Dancing fun

Anytime the kids hear this commercial on TV they coming running in so they can watch it and dance around. They LOVE this song. I was able to capture a little of their fun.

Update in pictures

I came across these pictures and realized I needed to post them for the memory book.

Our Goddaughter, Kate made her 1st Holy Communion back in April. It was such a sweet  day watching her take part in such a special part of the Mass. 

Sarah warmed right up to Kate. 

Love this picture!

We took a bike ride down to the pond to feed the ducks. They LOVE feeding the "ucks" as Sarah says. 

My sweet girl!

This shopping cart makes the trip to Home Depot a little easier. 

Can't seem to get enough pictures of our sweet girl!

 The kids get SO excited when it's Donut Sunday at church. 

Summer time is here!

 I decided to do a little class, Kidokinetics, for the month of May with Sarah before the craziness of summer begins. A friend of mine and her little boy did it with us. Sarah has enjoyed it and loved having the time to run around and play.

She especially loved the parachute activities.  A little blurry but just look at that face. 

More posts to come once we get through this week. Luke's last day of school is Thursday and Jacob's is Friday. They both have their last baseball/tball games this week and Jacob started swimming lessons this week as well. Whew...almost there!

Mother's Day Part II

The Thursday before Mother's Day, Luke's school had "Muffins with Mom". The kids were so sweet and so excited to give us their little gift they made us. Our very own bracelet. His teachers said they made it all by themselves, chose the color beads, the size of beads etc. Luke was so excited and has been asking me often if I have it on! Oh dear!

My sweet boy!

Jacob was home sick with strep throat so he was able to join us for the fun. Thankfully he was not contagious at this point and felt fine! 

Two of his little friends, Brett and Corey. They are twins but you would never know it. They are different in every way!

His best buddy, Drew

On another note, Jacob brought home this sweet hand print for Mother's Day.

Along with this "All About Mom" questionnaire. I love these!

Here is what it says since the print is small:

My mom is 35 years old! (he nailed this one!)

She likes to play. (so glad he thinks this-lol)

The best thing she cooks is cookies. (oh yeah!)

Her favorite food is salad. (at least he didn't say cookies-lol)

Her favorite thing to do to relax is nap. (really?? I could only wish for a nap)

We like to make cookies together. (yes we do!!)

She is really good at carving a pumpkin. (I guess that Texas Rangers pumpkin we carved last Fall really made an impression!)

As you can see, my mom is special because she loves me. (aww, my sweet boy!)

Mother's Day Weekend

I really am SO far behind in my posts (and commenting). I'll start with Mother's Day last weekend. One of my cousins was graduating from college last weekend in Austin. We, along with many of the Eckels decided to head down for the celebration. Before the party on Saturday we had some time to spare so we headed down to the Capitol.

At one point Jacob said, "This is really nice Mom."  He seemed to be impressed with it all. While Luke and Sarah ran  around like they owned the place!

Having a snack on the lawn. 

Sarah loved seeing all the friendly squirrels.

She had no fear and neither did they. She had a blast feeding them some of her snacks. 

Boy- I think we wore them out!

After visiting the Capitol we headed to The Salt Lick BBQ restaurant where my cousin was having his graduation celebration. And for some strange reason I didn't take any pictures?? It was a fun place, huge, crowded and seems to have quite the reputation down there. The food was great and it was fun catching up with the all the family.

There was a Catholic church near our hotel so we all went to Mass Sunday morning then to Olive Garden afterwards for a Mother's Day lunch. It was fun to be all together and to celebrate Mother's Day with my Mom and sisters. I didn't manage to get a picture with my kiddos. :( Sarah was ready for a nap and I knew trying to take pictures wasn't going to go well!

Hope you all had a blessed Mother's Day!

"This Is The Stuff"

Jim heard this song on a Christian radio station yesterday and found it online so I could hear it. He said he thought of me and knew I would appreciate it. Seeing how the first two lines of the song describes my everyday...never being able to find my keys and always having to call my cell phone so I can find it. "In the middle of my little mess, I forget how big I'm blessed..." Love it!

Misc pictures

I realized I have some recent pictures that I never posted so here goes...a photo dump as several of you say! :-)

The tongue comes out when baby girl is focused!

Daddy had lots of helpers working in the yard.

During Lent, I did a jelly bean activity with the boys. Basically every color jelly bean represented  a certain characteristic.  If they showed that characteristic, they got to put a jelly bean in the jar.  For example, green was a good deed, red was a sacrifice, pink was forgiveness etc. I kept the jelly beans out so the boys could easily access them when they earned one for their jar. So, Miss Sarah decided to take it on herself to get her hands on those jelly beans. She pushed one of the bar stools over to the counter from the island. Climbed up on it and pulled the jelly bean container close to her. She then carefully chose a jelly bean, or two or three!

Caught ya!

She is one determined little girl, I tell ya!

The boys making themselves comfortable having a snack while watching TV. 

We met a little friend at the park one day. Lauren is one month older than Sarah. They were holding hands until I got ready to take the picture! 

Jacob had a very loose top tooth for several days. He was so anxious to lose it but got nervous every time we tried to pull it. It was barely hanging on but he had such fun moving it around with his tongue.  

He lost the bottom two teeth a year ago and nothing since.  The other top tooth is loose as well so I would love for him to lose that one too and have both front teeth missing at the same time! :-)

He tried to pull it himself but no such luck. He had a baseball game the next night. I told him I didn't want him to loose it at the game and risk not being able to find it. We tried and tried the next day, before the game but again no luck.   

And wouldn't you believe, he lost it at the game after all.  Thankfully he was in the dugout, took a drink and out it came. He took it over and told his coach and his coach brought it over to me. All the kids around were fascinated and Jacob was just smiling, bloody teeth and all!