I Carry Your Heart | Recently

I wanted to post some of the random every-day photos that I have been contributing to the I Carry Your Heart blog.

These weren't for that blog, but were taken before Sutton and I went on a date to Chili's one evening.

From our spring break road trip:

These next two are so much more special, now that Shadow is gone:

And once again, I'm going to post-date a Valentine's Day blog since I never did that!! Yikes I'm not good at this blogging thing any more!

Sutton's Last Day of Kindergarten

Today is Sutton's last day of Kindergarten! He's excited for summer, but he's actually more sad about not having Mrs. Merseal as his teacher anymore. She has been the best Kindergarten teacher we could've asked for. Loving, compassionate, encouraging and very good at what she does...Sutton has learned to read this year!

We took some photos this morning before we went to school. Here's his official first day and last day comparison. He has grown so much! As I said on facebook...I still know he's my baby because I had to edit peanut butter and drool off his face. :)

I don't think I've mentioned Sammie on here yet. We got Sammie last week Monday (the 8th) after our cat Shadow was hit by a car that morning. Sutton LOVES animals and especially his cat Shadow, so we knew we had to get him a new buddy. They have bonded so well and Sammie is fitting right in! Sutton wanted his picture with her this morning before he left.

What mom makes him do for photos:

What he wants to do for photos:

A couple more for mom:

Enter Ren. They wanted a photo where they were both holding this piece of plastic. Weird.

Can't believe my baby is a 1st grader now!  And here's a photo I took of him and Mrs. Merseal at his fake birthday party a couple weeks ago.

Mother's Day

I'm trying to catch up on the blog, can you tell? Sunday was Mother's Day and it was a hectic weekend but we still squeezed in some fun. Saturday afternoon I went and got a pedicure. Saturday evening we went to my parents for dinner, but my mom ended up having to take my grandma to the hospital so we didn't get to see her. Sunday morning, Adam made me French toast! We taught Sutton's Sunday school at church and then grabbed a quick lunch from Casey's on the way home so we could get Ren down for his nap. We woke him up a little early and headed to my cousin Hannah's graduation party where we got to eat cake, fruit in a chocolate fountain, and have Dr Pepper! The boys got to play with some new kittens that they'd just found, so that was the highlight of their life. That evening, Adam had to go to a Maize graduation, so the boys and I went over to Adam's sister's house to hang with them and his parents.

Before church, we took a few Mother's Day photos. Love these!

Snuggling the kitties!!

And I was glad to see my mom a little bit this weekend at the graduation party! Love you, Mom!

Ren's Last Day of Kids Day Inn

May 8th was Ren's last day at Kids Day Inn at Pathway Church. He went on Mondays from 9:15a-1:15p and loved it! We had to take some last-day-of-school photos of course! First up is the first day to last day comparison.

Big brother had to jump in for a few also. His last day of school is tomorrow!

Next year, Ren is off to preschool like a big kid! So crazy! It'll just be 2 days a week, but it's still weird that my baby will be in preschool!

Also...if you're interested...I realized I never posted all our photos from our fall family session on here, so I just did that today. I post-dated the blog post so if you want to see them, click here.

Sutton's Kindergarten Program

This morning was Sutton's kindergarten program at school. He has been talking about it and looking forward to it for so long...Adam commented that he though Sutton was more excited about this than about Christmas! We got word earlier this week that Sutton was going to be part of a special trio on the last song.

Ren and I went, along with Adam's parents and my dad (my poor mom had to work and was so sad to miss it!). Adam ended up bringing his whole class in to watch, and his fellow 5th grade teacher brought her whole class to watch too, which was cool because Sutton's study buddy Colin is in her class. So he had quite the cheering section.

They came in and he saw us immediately and waved with a big smile.

This is Sutton's little friend Charlie who has been in his class for the past 2 years.

And this little girl is one of Sutton's best friends in his class - Brianna. They sit next to each other.

Here's Damian, another one of Sutton's good friends.

Sutton did so well singing and was totally into it and knew all the actions! After each song, he would kind of "pose" and smile at the crowd. I asked him about it later, and he said his music teacher had told them to do that. :)

After about the first song and a half, Ren threw up all over me and him. Twice. I had wondered about him because he hadn't wanted breakfast this morning, which was unusual, and he'd told me a couple times that his tummy didn't feel good. But other than that, he was acting normal. Since this program was such a big deal to Sutton, we still went, but then Ren's timing of throwing up couldn't have been worse! We were in the middle of the bleachers, on the opposite end from the exit to the bathroom. So I just picked Ren up cradle-style, and walked in front of everyone as fast as I could to get out of there. We were both covered in vomit. I was able to rinse my shirt in the sink and towel off most of it from Ren's clothes. After he threw up, he started acting a lot more happy and energetic and wanted to go back to our seats. But I was traumatized and so we watched the rest of the concert from the doorway of the gym which made me so sad, but at least I got to see it.

Thus, Adam took the rest of these photos.

The very last song, Sutton and two of his friends got to come up to the microphone to lead the song. Sutton was (as you can see) closest to the microphone, so you could hear his voice really well! He always talks about how he loves songs where the singer has a really 'strong voice' so I told him his voice sounded really strong afterwards and he was happy.

We had planned to go out to lunch with Ed & Janet afterwards because today was also Ed's birthday, but with Ren getting sick, we just went home to rest. Sutton got cookies in his classroom after the program and then Daddy took him out to a special Dairy Queen lunch!