Graduation for Two of the Filley boys

Austin and John graduated on Friday. Next year Austin will be moving on to 5th grade at Zack White Elementary. This will be the first time he is away from Escuela and it's going to be hard on all of us. John completed his year, but will still be in the second phase of the Kinder class next year at Escuela. We at least have one left with us there.

Trying to fill Daddy's shoes

Celebrating Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Blake and I

Mimi, Marti and Badad

We had a delicous lunch at the Santa Teresa Country Club. We missed having the rest of the boys with us, but the food was wonderful and the conversation was as always.....entertaining.

Blake's favorite part was:

The chocolate cake

Celebrating Poppo's Bday

Dwight, better know as Poppo, turned 67 on April 25th but we didn't have all 7 of us together so we waited to celebrate until this weekend. We went up to the "Cabin" in Cloudcroft. Blake, Austin and John went up earlier with Grammy and Poppo, then Sean, Jason, Steve and I came up a little bit later.

John put the candles on Poppo's cake and listened to the funny cards.

The boys spent some time helping Grammy and Poppo clean up the pine needles.

While Austin was digging for fossils, John and Blake were making sure the hammock was working. Eventually Jason joined Austin in his excavation.

During the day we started to notice how much Sean is looking like Steve.

Jesus Is The Man

Before Viewing the video, hit the pause button on our playlist so you can hear the video.

Sean, Blake and Jason have youth group every Sunday night from 5-7pm. It's down at the YAC (Youth Activity Center) at the church. They eat, worship and just have a good time. Blake came home tonight and showed me a video that 2 of the youth group leaders did for the kids. It's quite funny! Check it out!

How high can you go?

The boys are excited about the weather getting hotter because that means they can wet the trampoline. Normally it's just Blake, Austin and John but today they had their buddy Kev over so Jason participated too. And yes, the trampoline is in the front yard because of the two culprits below........................they tore up the last one.

Chloe and Khaki

Summertime

I just love this picture of John. It was taken last year while we were in Coronado, CA. The other picture is of Morro Bay. Awwww, Summer here we come!

Steve and I

This picture was taken in Seguin, Texas over Easter. During the "wildflower season" you will see all sorts of cars pulled off the side of the road doing exactly what we were doing.

Let's give it a try!

My sister in law, Barb, started a blog on her group (she has 5 kids too) so that family and friends could keep up with them. Everytime I see how cute hers is, I think to myself "I should do that for us!" Well, I have finally found some time (in others words I'm home alone) and I'm going to get it done. I'm hoping it will create an easier approach for our family and friends to check in with us. Our lives can be so busy and the boys are growing so fast, that I don't want the time to pass by and we didn't get a chance to share the moment with others. Please check back in with us and see how we are doing. All of our love!