Growing up...

 

Dorian has completed his year in Kindergarten.  Levi has completed his year in preschool.  And Mason is now 2 months old!  Let the summer fun begin!!!

Warm weather...yeah!  It was crazy to have a 101 degree day on May 14 when 36 hours before, it was literally freezing.

Preschool Graduation, May 15:  It was so fun to watch Levi sing with his preschool friends for his preschool graduation!  I'm so proud of him.  He's had a very fun year and I'm so thankful for his wonderful teachers.

 

Levi had a carnival on his last day of preschool!  He was thrilled to take his turn in the jumpy house!!!

 

SCCS Theme Extravaganza, May 20:  What a crazy night.  Dorian had his last soccer game from 5 to 6:00.  And at 7:00 was the SCCS Theme Extravaganza.  After eating supper as quickly as we could, we arrived with enough time to find a seat in the balcony.  So this was our view and Dorian was sitting with the rest of the Kindergarten class in their yellow shirts.  It was a great program, but we were quite surprised that it didn't end until 8:45!  We're proud of Dorian for all that he's learned this past year in school. 

We were very excited to find 3 little blue eggs in a nest in the wreath that's right outside our front door.  We've been watching them closely. 

This picture was taken less than an hour from when the last 2 eggs hatched!  Amazing.

 

Mason is 2 months old!

I had fun taking pictures of him.  The boys joined in and found their cameras as well.  :)  It was great to capture many of Mason's expressions!

Spring

April 25
Dorian played his very first soccer game and I was thrilled to start my career as "soccer mom".  :)  With 3 boys I know I'm going to be attending many athletic events and I can't wait!  Nathan decided to coach Dorian's team!

Levi and his friend Will were cheering for their brothers!

April 26
Ag Day at Dordt. 
Nathan met us for lunch and then the boys climbed on as many of the tractors as they could!

 

Levi's soccer shirt came in the mail for his soccer camp in June.  He is super excited!!!

 

April 30
Mason loves to look at the lights and the ceiling fans.  The boys thought it would be silly to all copy Mason.  :)  I thought it was silly, but also super cute!

 

Yeah!  It was warm enough for all the boys to be wearing shorts!!!  It was 4:00 which means you'll always find the boys on the couch watching their favorite show, Wild Kratts.

                                     
May 1
Heidi stopped over because Eden was really wanting to see Mason again.  She adores that little boy and always calls him Mason Jay.  :) 
Heidi was holding both of our baby's!

May Day:  Yes, this is what our deck looked like on May 1st!  It was actually kind of funny to me because it was so ridiculous.  :)  Compared to our amazing Spring last year, this year is quite the opposite.  I did find comfort in the fact that the last time it's snowed around here in May was in 1976.  :) 

 Tummy time didn't last too long.  But look how strong he is getting!

Levi made me a beautiful May Day basket at preschool.  It was filled with candy which we promptly ended up eating together.  :)

 

May 3

Mom and  Grandma came to see the boys before heading over to Heidi's house to celebrate Aniah, Eden and Adria's birthdays.  It was fun to catch a picture of Levi with his Great Grandma eating cupcakes and having fun together.

                                     

 





May 4
I needed to take a picture of Mason in his new shirt that says, "Future Student of Sioux Center Christian School."

 

May 5

It was Sunday afternoon and I was snuggling with Mason.  The boys were playing Monopoly which they've played at least 10 times this past week since Kerry gave it to us. 

 

 

May 8

I wanted to capture Mason's smiles on camera!!!  He smiled for the first time at me on April 29 and my heart immediately filled with joy and my eyes teared up.  It was the most precious moment and I'll never forget it.

May 12

Mother's Day

I'm one blessed momma!

After church I went outside to swing with the boys! 

Dorian wrapped a couple of presents for me.  The one from him was a picture that he colored and a special rock that he found outside!  So sweet.  The one from "all the boys, even Mason" was some candy.  I'm also so excited to be getting a necklace in the mail soon with each of the boys names on it!

This was a delicious chocolate cake with an M for Mommy.  :)  I'm very spoiled!

May 14

Today is already May 14!  Where does the time go!  It's been pretty busy around here lately.  Nathan left around 4:00 this morning for a conference in North Carolina so I'm going to attempt to keep up with everything on my own for the next 4 days. 

 

Last week I was at the clinic 4 times.  A 6 week follow up visit for Mason and myself.  Then we had to go back again a couple days later for Mason to have shots.  Then we were back again with Levi who was diagnosed with strep throat.  And back again with Dorian who had pink eye.  Thankfully everyone is back to full health around here.  And today is the warmest day we've had so far this spring...so I'm hoping we'll all continue to stay healthy. 

 

I had to record a couple of Levi's quotes from this past week.  A couple days ago he came upstairs after just waking up, sat by me and said, "I can't get my legs started this morning."  :)  And the quote from this morning was, "If God is everywhere he has to be in my nose."  Oh that little boy makes me smile!!!

 

All my boys make me smile and I'm so thankful for each of them!

Baptism Weekend & East Coast Visitors!



Yeah!  Brian, Katherine, Mikayla and Caden came over to meet little Mason on Friday morning, April 12.  It was so great to see them again!

Mom and Dad Tintle arrived in the afternoon.  Dorian and Levi were full of energy.

They loved meeting and holding little Mason.

On Saturday morning Mom Tintle was busy cutting fruit for our baptism meal and Dorian and Levi were playing a game of soccer together.  :)

Suzanne and Jillian arrived in the afternoon.  They had never been to Sioux Center before so it was fun to show them our house and to also introduce them to Mason of course.  :)

Sunday was a special day!  We do desire more than anything else, for Mason to grow to know and love the Lord and serve Him in all that he does. 

It was especially meaningful to have Brian baptize Mason.

Katherine made this canvas which was super cute and so sweet of her!

Both of our moms, Kerry, and Heidi helped us in preparing a meal to eat after the church service.  With friends and family there, we had around 60 people!

Mason was really good all day and looked so precious!

Dorian and Levi were happy to help with clean-up since it meant they could push this big broom around. :)

 

Monday was the last day that Mom and Dad Tintle and Suzanne were here.   

This is how Levi used to sleep!  :)

 

The boys had fun teaching Grandpa and Grandma how to play Ticket to Ride.

Dorian had to sing 3 songs with all of the kindergarteners before the school musical.  He did absolutely wonderful!!!  He was so brave and completely comfortable!  The songs sounded perfect and it brought tears to my eyes.  I was just thinking of how thankful I was that we could send him to such a good Christian school.

 

The chevron rug was a last minute addition to the nursery.  I love it!!! 

 Katherine, Mikayla and Caden came over to play and hold Mason.

Dad loves to buy tractors for his grandsons!

Levi was dressed as a cowboy for Wild West Day at preschool.  He was most excited about his rope and pretended to round up cows for a while, but actually rounded up Molly instead. :)  He told us that he was the only one that brought a rope to preschool and was pretty proud of it!

Today is April 23...which means Mason is 1 MONTH OLD!!!  I'm so blessed to have 3 beautiful, healthy boys and I love watching each of them grow and learn new things!