More of this and that......

 We have reached a new level in our parenting journey......no more Santa, Easter bunny and tooth fairy believers!  While it is sad, it also make me happy, because I caught myself so many times saying something to the older kids and I was always worried about ruining it all for Nora :)

After playing tooth fairy for probably 50 times in my life I finally kind of got caught one night and woke Nora up.....she had already been suspicious about everything, so it wasn't a tough conversation.

I am not sad my tooth fairy Era is over:).  So, after the last tooth Nora lost I asked her if she just wants me to give her a couple of dollars and her answer was "can you just venmo me?".  Haha.  I guess that is the word we live in now.  Nora does not have venmo.....she does have a green light card and I transferred a couple of dollars to her account. We had a good laugh though.

We have been busy with dance competitions.....

Hannah's tap dance is very fun and she is in a suit:)

This little duet has been doing a great job...

We received Hannah's school dance pictures and I don't even know who is grown up girl is.  She looks so much older.  The pictures are great!

Every other week I have lunch with Evan and Nora at school and Hannah gets a Starbucks those weeks, because clearly having lunch with your High Schooler is not an option :)

Recently I started bringing games for my lunch with Evan and we have both enjoyed that.

I hit a milestone at Burn Boot Camp!

We still have a lot of basketball in our lives.....especially now that Nora is playing as well

The annual bunny pictures are still a favorite!

This year I messed with the kids again and asked the photographer beforehand to call one of the bunnies Peanut Butter and the other Gretel......very random, right?  The kids had taken a guess on the bunnies names and one of them said Peanut Butter and Jelly and somebody else guessed Hansel and Gretel, so I took one name from each guess and asked her to call the bunnies those names.  All three kids fell for it and thought those are the bunnies names and couldn't believe the coincidence. It was quite funny and Myra played along the entire time and never called them by their real names.  I was sitting there laughing and thought they would figure it out......I had to break it to them a couple of days later.  I couldn't hold it in anymore.  Ha!

More dance comps.....

We also still sprinkle some soccer into the mix.....

Grandma and grandpa and Robin and Eve came over for Easter!

We had an egg hunt for the kids and grandparents:)

Hannah has really shot up in heights in the last year.....and Nora is still very tall for her age

This and That

This will be another attempt to just catch up on the Blog.  We have been in a busy season of life with all of the sports happening, but we all love it.  Is it a lot of driving and exhausting? Yes, but for us it is worth it.  When it is logistically possible we will always make sure that Scott and I both go to all of the sporting events, but lately we have had to divide and conquer more.

I can't believe we are at this point already, but Hannah and Nora have started a countdown to summer break already.  The weeks after Spring break do seem to fly by until the end of the school year.  

Right before Spring Break Nora finished her first basketball season going undefeated.  

These two loved playing together!

The McElroy's came to cheer the girls on and I can't get over how tall the boys are.....how can they be this big already!

I think I intentionally forget how old I am :)

We left for Spring Break the next day and it couldn't have come at a better time.  We all needed a little break away from the hustle and just have some good family time together.

We went back to Club Med in Punta Cana.  My mom met us there for the week and we had a fantastic time.  We were all reminded of why we loved this place so much the first time we went.

It is perfect for our family, because there is so much to do.  My avg step count was 23,000 steps a day on vacation. Haha!  Maybe not that relaxing, but a lot of fun family time and lots of memories made!

Sitting at the bar by the ocean waiting for my mom to get there on our first night!

Evan and Nora were still on the soccer field !

We had perfect weather the entire week.

Morning view

Testing out archery and trapeze the first morning we were there

These two were always on the move.....volleyball, basketball, bocce ball, archery, trapeze, soccer and swimming.  It was tough to fit it all in every day:)

Evening reception by the pool....it was just a little windy out that night

We went back to the Adventure Park for a day.

We really enjoyed the jumping into freezing cold water :)

Swimming in the cave is also pretty cool

We also went on a snorkeling excursion and had a great time!  The water was so perfect.

Evan did some dancing

Nora came up with a scavenger hunt for us to do and we had so much fun.  There was just a little bit of arguing about how we do the teams, but it all worked out in the end and we had a great time with it.  

I took these pictures on our last morning there and it made me. not want to leave.....

......which almost happened :).  We had all kinds of flight delays, cancellations and ended up flying into Austin, TX, spent the night and then due to more delays we drove home from Austin.  Long trip home, but we all agreed the next day that we would do it again tomorrow, because we had such a good week!