Marvelous May!

May started out with a fun weekend of packages, playdates, family time and lemonade! 

We came home to a big box from Aunt Judy and in addition to some great books for Jake was Allie's absolutely favorite new chair!

Love my Super Jake! Can't believe how big he's getting. He's the sweetest boy and just look at that smile!

Allie had her first real playdate of her own with BFF Hailey! They are so cute together! When Hailey comes to school in the morning Allie goes running to her and when Allie leaves at the end of the day Hailey stands at the door yelling for Allie. If you ask Allie who her best friend is (and Alex and Jake do all the time) she will very quickly tell you it is Hay-lay.

After the playdate, Allie and I went to meet the boys at Jacob (Riemer's) Jedi Juice Lemonade Day stand which was well-located at Ramsey Park. Jake flew a kite, Allie got chased by daddy and followed Max around and we all had lemonade!

Kindergarten Round-Up was the following Tuesday so Jake and I checked it out. The kids went and checked out the classrooms and got to do arts and crafts while the parents filled out paperwork. Afterwards they gave the kids milk and cookies to which Jake said, kindergarten is going to be great. He also told me as I asked him about the classrooms, mama, they have legos and I think Hill is going to be a great place to go to kindergarten!

Just hanging out with Daddy and the cookie monster while waiting for mommy and Jake to come home!

Mother's Day with the Vivier's may need to be a tradition. This was our second year in a row and I can't think of a better mother to share it with then Brenna! We were also able to celebrate Philip's birthday as well so it was the perfect time for a visit to plano! 

Pippi shows Jake how to work his new helicopter

Allie's soccer training begins under Talia and Pippi's guidance. 

In what could only be an unplanned moment of hilarity, Allie found Alex's wallet and her godmommy was right there to show her how to use it!

Late night snuggles with Pippi. Jake fell asleep in the perfect spot!

It may have taken him the whole weekend but Pippi finally won Allie over!

Cutest Cousins!

Proof that a good time was had by all!

Allie's up-do from her teacher at school. She'd never sit still long enough for me to do that. 

Friday night movie night! Allie last about 15 minutes but she is obsessed with fish so watching "Finding Nemo" kept her interest an extra 5 minutes. 

This month Alex and I took our first real vacation (for more than a long weekend) since having children! We were lucky enough to have thoughtful friends, Gordon and Melissa, who were nice enough to plan to have their wedding in Scotland! I'm hoping to have a blog post just about our trip because it was that wonderful but here's a few pictures from our trip.

On the London Eye

Eilean Donan Castle

We ended the trip with Gordon & Melissa's wedding in St. Andrews. It was beautiful! The old church, the kilts, wonderful people, and a handsome groom and beautiful bride...it was lovely!

We were so thankful to Mimi and Bubba for coming and hanging out with Jake and Allie. As you can imagine we had to twist their arms to come and stay with them!

Mimi, Bubba and Jake played hookie from school and went to see "Epic." This was Mimi's first movie with Jake and she loved the little lap sitting, popcorn eating love-bug. 

Jake is super into puzzles and Mimi brought him a super cool new puzzle complete with 3D glasses. Looks like Bubba was trying to get in on the action too!

I'm guessing that if you panned out from this picture that Mimi and Bubba may have been asleep next to Allie and that Jake could have been the photographer!