On our way to Arizona to see Papa & Yaya!
They had their own row and Nay actually lasted the entire flight!
Birthday celebration for Mia!
Happy belated birthday, Mia!
Gifts & shopping spree from Yaya & Papa!
Spring Training!
Diamondbacks vs Indians!
Waiting for a ball from the pitcher! He got one!
Ice cream at the park!
Best group photo we could get!:)
Nay made a friend!
Fashionista!
Playing catch!
Fun afternoon at the park!
Park fun!
Ready for the pool!
Storytime with Papa!
Craft time with Yaya!
Loving the sun!
Spinning in the sun!
Just hanging in the sun!
The kids love the golf cart!
Mia driving the cart on her own!!
Poolside milkshakes!!
Pool fun with Papa!
Cheering on Papa & Yaya in their bocci ball tourney!
Hill fun!
Kyrie got a drone!! It ended abruptly after when we flew it into a neighbor's backyard!
Rolling fun!
Fun with Sissy!
Cards with Yaya!
Dominoes!
Dunkin Donuts!!
Tried out a really big and fun park!
Zipline!
Nay Nay's turn!
Papa takes a turn!!:)
Love this pic with her hands in her pockets!
Spray ground fun!
Playing football with Papa & Marcel, Papa's "Little brother"!
Milkshakes again!!
Playing Uno flip!
Pool selfie!
Pool time with Yaya!
Birthday shopping fashion show!
Our favorite restaurant! The best French toast around! We made it in on our last morning at 10:55 when they stopped serving breakfast at 11! Just in time! I would have cried if we didn't get there during our yearly visit!:)
The many faces of Kyrie collage made by Kyrie!
Underwater handshake!
Jump to Papa!
Family b-ball!
Copycat Cinnabon cinnamon rolls! One of my saving graces is baking during this quarantine!!
Figured it was as good as time as ever to potty train Nay! Finally had 3 days home without working or anywhere to do to do it! Everything all set up for potty training success!
Lots of salty foods and drinks! Although Nay wasn't into drinking much!
Everything on the blanket!! Even playdough!
More snow in March!!
We probably got 4-6 inches!
Snowball fight with Daddy!
Naomi wasn't having the 4 sizes too big snow pants!!
Playtime in the snow!
Snow fun!
Snow football!
After only an hour or snow play!
During creative time, Mia designed a replica lego set of her bedroom!
This was the shot from Caleb's gravesite...….Grandma Kathy's gravesite in the background!
Kyrie's buddy Brayden comes back for a visit!
Our first attempt at pig tails for Nay! Not sure we are fans!
Mia's b-ball end of year party!
What a fun season! So thankful that Mia had this team to join since Maco couldn't coach her team this year.
The little bros!
Such a fun group of 6th/7th graders!
Frozen on Broadway!
Fun date with my little guy and such a good show! I was surprised!!! The special effects were amazing!
Sisters' dance!
Kyrie's b-ball pizza party!
The big sisters!
Daddy sharing all the fun times with Kyrie throughout the season!
Love that Maco got to coach Kyrie this season!
Another fun group of kiddos!
Happy birthday, Karina! Had a blast trying pilates to celebrate Karina!
Nay not feeling well, which is why she is sleeping in my lap.
Street football with Maco and friends!
Family basketball
Walk around Round Lake before the "stay at home" order!
Just realized this wasn't social distancing way back on March 15th, but we are totally socially distancing now!!
Oooops we got a little close for the pic, too! No more of this!!
Love this girls' many faces!
Homeschooling! Playdough during creative time! Even the big kids love it! And Uncle Cole stopped by to say hi and get a quick b-ball game in!
Lunch for the first week of home schooling-cheese zombies!! Just like back in elementary school!
Such a big helper!
Painting Nay's nails for the first time!
Kyrie needed a haircut so bad! Thankfully Sittee came over and cut his hair before the "stay at home" order went into affect!
Daddy tickle time!
Mia is almost as tall as Sittee!
Family Twister! With Maco working from home, we are loving our family time!
Twister!
Tantrum time!!
