First half of May

 Well hey I'm only about a month behind on this blog thing. That's not bad. Goal is to get caught up before the kids are out of school which is next week: June 15th. 

May started off with getting our roof repaired YAH! We knew it had a leak when we bought it, however the owners stated it didn't. But in the winter there's not much to be done. Thankfully it was another area where our warranty came into play. We made about 17 claims over the year! Totally worth it! 

We have a clay tile roof but three big flat rubber roof areas. The warranty claim we tried to start last fall didn't go through cuz none of their contractors would service tile roof. Well finally I chatted with a contractor and he said he'd take a look and probably thought it was the rubber roof anyway, and it was. It needed two patches.

Before pics:

And after:

May 2nd I had my GOTR luncheon I was on host committee for. It's the annual fundraiser for Girls on the Run. 

 

May was filled with GOTR, baseball, lacrosse, gymnastics and enjoying the warm sun!

These days are numbered when he crawls into bed with us... I'm not gonna complain :-) 

Thomas has been so excited to play baseball! Heading to his first game on May 6th

Boys attended a high school game that day

The kids helped me get the bed around the tree out front planted with begonias from the school's plant sale. Here's a before pic without the added soil: 

And planting:

And playing with the leaf blower, lol.

After planting:

And here it stands today (about a month later):

Flew the drone May 7th

Our fountain is so pretty! Here are all the tulips May 9th

And yesterday it's filled with these pretty purple flowers (June 5th)

Girls on the run in full swing: 

Then the girls' birthday - which I'll put in a separate post. 

The city planted a tree out front where they chopped the diseased one down last fall. 

Enjoying running and biking the lakes

 

Kyle and I enjoyed a lunch date to Sushi train, then a drive by of the tulip house on May 12th. 

I joined the 5th grade on their Phenology walks to the school forest. We spotted three owls!

Baseball game that ended in the rain.

Then Mother's Day (after the girls birthday party which I'll put in their birthday post)

We went to a twins game on the Sunday of Mother's Day: May 14th. 

Attempted a photo with mom at the spoon and cherry....

May 15th:

for our GOTR practice 5K

Mary using her emotion octopus she got for her birthday :-) 

Some of my crafting: PTA signs and GOTR practice 5K medal buttons.

And lastly a family baseball game while Mary is at lacrosse practice.