Schools Out for Summer!

This year we were blessed to have the most fabulous teachers.  Dylan after having a rough year last year, had nothing negative to say this year about school or his teacher.  He loved Mrs. Brown and his quest teacher.  Often times he woke up actually excited to go to school! Thank you Andrea Brown for helping Dylan remember how much he loved learning!

During the last week of school, Dylan won the math Olympics in his class. Hes the man!

Sydney had Phenominal teachers.  I will forever be indebted to them for all of thier extra help and encouragement throughout the year.  We will moss them tremendously!  

Mrs Casey Chadwick:

And much like her Scottish Grandma, Mrs Karen Roach:

Besties:

First Robotics Competition 2012- St Louis

Dylan and I had the opportunity to go to St Louis again to help out with Aliya during the robotics competition.  We had a blast toting around town and visiting some of our favorite places:

City Museum:

 Zoo:

 Science Museum:

 Art Museum:

Birthday Girls at Castle Park

Happy Birthday Sydney and Macey!!

We had our first combined birthday party for the girls!  The girls (mostly Macey) wanted another princess party of course, where they could dress up and run around as princesses.  So, we decided to have a party at castle park where they would have plenty of space.  The girls decorated crowns and had wands, while the boys (and many girls) decorated shields and were given swords to go and rescue the princesses hiding in the park.  

We had a great turn out.  About 24 kids!  EEK!  The kids had a lot of fun, and it was a beautiful sunny April day to celebrate.  one of my most favorite things is seeing my kids play with thier friends.  I love hearing thier conversations, and seeing them run hand in hand with eath other.  It is darling.  I can only imagine it gets more fun as they age.

Casey was the dragon of the party...but I think it got a tad too hot to wear. Best bud cousins.

The boys found a real dragon/lizard!

 The Cake:

 Sydney and Talia are two peas in a pod. Talia is Syds best friend from school.

Robots in Las Vegas

Robotics season is here!  For Christmas Auntie Em and Uncle Amir bought my parents a trip to come out watch the regional competition in Las Vegas.  We as kids decided to make a family trip out of it and come together to support Amir, to meet Achille (Lindsay's new beau) and meet the new babies.  The whole fam-damly came!  I actually was able to surprise them all which was fun. I didn't decide to get a ticket until the week before (when one of cams clients got me on a buddy pass).  It was great, and nobody suspected that I was coming.  It was great to have all of the kids together.  That is such a rare occurrence these days.

                                     

 The D'Penguineers ended up winning the entire competition!  It was so exciting and so fun to experience such a great win with everyone.  They get to go to St Louis now for the World Championships in less than a month.

The siblings were able to take a little bit of fun time together.  I don't know the last time that that has happened! It was sad Emily couldn't be there, but we still had a great time all catching up.  We went out to the strip together till about 2 am.  It was fun, especially for me when you throw in the time change...I didn't get to bed until about 4:30 my time.  Sheesh...that is amazing for a mom of 3!

Fremont Street.  First time I have ever been!

The babies: Luke, and Madison!

Lounging at Tim's new pad.  Gorgeous home, and gorgeous yard.  

 It was the first time that many of us met Lindsay's new guy, Achille.   He is every bit as great as Lindsay had told us.  He is a keeper and one that has been so good for Lindsay in giving her all that she deserves.  It's about time!  :)  We loved him and most of all, we loved seeing Linds light up when he was around.  

It was on this trip that I mentioned to my bro that I possibly could be pregnant...who knows...