Miscellaneous May

I still need to post about Sydney's promotion ceremony and Olivia's voice recital, both of which happened in May, but before I get to those, here are some random happenings from last month!

➸➸  Star Wars Day is always a fun day for my girls to show off their cute clothes!  May the Fourth be with you!

➸➸  Poppy took Sydney to her Father's Day bowling outing for preschool, and they were voted Cutest Couple there!

➸➸  I made my mom friends these cute little gifts letting them know that I thought they were the bomb!  

➸➸  Ummmm, best picture of me EVER!

➸➸  The girls had their formal recital pictures taken.  Since they had the same song, their costumes were similar.  Liv wore a modified version of her costume from last year!  They looked cute together!

➸➸  The girls were complaining that their cereal was getting soggy, so I got them each the Obol bowl so that wouldn't happen.  #rotten

➸➸ When I boarded the plane for Indiana, I realized I needed to make some room on my cell phone by deleting some old pictures.  I have around 11,000 pictures on my phone, and despite the fact that they are all also on my computer, I have a serious issue when it comes to deleting them.  Anyway, I went way back into the archives of 2014 and when I looked at the first picture that popped up {which was not the first picture in my camera roll}, I realized that the outfit Olivia was wearing in the picture was the exact outfit we had packed for her to wear to school that day!  I sent it to my mom and had her take a picture of Olivia before she left for school.  Incidentally, that was a newer shirt...I loved it so and it was getting too small :)  Got to keep my kids in their DMB shirts!

➸➸  David and my dad worked SO hard on this play structure for the girls.  It has been MONTHS in the making.  David searched craigslist, bargained, secured, disassembled, and moved, and my dad helped sand, stain, and rebuild this thing.  Once our turf was put in, we were able to get it all put together and the girls have been LOVING it!  It was nice in the beginning of the summer {errr, when school was out} when it was still tolerable in the mornings.  I am excited for this winter when we can be outside all the time - I know where they will be!

➸➸  Did you guys stick with us through that whole blog?  Way to go!

Sydney's Going to Pre-K!!!

I took a little girls trip to Cincinnati with my college roommate, Tara, to go see Dave Matthews Band!  We had a great time, but I guess I should have checked Sydney's school calendar before I left because I ended up missing her little promotion ceremony.  They sing the cutest song in it and I am lucky I got to hear her practice it so many times before I left.  The girls were in the best of hands with David and my parents, and I even let Olivia miss a couple hours of school so that she could be in the audience to watch her little sister.  Here are some cute pictures from before the ceremony!

Clearly it was bright outside!

I think David has more pictures, so hopefully I can remember to add them here later!

I took Sydney out for breakfast with her friend, Hailey, for an end of the year hooray!  These two girls started out in the same preschool class last year and then took gymnastics classes together this year.  Hailey will go on to kindergarten this year and we will miss her so much!

I am so excited for my sweet girl to go to Pre-K.  I know she is going to learn so much.  She will be going 4 mornings a week, and I'm excited to plan some really fun Mommy and Me dates for our Fridays together before I have to send her off to kindergarten!  Just love her to pieces!

Farewell, First Grade

We started a little tradition last year with setting up a free cookie/lemonade stand outside the school where some of the walkers walk by to get to our portion of the neighborhood.  Even though we don't live there anymore, we still wanted to set this up for the kiddos!  It is such a great way to end the year, and the kids love passing out the lemonade to their school friends!

Another Year, Another Round of Putting Up Freezer Corn

As crazy as the end of school year is, it was made exponentially crazier this year by a solo trip out of town, a classroom teacher retiring, an end of the year slideshow,  and sweet corn being ready all at the same time!

But, hoozah, we made it all work!  Team work makes the dream work, right?!

Seriously, she was THE BEST helper ever!!!!!

Her reward #1

Her reward #2

Oh my gosh - look at her from a couple years ago!

Bye Bye, Burski

Olivia's teacher this year was retiring after over twenty years of teaching, and we did our best to make this last year a great one for her.  Throughout the school year, we helped in the classroom as much as we could and brought in special treats randomly. {I'm also showing off a couple Teacher Appreciation gifts we gave out to both girls' teachers...including a sweet book made by Olivia.}

For her end of the year party, we decided to have the kids create a special quilt for her.  We sent home fabric markers and a quilt square with instructions for the kids to draw a picture of themselves and put their name on it.  Sheri picked out black and white fabrics and had the squares pieced together.  The whole thing turned out so cute!

We ended up having a pizza party with cake and a slideshow {courtesy of me} and it was such a fun afternoon!