Mommy's little "Big Helper"

Rebekah has always been a good "helper". But, she is getting to be an actual help more and more. This picture above is a picture of her and the oranges and carrots she cut up (with a butter knife) for dinner a few days ago. It saved me time cutting them, and she was so proud that she had done it! I hope her desire to help continues as she grows.

Oh There's Sunshine, Belssed Sunshine!

The sun has shown itself in our neighborhood this week!

The children have been celebrating by riding bikes, playing in the water, and discovering our recently lowered basketball hoop in the front yard.(not pictured)
The water play started out innocently enough, but...
...this is how it ended- kids in the tub. Then, they discovered it was a lot colder than they thought with wet clothes and a slight breeze.

The boys are also sporting new summer hair cuts.

Wicked!

To celebreate our tenth anniversary (a little early) Timothy and I decided to go see the musical WICKED. It was amazing! It's been a long time since I'd seen a professional quality musical- not since Les Miserables in London in 1998. (That was before I had studied music in college.) Timothy and I both really enjoyed it and thought that it worth the professional price we paid. ...$111.00 for the 2 of us... YIKES! WE don't normally spend that much on a date, so we decided to splurge and go out to eat as well. :)

We're having a hard time believing that it's been almost 10 years that we've been married, but in July it will be whether anyone believes it or not. I'll post a more mushing post in July- a lot closer to our anniversary. But, I thought I'd just mention the amazing time we had on our anniversary date (even though it was early.)

Too bad we didn't get any pictures to prove we were there... but we do have the tickets to stick in our journals.