May 2024

Brinley's birthday is always what I will think of instead of Star Wars day (May the Fourth be with you). This year she wanted to have some friends spend the night, but one wasn't able to come over due to Derby plans. We had a lot of fun with Reagan. We went and did our first Countdown Games and successfully broke out. Brinley also enjoyed her favorite food, Chick-fil-a. They attempted a painting tutorial but Brinley got upset about her painting and quit half way through it. 

We also made a little trip out to Five Below and Brinley picked out some squishmallows and even got a squishmallow puzzle. She wanted to do it all by herself. I helped by trying to group the different colors and designs for her. Very proud of my little puzzler. We also enjoyed dinner at Chuy's and came home to watch her favorite Disney movie, Lilo & Stitch.

Jennifer was in charge of the next alphabet date and she chose the letter C. We went to Cookout and a comedy show, Nate Bargatze. It was a really funny show. We both had a good time.

Seeing Brinley do her puzzle got me wanting to get back to doing one myself. This was a really fun and quick puzzle to do. I would just pick out all the similar colors and then I put the individual donuts together. I also waited and did the border last because I knew that it would be difficult with just the pink dots. I got started on it and just kept saying to myself that I will just do one more donut before bed. Then next thing I know I finished the puzzle and I looked at the clock and it was 2 am. It turned into my fastest 1000 piece puzzle that I have ever done, which was right about five hours. 

Happy Mother's Day to Jennifer. Some people may take their moms to a fancy restaurant. Not our lady. We took her to Long John Silver's. She loves this place and all of the locations in Lexington closed. We found the closest one to us in Paris, Ky. This woman looks extremely happy to me!

For Mother's Day we also took Jennifer to a little zoo in Cynthiana, Ky. I had heard about it and thought it would be something fun for the kids. They both got cups of carrots to feed to the animals. They have goats, camels, turtles, sloths, kangaroos, lamas, emu, zebras, cattle, capybaras, and lots of birds.

The parakeet house did not disappoint. We got little feeding sticks for the birds. Well these birds were crazy. They would land on you and walk all over your body. I had multiple ones that tried to walk up the bottom of my shorts. Brinley was terrified of them and was so jumpy the whole time we were in there. I absolutely love the top left picture of her. It just cracks me up because she is always talking about how much she loves animals and then freaked out when they landed on her. Landon let them walk all over him. Then they would nibble on his skin and he would freak out a bit. 

UK Baseball has had an amazing season and we have never gotten out to see them. I really wanted to but Landon says that he doesn't like watching other people play ball. We finally decided to go one night after his baseball practice. He got some nachos and a drink and we sat and talked strategy and what he would do in the certain situations. It was honestly one of my favorite sporting events I have had with him because we got to talk sports. No video games or distractions. He never even asked for my phone. UK came through with the win too so it was a great night. 

One of the previous owners of our house decided to paint the tile in the entry way and kitchen. Jennifer got an idea to scape all the paint off. She started and I decided to help with some of the manual labor. It was not a fun experience, but I am glad that we did it. It looks so much better. 

On one of my days off in May I decided to have lunch with Landon at school . Middle school doesn't allow parents to come eat with their kids. I'm not sure that many kids would enjoy a parent visiting. On this day though Landon really enjoyed the Little Ceasars pizza and cheese sticks that I brought him. 

After we got the backyard cleared out we now had a great place to hang up the hammock. I enjoyed one afternoon relaxing and I actually fell asleep listening to the birds. Also check out that tan line on my feet. You can tell that I wear my sandals everyday. 

The kids had a day off from school for primary election day. I was off as well so we packed up the car and headed to King's Island. This is the first time that Landon was tall enough for all the coasters without having to put rolled up socks in his shoes. He was so happy!

My roller coaster riding buddies. They really need to stop growing up on me. They of course also wanted to get some blue ice cream.

Landon has been playing pick up baseball with a team out of Lexington called the Warriors. They are a great group of kids and wonderful parents and coaches. They have truly accepted Landon into the group. One little guy, Luke (pictured) has become one of Landon's good friends. They had a tournament that we played with them in Harrodsburg. They won the first game and were getting ready to play in the championship when the tornado sirens started going off. People went absolutely crazy. The players and families all ran into the bathrooms to get into some cover. The sirens stopped and they decided to cancel the rest of the tournament and gave rings out based on the seeding from the day before. They got a runner up ring, his first with the team. 

Landon graduated from 5th grade. He is a really bright student and I can't wait to see what the future holds for this young man. We are proud to be his parents.

After the graduation they had cupcakes and we took pictures with some friends and his teacher. Jennifer went out and bought shoes for him to wear with his outfit, but Landon really wanted to wear his crocs. He had worn crocs every single day of school and he said it was his calling card. I told him to wear the crocs. 

Just like Brinley did after her graduation we went to Boone Creek Outdoors to play on the obstacle course. He had the course to himself. He got really upset a couple of times because his device got stuck a few times and the guy had to come up and get it released. By the end of it he was flying on the course. 

The day after graduation was actually the last day of school. Both kids were ready for the school year to be over. After school we went to get shaved ice. 

The kids had their first summer youth night at church. Jennifer and I used this time to get one of our alphabet dates in. I picked Freddy's and then we went to pick out flowers for the front of our house.