Preschool Graduation!

Mr. Evan officially graduated from Preschool on Wed! It was happy and sad all at the same time! We hosted the party at our house and all the kids brought their ride on toys and had a blast riding and playing all over the yard! We grilled out and had a little picnic. Mrs. Shannon did a graduation ceremony for the kids and gave them their diploma! They sang a song about kindergarten and then they moved their tassels and threw their hats just like in any other graduation! Evan is soooooo excited about going to kindergarten! We took him to register back in April and he got the chance to see where he would be going and to meet some of the teachers. His school makes a neat little DVD for them to watch that shows them around the school and what their day is going to be like. I think that I am just in disbelief that he is done with preschool. I had to fight back the tears the other day but so happy and thankful for this new adventure that we are about to take! And Miss Lillie will start preschool in the fall with Mrs. Shannon and she is super excited. Right now when I drop off Evan she cries to go be with Mrs. Shannon so I am hoping that her transition there will be easy!

It's Time for a Post!

Sweet Sister!
JoAnn, Me, Heather, and Leslie

My old roomies!

Sweet Annalyse

Evan up to bat!

Out in the field!

Lillie wanted us to take a picture of her eyeshadow!

Getting her flowers after her dance!

I am officially long overdue for a post! So I am going to play catch up for the last 3 months of our lives! Back in February I took a quick trip to NWA to visit a dear friend and meet her new baby girl! It was a fun trip and was nice to get away even though it was only for a day! I got to see some other college friends while I was there but best of all I got to hold and love one of the sweetest baby girls all day long! I admit I was a baby hog and loved every minute of it! Of coarse anytime between then and Easter Sunday is a complete blur for me since I painted over 100 buckets this year! Crazy I know and I am still in disbelief how that all happened. Lots of long nights here at the Gaston household! Also I had some pics from Easter Sunday but I think that I had a bad card for my camera and it erased a ton of pictures that I had. So moving along! Evan played baseball again this year. He moved up to the pitching machine. A little scary at first but he caught on and actually has been hitting it off the pitching machine! Lillie has been taking dance this year and a few weeks ago she had her recital! Oh how I have dreamed of this day forever! I was a little worried about her at rehearsal because she just stood there for the entire dance! She is the youngest in her class so I figured this might happen. So that day I begged her to do her dance when she got on stage and the little girl hammed it up and I really think that she found a love for being on stage! It was fun and she got flowers at the end and just thought she was hot stuff! That is the highlights of our last three months hopefully I will be a better blogger in the future!

Evan's Fifth Birthday Party!

He wore the mask the entire party!

Yesterday was Evan's birthday party. We had a pizza party at Larry's Pizza. He wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle party so it was a fit since those turtles love their pizza! It was such an easy party for me since they do just about everything for you! My wonderful mom found him a TMNT cake pan so that she could make his cake for him. She stayed up til 1:30am working on it! Thanks again Gee!!!! When my brother and I were little she made all of our birthday cakes for us so it is so nice that she continues to do that for my kids! He loved playing with all of his friends at the party. He got lots of new goodies that he played with all night long!! My wonderful friend Anita at A Piece of Pope made his invitations! Thanks to her we always have super cute invitations! For party favors all the kids got a pizza box filled with TMNT goodies and candy. On the top of the box it said, "It's totally awesome you came to my party Dude!" Another little something designed by Anita to match his invitation!! Thank you to everyone who came to help celebrate our little mans birthday!

Evan's Valentine's Party!

Here are a few pics from Evan's valentine's party. Sadly these are the only three that I took! I was the party mom so I got a little preoccupied with everything. We had ice cream sundaes, all the kids took turns putting their valentine's in all the mailboxes! Remember the snow day? I spent that day decoupaging all of those paint cans for all of his little classmates! I saw some of these in a scrapbook magazine that a friend had and had so much fun making them that I will probably be doing some more in the future!

Lillie and her Babies!

I have to say that Lillie has always loved her baby dolls. She plays with them all day. Lately she has been making nap mats all over the house. She will disappear into her room and when I go check on her she has every pillow and blanket on the floor with all babies on each of them taking naps! These pictures are from the snow day of her and a few of her babies!

Snow Day 2010!!!

Here are some pics of the kids from the snow days this past week. Evan loves playing out in it but Miss Lillie, not so much! She kind of just hangs around in the garage and watches Evan! I have to say that I now know why my mom hated days when we got snowed in! The kids made snow ice cream, hung out by the fire played and played and played while I worked on all the goodies for Evan's preschool party and his birthday party! Brad went in to the restaurant for a bit and when he came home him and Evan built a snowman while Lillie watched from the front porch!!!

Five Years!!!

A week from today our little Evan will turn five! I am a mixture of emotions about it. I am so thankful to have such a wonderful little boy. I think that here lately I have been thinking back over the last five years of his life and realizing just how quickly they have gone by. Lately I have wanted to go back to when he was an infant and enjoy so many things that I feel like I kind of wished away. I found a picture of me feeding him a bottle and remembered how I was so ready to get out of that phase of his life because I thought it would just be easier. Oh how I would give anything to feel him snuggled up in my arms like that again. I miss that chubby little baby boy that loved to hold my hands when he was tired or upset. I can remember driving in the car and he would be cranky and all I would have to do is twist my arm back there so he could hold my hand and he would be so happy and content! I miss those days but I look forward to all the days and years ahead as we get to watch him grow and become the amazing person that I know he will be one day!!!! Maybe next week on his actually birthday I will share the story of his big entrance into this world. After all he was a Super baby that was born early on Super Bowl Sunday!!!! Hope you enjoy the pictures, I could have posted a million of him but I narrowed it down to just a few!!!!