Midnight Blue/Battleship Gray

It was sports week in Johnny's class. I put the newsletter on the fridge. When I glanced back at it, I saw that Daddy had left his mark. 

BAD BLOGGER

Wow. Have I been a bad "blogger"--going back to work full-time will do that to you. Here's an album of phone pics--basically my phone dump over the last several months. Some random pics mixed in with:

• Easter w/Nonna
• Parent's Day at Noonan Academy
• Parker & Delaney's Birthday Parties
• Nashville Country Music Half Marathon
• Weekend Trip to Indianaoplis--Children's Museum & St. Elmo's

Enjoy! You wouldn't know I was a photographer with the crappy quality of these pics, yikes!

Photo Dump

Jigsaw Boy

Our kids love puzzles! Always have. We were amazed at what an interest Lola had in them from a very young age, so we encourgaged it with Johnny as well, always giving him puzzles that were "above his pay grade" if you will :) to challange him. 

He is at such an exciting stage. Talking so much, telling us new things every day and sharpening his jigaw skills very quickly!

PreK Spring Show Brings Mama Waterworks

Lola had her spring show this morning at school. It was called "E-I-E-I-Opps!". Very cute. She was a part of the "chick" crew (hence the yellow shirts). It was sweet, as always. At the end, Mrs. Mary Beth was talking about how much they have bloomed this year and I totally, utterly lost it. Started bawling like a baby. Thankful I had my mom sitting next to me!

It's been an awesome two years of preschool for Lola at NEA. Even though she is just moving over to the next classroom in the fall, it's still hard for me to wrap my mind around the fact she is going to be in KINDERGARTEN next year. I am so excited for her, I know she's going to love it. However, I've also resigned myself to the fact I'm going to be a wreck that day--and if this is what I was like at the spring show, I'm starting to really worry about my state on that day this fall!

Here's Lola and one of her original buddies from nursery school. So sweet!

Johnny's 2nd Birthday

While we were in Flordia way back in November (!), the famly threw a wonderful birthday party for Johnny at Friendship Park in Oviedo. Tracy provided the festive decorations, Ren made delicious cupcakes and Mom &  Dad brought yummy Panera bagels for everyone. The weather was simply fantastic and everyone had a great time! It meant so much to have everyone come out to celebrate our sweet boy...

Check out the huge album of pics!

Johnny's 2nd Birthday

Holy Half 10k

I ran my first 10k ever this morning in ND's gorgeous campus. Since they are an hour ahead of us this time of year I had to rise at 5 am to make it for the 9 am start. When my alarm went off I almost snoozed it. Why is my alarm going off so early? It's Saturday! Oh yea. I almost forgot.

I am trying to find races on weekends that fall with my training plan for the Nashville half. This was perfect as I needed to get 6 miles in this weekend. I love this campus. It is and always will be home. HCC-SMC-ND. Nothing better.

My cousin Jessica is a freshman. This was her first race ever and I think she's caught the bug. So proud of her! We met up before the race then replaced our burned calories at North dining hall after the finish. Boy I miss those days.

My unofficial time is 1:18:00. Ill have to check the real time soon. I diverted to the Grotto for a few minutes. I couldn't not.

The nice tech shirt...

Just before the start. It was a bit chilly but once we got moving, it was perfect. The sun was shinning and it was an awesome early spring day.

Passing the Hesburgh library aka Touchdown Jesus. The front is a mosaic..."Word of Life".

The squirrels of Notre Dame are legendary. They are the size of small house cats (very fat) and are everywhere! The one was helping himself to a banana a student had tossed.

One of the mile makers. All had fun quotes. I particularly liked this one. Sums up running very much so...especially as I was being LAPPED by the guys leading the pack of the half-marathoners. Ha!

St. Pat's Party

We had a fun St. Pat's Party (kid-friendly) with our good buddies, the Noonan's, last night. Mike plated up a delicious presentation of Anna's corned beef. I didn't take a pic of my Guinness Shepard's Pie, but i loved the new recipe I tried. 

 A fun cake for dessert from our new favorite store, Mariano's.

 Our little Irish princesses.

 Fun with party props.

MJ builds some awesome Lego masterpieces. Johnny loves playing with them whenever we go over there!

Why bathrooms are made of tile.

Sunday Morning Art

It was a very early wake up call from our cuites this Sunday morning. By 7 am, Lola was already well on her way to creating the days Masterpieces :)

She thinks having a pallet like Rapunzel is very neat. 

She was singing the "Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and don't forget there's Purple too, Rainbow colors for me and you!" song Minnie sings and I looked over to find, yep, a Rainbow.

And finally, {the hernandez four} in Ireland. Daddy and her drew this together. I love it and will hang it in our cottage in Ireland one day. Can't wait to take them one day to experience the beauty we're always telling them about.

Build-A-Bear

After school on Friday, we hit the mall so Lola could use some of the gift cards she got from Auntie Mary + Uncle John for Christmas. Johnny didn't seem too interested, so we're going to save his until later. Daddy took him across the way to Disney to pick out a new Lightning McQueen car and some amazing Iron Man jammies while Lola built "Bow"...her new Hello Kitty which she LOVES!