Kristina gets her ears pierced

Today we all went to the mall. While we were there we decided to get Kristina's ears pierced. She had been waiting for a long time. She had no idea it was coming until we stopped at the stand. She said her heart suddenly started beating very fast, by she was excited.

3-2-1 go

A very happy girl.

Mom x3

Friends B-day party

First I must say that earlier this week we found out that Kristina made the JV cheerleading team. We are so proud of her. We know she must have really wanted it to be able to push through the day of surgery. Congratulations, Kristina!!!

This evening we went to a friend's birthday party at a jumping place. They are great places to let the kids burn off a bunch of energy. They love to jump and slide down the slides. This place also had a basketball hoop and a football throw.

Mom x3

Cheering tryouts

A few weeks ago when I was picking the kids up from school Kristina said, "Mom, I have good news and bad news."

"OK???"

"Cheerleading tryouts are in two weeks, but it is the same day as my surgery."

"Well, you are always fine, by the afternoon, you'll have surgery in the morning and tryouts in the afternoon."

"Oh."

I told the doctor not to hit her so hard since she didn't want to hurt at the tryouts and it would be hard to jump around. It was a good thing she was off because she spent all afternoon working on her manditory poster for the tryouts. GCA is the Gators and one of their rivals is the Dolphins.



I know it was hard for her to go to the tryouts, but she must really want it.

Mom x3

Mother's Day

This was my third Mother's Day. Boy does time fly. After church we went to Tripps to eat lunch. I love that place.

I love these things the kids make, it's so cute to bring them out year after year, even though there haven't been many years.

I also got a planter for the backyard, a night light to read if John is already asleep, and a picture frame.

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Swimming lessons

This week started another year of swimming lessons. We will be very busy Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Hopefully by the summer Luba will be able to swim in deep water without fear and Michael will be learning the basics of swimming.

Kristina was a little scared of the diving board, but thought it was fun.

Mom x3

John and Cindy celebrate their birthdays

Today we finished out the month of birthdays by celebrating John's and my birthday together. My birthday was the 26th and John's was the 30th. We had a cook out with the family. It was beautiful weather.

We figured we were old enough that we could share a cake and didn't need our own.

Again it was a wonderful month of birthdays, but I'm glad it's over.

Mom x3

Michael turns 7

Yesterday Michael helped to make cupcakes to bring in to school for his birthday. He was so excited.

Again we had a small family celebration at the house. Star Wars was very big this year. Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre. When we watched it, it did look old, but considering the year the graphics were pretty good.

Mom x3

Art Extravaganza

This evening was the Art Extravaganza. Every child at GCA made a drawing or project and judges were brought in from the outside.

Kristina got 2nd place for 5th grade. She did a pencil drawing in about one hour.

Luba did a paint picture entitled 'Sheep in the Night'.

Michael did a paint picture entitled 'Flying Saucers'.

Luba also was picked to participate in the school project. The were making a tile mosaic on top of a table.

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Luba turns 9

Last night Luba made cupcakes to take into class, she was so excited to be icing them pink!! I can't believe she is the age Kristina was when we got the children, time flies.

We had a small celebration with the family since it was a school night.

Mom x3

Kristina turns 12

We got home late last night so we would be home for Kristina's birthday. It was a quiet family celebration.

She has grown up so much in the past three years, maturing into a fine young lady.

Mom x3

Busch Gardens

This morning we left DC after breakfast and headed down to Busch Gardens. It was a cool afternoon and didn't rain as was expected.

Everyone had lots of fun, we just didn't want the vacation to end. Once we left Busch Gardens we went to Chik-fi-la for ice-cream.