Kid's Run, Dance, School Events..

Today is the Last Day of School!!!

Here are some things we have been doing:

We all ran in the "Kids Run."  Bruce beat all of us :) 

 

James graduated from Pre K 

He also got a haircut:

Kate participated in a dance recital

She also got a cute haircut

She is almost done with 1st grade (we love her teacher Mrs. Skok)

Bruce-  

 

Here he is on a class field trip with his buddy:

Kids Day!  He was awake and ready to go at 6:00am

 Jane-

We went to a Lindsey Sterling concert with friends:

This is the "Fairy House Festival"

She also finished 5th grade!!

 For my birthday B and I went to a Alison Krauss/ Willie Nelson concert!  It was really amazing :)

More soon to come...

Memorial Day 2014, Mother's Day, + More...

On Monday morning we went to the cemetery to put flags on the soldiers graves.  

This is one tradition that everyone enjoys.  

That afternoon we went to a local amusement park to watch our dancer.  

Everyone also had a fun time there! 

 Mother's Day was marvelous this year.  I got to sleep in while everyone made a delicious breakfast.  I got LOTS of great presents from the kids.  James and I got to go to a Mother's Day tea, the previous Friday.  I sure feel loved!

 

 Other things we've been doing:  

Kate got an award for her dancing~ 

 Every month James and I would join some friends at "The Grandma's" house and make crafts for them. 

 We went to the "Strong Museum" a few weeks ago and were so happy with what we found:

Jane and her friend attended a Girl Scout event:

 "Our Littlest Bird"  is so happy about dance:

For teacher appreciation week I had all the kids in Bruce's class bring in a flower for their teacher one morning.  This is what it turned out like.  (Kate did it too- so sweet) 

Arts Fest West was a HUGE success this year:

  

 Jane helped out at the 5th Grade party!

May has been a very fun, busy month! 

2014 Easter in Washington DC / Virginia...

My mom sent me an email reminding me that I haven't posted about our Easter yet- sorry about that :)

Last Friday we drove to see our friends in Virginia.  We were so excited to see them again!   For dinner we all went to Cafe Rio- I was loving every bite.

They also gave us a "welcome basket" with this guy in it: 

On Saturday we headed into D.C. to see Andrew and go visit a few museums. 

The weather was perfect!

We first went to the Newseum-  it was really amazing and would have been even more enjoyable without children...
Here's James telling us about the weather & we all go to take pictures of ourselves: 

The boys doing ninja moves:

We ate lunch at the "Shake Shack"  and made a quick trip into the portrait museum.

Then Alexis, a bunch of little kids, and I headed back to her home for some outside playtime, dinner at Chick-Fill A and Easter grocery shopping.

The men and a few other children stayed to see more museums and go to the movies.

Easter Sunday~

We woke up to lots of Easter baskets and happy kids :)  

We ate breakfast:

 

and then got all dressed up in Easter outfits:

 

We went to church with our friends and the kids even went up to sing with the Primary.  

After church we ate a quick lunch because everyone was excited to go on an egg hunt.  

We played games,

 make a cake, 

and made a super delicious dinner:

Then we stayed up talking- it's so fun to be with friends again.

Monday morning we left early to drive home.  We picked up Susie- Q and when we got home we had Easter Packages waiting for us:
Thank you Grandma Miller and Grandma Damstedt!!!