Activities in August

A few of the things we did in August...

Kate really enjoyed her new sleep mask from our neighbors birthday party sleepover (Kate didn't attend the sleepover portion but got to attend some of the earlier festivities and she is loving her mask).

Lucy with her new 2nd grade teacher and her friend Lilah with her 2nd grade teacher (who happened to be Jaydon's teacher last year whom we love so much).

I know this video doesn't really show it but this was the first time Kate was without floaties. She really wanted to jump off the diving board and so we let her knowing she would have to make her way to the wall by herself. I cut the video short and it may look like she didn't move but I promise her slow little doggy paddle made it! She was so excited to be a swimmer!

I am not sure I was ever brave enough to do flips like this off the board!

 The kittens think that hiding under the dishwasher is pretty great, too bad it only stays open for a short amount of time.

 Lucy made some fun art stuff

Kate did the pencil and then Kate did the left picture below and Lucy the right one.

Jumble of July

Some random July pics

Hobbes is a menace, this is where he stands when Lily is trying to eat her food right in front of him. He then bats at her so she will leave and he can eat her food. We have had to quarantine him during meal times for her!

I got the kids in private swim lessons at our clubhouse pool. It has been great! Above is Jaydon floating on his back, next pic is Lucy with her teacher Diego, third is Kate working on stroking around a noodle and the bottom is Lucy and Kate getting started.

Jeremy and I took advantage of Parent's Night Out at our gym and dropped off the kids so we could have a nice anniversary dinner in Old Town. When we were wandering around after we came across this amazing shop and I couldn't pass up a pic of my soon to be 40 year old!

Taking Dad out to ice cream to celebrate his big 4-0! Happy Birthday Babe!

Granny and Papa came down and we got to spend two days together showing them around our town. We hit the water slides one day and these pics were taken there.

End of the School Year Celebrations!

Our kids loved their school year down here! They had a wonderful and easy transition to CA and their school friends and teachers made a huge difference in their enjoyment of the move. We had a lot of fun activities to end the school year!

Last day of school swimming party at our clubhouse!

We sure our proud parents! Jaydon and Lucy were given  the Hawks award for the last trimester (Soaring like Hawks: Hardworking, Accountable, Wise, Kind and Safe)

Both kids also earned the problem solving character award (and Jaydon had earned friendship earlier in the year).

Lucy's class go to go on a field trip to Funderland (a local kid amusement park) and I got to chaperone, she had a great time. These are solo pics because I was in charge of only 2 kiddos during the field trip and the boy wanted to do the rides by himself, luckily very soon after we started we met a new friend who rode all the rides with Lucy.

 The school put on a thank you event for the volunteers through the year. It was amazing, each grade came in and did a little performance.

 Decorating the tables were kid art and I just happened to sit by Jaydon's so I snagged it.

Kate with her buddies who will be going to the same school next year.

Sorry it's blurry but Kate and her teacher saying good-bye

What does Kate want to be when she grows up: a horse champion like her sister!

These kiddos did a great job singing their songs and celebrating their year

 Singing and getting ready to help Jacob hold the alphabet sign

The third graders did a big patriotic performance. Jaydon was one of the two Statue of Liberty's and Marco (one of his best friends who lives next door) was JFK

All the kids getting ready to perform

It was amazing, 12 different songs they all memorized and then short speeches in between. It was a very cool event.

 The kids got to bring home a lot of projects at the end of the year. Showing off their writing and art skills. 3rd grade Jaydon did the work in the first 3 images and 1st grade Lucy was the bottom 4 images..