This past month, Nay has really gotten into reading on her own! So glad!
We have never been a puzzle family, but I'm so excited to do puzzles while we are in quarantine! This was a special AZ poster in honor of Papa & Yaya!
Neighborhood walk!
Drawing time! Nay is looooving her time with Sissy & Bubba home 24-7!
Love our sweet nephew, Miles, and his mama!
Ice cream sundaes!
Ready for potty training!! Figured this was as good of time as any to potty train Nay! We did the 3 day method! We played a lot of games and read books on the blanket while eating a lot of salty snacks and drinks! Nay has done great. I'd say we are fully potty trained now while she is awake! Obviously we haven't gone anywhere yet, so that will be the true test!
Big Sis and Bro were so excited to help Nay succeed!
Sorry, I just had to add this cute pic of Nay's little booty!!:)
Potty training story time with Daddy!
Mia selfie!
Nap time with Sissy!
Family neighborhood walk in the sun!
Lots of b-ball being played these days!
Brushed out hair!
This is how Kyrie does distance learning at home!
Daddy bike ride with the kiddos!
Nothing says sun like sidewalk chalk!
Street tennis!
First time trying out the strider bike! We never had this with the big kids! Will see how it works for Nay!
Family game of b-ball that we recorded for a Courts For Kids promo email!
We also did a team intro video for CFK! This is what the Hamiltons do for fun!!
We finally let Nay venture off the blanket and there was a lot of bare booty happening for 1.5 weeks until putting on undies! She has yet to have a pee accident after almost 3 weeks! She is so proud of herself!
Playing a Paw Patrol family game with Nay!
One of the lessons learned while homeschooling....BBQ'ing with Daddy!
Graduated to undies! And this girl loves her princess undies!
Mia created a fort to sleep in !
Doodles with Mo Willems!
Scavenger hunt the kids had to work together to complete and found a 5$ bill at the end!
Kyrie zooming with his class! He loved seeing his friends!
Geometrical art!
Nay loves her food, even licking the crumbs off the counter!
Nay even helped!
Kyrie is a whiz with puzzles and really the only one that helps me complete them!
Nay absolutely loves having Daddy home! She is so attached to him right now!
Dance party!
Our little performer!
Shaving cream art!
Shaving cream fun!
Making fun swirl paper with the shaving cream!
Nay loves to workout, too! She was so cute and said, "my tailbone hurts", just ike Mia did!
Social distance dancing with the bestie!
Mia made a special label for me and put it on my head! "Mom is the best and so is Dad!"
Zoo charades with Cousin on zoom!
Night before Kyrie's 9th birthday! He loved all the birthday cards that family and friends sent to him!
Loving all of our baking time! Oatmeal banana/chocolate chip muffins, protein balls, cheesecake/oreo/cookie dough bars!
Making a balloon game where Kyrie pops a balloon every hour with an activity inside to do it.
Mia made up a scavenger hunt for Kyrie to find all of his gifts!
Mia finally went to be at 11pm after helping me, and I think I was up until 12:30! Mia even slept with Kyrie in his room for his bday!
Kyrie's bedroom door!
Hung up Kyrie's happy birthday basketball banner he made a couple years back!
All decorated and ready for Kyrie to wake up!
Gotta have the special birthday plate and the first clue for the hunt!
Scavenger hunt!
Mia even put a gift/clue in the toilet!:)
Special chair, sign for outside, and schedule of quarantine birthday surprises!
April 1st!! Happy 9th birthday, Kyrie!!
Starting the scavenger hunt!
She even had challenges on each clue to do! This challenge was dance party with Daddy!
Opening gifts!
Sports book from Mia!
New series from Nay!
Air Force Ones!
It was a little rainy early in the day!
Had to decorate the outside this year for the upcoming birthday parade and to make this birthday extra special!
Zoom birthday party with family!!
Opening gifts from the zoom guests! Lots of $ he is excited about spending!
Happy birthday, Kyrie Anthony!
The most amazing birthday berry stuffed French toast breakfast!
Everyone singing happy birthday!
Happy boy!
Birthday surprise-Top Burger from the Moores!
