Van was registered for Kindergarten today!!  He was sooooo excited, but he tried to not smile for the picture.!!!  After registration, we celebrated with  a Sonic slushy!!  What a wonderful day for him.  However, I think Miguel and I are more excited than he is!!

Van took Pre-Kindergarten graduation pictures.  He looks so good!!  We can’t believe that his is going to Kindergarten next year…..where did the time go???

He has risen, He has risen, He has risen, INDEED!!  What a wonderful start to a beautiful Easter Sunday.  The boys woke up to basket filled by the Easter bunny.  After a morning coloring session using the new light-up markers and reading the books that the Easter bunny left, we dress in our new Easter clothes and headed to church.  Van and the other Sunday school kids performed during the service.  The sang and did the sign language to Jesus Loves Me.  I thought I was going to cry!!  I love that he loves to sing about Jesus!!  After church, we made a quick stop at Sonic (because Lent is over and Mommy and Papi can now drink Diet Coke!!!).  Then we were off to grandma and grandpa’s house for Easter lunch and hunting eggs.  They boys had a great time finding their eggs.  They were so excited about the golden eggs that they didn’t even bother with the other eggs until they found the golden eggs!!  We had a wonderful day with family!!  Hope your day was blessed as much as ours!!

Friday, after school, we went to go see the Easter bunny!!  Van was very excited but Max (from the beginning of talking about going to see him) said he was scary.  As soon as it was our turn, Van went straight to sit with him and say hi.  Max, started screamed and clawing at me!!  He was not about to let me put him down!!  So, the whole family took a picture with the Easter bunny.  After the picture the Easter bunny gave Max a candy egg and then Max was OK with him.  That proves it…my children can be bought with candy!!  Happy Easter!!!

Van started another season on t-ball on Saturday.  He is very excited about his new team.  On Thursday, he had practice and he got his new jersey.  He was so excited, he wore the jersey to bed.  Then he wanted to wear it to school to show his friends.  Friday night he wanted to wear it to bed again, but I made him take it off to wash it before Saturday’s game….nobody wants a stinky baseball player around them!!!  His team is made up of bigger kids this year which means that Van will have more players to look up to and learn from.  His coaches seem very nice and very helpful.  He is very excited to be a Cardinal!!  Pictures will come later….my camera did not have a memory card and the pictures that I did take on my phone are horrible…Sorry!!!

I’m learning (slowly, but surely) that I can plan anyway that I want to….but God laughs at my plans!!!  I had a FULL spring break planned.  There was something planned for every day!!  Everything from big things like going to the zoo and going camping,  to little things like going to fly kites and picnics in the park.  Unfortunately, VERY LITTLE of that happened!!!  Max developed yet another ear infection (poor guy!!) so we spent the day at the doctor’s office.  Since he had the ear infection, swimming was out and the zoo was out due to the high winds.  Then the rain came in so the camping trip was canceled.  However,we did make it to the park to fly kites and have a picnic.  Van loved the kites, but Max was more excited about playing on the swings.  Since our Spring Break plans were all put on hold, Papi took us to the Dallas Stars hockey game.  We LOVE the Dallas Stars and ice hockey.  To our surprise, the kids all received mini hockey sticks at the door and free T-shirts.  The shirts were an adult medium, but the boys don’t care….they LOVE them and have been playing hockey in the living room ever since.  It was a GREAT end to a wonderful Spring Break!!!

It is not very often that we get snow in Texas….at least not in Dallas.  We usually get a little sleet that turns into ice.  The last time that it “snowed” was 6 years ago.  They were saying on the news that the last time we got this much snow was 32 years ago.  The boys were so excited this morning to play in the snow, but unfortunately we had to wait until school was over to enjoy it.  Once we got home, we immediately went outside.  We built a snowman, buried Papi in the snow, and had a snowball fight.  School is cancelled for tomorrow, so I am sure that we will be outside several more times tomorrow!!!  We have to enjoy this snow….it may be 32 more years before we see snow like this again!!!

Papi is one of the hardest working men I know.  He is always willing to help a friend so that they can better themselves.  He is also striving to always learn himself.  Friday, he won Firefighter of the Year at the annual awards banquet.  When the chief started talking about the award, Miguel started talking to me.  As I am listening to the chief, I realize that he is talking about Miguel who has no idea the chief is talking about him because he is talking to me.  So I start motioning to Miguel that the chief is talking about him.  As I am doing this, he thinks that I am trying to tell him to shut-up and pay attention and starts to get a little irritated by me motioning.  Finally, he realizes that everyone is looking at him and goes up to get his award!!  I am so proud of him.  I have this picture of the award, and I was going to get a picture of him with the chief and the award, but at the very end of the banquet he was called to a SWAT call and the opportunity was lost.  Congrats, Papi!!  We are sooooo proud of you!!!!

Tomorrow (Monday the 8th) is Papi’s big 3-0 birthday.  He is officially old….well, older!!  To celebrate his birthday, he wanted to go to the Dallas Stars game with the family.  We did this last year and the boys liked it but weren’t really all that interested in anything but the people everywhere.  This year, Van was all about the game.  He was glued to every second of the game.  Papi was so excited to share his birthday present with Van.  Max, on the other hand, was more interested in the food!!  He would cheer for a minute, but then wanted to play a game on Mommy’s phone or eat.  Maybe next year he will be more interested.  Tomorrow, we will take Papi out for dinner and dessert.  The boys are so excited that it is his birthday!!

Every Friday is show and tell in Van’s class.  They are to bring something to has to do with what they are studying. Sometimes is has to do with a theme and sometimes is has to do with a letter.  Tomorrow is letter Pp.  Mommy suggested popcorn to share with his friends, his stuffed pig, a picture, a picture of Papi.  Everything is rejected except for the picture of Papi.  Fabulous!!!!  I can totally take care of that!!!….then Papi adds his idea.  Now, my son is taking a picture of Papi picking his nose because “picture,” and “Papi,” and “picking” all start with Pp.  I have TOOOOOOO much testosterone in this house!!!