March

Kicked off March with Cane’s Fest for Brooks at Rocker B, which just so happens to be an awesome baseball facility about 15 minutes from our lake house!

He’s getting to catch again with this “new” team!

Ellis captured this beautiful rainbow on her iPad!

His team had a cookout after their games! Why does Brooks look like a frat boy, lol? It wasn’t exactly warm and they dared him to jump in the lake, hence, why he’s the only shirtless one.

Shep was so proud of his invention….

This is my favorite sight! I love that all three kids are old enough to go explore the neighborhood on their own with their friends!

”The Creek” is the place to hang for all the 5th graders!

G.G passed away at 86 years young and is now whole again. Rejoicing with our savior for a life well lived. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be at the services to honor her, but thankfully Adam and Brooks were able to be there. Aunt Lesley was so sweet to take these next two pics for me…

One random Friday night we played “Door Dash Roulette”, where everyone orders food but doesn’t tell anyone else where from. We all get surprised when it’s delivered. We ended up with Thai food, wings, tacos, Chinese food, and American apps. Such a fun evening with friends and lots of yummy food!

Ellis was so excited to show off her horse riding skills to Shep!

It’s Spring Break time! Off to Colorado we go! This year we went to Winter Park for the first time, which is where Julie Cisneros grew up going with her Aunt.

The boys had some intense wrestling matches going on during out flight, lol

Ran into Jen Dickson at the Denver airport, one of my long time high school friends who was also my college roommate! It was so fun getting to see her!

Met up with the Cisneros’ at the Denver airport as well, and these two besties were so excited to see each other after 2 and a half long months!

Drove to our Airbnb and the kids immediately suited up to play outside!

Then they had to warm up in the hot tub of course!

Day 1 on the mountain, waiting for our shuttle…

Lunchtime! They had this amazing cookie shop with ginormous cookies!

We split up girls and boys the majority of the time. Not on purpose, it just ended up that way!

Girls always ended a little early each day, which was totally fine by me!

Night time hot tub recovery!

Day 2 was our “off day”, so we went into town to do a little shopping!

Then we went snow tubing for a little fun after shopping and lunch!

Ellis and Maddie! This hill was WAY steeper and higher than it looks

Shep and Brooks…

Gavin and Maddie with Sheps trick jump toward the end…

These were the shirts and sweatshirts the kids had made while we were shopping earlier…

It’s hard to see, but Ellis’ sweatshirt says, “…and yes, the world DOES revolve around ME…” Absolutely perfect for her!

Silly kids have so much fun together!

Loves him!

Girl time in the hot tub!

Ellis danced with David and it was the sweetest thing!

I was so shocked I had to record it!

Playing our favorite game…Mexican Train!

The very end of the “Brain Rot” challenge! These kids and their brain rot lingo is too much, lol

Day 3 – photo shoot while waiting on the shuttle to go back up the mountain!

First lift of the day is the only time we’re all up on the mountain together at the same time (other than lunch)! Love this family of mine and love that we get to do this together year after year!

Love that we have such great friends to experience this with as well!

I have to get video of all the kids on the first run, because after that we all split up….

Brooks and Shep were flying so fast I hardly ever got to see them!

Whole group photo on top of the mountain! Organizing this and finding someone to take it is WAAAAYYYYY harder than it looks!

Redo at the bottom of the mountain! It’s so much easier without all of our skis on!

After lunch I had to video our first run when we were all together again, and I got everyone this time!!!

Adam with the boys on the lift….

Now with the girls….

I was supposed to ride on this lift with Shep, but he fell right before and had to ride by himself.

I was terrified, but he did great and didn’t have a care in the world. I know it won’t be long before the kids are doing runs all on their own, but I’m definitely not ready for that yet.

That’s better! Loves him!

Brooks and Ellis were just coasting…

Moose chilling at the end of our run….

