End of the school year

 

 

Lane graduated from Kindergarten!

It was a big year accomplishment for him.

His teacher was AMAZING.

Like really, the best you can get.

That was the only reason why it was so hard for me to except that it was the last day of school.

 

This was at the Kinder sing on the last day.

You can't even see Lane in the sea of kids but just to get the picture...



This is Mrs. Stradling.

She was so good to Lane.

SO genuine and nice.

Like, I see her at the gym and she treats me like her friend.

Like, I ran into her at a funeral and she insisted on taking Lindi so I could enjoy the family prayer without having to feed a baby at the same time.

I may have gotten teary eyed having to give her up.

But in 2 years we will get her back with Rusty!

We must reward those A's with free Krispy Kremes.

6 free Krispy Kremes!

Jefferson graduated from High school!

It's almost the end of an era.

We only have Craig left to attend MHS.

 

There were a million bee's in the stands at the graduation.

After David getting stung and attracting more bee's our way, Marcie made herself a nice bee helmet to protect herself.

 

 

Thank goodness for face time!

 Pretty sure they could pick out Jeffy in the 800 other purple robes on that tiny screen.



 

 

 

T-ball time!

 

It was Lane's last year for t-ball.

He wasn't sad at all because he is so ready for COACH PITCH!

He kept asking when the coach was going to throw the ball.

Tee's are for babies... in his book.

Darn those age limit rules:)

 

Even better, dad got to help coach!

Go Red Sox!!

 

David came home!

 

 

It is such a happy day when your brother comes home from a 2 year mission!

David served his mission in Honduras.

After watching some of his home videos from his mission I wondered how he survived.

 I say that because the boy takes longer showers and dresses better than I do!

Honduras is definitely not America and I am grateful for brothers and other missionaries who sacrifice 2 years of their lives to serve the Lord.

 

We were quite a group with people on camera duty and iphone/pad duty so Stephanie and Christopher could face time with his big arrival.

 

You could tell that he had grown spiritually over those past 2 years.

He gave a wonderful homecoming report, too.

Two brothers down, 2 to go.

Before I know it, it will be my boys turn to go!

 



Lindi Lou's blessing day

 

 

Lindi was blessed on May 5th 2013.

It was a special day with lots of our family in attendance.

I knew it was going to be a good day when I slipped into church 2 minutes before it started.

I can never make it on time to church.

 Even when it starts at 11:30.

 I was super proud of myself.

 

I was also looking forward to dressing up a little girl in a frilly white outfit.

My whole pregnancy that was what I was most excited about.

Is that weird?

My grandma Ann took me dress shopping before she was born .

She is amazing and buys all of her great grandchildren their blessing outfits.

I already knew I wanted a short dress.

This one caught my eye the second I walked in.

After browsing through the racks I knew this was her dress.

I even got that tingling feeling when I held it up.

Kind of like wedding dress shopping, you just know when it's THE dress.

So I said YES TO THE DRESS!

And of course I had to accessorize from head to toe. 

 

The Goodman side.

 This is going to be a common gathering for us.

There are going to be 6 babies born in the year 2013!!

 



The Lindblom side.
David even made it home from his mission from Honduras earlier that week.

Stephanie and Travis live out of state BUT she is having a girl this week!

Bring on the cousins!

 



Grandma Ann and Grandpa Jess

 



The men that were in the circle.

 



 

She was so loved that day and

 was the cutest little white/ivory fluff ball that I ever did see!

 

Smitten

 

Can you tell that this girl is a hot commodity over here!

Who could blame us, she is so scrumptious.

 

I don't know why but this is my favorite when babies sleep with their feet tucked under

 and bum in the air.

 



Meeting Grandmother for the first time.

 



Soaking in snuggle time and inhaling her yummy newborn smell.

 



Are you seeing a trend?

Sleeping baby and somebody always cuddling her.

 



Marcie made her a "fascinator" headband.

 



 

which she wore on her first date with Henry!

 



 

Rusty begs to feed her. He does a pretty good job.

 



 

Love that she is getting old enough to see faces.

 



and gives you the best SMILES that make you melt.

 



Easter

 

 

Easter was as simple as could be this year.

We went to Grammy and Papa's for our annul Easter egg hunt.

 

 

The Easter bunny had an extra delivery at our house this year!

Love that we get to have a pink basket now.

 



Lindi stayed home with mom while the boys went to church.

However, she did get dressed up in her first Easter dress for pictures with brothers.

 



 

Cutest little Easter chick

 

Back tracking to Spring Break

This was the week I was supposed to have my baby. Insert frowny face. Stephanie planned to be in AZ that whole week because it was their spring break too. Collin's birthday was on Tuesday so being the nice sister that she is and thinking I would have been home with a new born she offered to have the boys that whole day. With no baby she still insisted on taking the boys off my hands. And boy did they have a fun filled packed day! They did more things then we do in a month!

Donuts are a staple birthday breakfast in our family so on her way to pick up the boys she grabbed some pieces of fried heaven from Mid Western Meats down the street from us. When she walked in with 2 dozen I about died! We usually get half a dozen for our Saturday breakfasts. But no worries, they were GONE by the end of the day:)

 

So excited to see their cousins and give them their presents. Which they spoiled by telling them what it was before they could open them.

 



 

After stuffing our faces they were off to Jump Street!

 



 

My mom and Craig met them there. Why are quarter machines more popular than anything else? 

 

 

Play days are not complete without Chick-fil-a!

 



No rest for the weary, off to the children's museum

 



You would think they would be conked out in the car but no, more playing time at our house in the front yard! This is where we finished off the last dozen donuts:)



I can't remember what I did that day, probably passed out on the couch wearing one of Casey's t-shirts. I was most grateful for the peace and quiet.

The next day, still no baby. So we had a little swim party at our house. It was the first week of really hot weather which the New Mexicans were most grateful for. I guess it was 50 degrees when they left to come here.

Then Backyard Taco for dinner!

I had nothing planned to keep the boys entertained all week because I was playing each day not knowing if I would be high tailing it to the hospital. But I am so glad they could spend time with these guys. I felt so bad Lindi didn't make it while they were here but I think she knew it would be nice for me to spend some time with Stephanie since we don't see each other very often.

But the best news of all is the Stephanie is due with a baby GIRL in August!!! I am so happy Lindi will have a best girl cousin so close in age!!

Oh, but I can't forget that the week ended with a big bang when our tree fell on top of Casey's truck in a  wind storm. Nice.