First Week of Summer

 We left Sophie's awards ceremony and headed to Weatherford.  Taylor and I left the kids with Grammy and Bumpaw and spent the night at the Omni Hotel in downtown Fort Worth to celebrate our 12th anniversary.  It was a very relaxing weekend.  We had a fun fondue dinner, slept late, and spent the day shopping for our bedroom redo later in the summer.  After dinner back in Weatherford with the entire family we left the kids there for a few more days and Taylor and I came home.  I spent the days cleaning out, organizing, and getting ready for our garage sale.  

 Some of my new favorite Pinterest ideas - crates with hanging files for each year.  Theoretically, 1 crate should go PreK - 12th grade but since Sophie's is already about half full we may need a few crates per child!

 Another Pinterest idea - kids' art gallery in the hall outside their bedrooms

 Taylor idea - a ballet bar/floor/mirror in Sophie's room

 She loves it!

I met Mom and Dad and picked up the kids Tuesday night.  We have enjoyed our week so much swimming, riding bikes, playing games, and playing at the park.

Today we had our garage sale and Sophie had a lemonade stand.  

John Curtis spent his day in the peach tree.

We did pretty well at the sale and are so glad to have it behind us.  The kids want to spent their lemonade money on frozen yogurt tonight. No argument here!

Next week - ballet class for Sophie and lots of playing and relaxing for all of us!

Sophie's Last Week of 2nd Grade

 Sophie had a very busy last week of school.   

 On Tuesday John Curtis and I met her class at the bowling alley.

Tuesday afternoon we were back at her school for her piano recital.

That will be the extent of Sophie's piano playing.  She says she's learned all of the piano she cares to.  Moving on....

On Wednesday she got to go swimming at our new city pool for reaching her AR goal.

Thursday we were back in the cafeteria watching her as a mouse in her choir performance.

Sophie and her friend, Ashley.  We are saying goodbye to Ashley and her sweet family this summer as they move out of the country.  We will miss watching Aggie games with them!

Friday was the last day of school and Sophie was not happy about it.  The girl loves school and LOVES her teacher.

Awards 

Group hug with Mrs. Gassiot

What a great year!  Sophie has grown so much in so many ways.  We are excited about starting our summer!

JC's Preschool Graduation

It seems like just yesterday Sophie was graduating from preschool and I had all the time in the world left with John Curtis.  Now my baby is also finished with preschool!  He had a very nice graduation program Thursday night.

They sang some songs, 

did a Three Little Pigs skit,

talked about the people they had learned about during the year,

and told everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up.  He was a little shy but said, "Robot Builder".

So proud of our little boy!

What a great year with a great teacher!

Sophie Dances and Sings

Lots has been going on in Sophie's world.  Last Thursday at Dia de los Ninos at her school Sophie performed 3 dances she has been working on during enrichment class.  

The kids also got to ride in the school parade,

 and Sophie enjoyed showing off her cape she had made in class.  She's "Fire Girl".

On Saturday Mom and Dad came for the weekend.  They watched Sophie's Spring Showcase for ballet.

Rehearsal I taped.

 Our friend took some great pics of Sophie during the performance.

Beautiful Ballerinas

Sunday night Mom and Dad stayed to watch Sophie's choir performance at church.

Finally, I took some video of Sophie's ballet class during Parent Observation this week.  She's moving up another level this summer.  This is the last level before she goes to pointe and her teacher said she'll be the youngest one in the class, so she'll probably stay in this level a while.  She's really loving it and excelling though and we are very proud of our little ballerina!

Wow that was a long post.  Obviously I'm just a little bit proud of my sweet girl!

Wedding Weekend Part 6

Saturday evening all of our Mississippi family that was at the wedding came over for dinner.  It was good to have some time with them.

 A Bumpaw and a Paw-Paw

On Sunday we got to take Grammy out to lunch at Olive Garden before we headed back home.  It was an exhausting, perfect, joy-filled weekend.  Our family is blessed!

Wedding Weekend Part 5