Hello Spring!

Spring is here! The weather this past week has been beautiful! Our gift for surviving another cold winter. :-)

A couple weeks ago was the highlight of 3rd grade..... The Invention Convention!  The students have to use one or more of the 5 simple machines from the approved list. Porter used a pulley to make a "Pet Piñata."  

He also had his music concert that was for the 4th and 3rd graders. The theme was "On the Day You Were Born", which I found out at the concert is a children's book. Who knew?! All the children were asked to bring a photo of them on the day they were born, so that was the backdrop. Very cute. Thanks to Nana and Papa coming up to see Porter stand still and not sing! LOL Music concerts are definitely not his jam! He's in the front row wearing a gray polo. 

A couple weekends ago found us having dinner with our priest, Fr. Ray. It was so much fun. We bought this through the school auction. There were 10 couples and we ended up renting a party bus to pick each couple up at their house and then Fr. Ray at the church. Pretty sure this was the first time he'd been picked up at church by a party bus! Haha! He's an amazing man and was such a good sport all evening. Even had a couple swigs of the communal Fireball bottle that we were passing around on the bus on our way home. 

Didn't feel the best the next morning! 

The ladies with Fr. Ray. 

Some of the guys. I didn't take a single pic. These are just from a friend to sent out via text. I know someone took some party bus pics, wish I had those. 

Tired and cute kitty!

Porter is trying soccer out for the first time this spring. He's really enjoying it! Wish he would of joined this team a few years ago. No baseball for him this spring. 

He got his first try at goalie last weekend. So fun!

I swear each year there is always a "big" project. This year would be our landscaping. We are taking up all the rock and replacing with mulch. Putting down new stone boarders and moving lots of plants, small shrubs around. We started last weekend and have the rock all removed. Mike is selling it on Craig's List, so we've been piling next to the house where the grass is dead from all the lumber sitting there from our deck project last year! This is a small pile. It's been a lot of work! But hope it will be worth it in the end. 

Our good friends got a puppy last weekend! We had to go visit a couple days later. Soooooo cute! We all now have puppy fever, except for Rex. Ha!

Stella is doing track this year. She only has 4 meets and 2 of them are over. She tried the discus for the first time at her 2nd meet. She'd only practiced one time prior to the meet, but did ok. You can see her throwing the black disc in the photo. 

Here she is giving it her all in the 200M. She's choosing to do sprint races vs. long distance. 

A Starbucks stop before our early morning Menards trip today. I found 2 SB gift cards in my junk drawer when I cleaned it out a few days ago! Her cousin, Grace, has her loving SB. But Stella gets it maybe every 3/4 months. 

And to end on a high note! This would be Mike vacuuming our yard! Yes, you read the right. With the overhaul of landscaping we had 3 trees removed on Fri. They ground down all the stumps so were were left with a ton of tree bits. We hauled wheelbarrow load after wheelbarrow load away and then vacuumed up the remainder to not kill the grass. Such a pain and lots of work, but luckily the weather was wonderful this weekend.