April 2008

We started off the month celebrating Jack's 8th birthday. We created an Extra Terrestrial extravaganza complete with gurgling, green alien punch and flying saucer pizzas. The kids made their own miniature aliens to take home with them. Jack helped plan and decorate, he enjoyed having his alien fighting buddies with him on his big day.

Except for a short trip up to Philadelphia, we have been doing the soccer thing every weekend this month. The boys love it and have such great coaches and players on their teams. It is so fun to watch them play and to see how much they have improved since last season. GO EAGLES! GO TIGERS!

On the 13th we took off to Philly for another doctor appointment for me. We spent most of Sunday at the Franklin Institute checking out the Star Wars exhibit. The boys loved it and couldn't get enough of the hands on science that went along with all the special effects, artifacts, and robots from the movies. We spent time on Monday morning at Longwood Gardens, just in time for many of the tulips, daffodils, cherry blossoms and dogwoods to be in full bloom. The conservatory was spectacular as well.

As I write this, the boys and I are getting ready to fly out to Colorado today for a two week visit. Dave left Sunday for an eight week project in Utah. Thankfully I will get to go see him this weekend and he will come visit us in Colorado for Mother's Day/his birthday weekend. We are not looking forward to being apart for so long, but we are thankful that we will get to see each other a few times. We meet up again in Nashville over Memorial Day Weekend. We sure miss Dave around here and we are praying that the time will pass quickly!

I better run and pack my bags!