Allison's soccer game, hanging out with these crazy kids, cleaning out the garage, cooking tons of food, pool party for my niece's birthday, making plans for the summer...

The plans for this summer include my hard-working honey taking his Barbri class 4+ hours per day 5 days per week and studying all day on the other 2 days.... Bar exam is scheduled for July! 

Visual narrations of Leighton's Law School Graduation weekend:

Brody stuffing his face with the last of the hot dog and popcorn. Allison sleeping through everything...

Ya, they are totally, totally out of order... 

Great picture of the family... other than Leighton making a goofball face

Rio Buffet with the family after the ceremony, Brody trying to figure out those tricky crab legs. 

Allison's soccer pictures. I like the first one - her tomboy personality really shows through.

Lazy day hanging out upstairs with Allison, Coco, the fish and some M&Ms. That was a great day. I need more of those.

Brody's school had a spring festival - Brody liked all of the carnival games, Allison loved the horses! 

I was making dinner and didn't want the kids in there with me, so I told them to go in the game room and play. 30 minutes minutes later, they had all the games out... cards... puzzles, everything. at least they were having fun. 

Benjamin does not like to be on his back. If he is tired and we want him to go to sleep, sometimes, we can just lay him on his tummy or his side and he will go right to sleep. I love taking pictures of him!!

Lake day:

As with the two other kids, Benjamin went almost completely bald soon after birth. We are just now seeing some new hair growing in the bald parts. YAY!!!

Easter Sunday, the kids woke up early to check out what the Easter bunny brought for them:

Allison loves to dance. She will dance pretty much anytime there is music on. Here she is in the middle of her triple lutz:

I gave Benjamin a bath and laid him on the bed to put lotion on him. I rolled him over to lotion his back and he fell asleep just like this, so I had to take a picture. 

I can't make anything without the kids coming in and scavenging off whatever I am making. Tomatoes, cheese, potatoes, broccoli, fruit, whatever is getting chopped up at the time. They used to do it because they were hungry, but now they just automatically come to the kitchen anytime I am cooking - out of habit. 

So, here is the birth story since people have been asking about it. (apparently, they missed the post about me having a scheduled c-section). So, I went to the hospital, had a baby, then came home two days later. Pretty awesome. 

The really awesome part about it is that I am so blessed to have the most AMAZING!! family that dropped everything in their lives to come and take care of me and the kids while I was recovering from the C-section. I have nothing but positive memories and warm thoughts of those days.

 And, now that our family is complete with our perfect little baby boy, we are still adjusting to the new "everyday".

I LOOOOOVE waking up to this sweet face - no matter how early. Here he is with his first milk mustache and his "compliments to the chef" smirk. 

Brody and Allison playing in the backyard. When they are not fighting, they actually get along pretty well. 

Our new night-time thing - pretty much the same as before except with a baby sleeping on the couch

Allison loves her baby brother, and she likes to put all of her new baby skills to work on Elmo. 

Benjamin falling asleep during a diaper change:

Brody and Allison have learned to be surprisingly independent during the pregnancy - when mommy was too pregnant to go upstairs and daddy was still at school - my favorite part is that they can now put themselves to bed!

just thought I would throw this one in here:

Playing outside in a cold rainstorm and following up with a hot chocolate

and Brody lost his first tooth!!!!

Two days before Benjamin's arrival, Brody decided to take pictures of his sister, Coco, and a giant pile of laundry. 

The night before Benjamin's arrival: Grandma getting ready for a crazy week, daddy stressing out, Kristen just being huge. 

  HAHA:  

Some candids from the hospital: