WARNING ALL FUTURE VISITORS- Our home is protected by Sir Noah!

School seriously feels like a torture chamber at this point. It is so hard being there with no kids! Tomorrow is the official LAST day. Ah... Ethan had a good time playing with the other staff kids at school today. They floated from room to room taking advantage of whatever "cool" stuff their moms had in their classroom. They even invited themselves into the extended day room where they have Game Cube, tons of toys, and board games! I didn't offer much in my room. All I had was sidewalk chalk and a soccer ball. Neither were big hits. The Play Station 2 and Pirate's of the Carribean movie offered in other moms' rooms won. Oh well! Ethan had the most fun riding his scooter all over campus and up and down my ramp!

Ethan is officially a first grader as of 2:00 pm today! He grabbed my cell phone to call Chris with the good news the second the bell rang! He got his last report of his kindergarten career and once again received straight +'s which is the equivalent to straight A's in kindergarten language. Will and Noah are wrapping up their year as well. Melissa went to school today for Paige's ice cream party and snapped a few pictures of Will and Noah on the playground. Noah is pictured with a fellow twin friend, Meghan.

Today is Ethan's official last day as a kindergartener. I actually got teary eyed this morning when I dropped him off. I thought back to the first few days of school when he cried and ran out of his classroom each morning! He has come such a long way. He is an incredible reader and writer. I wish you were able to read his stories! He has had the most wonderful kindergarten experience thanks to his teachers Mrs. Walton and Ms. Spinney. I truly hope Will and Noah are lucky enough to be in Mrs. Walton's class as well. Ethan is most excited about becoming a first grader after the bell rings this afternoon.

We are looking forward to Bill, Steph, Gavin, & Evan's arrival on Friday afternoon. I know the boys will all have a blast together. We have a lot of counting down this week! How many days until the last day of school? How many days until Bill & Steph get here?

Yes, new end tables and coffee tables are now required!

We had a fun weekend! Friday night Chris installed our sink and I couldn't be happier to have a gigantic, deep sink now. Saturday Ethan had his last game of the season and his end of season party. I wasn't able to go because I had to wait for our furniture to be delivered. I don't think that Chris has downloaded those pictures yet. After the furniture arrived and Ethan came home the boys spent the afternoon in the pool with the Eagney girls. In case you are unaware, it is very hot in Florida now. Melissa and I went for a late night swim. The pool itself felt like a bathtub but once you got out it was certainly chilly. Good thing we had the spa to jump into! We also played a game of Rumikub. Chris won last night. Today I went shopping in the morning and then spent the rest of the afternoon in the pool with the boys. They come up with the funniest pool competitions. If you see a cantaloupe showing up in our pictures don't be surprised. Noah has eaten nearly two entire cantaloupes on his own this weekend! He may just turn into one. We are having strawberry shortcakes for dessert and he was eating all of the strawberries as I cut them. I had to kick him out of the kitchen so we would have some for tonight!

We are a little late, but... Wednesday Ethan had his kindergarten award ceremony. The kindergarten teachers did an awesome job putting together the performance. Ethan sang a song about the alphabet. My brilliant son received many awards and we are very proud of him! After school we zoomed off to Will and Noah's end of season soccer party. The kids had pizza, cupcakes, and some other snacks. They received their trophies and awards and were very proud of themselves. All the 3 and 4 year old team needs is a trophy to make them happy! Chris is currently installing our new kitchen sink- with help of course!

Today was Kate's last day here. We had a wonderful visit with her. Now I'll just nag her all the more to move down here with us! Hopefully she wasn't turned off by the raging wildfire we drove through on the way to the airport. Unfortunately this one is only a few miles from our house. Chris and Mike went out and took some pictures of it tonight. Mike is good about posting pictures so check his site out for updates... www.eggknee.net

On Mother's Day Kate, the boys, and I met Melissa, the girls, Bobbie, and Melissa's Aunt Stephanie at the beach. Kate did a little sandcastle building only to have the kids quickly turn from builders to the demolition crew! Asking yourself why Chris and Mike didn't join us at the beach on Mother's Day, oh yeah- that's right, they had to go shopping!! I will forgive Chris though, he did get me my cute new pink Razr phone. Perfect timing since my other phone had just stopped charging and hadn't been working for a week!

Here is the poor tree frog that was forced into a five minute photo shoot with Chris and Kate. The poor thing had to have been blind from the flashes by the time they were finished with him! I guess he will never be entering our pool screen again.

