April ... in pieces (also known as: MAN WE'VE BEEN BUSY!)

She turned 14.

We went out for lunch after church for her birthday.

It always seems like a good idea.

It usually turns out to be quite the fiasco.

We do it anyway because tradition trumps toddler-tantrums.

Later, we won't remember the tantrums.

We'll just remember that she turned 14.

And that they weren't toddlers very long.

We ran in the Monument Avenue 10-K again.

Sam & Dad ran in the Kids 1-mile. 

VCU just happened to make it to the Final Four.

Pretty much everybody in this city was a fan :)

Babies cheering on Hannah & Mom ...

Bless their hearts, somehow they missed us :(

Hannah & Amy

One of the many costumed runners ...

All tuckered out.

Emma celebrated her birthday with friends the following weekend ...

First: Sweet Frog Yogurt

Then back to our house!

Emma & Elyse have the same birthday!

Any ideas for what to do about this?

The whole "growing up" thing?

Cause it's gettin' outta control, ya'll.

Guess what? My kids are growing up.

Finally framed our school pics from this year ... and yes I have had them for approximately 5 months.

But I did it!

I keep the old pics behind the new ones in the same frame because I think it's a good place to keep them.
And because I am too lazy and unorganized to find another place to keep them.
And I like to pull them out each year and torture myself with the ridiculous rate of growing that they do each year.

Here. Have fun torturing yourself too ;)

He's about 18 months old in the middle pic.
It was right about here that he began to woo the ladies in this family.
It's been a downhill slippery slope ever since ;)

I remember the far left pic like it was yesterday. He was only 3.
When they handed it to me I started to cry because he looked so old.
I did that today too.

I thought my baby girl was so big in the first pic (far left).
What did I know?

I thought she was my last baby girl ;)
And again ...

What did I know?