TIGF - Special Mother's Day Edition

I scheduled my normal TIGF a while back, but because this one falls so close to Mom's Day I would be a horrible daughter if I forgot to wish my mom a very special Mother's Day this Sunday and tell the everyone on the planet (or lat least my 12 readers) that I have the best mom in the whole world! She's my friend, an amazing grandma, and my favorite shopping buddy (sorry sibs, but she is!)

And not to be forgotten, I am also very thankful for my grandma, whom I love and enjoy seeing her get to be a great-grandma, I'm thankful for my Godmother, Annie, who rocks as an Aunt and Godmom! And I'm thankful that Josh is blessed with a Mom, Grandma and Godmom (I think Aunt Pammy?) who are all very much a part of creating the hubby I love!

I would also like to thank Riley's Godmom's Meg and Jessie! I know, weird, she has two Godmom's right? Well I just don't do normal! Riley is lucky to have 3 fantastic aunties! And I am lucky to have an amazing daughter for whom I am soooo happy to be Mom!

Happy Mother's Day a bit early!

TIGF

This week I'm thankful for kids Riley's age. We are lucky to have lots of people with kids that we can play with and that keeps us busy! Of course there are her cousins, Zack, Adrienne and Kiley, but then there are lots of other kids too...From Emme and Izze to Lexi and Ava and the Nolans and now on Sunday nights we get to see my friend Gill's daughter Marina who is a little older but a good playmate for Roo and there are a few other kiddos at the games too who are younger (Bella and Eddie) and of course Ashley, but she wasn't at this last game. Ahhh, and I can't forget Mandy and Jenny's nanny kids too...I hope I didn't forget anyone, like I said, there are a LOT! Fun times!

Here are a few pics from the softball game to show you Marina (with Riley's glove and ball throwing), Bella (in the pink hat) and Eddie (hanging from the fence with dad, Antonio). There's one other little boy that was there, Andrew, but he's a little older than both Marina and Riley and I didn't get a good picture...He was a good kid though and played will with the younger kids. Maybe I'll get a picture next time I go in late May.

Riley's Pedicure

This past weekend I went to a Pedicure Party and painted my tosies Cha-Cha Cherry...or was it Cha Ching? I don't know...some crazy OPI color. So yesterday in between cleaning up for our company on Friday, I decided to paint Riley's toes...It's some kind of light pink OPI...funny name...let me go check...Blushingham Palace Pink. She loves her pretty toes! She didn't love the cotton between them:)

Ok, I lied...

I was asked to post the pics of some other animals on my blog because Meg thinks my pictures of the pig and goats were better than what she got. So for REAL, this is the last of the AHS blog posts. I'm also adding a few misc. pictures that should have made it on the people page but I had so many posted already...so here's my sis and brother-in-law and Bennett the horse:)

If you're just checking the blog for the first time and you want to see the Wallaby and Monkey pictures, you have to click "older posts" at the bottom of the page or click AHS Info on the right under "Mo's Favorite Themes" :)

The Last of the AHS Posts for the Year, I Swear!

Here are the last of the pics from the walk...well ok, I took 45 so I won't bore you with ALL of them, but the last pics I'm going to post, anyway. These are the "Cooley kids" by way of the Bartsch, Tredinnick and Schuster families.

Other People's Kids

These were just some of the kids on the walk besides our own. Vieve's kids: Colin, Eva and Ally (in my car after the walk waiting for transportation), Nolan, Eli (and his mommy, Jen!), I didn't get any good pics of Gavin and Belle but that would round out our set. More of our kiddos tomorrow...then I swear it's almost done:) Don't forget if you want to see more AHS pics to check out Meg's blog.

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

More from Josh's Game - Action Shots

Here are a few more pictures from Josh's double-header on Sunday night. These are the "action" shots I took! I will post some of the kids later in the week...cute pics!

Pictured from top to bottom: Art (Eric), Hagel (Jenny), Mandy, Tommy B, Gilligan (my college roomie, Gretchen), Jimmy