At the hospital . . .

Well, the big day has arrived. We are all checked in a waiting for this baby to make her appearance. I'll be posting updates here as events warrant. We might even figure out what her name is sometime today. We've probably put that off about as long as we can.

The Changing of the Flowers

I was sad to pull out these flowers when they were doing so well. However, I knew that if I did not take advantage of the nice weather, that it would get too hot and I would not be quite so motivated to do it. So, this past week we said good bye to these ones:

We also welcomed some new blossoms on the rose bushes and the day lillies are starting to bloom. I LOVE the day lillies.

Here is what we planted. I hope that they get full and beautiful. I love flowers.

Kids Update

Lydia had a lot of fun running on the track team this year. Lydia is the 2nd one in on the right hand side.

Lydia ran the mile and the mile and a half.

Lydia placed 5th in the District meet for the mile and a half. Way to go Lydia!

Lydia went to her first school dance. I was happy that she went with some good friends--all girls. They had a great time and went out to eat after (with the Moms). Of course, the Moms got to sit together and the girls sat together.

Rachel started soccer this season. She plays for the Hurricanes. She really surprised me and LOVES it! I never pictured her playing sports--she is so into dolls and dressing up. Her first game was against Ellie's team and Gordon was the referee.

Rachel was so happy to be goalie!

When we were in Missouri, Unlce Devon checked everyone's eyes. Jacob got contacts and Richie got glasses. Wow...I sure do have handsome boys!

Princess Bekah

March Pictures

Linnae and her kids came for a fun visit.We spent a great day at the zoo.

Bekah's favorite part was seeing the fish and also playing with Caroline.

We also spent a day at the arboretum. We were blessed with great weather and the flowers were gorgeous!

Rich mowed the lawn for the first time of the season. He decided to bag it. Well, he bagged 42 bags worth!

MISSOURI

For Spring Break this year, we went to Missouri. Caden and Hadley got baptized. It was so much fun to see where Brooke and Devon live and the kids had a great time playing with cousins and seeing family.

We spent a day at Silver Dollar City in Branson with the Jarvis family and Grandma and Grandpa Phillips. The weather was perfect and everyone had a great time.

Well, Bekah had fun being there. She just hated every ride!

Grandma and Grandpa Phillips took the kids on the ride where everyone gets wet.

...and they got soaked!

Richie and Caden.

Cub Scout Awards

Richie recieved his first two yellow beads. Uncle Gordy is the Assistant Cub Master and got to give out some of the awards. Richie has two more beads to go and he will recieve his Wolf.

Jacob received his Webelos award. He is now working toward his compas and arrow of light.

Jacob was in a skit.

New News from the Phillips

Well, people have been giving me a really a hard time for not updating the blog in several months. Honestly, everyone knows that I am terrible at it! However, after lots of guilt, I am finally going to post some fun news today.
That is right...we are expecting a baby in August.

. It was really fun to tell the kids this morning. They were all really excited and really surprised. We did not do such a great job in the planning of being pregnant all summer in Texas. However, we are just really excited about everything and really glad that we have family and friends with pools. :-)

On another note, we woke up to some fun snow this morning. This is what our backyard looked like.

This is the view from our front porch after Rich and my dad shoveled the walks.

Today was our fourth day in a row off of school. We are just so happy to actually have snow on a snow day. The other days were just icy and cold and that is not very fun to play in.