Another birthday surprise- birthday car parade!
The Rapisarda Family! Love the birthday sign and Dot donuts!!
Lots of fun video of the birthday parade! Ignore all my crazy laughing and talking!!
The neighbors!!
The McCulloughs!
The McCulloughs sign was so cute!!
He was so happy! At first he was a little embarrassed and wasn't sure what to think! As the cars kept coming, he got into it!!
The Hollands!
The parade!!!
The Bauers, Jake, friend from basketball!
The Neslands!
Auntie, Kinley and the Schultzes!
Loved the Moores and their decorations!
Neighbor, Miles, made a sweet sign, too!
Classmate, Devin, came by!!
The next door neighbors did a walk through! Loved Avery's sign!!
Classmate, Thomas, stopped by with Happy Birthday, Kyrie!
Sittee came, too! She is on the other side of the car so still keeping our 6 feet of distancing!:)
Lots of honks today! Yummy donuts from the Rapisardas!
Bryson, another friend from b-ball, and his family came by with balloons!!
Olivia brought a card!!
Made hop scotch and four square in the garage for some birthday games!
Takeo came!!
Cy and family, too! Brought him his favorite candy bar!!
The Peterson family!!
The Kachevas Family!
Mrs. Jarrell, Kyrie's teacher, even stopped by!! So sweet!
Kyrie loved all the signs, card, and treats from the parade!
Spontaneous birthday Zoom call with a couple classmates!
The Wilson girls did a birthday walk by!
Kyrie got a birthday serenade from our neighbor the Fines!
Oreos from the Fines and birthday cookies from another neighbor, Bella!
Ice cream cake! Our first attempt making it! Thanks Aunt Jane for the recipe! It was so good, and I think going to become a staple in the Hamilton household!
Happy birthday to my baby boy!
Singing again!!
Oreo crust, cookie dough ice cream, chocolate sauce, oreo ice cream, whip cream, topped with Recees Butter cups and Oreos! Amazing!!
Chloe brought Mia a blizzard and they are eating it together with appropriate social distancing! This was the first time Mia has seen a friend in over 3 weeks!
Mia practicing french braiding her own hair!
Family walk photo scavenger hunt! Climbing a tree!
Whole family sticking out tongue! Nay was there, but too short!:)
Gymnastics on the walk!
And of course Kyrie brings his basketball on the walk!
More family workouts! Even Nay gets in on it!
Push ups!
Situps!
Cowgirls! They both have on my shoes!:)
Yeeehaw!
Made copycat Auntie Anne pretzels!
My dad is going through old slides and videos and I had to include these two old pictures of Kelly and me! This one is Easter, probably 1983/84. One of my favorite things at Easter was bringing flowers to decorate the cross at church!
Making bracelets!
Love this from the teachers at Kyrie's school!
A birthday parade for Josie!!
We had fun decorating our car and celebrating Josie! This was our 3rd birthday parade of the week! Its the new hip birthday!!
Maco and Kyrie are in a huge online Madden tourney with two friends and their sons! Just like the old days when these same three dads(Derek and Sal) used to play Madden tourneys all day long, before kids!!!
The Masked Singer! The kids love this show and it's our weekly family show we watch together!
4 puzzles done so far!
Geometry fun!
Reading time in the sun!
So much fun!
Picnic lunch outside!
Kyrie's turn for Masked Singer(without the mask!)
Recreating the Masked Singer(Take it off....)
More Masked Singer!
Mia enters the WNBA draft!
WNBA draft #2
The NBA draft!
Kyrie started Virtual Journey theater classes! Foundations of voice and a Lion King musical performance class!
Into the Unknown!!
This is a long one, but I had to include it! Nay loves to sing!
Painting during creative time!
Speedy Gonzales!
Nay helped me for about 2 minutes bake a coffee cake in honor of National coffee cake day!
The best coffee cake ever!!! So moist!!
Nay "reading"!!
Mia made a special collar for Nay's doggie!
Maco make a 3 hour trip(4 stores-to get everything we need) for groceries every 2 weeks and always brings back Dot Donuts!!!







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