Brielle's graduation

Brielle has graduated from Preschool, I cannot believe she is big enough to go to Kindergarten but at the same time she acts so much older that I sometimes forget how young she really is! She was so beautiful, and was so excited to show us their program. Her part was "There are many sheep in Australia. We make many things from sheep's wool, like sweaters. We could even make washcloths out of wool and use coconut soap to wash ourselves." One of the funniest moments is when they sang "Love in every Language" and signed it as well. I was in tears because Brielle sang so loudly and perfectly, it was so sweet. Her teachers say something about each kid when they get up they said, "Brielle has been working on writing to 1000. She has almost mastered addition. Brielle is eager to continue with reading and does a great job!" We are so proud of you BB, you are such a smart sassy girl, we love you!

Funny Sayings

I seriously have the funniest kids (okay I may be a tad bit biased about that!) There is not a day that goes by that they don't make me laugh uncontrollably but I guess that's not hard to do.
Brielle- This girl has to know what's going on and in great detail. Everyday she wakes up and asks what we're doing, she needs a play by play. Throughout the day she will continue asking just in case we change something. I have my Dr. appointments on Wednesdays at 3:15pm and TJ gets off at 3pm so I usually take the girls to him at The Pizza Factory and he takes them home. Well on this day he needed to go to his sisters and get his hair cut before going home. I explain this to Brielle and she says.. "Mom, wouldn't it be more efficient to just get a babysitter for us?" Well, I guess but you will be just fine playing with Halle while Dad gets his hair cut! Seriously what 4 year old uses the word efficient correctly?
Hunter- We are at the waterpark and it's hot. I always am telling the kids to drink water or they will get dehydrated. We were on the grass and TJ said he was hot, Hunter said "Dad you better drink lots of water you will get diarrhea!"

Father and Sons

You see this handsome face, I love that he always takes pictures for me when I am not there! It's not his thing, he doen't really get into the millions we have but he knows how much I love them and that makes me smile. Because let's face it a guy taking pictures with a bunch of other guys is kinda funny, that is love I tell ya!

TJ and his Dad took Hunter to the Father and sons camping trip and they had a grand ole time bonding and doing all the manly stuff Hunter told me.







I missed the boys but it was fun just hanging out with the girls! :) I told Brielle the saying "When the men are away the girls get to play!" She thought it was so cool that we just got to go out on the town. We went to Red Robin to eat our favorite fries and milkshakes and ran into some friends so we all ended up at our house for a ice cream party. While putting them to bed Brielle asked if Father and Sister night was tomorrow, I told her TJ had to work but I am sure he will take her out special soon. Sophie and Brielle are such Daddy's girls it broke their hearts to not go too!

Dog Tired

I love watching Sophie and Bella play together while no one is around. Nothing beats playing with your dog on a warm spring afternoon.

More corn please!

You see this cute messy face, who could resist her saying "More corn peeeeez Daddy?" with her big brown eyes and sweet smile looking up at you. She ate a whole ear of corn, some of her sisters, a few bites of Mom's, and then turned to Daddy because she knows she has him wrapped around her finger. This girl loves her food!

Mothers Day!

Hunter came home and told me to not look in his backpack right away he had something for me for Mothers Day, I thought he made something at school he asked if he could wrap it. Well to my surprise I opened up a carefully wrapped hat! My sweet boy found this hat on the side of the road on the way home from school and knew I liked black hats! :) He also drew a picture of the two of us. Brielle painted this fairy house bank for me and told me to put my money in there and then to buy some shoes when it's full! Things like this make it all worth it :)

Mother's Day!

My parents gave me the best gift and had a sleepover with all the kids so TJ and I went to Iron Man 2 and slept in! In the morning we had our usual scone breakfast. Brielle had picked out this necklace for my Mom and was so excited so give it to her, it was either this or some ugly flip flops with bling all over lol! Thank you Mom for being my best friend! I love you so much and I am so thankful to have you to talk to everyday, you always make me feel better when I am having a bad day. Thank you for spending so much time with your Grandkids and making them feel loved and special. They think you are the greatest! Even after working hard all week and driving hundreds of miles you still play with them, they have so many fond memories already.



Then we hung out and had a family nap!!



We went to TJs parents house for dinner, the guys did great this year it was so good! We surprised TJs Mom with a picture of all the grandkids, which was a chore but we at least got one where no one was crying! We love you so much Kathy and hope you enjoyed your day. Thank you so much for always coming to all the kids events, they always feel so loved you are there. I don't know how you do it with as many grandkids you have but we appreciate it. Thank you for holding our families together by getting us together every Sunday, there is a lot of complaining most the time but we wouldn't be as close if you didn't have us over. Thank you for your example of unconditional love for each of us. We love you!


We ended the night visiting the great grandmas. We love you so much Grandma Cannon, thank you for always thinking of us, we appreciate your love and support. Wish we could have spent more time with you. And to Grandma Bentley, we miss you everyday, you brought so much into our lives.


To all the Mommies in my life, thank you for your examples! And thank you Hunter, Brielle, Sophie, and rolly polly baby for making me a Mom, I love you all so much!

Cousins

We took a picture for Mother's Day of all the cousins on the Bentley side, it was hilarious! That night after loading them my Sister-in-law Tana and I were laughing because TJ was in some of them trying to make Sophie stop crying. TJ said Where's Waldo and we lost it, I was laughing so hard I was getting major contractions! Between screaming Sophie, Kade getting hit in the head by Jonathan, kids looking at crying kids or their parents, other people watching them laughing at us parents trying to make 10 kids smile and look at the camera's, or all the kids moving around doing weird poses, I am surprised we did end up with one where you could at least see all their faces and no one was crying! And to think Tana and I are the only ones that are done having babies lol! Maybe in 10 years we will get a good one! Here is a sample of the hundreds we took lol!

Mothers Day Tea Party

Brielle and I had such a great time together at her school. They sang all of us Moms some fun songs and read the book I love you forever. Brielle read "But at night time, when that two year old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of the bed." She was so cute! My favorite part is when they serve treats because you never know what they are going to bring!





My card she made me, I laughed so hard at her answers :)


Her friends Lexie and Whitley

Thanks so much for the fun tea party! I am so glad we got to have a special day! I love you so much my beautiful BB!!