May Catch Up!

First, our huge big news was Jack's graduation!! He is now officially a DPM, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine and has accepted a residency postion at University Hospitals here in Cleveland, Ohio, so looks like we are staying in Ohio for another three years. A little unexpected for us, we were hoping to head back West and be closer to family, but we are happy with staying too. :o) We have had such a great time here in Ohio and are excited to make even more memories here.
Here are a bunch of pictures from lots of graduation stuff.
This was at the "notes burning" bonfire with the other member families in Jack's graduating class.

And of course, here's Jack tossing Mailee. :o)

OCPM hosts a fun dinner cruise for the graduating class and we get to go out around Lake Eerie for the night and have dinner. It was so much fun. We were so lucky to have my mom and dad in town to help watch the kiddos so we could enjoy this fun night out.

And here is the big graduation day! We were so blessed to have my parents and Jack's parents with us for this special event and we loved, loved, loved sharing the moment with them.

We are so, so, so very proud of this man!! He is so amazing!!
We also celebrated Jaxon's completion of his year of Preschool. His closing ceremonies were so cute. We were so lucky that Jaxon had such a great year of Preschool. We loved his teachers and he learned so much.

 Here are just a couple more pics of what we were up to in May.
We checked out the Children's Museum and had a great time.

 Jaxon actually took this picture! Not too shabby, eh?

We also went to Memphis Kiddie Park and the kids got to enjoy lots of fun rides.

Jaxon and I got to have some mommy-son time and checked out Thomas the Train and lots of fun activities.

 And last, but not least, we were so welcomed by sisters in our new ward and got to meet up with some of them at Patterson Farms to pick strawberries.

Some Easter Pics

We had a very nice Easter at our home, and I was so excited that I was actually able to get some matching outfis for Jaxon and Mailee. It is surprisingly hard to find things to match for a boy and a girl. :o)

Ahhh, aren't they cute? Mailee gives the best hugs.

We had a nice easter feast and ended with some cupcakes and Mailee reeeeally enjoyed hers.

We hid some eggs outside for the kids and had so much fun watching them find them and get so excited about it.

Another big piece of news we received in April was where Jack will be doing his three year residency. He is going to be working with the University Hospitals here in Ohio! So, we will be in the Cleveland area for another three years. Here is Jack signing his life away...:o) Nah, just his residency years and making it all official.

March Fun

We had a pretty busy March. First, Jaxon and I had our first mommy-son date and it was so much fun! We went to a Sesame Street play and it was awesome! Jaxon and I LOVED it!
Here we are right before we left...Jaxon was pretty upset that we weren't "leaving on time and were going to miss it!"
I promise, he cheered up pretty fast. :o)
And we've been lucky enough to have some beautiful, summer weather days in early March, so we of course had to take advantage of that. We did a family trip to the zoo.
Jack and kiddos looking at the lions.
I can't believe this monkey was just hanging out right there next to Jaxon. Jaxon loved watching it.
And last, but not least, we had Jack's birthday to celebrate. Jaxon was old enough this year to help pick out some gifts for Jack and he even helped wrap a couple of them. It was a lot of fun for me to share our "secret surprises" for Jack with this kiddo. He is just sooooo excited for birthdays!
Benihana's does a great birthday coupon, so we headed there for dinner.
Happy Birthday babe!

Jaxon's Birthday Catch Up

Wow, can't believe I didn't post about Jaxon's birthday! We had our first "official" birthday party for him, and it was so much fun. We had a safari theme and of course, I didn't take enough pictures. :oP
Oh well, here are the ones we did catch. :o)
I was so proud of this pinata..I made it and it actually turned out not too bad!
I'm so glad that Jaxon has such good friends here in Ohio. We've had so much fun with all his little buddies.
Jaxon is very much into transformers right now. It's really cute.
Man, I can't believe this little guy is 4 already! Love this guy to pieces!! He is such a sweetheart and just growing up way too fast!