A Moment In Time: May

These first four shots are from Eli's trip to Vanderbilt Children's for his surgeries. Everything went great! And I was so proud of him...and Nathan for not crying! :)

Crazy Zachary

These are from field day Kindergarten -- Nathan suprised Zachary by showing up since I was at home with a sick kid on that day.

Feeding these three already costs a fortune! :)

This one is happy to eat for free! :)

Class of 2023 Graduates Kindergarten

On May 31st, our little buddy graduated from Kindergarten. Wow. I can't believe my beautiful little boy will be starting first grade this fall....this is all moving so fast! We are so proud of Zachary and the young man that he is becoming. The night was wonderful and was full of smiles, laughter and yes, some tears. Some people may think that a graduation from kindergarten is dumb or goofy....but for me, it is a memory that I will cherish forever and never forget.

Zachary and his WONDERFUL teacher Mrs. Erica

If you know Zachary at all, you know that he loves to be center of attention....but around people he knows very well. When it comes to being on "stage" in front of a crowd, he hates it. In fact, the last three times that he has had to perform in front of an audience, he has thrown up the night before. Well, graduation wasn't any different. Around 2am, he starting throwing up and I was worried that he was getting a virus. But the first thing he said when I got him cleaned up was, "Well I guess I don't have to go to graduation tonight." Little stinker, needless to say that he made it through and did fine. However, his face in these next pictures tell all about how much he was nervous!!

"K is for kindergarten. Hip hip hooray!!"

That was the only line he had to say, and he practiced it over and over and OVER again to make sure that he would get it right!!

When Zachary went through the line to get his diploma -- it was hilarious. I've never seen a kid walk that fast before in my life! He wanted so bad to get his time to shine over with and quickly! So this is the first picture I got...

And this was the next one....he flew through that line! :)

Oh stink...I just realized that this one showed up sideways.... oh well. He won the math award in his class and was so proud of himself!

Ah...this one is sideways too...shucks. Sorry.

Memorial Day at Aunt Kay's

Once we got back from NC, we didn't even get to go home first. We headed straight over to Aunt Kay's house for her annual Memorial Day cookout with the Hudson family. We feel so blessed by Doris' side of the family and are so thankful for them. Our kids don't realize how lucky they are to have such wonderful people around to act as extra grandparents. Even Eli has recently been referring to Aunt Kay as "Ganny Kay" -- we love them all so much!

North Carolina: Candid Shots

And here are some various pics from the trip. We had such a good time and I really wish that I would've gotten more pictures with all the family visits that went on. I promise that I will get better -- it is just that with three boys that need constant supervision, I feel like I look up one moment and think to get the camera, and the next moment it's over. Nathan likes to say that we are in "survival mode" right now. :) We wouldn't have it any other way though!

Zachary and Eli got to share a bed this year. Take a close look at the pictures below...this first one is how we put them to bed.

And this is how we found them the next morning! They even switched their pillows!!

Zachary and Petey

Eli and Gatti

Zachary and his cousin Ali

Tyler did great on the car ride there...but coming home was a different story. I think these next two pics explain it for me.

All in all it was a great mini-trip and we are looking forward to going again soon!