preschool graduation

Maelie had her preschool graduation last week. It was so fun to go to. The kids sang some of the songs they learned in preschool and put on a program in which they all took part. Maelie's part "In March we learned about money. Now we will sing our money song." and "I will seek wise people". we practiced her lines a ton, but in the excitement of it all, she forgot them. Oh well, she was cute. Saying her part

Getting capped!

We're proud of our little graduate. she's excited to begin Kindergarten in the Fall.

Maelie and her preschool teacher, Miss Jamie

Maelie with a couple of her classmates.

Garrett's Birthday!

From this hospital picture (6lbs. 3oz)...

...to this...

...to this...

Our little man is now three! Out of all the things he could have chosen for his birthday dinner, he chose pancakes. I even told him he could have pizza, but he wouldn't budge. Oh well, it was easy prep. When he told me he wanted a train cake I was thrilled. My sister did a train cake for Maelie when she turned two so I knew how to make one! I'm not good at fancy cakes so this was perfect. And he loved it. He was king for the day and he knew it. He acted the part well.

He blew out all the candles on the first try!

A baseball bat!!!!!

He had a great birthday. We love celebrating birthdays!

Trip to Hamburg, PA???

Going to Hamburg may not seem like much of a trip, but we loved it. We were able to spend the day as a family driving and talking and playing! We just left for the day, but it was very relaxing and stress free. We had to get our tent replaced so we found the nearest Cabela's (in Hamburg) and took off. The kids loved seeing all the animals and the "real fish"!!! They really thought the fish were cool.

Our tent is fixed and we are ready for summer camping!

We saw this cool mural while we were driving and had to get a picture. It's on the side of a building. and then we saw our name!!!

when it rains it pours

I haven't posted in about a month so now there are 5 new posts! I tell you, when it rains it pours.

White Coat Ceremony

Yesterday DJ had his White Coat Ceremony. It's kind of like a graduation from the academics and a rite of passage into the clinic. He is now a student dentist and can work on patients! It was a nice event.
All the students recited the dentist pledge

WAY TO GO DJ!!!

Sporting his white coat.

A group of some of the LDS students in his year.

The last two years are complete and now we get to look forward to the next two here in Philadelphia.

After the program, so of us were able to celebrate at Hibachi Grill. This is the view from our table.

At Hibachi Grill.

And, of course, our chef. He was such a fun chef and amazing too! He did so many tricks and kept us laughing.

It was a really fun day. Thanks to DJ for all his hard work in school and thanks to those who babysat for us for this special day!

Picnic at the park

We went to a dinner picnic at the park to celebrate those who we've gotten to know and who are moving away this summer. I think there are 10 families from our ward moving out between the months of May and August. It was a ton of fun to visit with everyone. For all those leaving, you will be missed!

Some of the wives

Some of the husbands hanging out on the fence.

Thanks for all those who planned the picnic.

preschool picture day

Maelie had picture day at school.
And of course, if one kid gets dressed up for pictures, then the other wants his picture taken too, so...

Baby #3 is such a happy, happy boy! We are having so much fun playing with him and watching him develop his own personality. He is already 8 months (no teeth)! He is a definite growler, smiler, sleeper, babbler and adventurer. ( is that a word?)

Sweet slumber

Special Olympics

A couple of Saturdays ago we took the youth to special olympics. They taught and played against the special kids paper football. It was a hit. For a while all the special kids were surrounding our tiny table having a 'ball'.
The kids had fun too, even though it was freezing. The news said it was supposed to be 70, but it was a ton colder than that. Thanks to friends and others from our stake our kids were kept warm.

The Group. We had a ton of youth there. I think our ward had the most! Five young men and 8 young women. A great turnout!

And one of the girls saw this sign and we got a picture of him beside it. This girl is just a friend of one of the YW and she absolutely LOVES Sterling.

Going private

We are changing over to be a private blog. If I don't have your email address and you want to be invited to view my blog, please send me your email address to this temporary one:

brobie@live.com

Reflections of Christ

An awesome movie!

http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html

Lancaster

Finals!!! Aaagghhh! I left again for just a day trip this time so that DJ could once again, get some good studying in. This is his hardest year in school and it's almost over (yeah), but that means really tough finals. So this time I took the kids to Lancaster with our friends, the Churches. Thanks Sarah! We had tons of fun doing things around there.

While there we got to hear this cool bagpipe/band group from Western Australia! They were on their way to Virginia and stopped in Lancaster and we got to see it. I loved listening to them. Bagpipes are amazing, and then you add the drums and WOW!The video doesn't do it justice. I could only capture so much on my camera and the quality isn't the greatest. It was absolutely AMAZING!

(to watch the video, you may need to click pause on my playlist.)

Visiting the Clarks

A couple of weeks ago the kids and I went to Ohio to visit my sisters so DJ could study without interference. We had a ball. It was nice to have adults to talk to all day.

Garrett ran a fever most of the time, but he started feeling better the day we planned on leaving to drive home.

Maelie twirling.
There were 10 kids altogether and my kids were in heaven. I hardly saw Maelie.

Thanks for letting us invade your home Stace!

The hardest thing about this trip was driving alone with three hours. It was about a 6 1/2 hour drive, but we had to make stops. When Maelie had to go to the bathroom, EVERYONE had to get out of the car and take her to the bathroom. Other than that, it was a breeze and very enjoyable for me.

Military Museum

A couple of weeks ago, the kids and I went to the Pennsylvania Military Museum. The museum part wasn't open, but the grounds were incredible. It was neat to see the tanks and the monuments and the names of those from PA who served in WWI and WWII.