Gardening

This past weekend the kids and Brad planted a little garden. We know it's kind of late in the game, but we are excited to see if anything will grow. This is our first official garden. The kids enjoyed digging and planting seeds, although I'm not sure how much help they really were. :) I found Mia reading to Calvin the other day. It was very sweet, he was listening so intently as she read the Mittens story to him. She is a really good reader, so this was fun to watch.

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Birthday Fun

This weekend we celebrated Mia's cousin Joy's 4th birthday.  It was a fun Curious George party and even the Man with the Yellow Hat showed up.  There was much fun by all, water play, searching for monkeys, and great food.  Here are a few photos from the day.

Summer

Oh yes, it is definitely summer.  Tomorrow is Mia's last day of school for awhile.  I find it funny that it is an extremely shortened day, she'll be going from 8:15-9:45.  Just enough time to get your daily money from the state and feed the kids lunch who need it.  Yup, lunch.  Probably at 9:15 or so.  Well, for my not so good eater, another meal in the day won't hurt her, if anything she'll just get a few more calories. 

We are just grateful that she has had such a great year.  She really loves school and her teachers.  We will miss everyone, but know that this is really the best decision for our little family right now.  We've got some fun summer activities planned and I will work on posting more pictures this summer!

Cubbies

Mia finished her first year of Awanas in the Cubbies program.  They had a little award assembly for them on Sunday and she got her first year Cubbie Bear for her vest.  Since we are waiting on kindergarten next year, she will be in Cubbies one more year and so we are looking forward to that, it should be a lot of fun. 

On Tuesday at MARE she had her picture taken for an article in the local newspaper.  It should come out some time in July.  They will be featuring 3 riders from MARE and she just happened to be there at the right time, so she is one of the featured riders. 

I can't believe there is only 1 more week of school before summer vacation.  Wow!  This year has gone really quick, we are so grateful for such a good year!