The Rabens Family: May 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Jocelyn's School Birthday Party!

Today we celebrated Jocelyn's summer birthday at school.

Jude and Jocelyn share the same birthday.

It was Field Day at school today too, so the kids had a blast playing in the bouncy house.

The birthday girl crawling through the tunnel.

Jocelyn with her double decker cookie cake!

(We got the cookie cake for the preschoolers to eat.)

Jocelyn with her pink polka dot birthday cake!

(We got this cake for the high school helpers to eat.)

Here is the video of everyone singing "Happy Birthday" to Jocelyn.

Happy (early) 5th Birthday Jocelyn!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Baby Gage!

Today we went over to Travis and Brenda's house to meet baby Gage for the first time.

Gage Alexander was born on Thursday, May 19th at 2:05 pm.

He weighed 7 lbs. 2.5 oz. and was 17.25 inches long.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Time with Amelia!

Today is Drew and Jamie's anniversary. The girls and I offered to watch Amelia, so that they could go out on a date. They went to the driving range and then out to lunch.

We had fun playing outside.

The girls enjoyed helping Amelia with everything.

The three girls had a great time together.

After dinner we went to Noland Trail to walk a little bit. We discovered this HUGE turtle.

It was a beautiful evening to enjoy the outdoors.

After enjoying the peacefulness of the lake, we headed to Rita's for dessert.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Fish Bowl Snacks

This week Jocelyn's preschool class is learning about fish, so Madison read them Rainbow Fish 1,2,3.

We made them Fish Bowl snacks to eat after the story using a rice cake, blue icing and Swedish fish.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Happy Birthday Granddaddy!

We LOVE you LOTS Granddaddy! We hope you have a wonderful birthday. We wish we could be with you to help you celebrate your special day.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Sailboat Snack

This week Jocelyn's preschool class was learning about boats, so Madison read This Boat to the class.

We made little sailboat snacks for a special treat after the story. We used celery, peanut butter, a toothpick and cheese to make these cute sailboat snacks.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Breakfast in Bed!

The girls (and Daddy) surprised me with breakfast in bed for Mother's Day! They made stuffed French toast with strawberries and bananas. They even went outside and picked a pretty flower for me.

Jocelyn couldn't wait to give me the special Mother's Day gift she made at preschool.

A little Jocelyn flower made out of her hand and footprints.

Madison wrote me a song for Mother's Day.

I LOVE YOU!

By: Madison Rabens

I love you. I just love you so much that I could kiss you so much.

You make me breakfast, lunch and dinner.

You are a great teacher!

Here is the video of Madison singing her special Mother's Day song for Mommy:

I LOVE my girls so much and feel extremely blessed to be their Mommy. What a special gift from God they both are.

We want to wish my mom, Clay's mom, our grandmothers, Jocelyn's birthmother, Jocelyn's birth grandmother, and all of the other mothers a very Happy Mother's Day!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

We are so proud of Daddy for getting his wings. The girls made him a special banner to celebrate Daddy's accomplishment. Madison wore her red, white and blue and Jocelyn wore her flight suit to the airport to pick up Daddy. We are so happy to have him home for a few days before he leaves for another month of training.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Jocelyn can READ!

Jocelyn is just starting to learn to read. She has known her letters and sounds for quite awhile now and is finally showing interest in learning how to read. Madison took her up to her room with some easy readers and gave her a quick lesson. It was very cute! Jocelyn came downstairs all excited and couldn't wait to read me a book all by herself. I was on the phone with Grandma so we both got to hear her read the book HOT! She wanted me to make a video of her reading for everyone and decided to read you a book about one of her favorite foods.