They had to flag down and keep yelling at people to go right. Apparently the moose are not so nice. Never have I ever seen anything like that, but how cool?!?

Snow or shine the boys always have baseball on their minds!

Kid table and adult table at dinner is ALWAYS a good idea!

Last day on the mountain we ALL finally got on the gondola together!!!

Love my Brooksy Bear!

So pretty!

Boys shut the mountain down on the last day….

Another crazy moose sighting!

That’s a wrap on the 2025 Winter Park Dimneros POW POW crew spring break trip! So much fun was had and lots memories were made!

Had two days at home to do laundry and repack, and the boys got to join me at my tennis match!

Our cheering squad!

Our last weekend of spring break we headed to the lake with friends, but first, Oreo got his first “pup cup”… Of course he loved it and gobbled it all up!

We had a FULL house with the Stolarski’s and Van Aswegen’s joining us!

Girls….

Boys…

Max loves Oreo….

And Ms. Nancy is Otter’s favorite!

Sweet girls again! We let Ellis invite Meredith, because sometimes a 3 girl dynamic can be tough…

Silly boys! Odd numbers are usually never a problem with the boys, thank gosh!

Everyone loves Otter!

Poor Oreo got a makeover by the girls, lol…

It was still a little cold, so we didn’t get the boat out, but we got to enjoy the beach!

Boys were floating off and didn’t have life jackets. I almost had to jump in to go after them, it was very stressful for a hot minute. Never again, lol!

Poor Connor almost got completely buried! He was such a good sport!

Dinner and football at Hemingways!

S’mores for dessert!

Boys take more selfies than the girls, I swear!

I was shook by the amount of expensive skin care products and makeup all these girls have! They begged me to let them do a makeover on me, and of course I jumped on it!

So naturAL

Stolarskis and Van Aswegen’s left and I took the kids back to the beach. Thankfully, I remembered the life jackets this time!

I mean what else would you do with a folding chair you found on the beach?!

Shep is such good sport, lol

Dinner time at the golf club!

Love those lake sunsets!

Spring Break 2025 was jam packed and of course lots of fun!

Ellis decided she wanted to try and glue her wig on again…

It always looks sooooo good when we leave the salon! I wish I could make it look like that everyday!

Unfortunately, the glue gave her a rash again. It was awesome while it lasted, so hopefully we can figure something else out eventually…

Ellis’ new obsession is the show, “Dance Moms”. She joined an Acro class with her friend Camryn. This is such good exercise for her and really compliments her gymnastics skills. I hope she sticks with this and can’t wait for her first dance recital in June!

This stud is killing it on the mound this year! His confidence and accuracy have improved so much! An awesome photographer mom on the other team took these pics for us!

That tongue! Love my baby boy!

Another “Baseball Moms” outing to fill my cup!

Grandma and Aunt Kelly came in town to watch the boys play ball, and I’m so upset that this was the only pic I took of the one and only game they got to see. Unfortunately, the rain canceled all the baseball for the weekend.

They at least got to see Brooks before his big Cotillion Spring Ball!

From the ball fields to the ballroom! This dapper and handsome gentleman cleans up pretty darn good if I do say so myself!

Oh how I adore him!

I got to escort him to the ball and even dance with him the last 30 minutes!

My amazing friend who was a chaperone took this adorable video for me…

His baseball buddy, Hayes!

Most handsome and best dance partner (besides Daddy) ever!

He took me to a “fancy” dinner after the ball and was so chivalrous opening my car door!

Moooooommmm, stop videoing me, lol….

Both our favorite restaurant!!!

Yummo! Such an unforgettable and fun evening with my not so little baby boy!

These cousins had a blast playing all weekend!

Hate that Grandma and Aunt Kelly didn’t get to see them play, but we still had a great time visiting with them all weekend!!

Brooks has started taking golf lessons again and got to play with Daddy one Sunday afternoon. Can’t wait for the day Brooks snakes him on the course!!