San Fran

On Saturday after Matt's graduation we decided to do a family trip to San Francisco...so much fun, I had forgotten what an awesome city it is!!

Memorial Day Parade

While I was in California celebrating my brother's college graduation, Scott and the boys had a guys weekend...looks like they had fun at the Memorial Day parade!

Matt Ballard is a college graduate!

It's Hot in Vermont

Time to get the kiddy pool out!

ParTay

A friend of mine FINALLY graduated from college (just a joke, Carisa---it's way harder to do it the slow and steady way after kids in my opinion), so she had a graduation party this weekend to celebrate...the boys and I had SO much fun!!

From Carisa's silly photo booth:

Mother's Day Card

Funny funny...thought I'd share :)

Hey, at least I'm needed around here :) It was a wonderful Mother's day with my favorite three guys...fantastic church service followed by a special breakfast brunch at the Essex Inn...yum!

Kid's Day, 2012

Our 4th annual Kid's day was so much fun! Downtown Burlington hosts the event featuring all kinds of local kid spaces and events...everywhere we turned, a new activity! Fun!

The Great Cookie Dunk...Burlington is now in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people dunking cookies in milk at the same time!

Beautiful day!

Mother's Day Tea

Enjoyed a beautiful Mother's day tea at Braden's school this morning!

Braden made me a lovely hat and necklace to wear:

He even served me brunch! I could get use to this!!!

Another present....information about me from my four year old...very funny!

Help Yourself

Last night while I was putting Carter to bed, I heard some noises downstairs...

Braden had managed to prepare himself--all by himself--a chocolate sunday! I was kinda impressed and amused by his resourcefulness (which is why I got the camera!). Guess I'll have to figure something else out if I don't want this to happen in the future!

Young Rembrants

Sadly, today was Braden's last day of Young Rembrants, an after school art program that has met every Wednesday for several months now. According to the Young Rembrants' philosophy, "children who learn to draw using the Young Rembrandts method develop spatial reasoning and fine motor skills, order and sequencing abilities, visualization, and self-discipline as well as fundamental art skills." Looking at some of Braden's pictures, I can see Braden has an intense focus on attention to detail...in fact, I'd guess that he spends 40 minutes of the class drawing the picture, and the last 5 minutes---if that--coloring them! Dinosaur:

Train:

Teacher's feet :)

Backyard:

Silly Monster:

Treehouse:

Cat:

Just Dance

So, I am definitely not into games like my husband or children are, but I did "Just Dance 3" at a girlfriend's house, and decided I needed to have it! Fun exercise, right?!? The boys of course had to participate, so I took a break to get a few pics of them...so cute!

Smart Start Baseball

Today was Braden's first day of Smart-Start baseball...every week the class of 3-5 yr olds meet to learn baseball fundamentals. Parent's participation is necessary, so I didn't get a lot of pictures, but I did get a few and the coach let Carter participate in the warm-ups...so fun for both of them!