Memorial Day

We went over to Mimi & Papa's house for a Memorial Day BBQ/Papa's birthday celebration. This is what we saw as we entered their neighborhood. For those of you who don't know, they live in an active retirement community, called Robson Ranch, and a lot of the people that live there are retired military. This means that every holiday where patriotism should be shown, Ed Robson Blvd. is lined with American flags, as well as the flags for each branch of service. It's an awesome thing to see. Especially compared the lack of flags flown in our own neighborhood. Sad, considering the local boy scouts offer to put a flag in our yards on each holiday for only $30. They do line the entrance to our community with flags, but it's not nearly the display that Robson has lining the entire Blvd.

Jonathan's new game is to ring the doorbell and have someone answer it. So, that was how he entertained himself.


This was what Jeremy did after dinner.

Kaylin spent the day swimming with Papa, so after dinner, she was bushed and passed out on their couch. Isn't the little swimsuit cover up that Mimi bought her in Cabo cute?!
As you can tell, we had a nice, relaxing Memorial Day, especially compared to the weekend that lead up to it (the graduation & wedding I already wrote about.)

Aliens Love Underpants!

Kaylin had a piece of art submitted in the district Art Exhibit last Thursday. The art teacher from each school was only supposed to pick 6 pieces from each grade level and Kaylin was 1 of 6 selected for Kindergarten from her elementary school. The piece her teacher selected was a mixed media that they did based off the book Aliens Love Underpants! by Claire Freedman. For those that don't know, Jeremy is a wonderful artist, so when we found out about this, he was excited to say the least.

Main Street Days & Scarborough Faire

We took our yearly trip to Scarborough Faire at the beginning of April. I only took a few pictures and they were of Kaylin on the Sliding joust. The kids get on a wooden horse, that slides, and they have to stick the wooden sword through the ring that the wooden dragon is holding. She did it! So, she got a certificate saying she was knighted.

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Then, a week or two ago, Jonathan and I went to Main Street Days in Grapevine with our neighbors. It was free to get in before 5pm on Friday, so we took advantage. It was very hot, and the kids faces turned pink quickly, so we didn't stay long and there was a lot of sitting in the shade for us. We waited for Kaylin to get out of school, and I told her what we would be doing, but it was after her field day at school, so she said she would rather go swimming at Mimi and Papa's house. After she saw these pictures, she told me she wished she had gone with us. Oh well, next year!

This was as close as Jonathan was willing to get to the petting zoo.

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"Jonathan, are you sure you don't want to go pet the animals?" "Mom, you MUST be crazy!"

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Jonathan wanted out of the stroller. When I let him out he stood there and said, "cheese!"

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A picture of us in the shade.

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Aunt Kayla's graduation

One of the other things we had going on over Memorial Day weekend was Aunt Kayla's High School graduation.

Kaylin, waiting for the ceremony to start.

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Jeremy with the in-laws and Justin & Kayla

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Kaylin with Aunt Kayla

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Kaylin with Uncle Justin. For some reason, unknown to me, our kids absolutely love their Uncle Justin!

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The wedding

I finally got some pictures off the camera. We had a lot going on this weekend, one of which was the wedding the kids were in. Things did not go as planned (big surprise with a 2 year old, right?) and Jonathan decided at the last minute that he didn't want to walk down the aisle. I think it was a mixture of the fact that we had been there for almost 3 hours by that point (he started melting down around 2 hours) and the bride used ring pops as the rings on the pillows. He just wanted to eat his ring pop, he did not want to walk down the aisle with it. So, I got no pictures from the ceremony and the only pictures I got of the kids was the picture I took of each of them after they were dressed and ready.

A picture of Kaylin, dressed and ready to go!

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The back of her hair.

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A picture of Jonathan - he has his paci because he fought me tooth & nail getting dressed. Half way in he screamed so loud at one point that I stuck it in his mouth so that all the guests wouldn't hear him screaming from the dressing room. Right before getting dressed was when his meltdown started. He was none too pleased that I wouldn't let him wear his flip flops with the outfit, either.

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My two boys looking handsome!

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If you click on any of the "Walker Wedding" links under the pictures you'll be able to see the rest of the pictures from that night. You'll be able to see what a great time Jeremy had with his friends.

Oh no!!

I just had the following convo with Kaylin on the way to school -
Kaylin: "Mommy, Nathaniel's sister said he'll be back today!" (this is the little boy I think she has a crush on)
Me:"Oh? Was he sick?"
Kaylin:"No, he's gonna be in a movie...hubba hubba"
Hubba?! Hubba?! I'm in so much trouble!!

Put them to work!

I make them earn their keep around here!

Best Mother's Day present EVER!

This is a picture Kaylin drew for me at school, on a form that was filled out by her teacher as my Mother's Day gift. It's laminated like a card. It says:

All About My Mom
by Kaylin

My mom has gold hair. (it's like mine)
My mom has brown-green eyes.
My mom is a sub.
My mom's favorite color is pink.
Her favorite food is pancakes. fair enough, I think we had pancakes for dinner the night before - though I don't know I'd say they are my favorite food.
Her favorite book is Brown Bear, Brown Bear. this made me laugh!
Her favorite place to go is Disney World. (But it's very humid there) I laughed for a good minute that she included the comment about the humidity! And yeah, ok, Disney World isn't such a bad place to go.
Her favorite store is Walmart. while I wouldn't call it my favorite, I do a lot of our grocery shopping there so I can see how she would think that.
My mom likes to say I love you. She's right, I do.
I love my mom because she woke me up this morning and let me have breakfast. I laughed at this too. She makes it sound like I don't normally let her have breakfast!

Besides this card from Kaylin, I got to sleep in until around 10 a.m. when Jeremy and the kids woke me up with breakfast in bed. I also got a $30 gift card to Kohls from my parents and the "Thinking of You" Willow Tree Angel from the kids (from my parents). Also, Jonathan made me a super cute flower pot at school with finger print painted butterflies, flowers & bugs all over it.

Kaylin

Yesterday as we were sitting at the table with the windows open Kaylin started shaking her head randomly like she was trying to get water out of her ears or something. I asked her what was wrong and she says, "These voices in my head keep screaming!" I laughed at her, and told her she was crazy, that it was the kids next door playing outside. She knew that and was just being silly, of course, but I can't help but wonder where she's been hearing about hearing voices in your head?!

Jonathan

Look, I wear mascara like mommy! He kept trying to use it while I was
in the bathroom, when I kept telling him "No" he decided he would wait
until I started washing dishes. He is at the age where he wants to mimic everything! Putting on make-up is only one of those things. Jeremy says at least once a week that he obviously needs to be the one to start staying home with Jonathan so that he'll mimic "man things." I think he's only half kidding!

Jonathan's goose egg from falling off the bottom step and face
planting on the tile.