Wednesday, May 30, 2018

End of the year Choir Performance


Where’s Catherine?

Where’s Hannah?


The girls have enjoys Choir so much Hannah decided to join middle school choir for zero period! It was great to hear the songs and be able to see the songs they sing at school! I especially loved the African son by where they play percussion on their chest! 


Helpers

You get the idea...





End of the Season


Catherine has worked hard and was able to be catcher! 
Even better was he pitcher...HANNAH! Sister pitching to sister catching! They are a dynamic duo!



Tomato time!

It’s a tradition...our annual home grown tomatoes are planted thanks to this diligent gardeners! Can’t wait to harvest what they planted! 



Visit from Aunt Anne and Aunt Chris

It was such a relaxing visit. Chatting, laughing, eating and playing games. Oh and of course S’mores!






Little song bird

Emmy makes up some of the greatest songs about anything she sees. I love listening to her happy melodies!



Hurricane Harbor Water Park

The day was hot. The lines were long. The slides were fun. The family was together. Couldn’t  be better than that! 


Blowing Dandelions

Our little Gabriel is always on the go! He is exploring and going every where he shouldn’t be! But, one of his favorite roaming activites (besides finding and throwing rocks!) is blowing dandelions. He now picks any flier and tries to blow them. He has such a sweet spirit to stop and notice the flowers! I love him so much!



Recovering from Suzy’s graduation

We returned from CO on the 6:30 flight so once again we were up and out early after a late night at Olive Garden with the family. When we got home hengirls got ready for school, Jeff took a nap before working at home and I took the Littles to the park. When I put them down for a nap Emmy slept for four hours straight! Buddy woke after 2 hours then fell asleep on me then went back to his crib making for a 5 hour nap
Total!! When he girls got home from school Catherine crashed on the couch. RL went to bed at 4 and wouldn’t even get up for dinner and and Hannah was working on school projects when I made her stop to
Rest. She o my slept for an hour but she I woke her for softball she was a grump! And when o woke Catherine she got up and I said “Gran a quick snack then get ready for softball practice.” To which she reponded, “But what about breakfast?!?” She highly she had slept through the night! Suffice it to say, we were all beat!





Suzy’s Graduation

It was an early rush to get to the plane, and jeff went to park the car adding time onto his check in process and almost causing him to miss henpmqne! But we all got there and had a wonderful time celebrating this beautiful girl and her perservancr through high school! 























Belated Mother’s Day with G-ma!


To celebrate Mother’s Day we went to a new place in town that will for sure become a favorite: Habit Burger! Everyone loves dinner and of course the best part was being together and celebrating the bonds with have with each other! My mom is such a gift to our family and I love being her daughter! Thank you Hod for their special gift!

Reading to Doll-Doll

My little Emmy loves books. Add a blanket and a doll and you have the perfect trifecta! She loves books so much that I often see her reading to her dolls. It usually ends with me reading to her and her doll doll and I love every moment of it! I’m so blessed to be her mama and I love her so much!






4th and 5th Grade Award Ceremony

With the end of the year approaching there have been a lot of celebrations at school! Thei yesr Catherine wonthe Wondrous Writee award and Hannah won Socia Studies Guru as well as being recognized for her help in the PE class, as a courageous cougar (the leadership team) and as Student Citizen of Vannoy. So proud of my girls and the work and learning g hey have done this year! 




And just to show that you don’t have to win awards to be winners:



Catching rain


One of our favorite daily activities is walking to and playing at the park. As we walk home we usually take a moment to sit on the bench and take in he lovey view. This day at the park we were surprised by a passing rain cloud (a few times!) and Emmy kept singing, “I stand outside with my mouth open wide singing Aa-a-a-a,” and trying to catch rain in her mouth. It makes my heart glad to see her enjoying life so much. Her brother in the wagon was a different story...