Mother's Day & Father's Day

Mother's Day was a great celebration for us all....

(Avery was avoiding the camera this morning for some reason)

The kids had made some Mother's Day gifts for me at school.  I read each one and loved them!  This was from Avery!

Lovin' on my oldest angel girl...

This was from Jake.  His was hilarious!!  I love his face in this picture.

what a handsome boy...

Happy Mother's Day.  I love my James Avery rings; each symbolizing my children...

I had some wonderful helpers making one of our family favorites:  Breakfast Tacos

cute little man scrubbing a potato

Father's Day was done by the children.  I unfortunately was not a huge help in getting much to celebrate this Wonderful Day and the great blessing of having such an amazing Father to my children.

Avery made him a picture frame choosing pictures of each of us...

I did trace each of the kids hands and frame it for him.  I wrote on the top:  The greatest gift I have came from God, I call him Dad.

Little man wanting his picture taken as he leans across the table saying, "Cheese!"

Jake wrote Dad a letter too.  He's quite the little artist and drew him pictures too.  Again I love his face

I think this picture is one of my favorites.  It's ADORABLE!  I have everyone smiling and looking at the camera.  Yea!

another good picture of the loves of my life.

A Big Day for Emily

May 10th was a wonderfully BIG and EXCITING day for us at the Allred house!  Two big events took place that day...

PRE-K GRADUATION & 5th BIRTHDAY

I love Emily's face in this picture.  The excitement of GRADUATION!

I was able to get a picture of Brittany (one of the HS students assigned to Emily- who also is a good friend of the family) with my oldest two kids who also went to this pre-k.

Emily is the second one in the line of graduates walking right behind the Texas flag...

...lining up onstage....

Cougars group picture....

(again the shoulder to the ear pose she loves to give for pictures)

My oldest duo with the newest Pre-K graduate.

Another picture of our graduate, this time with Aunt Angie.

This is what I was trying to do for Emily's 5th birthday.  She's my pinkalicious girl and wanted a pink room so I made her sleep elsewhere for 1 night and took two days to paint and decorate.  It was a supposed to be a surprise.

I did three walls light pink and a bright pink accent wall...

This is the final result.  The hot pinks don't all match exactly but that's alright.  I also plan on getting pink drawer pulls.

Emily helped me make her birthday cake.  She requested a cake with pink frosting and butterflies.  I let the birthday girl lick the frosting from the beater. 

the Birthday girl opening her presents....

She LOVED being sung to and was so happy

blowing out 5 birthday candles...

I think the Birthday Girl LOVES her new PINK room.

Happy Birthday my sweet Emily!

Overdue vacation..(cont)

With this post being so long I'll keep comments short and sweet.  Our day at Sea World was great and the kids had such a blast. 

This was HUGE!! I went through it with Josh & I have no idea how these kids can just run through it.  The whole time I kept thinking this things gonna come down.  I said at least a dozen prayers up there!

Spencer accompanied the kids on a roller coaster just their size...

We went to the sea lion show with Seymour and Uncle ?? (I can't remember the walrus' name)

Jake still remembers this roller coaster he went on twice.  First with Dad then with me (I have NO idea WHY I got on that thing!  Made my head hurt!)

(This is a picture from one of the shows we watched.)

This is one of my favorite rides!  Jake didn't like it much at all!  (I will admit that it was a bit scary going all alone on this- I went with the girls solo too.  It's nice to have someone to hold on to either in front or behind.)

When you go to Sea World it's a must to see the killer whale show.  The kids LOVED it!!  Jake still draws killer whales from the fun time he had here!

There was a new addition to the whale family.  I can't remember how old the little orka was but it performed right along it's mother.  Very cute.  Lots of Ooohhhs and Aaahhhhs from us all!

I am VERY proud of this picture I took!  I love it and what perfect timing.  It's nose just touching the Believe ball.  So awesome!

(We must reward a job well done with a mouthful of fish!)

Another water ride for the kids.....

Pink Flamingos (just for Emily- my pinkalicious girl!)

Oh....to feed the dolphins.....

touching the fish was always the part I couldn't stand!

The last show we saw before going home was the Beluga whale and dolphin show.

On the drive home we visited a park so the kids could run free......

I tried so hard to get this right.  Everyone put your backs together and touch your shoulders.  Now look up at me.  You can see how well it worked....I got half of them but I wasn't quite directly over them...Oh well.

My little handsome men....