field and picked strawberries. Rory was SO into it! he carried the box the entire time and would set it down, pick a few strawberries, and then continue on. Good thing too,because Rebecca was not thrilled at the idea at first. But I eventually got her to settle. It was a really fun morning. But upon reflection I will definitely need some extra hands in future.
Dakota and his snake saying "hello!"

Rebecca geared up for picking strawberries.

Rory enjoying the fruits of his labor

Wow, that is 1 really happy little boy!

Dakota eating some of the strawberries with lunch.

Holy Cow!

So my mom sent this picture of me when i was 5 months old..... Rebecca is totally a mini me! Just wanted to share.

Darla @ 5 months....

Rebecca last week!

Muffins 4 Mom

Dakota's class had muffins for mom today. The class made blueberry and cinnamon muffins and they were excellent! They also made a card, and little picture hangers complete witht a sweet picture. Dakota seemed so proud to present me with a gift he made himself! And he really enjoyed sharing muffins with me. Happy Mother's Day!

2 months old

I got together with a friend of mine earlier this week for her to take some pictures of Rebecca and they turned out amazing!!! These are of course just a few of them.... I don't have the room to put them all up because Rebecca did so well. she didn't fuss once. Great job once again Mindy! =)

Diamonds are a girls best friend!

I did it.... I took Rebecca to get her ears pierced! She was such a great sport about it, she only cried for like 5 min. Good thing she won't remember any of it. I know I should have waited, but alot of friends kept telling me that when you wait till they are older that their more likely to play with them. So I got Rebecca her first set of diamonds. She looks SO stinkin' cute!

Springfest

Today we went to the annual springfest. It was lots of fun for the kids! We got to climb around the fire truck, the kids played on almost all the inflatables, Dakota got to do moon bounce which he always loves, and of course they were happy to play on the park playground. I am not sure why but my 2 boys, along with 90% of the other kids went for the playground first... which they can play on all the time! Silly kids. Still there was music so they got to dance and eat ice cream in the middle of the day at a festival! And that's always a recipe for a good time!

Fuad, dakota and rory in front of the fire truck. Notice the boys are both in their fire truck shirts. Dakota said they had to wear them since we were going to be on a fire engine!

The boys sharing their oreo ice cream!

Rory was watching this older man play the drums and trying to keep the rhythm... he did pretty well.

Dakota Jumping on the moon bounce. This is his 3rd or 4th time. He loves doing flips on them.