Our April in Review!

Today is the last day of May, so it's only fitting that I recap April quick before summer arrives!  We started April off at Meme's house in NC for our week of Spring Break.  And thankfully, Meme drove back with us & we were excited to welcome some super special visitors for a full 24 hours for Easter Sunday.  Andy & Cynthia came to visit, on their layover to St. Lucia (rough, right?)!  We had a full quick visit with them & were thankful for any moments that we get to see our West Coast family!

I would have to say that these two were ready for a relaxing vacation after just a day in our house!  It's not easy to wrestle these kids together for a picture, just ask Grandma...

Easter Sunday, the Rogers family

 School started back up the second week of April after Spring Break & we quickly got back into just our normal daily routine.  School, activities, & more.  A new activity included soccer.  Aiden enjoyed it, but I'm not sure he LOVED it!  Only a few more weeks to go & we have finished our first season of league soccer.  

 We had a nice visit to the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC...

 And swim lessons are in full swing.  Poor baby girl just has to watch from the sidelines until one of those brothers graduates (the cost of being a third child...)

 Andrew had "Take a Sibling" morning at preschool on one of Aiden's teacher work days.  Both of them had so much fun at Andrew's preschool together:)

 April showers.  Sunny & hot on the way to pick up Aiden.  As we are walking home, the clouds rolled in quick and let's just say I got quite the workout pushing this heavy crew home running in a sudden major rainstorm!

And with all that rain, it means puddle jumping time!

April was full of a great trip to NC, special visits from family, school & activities, & another fun month for the Rogers family as we welcomed spring in with big smiles!

Ordinary Moments, Part II

Some more "ordinary moments" from spring.  These are my favorite times!

Driving the bus!

 Brothers:)

 A rare kiss from Andrew!

 Come on Mom, let's get these photos & go!

 So happy to be two!

 This kid is one of a kind!

 Teaching little sister his superhero ways!

 Happy Girl!

 Just happy to be outside!

Spring Break 2015: MeMe's House in NC

The kids & I took a special road trip down to Grandma's during Spring Break, leaving Chris behind to work and have a few quiet moments to himself!  We hit the road early Saturday morning...

Let's just say thank goodness for DVD's & snacks.  Honestly, we made the almost six hour drive there without even having to stop.  Pretty awesome car riders!

My mom had to work most of the time while we were there, but that doesn't stop us from hanging out with her.  We took a fun trip to school one day where Aiden was in "teacher" heaven!

 Here are some other highlights from the fun week!

Marbles Children's Museum, where I almost lost Abby but thankfully did not!

This girl was not the best napper, but thankfully she slept through the night.  I think this day she managed to take off all her clothes, diapers, & pull things off the hangers from Grandma's closet.

 Everyone needs some down time on Spring Break!

 Smiles for Grandma's house

 My mom had to go to a dinner with work friends one night so I decided to take the three kids and my amazing Grandma out to dinner.  Andrew fell asleep, so that made it 1/3 easier!

 Bananagrams from the master.  We love playing games with Grandma Snow!

 We took our annual trip to Krispy Kreme with my grandma. The kids LOVE donuts.  It's a bit crazy how wild they get over donuts.

 Pullen Park is our favorite, but now that I have three active ones-I made MeMe go with us one night instead of attempting to do this park run by myself.  The kids love, love, love this park, especially the big old train!  Thanks Mom for helping me chase my wild crew!

 And after the train, we did the boats.

 And after the boats, we did the carousel.

Another day, we went to another park favorite: Bond Park. 

 It's another one of our favorite parks down in North Carolina where the kids can play and play!

We had such a fun & exhausting Spring Break at Grandma's this year!  

Can't wait to return this summer :)

Ordinary Moments, Part I

Here are some of my favorite just "ordinary"moments from this spring!

 Aiden's kindergarten self portrait

 Smiles for Sunday.  Our weekly family coffee date after church makes this kid happy!

 Me & my mini me

 Bedtime stories

 Someone had their big 2 year old check-up

 And someone passed out in the car & couldn't be woken up!

 Passed out again, this time in mommy's bed!  It's tough being the third child sometimes because you just have to keep going!

 My triple after school load!

Spring is finally here! 

Easter party at Andrew's school.  He moved seats just so he could sit next to his little sister!

It's Park Weather Again!

These are pictures from the end of March, but we are so happy that park weather is back again!  My little monkeys love burning energy at the park & this makes their mommy super happy.  Abby has no fear & can totally keep up with the boys nowadays.  So much fun that we are finally able to be outside again!