Cinco de Mayo and Mother's Day

This week the kids celebrated Cinco de Mayo at their school.  There was a performance by each class and then lots of Mexican food and sweets afterwards.  Unfortunately my pictures of the performance turned out horrible because we were in the back (seeking shade from the hot afternoon sun) and the kids were under a blue awning that made the pictures dark.  It seems like I always have an excuse for bad pictures at school performances.  Maybe one of these days  I will actually prepare better and take some good pictures!

Matt before the performance started:

Kara and Jack's class -- this is the first time that both of them actually stayed on stage for a class performance!  Kara did the whole dance...Jack stood near the wall and looked at the paint, but at least he stayed on stage for once! (click on the picture to enlarge so you can actually see Kara and Jack):

 Kara with Matt after the performance (that is lipstick all over her lips):

Ainsley dancing with her friends on stage:

Snacks/cake afterwards:

On Saturday Matt rode in a 100 mile bike ride to Shiner, Texas (Great Austin to Shiner Pedal, GASP).  Ainsley and I drove there to see him finish and to bring him back to Austin:

For Mother's day we enjoyed a nice Sunday.  The kids slept in until a glorious 7:40am(!), Matt let me have my coffee in bed, then off to church and lunch, and then some of our good friends came over in the afternoon for swimming and dinner. 

Mother's day is a good day to reflect on how blessed we are to have our children, and how lucky I am to be a mom to three great kids :-)