Saturday after nap we went over to Grandma Bobbie's for Sophia's 2nd birthday party. She had a pool party and the kids had tOnS of fun! After that we hung out at our house. Mike, Melissa, Katie, Christie, RJ, Drew, Colleen, Aaron, and Kyle came to hang out for a while as well. It looks like Drew had one too many when he puked all over his Dad! Good thing it wasn't Father's Day weekend!

Here Will is Saturday morning ready for the big soccer game. Apparently he feels that once you hit soccer superstar status you no longer have to wear pants to the game!

Friday after school Kate, Chris, & the boys went to the skate park while I did grocery shopping and made dinner. After the skate park Chris and Kate tried to go to a bar at the beach that they liked only to find out that it turned into a fine wine and cigar bar. As Kate would put it, "It was full of old people."

The fence is done! Hanzie of course won't spend more than 60 seconds out there by himself. Oh well, at least he has the option. We did find out that we have a neighborhood bobcat so perhaps it's a good thing that he enjoys the indoors! Kate did some investigating and they even hunt deer! We all enjoyed Ethan's art show on Thursday night. Ethan quickly went off with is friends. We had to force him to stay with us for the chorus performance. The chorus/band were quite good. I was impressed! We also ventured to the library to see Ethan's writing sample about the rainforest.

We have fence progress! Hanzie is checking out the new fence and figuring out how he can get a better view of Christie and RJ's cats Shelby and Bailey. They are nearly done and have another half day's work left on it. They promised to have it finished before I got home tomorrow. We are still waiting on the landscape curbing. Who knows when they will arrive.

Soccer was cancelled today because of the fires. The major issue now it that 95 south is closed in both directions from our exit north for 12 miles. This creates A LOT of extra traffic in our area and most are cruise buses and semis! The news said it will be closed indefinitely so it looks like traffic won't be back to normal for some time. 95 south of us is open which is a relief since Chris has to pick up Kate from the airport tonight! She will get in at 11:15 or so and the boys are looking forward to seeing her in the morning.

Well, Chris got A LOT of the house projects done this weekend. He even cleared out the neighbor's yard! Most importantly, he got me Moe's on Friday night! Saturday morning we had our soccer games. The boys had fun as usual. Well, Will did split his lip so he wasn't too thrilled with that. He had a nice face plant. After naps, the girls came over and played in the pool with the boys and they all had dinner together. We all hung out Saturday night and enjoyed watching the Digital Short on SNL with Tom Hanks OVER and OVER and OVER again! Emma spent the night and had donuts with the boys this morning. Today we went book and furniture shopping. We finally got a sleeper sofa for the toy room. Now the boys will have room to play and guests will have a place to sleep. Now we have a queen bed in there which sort of defeats the purpose of a toy room! On the way home from shopping we drove right past a wildfire. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/07/florida.fire/index.html Luckily we got home in time before they shut 95 down. You can certainly smell the smoke when you step outside! The boys spent the afternoon in the pool. Kate arrives on Wednesday night. Hopefully the roads will be open so we can actually make it out to the airport to pick her up. They have been closed more than they have been open for the last week or two because of wildfires!

The hot weather has returned! After our brief cold spell this past weekend, we are back to the 90's! Although Melissa and I were at the gym watching TV and the news was talking about the big cold front that is coming in this weekend that will bring us all the way down to 88 by Sunday. All of my lizard friends love the hot weather. We have one that sleeps in the same spot on our screen every night. When I let Hanzie out in the middle of the night he is in the exact same spot. He sleeps between the screen and the water spout. He is well protected so I guess he is quite clever for a lizard.

The boys have been swimming every day after school and practicing all their sweet dives. Today they got in twice. Apparently all the swimming has made them delirious. Will and Noah could not stop cracking up after we put them to bed. Will ended up with the hiccups which only made them laugh that much harder! Ethan is looking forward to his last 2 1/2 weeks of school. He is ready to call himself a first grader! We will certainly miss his teacher next year. She is absolutely fabulous! Hopefully Will and Noah will be lucky enough to have her in kindergarten as well. They still have one more year of pre-K. Most of their friends are moving on to kindergarten next year so they will have to make a whole new set of friends next year. They were actually not old enough for the pre-K class but were placed in there this year.

I'm excited that tomorrow is Friday. What makes it even better is that Moe's is opening tomorrow. Just in time for Cinco de Mayo! At least I have an excuse to eat a burrito! The boys have soccer games on Saturday. We have a few house projects going on so our weekend will be devoted to that. Ethan has an art show at school on Thursday so he is anxious to take Aunt Kate to that!