Mother's Day 2018

We got to you Mattias' families mountain home. It was amazing!

 Everything was so green!

 We hiked and hiked and hiked

 So much Moose & Bear Poop. I was walking around like the Step Mom in Parent Trap hitting two sticks together.

 "The Black Castle" in the woods as Mattias calls it.

I was spoiled with love and FUDGE! Great weekend.

Tennis

Both boys are in their first ever tennis lessons. It is what spring is all about, sitting on the grass, soaking in the sun and hearing those balls bounce.

 Cody (little brother Bryson), Ryan, Charlie, Lincoln

Henry Hagstrom & Connor

End of the year busyness

My favorite author Jen Hatmaker recently posted on instagram how the last 4 weeks of school are simply AWFUL. As I write this I feel my stomach knotting up, and frankly I need to get to the yoga studio. It seems every day their is a bio fold project needing to be done, a $.50 needing to be collected, a packed lunch made that I wasn't anticipating, a field trip on the horizon. BARF. I just want days of sleeping in, with nothing on the calendar. We are down to 3 and a half weeks of school, yippee!

This month has been soccer soccer soccer. Connor has soccer practice M, W, Th with games on the weekends. Connor is still doing his advanced math, daily (they said it is like eating, you have to do it every day to survive) and starting this week we have the summer off from piano lessons. Tennis starts next week for both boys. Hoping they can learn to volley back and forth a little so this summer we can make tennis a family affair.
I've had a lot of fun the month of April researching my ancestry and these are two of the paintings of ancient relatives.

 New play doh set, dentist/orthodontist themed

 Connor went for the FIRST time to take your son to work day with Ray. He met our Parker Co Mayor, Mike Wade (his hair is crazy to help raise money for childhood cancer research)

 The tree house is in constant construction mode, adding a board here or there

 Connor showing off his muscles after a soccer game

We went to the football stadium to watch babysitter Katie play a high school girls soccer game

Everybody Loves Raymond

Ray Ray had a birthday! We mostly celebrated in Reno over spring break. He treated himself this week to no longer needing glasses or contact and got Lasik. The procedure was pretty neat I got to watch the whole 10 minutes. He now has 20/20 in one eye and 20/15 in the other. Pretty cool.

Happy Easter from the Moormans

Kitchen Cabinet Update

We finally got around to the kitchen! Painted the walls, had someone paint the cabinets, and got new hardware for the drawers.

4 day weekends

Friday we went skiing (Ryan's first time staying with us and not going to a lesson). My boys are getting so old!

Saturday Ryan had basketball
Sunday we went three hours south to Buena Vista CO to some hot springs.
It was super cool, Ive never been to something like that.

100 days of school

 Half of Ryan's class was out sick with the flu

GG sent her famous Valentine's Day cookies, made for some happy boys

Upgrades

We seem to go in waves of upgrades to the house. STILL working on taking the house from 1996 to 2018.

We had originally painted the nude wood cabinets white in the laundry room. I do not recommend the "Cabinet Kit" from home depot. We wiped down cabinets, taped, did multiple coats of paint and have been unhappy with the results for the last 2-ish years of living with the white cabinets. The paint quality was just garbage. Knowing that the kitchen cabinets are being painted in March I thought it would be a good idea to test out the grey paint color I was thinking for the kitchen island by painting the laundry room cabinets that test color.
Sherwin Williams Dorian Grey for the cabinets, walls are repose grey in the kitchen

BEFORE

AFTER

THE KNOB THAT WE ARE USING IN THE KITCHEN

Chandelier 1 of 2

BEFORE

AFTER

 I painted the wood trim around the ceiling inlay white, it has been raw wood and was I think the final piece of trim I had left to paint in the house (yay, happy dance)

Belive, by Connor Moorman

You may or may not know that Connor wants to be a song written when he grows up. Originally it was all for the idea of making it rich. He has though over the years written a few good ones.

He has been working really hard 7 days a week at his advanced math program, Kumon. Last night he said that he had come up with a song that he sings to himself when he gets frustrated at Kumon. I asked him to write it down for me and here is what I got. I might have gotten a little teary eyed.

*PS he would be mortified if he knew I shared this.

Believe

I believe I believe

I believe in you

I believe you can do it 

Believe you can do it

Don't be sad

Don't be mad

Just believe

You can do it

Schedules

Today in the bath instead of relaxing and enjoying the 5 minutes to myself this was my thought pattern;
Monday: Kumon (connor's advanced math tutoring), Homework, Practice Piano
Tuesday: Kumon homework, school homework, Practice Piano
Wednesday: Kumon, Piano, Homework
Thursday: Kumon homework, Piano, Homework
Friday: Kumon homework, Piano (drive to the mountains for ski weekend)
Saturday: Basketball, Kumon, Piano

Ahhh we are too busy! Good thing I have a day planner. Ahhh this our "down season" when soccer starts up (in march) we will have soccer 4 days a week for Connor on top of Piano, Teniss & Kumon. Ryan will have tennis 2 days a week.

I think I'm running all these things in my head as "too much" from the mere fact that we had a wonderfully lazy and family oriented 3 week off over Christmas time. The lack of hustle and bustle is THE BEST!


CHRISTMAS PHOTOS:

 We got to hang with Sawyer for a whole week!

 Heather's wrapping job was AMAZING! Goals for next year!

 We got a quick day trip to Cleveland in (Emma Clare is running away from me in this picture) Aunt Kerry got the boys "boy journals that lock" that was a huge hit!

 Let's fly home. **On our flight out Ray & I got upgraded to first class with 98 Degrees singer Justin Jeffe

 Christmas Eve picture (thanks to the tripod) 

 Ryan's hair is going through an awkward phase as we grow out a bad haircut

Connor with his first love. These two are getting so old. Look at Izzy rocking a chocker, lol!