Sunday, June 13, 2010

A little of what's been happening around here

There have been a lot of fun things going on around here lately - just a few of them are swimming lessons wrapping up, Kate's field trip to the park, an awesome rodeo parade, Kate's school talent show where she performed 2 stellar cartwheels, taking Wiggles for show and tell, wacky hair day, Preschool graduation, 1st grade ending 3 days early, and smores and hot dogs in the mountains last night to kick off summer. Here are the pics to prove it all. They always get to play and go down the slide at the end of class.

It's my favorite place to take lessons because they let Lily and I swim while the other two are in lessons. Mostly she just waded in the water which was great.
Proud preschooler, he had just finished a skit on the big highschool stage and after they had the preschoolers walk across the stage in the spotlight to receive this diploma, it was adorable.

Wacky hair from the front, looking pretty cute actually.

And wacky from the back!

Jack enjoying the great outdoors.

The pink lady pretending to eat. Lately she must have a pink plate, pink cup, pick chair etc etc!
This is where Lily was for the entire parade, she was a little unsure of all the horses and loud noises. But a firm grip on Grandpa was all she needed to get her through.
He had the best seat to watch, the guy on the trailer was snapping a whip as he rode that horse on top of the trailer (and he only has one arm)- pretty amazing!
Jack loves visiting Kate's classroom. He just made himself at home as she shared Wiggles with the class.
Can you tell the difference between first and last day of school? First day is on the left, it's hard to tell with these photos since I was standing closer to her in the first one but she did grow a bit.

And finally a shot of Kate at her park field trip.With the school system running out of money or out of money already the teachers walked with the kids to the park and asked parents to provide activities. I think it was the best field trip. Between all the parents there was this parachute with balls, sack races, three legged races, jump rope, baseball, wheelbarrow races, balloon races, frisbees and otter pops to top it off. All the kids seemed to love it, I especially did because I took Jack and Lily and nobody seemed to mind that they joined right in. I have the funniest picture of Jack after he fell during the 3 legged race, he was paired with a boy a foot taller than him and with Jack's leg still in the pillowcase the boy is trying to drag him across the line. I'd put it on but since we don't know the boy I thought I better not. You'll have to use your imagination.

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

50's soc hop...

A few weekends ago we went to a 50's soc hop at the church. I think the 50's would've been a great time to live, did everyone really just dance with no reserve? A soc hop gives the impression that when the music starts it's time to jump up and start doing the Lindy hop or Swing. Can you imagine how fun that would be if we could all just dance away (assuming we knew how)! Maybe it's the movies that give that impression. Some day I'll do a post on why life would be better if it were a musical, I know I'm not the only one that thinks so. So our little soc hop didn't have much dancing but there were fun limbo, hula hoop, bubble blowing and pie eating contests. Plus hamburgers and fries, what more could you ask for!
I picked this costume up at Target many year ago at an after-Halloween sale and she has gotten lots of use out of it. I think it's about time to pass it on to Lily though.
This was the best we could do for Lily and Jack wasn't into dressing up but still had a great time.
Kate working the hula hoop!
Yummy Burgers :)
And the family photo before heading out to boogie!