The Joys of June

We had a couple weeks in June when things slowed down and we thought we would be able to enjoy a pretty relaxing summer. The end of the school year always has some fun activities (and teaching again meant I had a lot of work to finish up before the year ended). We found out on June 19th, that we would be relocating to CA so from that point on our few weeks of down time were in the rear view mirror and we were in for quite a ride the next few months.

The girls love getting to have some screen time and share their shows.

We had a huge hail storm in early June, it was crazy and fun.

Father's Day with Daddy! We took the ferry across to see my Dad and sister and enjoy a meal (and of course really good ice cream)

Lucy's kindergarten celebration, she did such an awesome job this school year and we are so proud of her, we were also super lucky to have Mrs. Homchick as her teacher (who Jaydon had in 1st grade).

End of the season gymnastics performances

Kate getting her medal

Argh, so bummed for the blurry pic of Lucy getting her medal

Familiar family pose at the end of the season

Jaydon had his first sleep over at a friends house, this is him napping the next day (which he never does) because they had such a great time staying up most of the night!

Some cooking time in the kitchen with Dad

Lucy's first day of Pre-K

Lucy started her first day of Pre-K. There are times I can't believe she isn't already in elementary school, she often comes across as older than she is.  She gets to have the same teacher Jaydon had for Pre-K and got off to a fabulous start.

I'm not sure why she insisted on wearing the free humane society bag (which she uses as her school bag) across her chest but that is how she likes to do it every day.  It didn't make for a great photo but she is darn cute even so.

After her first day with her pattern necklace. The teacher commented that she worked very hard on her pattern, I looked at the left side and thought nice, she alternated two colors, then I looked at the right side more closely and realized she had done rainbow patterns - she knocks my socks off!

Sister time

A couple projects from the first days of school

Jaydon's 1st day of 1st grade

 Annual picture by the door, first year of rain on the first day of school.

 Waiting at the bus stop with his sisters.

Jaydon's project is on the right.  Lucy did her bear on the left with her teacher at their meet n' greet on this same day.

 We ended our first day of school celebration hitting our local ice cream shop! Those are some happy kids. Yea School.

Arizona visit

My sister Jenny and I made it down to AZ to visit our other sister Kelsey and her family.  It was such an awesome weekend away meeting our new nephew Ferris and getting to spend some quality time with Kels, Tyler and Piper too!  Not to mention their awesome animals and I am totally kicking myself for not having a photo of Clark Griswold their totally awesome huge cat!

We were there for Ferris getting to try his first rice cereal!

Pipes enjoying a snack

Chopper and Bourbon enjoying the cool tile floor 

Ferris was really reaching for his toys and playing with his grip.  He was born on our anniversary - June 27th.  He weighed a whopping 9lb 10oz and was 22".  He continues to surpass all reason on the growth chart and would be an average size 1 year old at 4 months!

Piper and her awesome sun hat.

Now for Piper Cam - Jaydon loves getting his shot behind the lens so of course Piper got to have a go at it.  

Auntie Jenny

Dad - Tyler

Mom and brother

dad close up

And one last shot of Pipes being her adorable self. 

We truly had an amazing time and look forward to seeing Kels and her family again in Jan!