Cannon's PreK Graduation

I'm not sure if you would call it graduation, since there were no caps and gowns or anything like that, but "Our Little Preschool" held their end of the year picnic in the park this past week. Cannon received his special book and got to share one more beautiful day in the park with his teachers and friends from Preschool. I love how Colin snuck into the picture too. Hard to believe he's going to go to kindergarten next year. Where does the time go? Oy! Next year, Colin starts at OLP!

Are we Down Under? NOOOO! It's just West Virginia!

Well, you'd think from the pictures that the boys were on a walk about in the Outback Bush of Australia, but nope... they are in the backyard bush of our West Virginia home. Leave it to Daddy to come up with a way to make a lazy (almost) summer day fun, just by putting hats on! Now that our deck is done, the baby pools are full, and the trampoline is up, we are really enjoying the backyard.
Last night Rob busted out the fire pit, marshmallows and chocolate and had the kids make smores when they got home from Kings Kids. It was lots of fun. There was one time Rob poured lighter fluid on the fire and it lit up pretty good. Chance started clapping, Cannon leaned in with a big smile, and Colin... well, he took off running so fast that I nearly peed my pants laughing. Oh, the distinct personalities of my sons! You can see in the one picture below where Chance is clapping, Rob is cracking up and looking over to the other side of the yard. Yeah, he's laughing at Colin bolting off. I promise you, it was so funny. Colin was like "AHHHH... I'm outta here!"

Today, for Memorial Day, we just played outside alllllllll day. We had at least 12 of the neighbor kids in our yard at one point! It was hilarious. We just love it. Personally, I'd much rather have the kids in my yard where I can keep an eye on them!

Angelman Syndrome Walk-a-thon 2009

This year's Angelman Syndrome walk-a-thon was as fun and rewarding as last years. This year, Team Chance consisted of Chance (of course), Mommy, Daddy, Cannon, Colin, Grandmom, Pop Pop, and Auntie La La. We had cool weather and a fun tailgate lunch after the walk. The highlight for me was watching Chance cross the finish line. He just gets so excited to see everyone cheering for him. I also thoroughly enjoyed seeing old friends from the AS community. We really are a tight family of families! Here is a video of Chance crossing the finish line and several pictures.

May is the Month for Birthdays!

Since Colin's birthday is the 30th of April and Cannon's the 10th of May, we have twice now celebrated both birthdays together in a combined party. It saves on the cost and adds twice the fun! We also celebrate Mother's Day(10th this year) and Pop Pop's birthday (12th). We did celebrate Colin's actual birthday ON his birthday, but then he also got a party. He really lucked out this year! So we had a weekend of parties. I think everyone in the family got a Hallmark card of some sort, except for Daddy (poor thing). The boys party was at Galaxy Skateland, complete with face painting, a huge indoor pirate ship climbing area, ski ball, video games, pizza and cake. What a great time we all had. The place is a family run business and we just had a very very nice time! So that was Friday night. Saturday morning we had a yard sale (or should I say ROB had a yard sale). Mom and I entertained the kids. Saturday afternoon Mom, Ruby and I went to a ladies luncheon at church. Then Sunday we had church and Sunday night we had steaks on the grill for Pop Pop's birthday. Here are some pics from the weekend of parties!