Fawn and Memorial Day

I love this time of year!!! Spring time means fawn's being born. It is a favorite time to drive around and see who can spot a fawn. They are the cutest little thing. Last year we had twin fawns that hung out near our garden. This year we had a fawn born near our house. There is an empty lot, house then our house. So as we were walking down the street we found the little fawn sleeping in the empty lot. Isn't he precious just laying there all curled up sleeping?
Here the fawn is running from our cat. We let him out some times hoping he will run away but always comes home.

Caroline, Elizabeth, and Eli all dressed up in their matching red, white, and blue outfits for Memorial Day. FYI: Caroline did not wear the pink undershirt to church today... that was just for the picture:)

So difficult to get all kids to look at the camera with smiles on their faces.... and awake! Eli is sitting up (propped against the couch cushions) ASLEEP!

Preschool Graduation

Well it is official, Caroline is done with preschool and starts Kindergarten in August. The whole family came for the occasion. Eli and Elizabeth slept through the event.
Everyone worked hard to prepare for the event. They sang two songs: Holy Holy Holy and Do Lord.

Then they said the Lord's Prayer. Some with eyes closed some with them open. By the way, Caroline is visible on the back row.

The walk to get her diploma:

The kindergarten march.

Three Friends: Addi, Noah, and Caroline.

Forgotten Picture-First Dress-up

First time to play dress up together! Caroline in her "new" dress-up dress and sharing her Cinderella dress with Elizabeth. I thought this picture was in the last post but did not find it... so here it is.

Finally New Pictures

Ok, so we went swimming, by we I really mean Caroline actually got in the pool. Greg, Eli, Elizabeth and I all put our feed in the water. So here is Elizabeth's first bathing suit! Caroline's last soccer game. Look she kicked the ball!!
Coach told her to defend the goal, she obeyed and no balls got close to her.
This picture is pretty self explanatory.

Three getting ready for that swim time at Granna and Papa's pool. The first picture goes along with these, just put it in the wrong place and am currently too lazy (or tired) to move it. I figured since I am actually putting new pictures on here you wont complain.

Look Eli is smiling... isn't that precious!

Summer has arrived here in Texas. Caroline has been asking for us to get her pool out of the attic. We finally did, and she has been enjoying playing in it since.

Recovery

Well Greg's surgery went well (as far as we know). They did find out he has a tear in his bicep muscle but the doc did not fix it because it was a longer surgery requiring more time in a sling and he did not feel like he could make that decision without talking to us first since Greg had not complained of it hurting.

Greg was a bit concerned before surgery because three different people at the hospital told him this surgery is more painful than most laproscopic surgeries. We have been able to stay ahead of the pain by giving him pain meds every 4 hrs. The bad thing is the meds make it hard to keep his eyes open, but not tired enough to sleep. He has this cool ice pack that you keep ice cold water in a cooler looking thing then hook it up to the pack on his shoulder and it has continuous cold water running over his shoulder (it is the blue tubing in the picture). The bad thing is it runs on electricity and Greg cant figure out how to rig it so he can use it while mowing the grass.

Thank you all for your prayers. Greg is doing great thus far! We did not have any kids at the house last night so it will be interesting to see how Greg helps me feed kiddos tonight. I will be doing lots of burping and changing of diapers but he should be able to lay one in his lap and feed.

Sweetness

The plaid kids! This is some sweet loving. Big sister loves holding Eli and Elizabeth. It is hard to get all three to look "good" in a photo though.
Eli with eyes open and almost a smile! Not many photos like this!

Matching outfits! Eli primping in his sleep, Elizabeth dreaming about being a singer.

I took LOTS of pictures, but they would not open their eyes so I kept taking them... Elizabeth is now wondering if I am done since her eyes are open.