DUCKS!

AGAIN, momma duck came back to my front door to lay eggs!

 

This never gets old!

We just love the preciousness!

Summer

So far, our summer has been nice and LAZY!

Oh I love the laziness of summer.

After a long year of alarm clocks, routines, school, homework, performances, meetings, etc,

we SO need the break.

Time to chill!

We've now traded our days for waking up late, no routines, doing whatever, and staying up late!

 

We are thankful for our neighborhood pool!

Carli had a gift card to Build A Bear, from her Aunt Kayce, Uncle Chad, and cousin Amy for her birthday, so it was time to use that!

It was her first time there and she LOVED it!

She built a bunny and named her Lily!

 Everyday Austin and Carli will play together!

I love that!

I don't have really any pictures of the boys.

Tyler is 15 and off doing his own thing. Working and hanging out with friends. And when he is around, he doesn't like taking pictures.

 Austin loves being in his room coloring and watching movies. This is actually the best thing for him.

With being mentally disabled and having seizures, staying in his comfort zone, with little change in atmosphere and less stimulation is what he needs.

This way, behavior issues and seizures tend to stay away.

He does like taking a picture though, because he says he looks so handsome! I agree!

This all leaves me and my girl to play together.

 

She loves outside! She loves crafting! She loves puzzles too!

 Austin also loves drawing! He drew the picture below of his FAVES,
Sponge Bob and Patrick!

Carli did the below picture.

I have many, many more posts to come!

Carli's Weekend

Saturday night, instead of Carli and Austin going to Tyler's concert,

my friend Samantha came to stay with them.

She has the triplets that are Carli's bffs.

You KNOW they had a great time!

Only the girls cam with her.

They had pizza for dinner.

We got home late and the girls were in their pjs watching a movie and eating snacks.

They kept saying they were in a hot tub!

 

The next morning they picked her up and went to church together.

Then out to lunch at Gringo's.

Later, for dinner, we went over to their house for swimming, dinner, and dessert!

She had a fabulous weekend!

 

Blogiversary

I just realized that my lil' ol' blog turned a year older yesterday!

I can't believe that I've had Ramirez Ramblings for FIVE YEARS now!

Time has flown by! 

I really enjoy journaling about my family's lives!

You can tell by the 932 posts I've written!

I started reading here, my very first post and I cannot stop

reading through all of them!

SO much has happened it  five years!

One, or three, being MY BABIES have grown so stinkin' much!

Just look at the very first picture on my blog of the three of them together!

Austin, 14

Tyler, 10

Carli, 2

Thank you for reading and sharing our ramblings with us.

Here' to many more blog entries!

(I sure hope my children appreciate this one day! Hahaha!)

 

Book Bistro

1st grade held a "Book Bistro"

It was so cute!

The classroom was decorated like a restaurant.

The kids were each chefs.

They took you to their table and showed you a menu.

The items on the menu were books.

Books that you could choose for them to read to you.

Then they served us desserts and water.

 

 

After school, I took Carli to have a milkshake

with her best friends.

 

Pop Show

Tyler had his last choir concert this school year.

It was their Pop Show.

What talent!

I didn't get a video of Tyler's group performance.

They sang, "Sweet Caroline"

I got too caught up in watching it!

I didn't get many pictures afterwards either.

It was so crazy.

They were all so emotional since it was the seniors last time to perform.

 I definitely had to get a picture of Tyler and Nathan!

He graduates and will go to Baylor.

He was Billis in South Pacific.

He immediately took Tyler under his wing at the beginning of the year

 and have become the best of friends.

He's going to miss him and ALL of the seniors so much!

They really are like family.

His good friend Courtney, who he's taking to choir banquet this weekend.

Another precious senior, good friend.

Allison, she played Nellie in South Pacific.

She's going to Carnegie Melon.

 At the end of every choir concert, they all sing, along with any choir alumni, "The Lord Bless you and Keep You"

It is beautiful!

This video is hard to see everyone because they have the seniors standing in their senior circle, holding hands, with everyone standing around them.

21 Years Gone

21 years ago today, my mom passed away.

It's strange to think this many years have passed.

Austin

Austin hasn't been on the blog alone lately.

Well, he's doing good.

He's counting down the days until his birthday.

30 days until his birthday!

June 22nd, he will be 19 year old!

WOA!

Mother's Day

I never posted pictures from Mother's Day.

It was a very nice day spent with my loves!

1st Grade Field Day

Carli was pretty excited about field day!

They were to wear their tie dye shirts from when they went on their field trip.

She could wear a hat, if she wanted, which she definitely did!

She DID NOT want to wear shorts or tennis shoes.

She hates wearing shorts or pants.

*ALL OF THE PICURES DID LOOK GREAT, BUT WHEN I PUT THEM IN THE COLLAGE< THEY GOT GRAINY!!! :(

I ended up not being able to go to field day. Austin was home fro school due to seizures.

I was so bummed, but thank God for my friend Samantha, who went, had her camera, and took TONS of pictures! I felt like I was there! It made me so happy!

You can tell that she had an awesome day!