The Harris Family

Nate is doing a lot of studying lately to prepare for his CFA exam in a few weeks so on Saturday I decided to take the kids out for a while so the house would be quiet.  I talked my sister Cindy into hanging out with me for part of the day.  In the morning we went out to breakfast at IHOP.

Saturday night Nate let me have the "night off."  At 9:30pm I took a Unisom, went down to our guest room, turned on a fan, went to sleep and did not get out of bed until 9:00am the next morning.  I went upstairs to find that Nate had made me breakfast and also that he had to get up with the kids several times in the night and I did not hear a thing.  I should know better than to take a whole Unisom because those things knock me out and I spent the remainder of my Mother's Day feeling drugged.

Below is the gift that Callie and Jace gave me (it was made by Nate at their mutual activity).  They somehow cut off the bottom of small fruit cans and were able to glue them back on.  Inside the can was Skittles, a candle, and ear plugs (I guess there was supposed to be bath salts but they ran out).  It was a really cute idea.

This is Callie's class (minus 1 because her parents forgot)

I made these little graduation caps for all of them using foam board and foam bowls with an elastic string to help keep them on.

5 out of the 7 moms who taught this year.  We had a lot of fun.  Kind of sad it is over.

Here is a little slideshow that I put together for the graduation party.

Group Photo

They also had some audience participation time doing the Macarena, so I had my kids join it.

We bought a year pass to the zoo this year, so you will probably be seeing a lot of zoo pictures.  We have already gone 4 times in the 6 weeks since we have had the pass.  My kids absolutely love it.  And it will be even more fun when they open the new portion that is currently under construction.  My favorite time of day to take my kids is to arrive around 4:30pm (the gates close at 5:00pm) and stay for an hour or so.  We can get through everything in that amount of time and right now the zoo is pretty empty at that time.  We will see how things go once summer rolls around.

I have been really bad at keeping the blog updated.  Here are some photos of our happenings in April.

We have a cat that loves to come and visit our house.  Our kids love it and go out to look for it everyday.  Jace always says, "Kitty, where are you"  it is really cute.  On this particular day, Nate was out reading in a chair while the kids were playing in the yard. The cat decided it wanted to sit on Nate's lap so it just came over and climbed up and went to sleep.

Jace fell head first into our window well (our ones that are only 2.5 ft deep).  He was in the process of climbing in it, then got distracted by the cat who was leaving and I think he was trying to stand back up, but lost his balance and fell.  He looked pretty beat up like he had been in a fight.

The kids love playing T-Ball in the yard with their daddy.  Callie can even hit when we pitch to her (about 50% of the time)

On April 17-22, I had the opportunity to go up to Seattle to visit with Jen and Dave and also help out where needed.  It was so good to see them and visit for a couple of days.  The weather actually was pretty nice most days that I was there.

I flew in on Tuesday  night and on Wednesday was able to go with Jen while she received her round 2 chemo treatment.  It is a long process so we passed the time by visitng, playing scrabble, and watching a movie.  Jen and I both need to improve on our scrabble skills :)  I had a hard time creating words more than 4 letters.