Porter's 1st Communion and a bit more

Last Sunday we celebrated Porter's 1st Communion! He was SO excited!! We were blessed with wonderful weather and being able to celebrate this big milestone with our families. 

With the banner he made, right at his level!

Stella and Porter both had the same 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Berrie. We looooove Mrs. Berrie! Love this pic of the 3 of them!

With our priests, Fr. Dolan and Fr. Ray. 

Porter didn't want to take any pics with friends afterwards. All he was focused on was getting home and changing into play clothes. At least I got one pic of him with one of his besties, Tommy. 

With Nana and Papa. I feel so bad I didn't get a pic of him with Steve and Linda. They were a bit late getting to our house and by that point P had been changed for a while and I was so busy in the kitchen it didn't even cross my mind. We will have to create a reenactment!! 

We also had his family birthday party at the same time. He got a set of golf clubs from Grandma and Grandpa. 

He looooved the $20 he received!!

The next day, Monday, Porter's class had a field trip planned at the Iowa Hall of Pride. It was really fun! Here he's the umpire and calling the pitches strikes or balls. 

Being goofy with his friends. 

Tuesday was their 3rd baseball game....still hoping to win one!

Wednesday was Stella's field trip to Hy-Vee Hall. I had zero clue what this field trip was all about, but let's just say it was loud, very very very loud. But lots of fun. 7,000 5th and 4th graders from all over Iowa. I ran into the MACHS group! 

Stella and Berlin

Stella and Ally

They set the world record for the most people doing jumping jacks in one place for 2 minutes!

Backing up a bit, the Monday after Easter we didn't have school so we headed to the mall with my buy one, get one free coupon for their favorite, Auntie Ann pretzels. 

Then to a movie. I wanted to see the Disney movie Monkey Kingdom that was out for Earth Day. The begged and pleaded for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You can see how popular this movie choice was....

(and yes, it was really that bad!)

Our good friend Jeff turned 50 on Thursday. We went out for dinner with 3 other families to celebrate. We were all laughing as it was time to leave, the kids behaved sooo good, but at the end one got ahold of an iPhone and ALL the kids were gathered around it. LOL!

Porter had his 2nd grade biography fair on Friday, he was George Washington and loved every minute of it.  

This morning was his Boy Scouts troop turn to pick up trash along a road in WDM. He was very proud that he picked up 39 cigarette butts! LOL! But the big excitement was the Gardner snake they found!

Both kids have friends spending the night tonight. Stella and Ella before mass. They wanted to wear cat shirts and black leggings. LOL! Ella's 1st time going to a Catholic mass! She was pretty confused!