Hawaii for our 20th Anniversary!

I can't believe we actually made it to Hawaii!  I have always wanted to go there and we finally made it happen.  It was such a wonderful vacation.  I cannot even explain how beautiful and fun it was!  We went to celebrate our Anniversary, but we decided to go in May instead of September.  Kylee was finished with College and could babysit for us.  We knew we might not get that opportunity again.  We were gone for 9 days.  We spent 5 days on Oahu and the rest of the time on Maui.  I absolutely loved both islands.  It was so much fun to just be able to spend time together.  After 20 years, Chris is still the one person in the whole world that I would choose to spend time with. He really is my best friend. We had such a great time together.  Now we want to take the kids back...they would love it!!

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY!

Mothers Day!

We celebrated Mothers Day a week early at our house this year.  Chris and I might have accidentally planned to be in Hawaii celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary over Mothers Day! Oops!!

I am the luckiest Mom!  I have great kids!  They give me such great presents!

This year was no exception...I got the coolest iron heart with an "M" in the middle from Kade.  He made it himself!  And my favorite part...lots of wonderful letters telling me how much I am loved. 

Thanks for making me a Mom Kylee, Emilee, Kade, Quincy and Brinley!  It's all I EVER wanted to be and I got my wish 5 times over!!

Thank you and I love you all!!

Fun cousins!

We have the funnest cousins!!  Almost every Sunday the Hadley family gets together at Grandpa Tom and Grandma Barb's for Sunday dinner.  This means we get to play with our cousins weekly!!  Yahoo!  Kacey is almost ready to have Kynlee...we will get to meet her sometime in May!  Bailey and Bridger are so funny and Quincy and Brinley love having little ones to tote around!  

Fun times!!

Quincy's 10th Birthday!

Quincy and Grandpa Tom have Birthday's 4 days apart, so some years they get to celebrate together.  Grandpa offered to have steak for the Birthday dinner if they shared, and she thought that was a great idea!  We had it at their house.  We found these fun giant balloons at the dollar store and brought them for all of the kids.  It was definitely a hit, especially with Bailey and Bridger!  

Quincy got some new summer clothes, which she loved!  She also got an awesome waterproof camera!  She was super excited about that one!

Happy Birthday Quincy.  We love having you in our family!

Kite Flying!

Perry has some pretty awesome kite flying weather!  Quincy and Brinley found some kites at Wal-Mart and wanted to give it a try.  They had great luck!  The weather was perfect and they got them up.  Brinley's kite worked a lot better than Quincy's for some reason.  As you can see, we had a few run in's with the tree!  Perfect spring day!!

Em's Track Season

Emilee decided to try track this year.  She had a lot of her Volleyball friends that were willing to do it with her.  They thought it was better than just coming home every day after school!  She tried the hurdles and javelin.  She found out that track is a lot more work than she thought, but she stuck with it the whole season and gave it her best.  She improved in her events as the season progressed.  I think I even heard her say she is going to try it again next year!!

Way to go Em, we are proud of you for trying something new and working hard at it!!