Girl scout awards ceremony

Today we had a bridging ceremony for our girl scouts. Mykenzie wasn't moving up yet but she had some girls in her troop her were and the Daisy's moved up to Brownies as well. Mykenzie sot some patches, her 3 year pin as well as the "Eager Beaver Award" For always being so eager to help and willing to try new activities with enthusiasm. I also got an award, which I wasn't expecting at all because I wasn't as involved as I was last year (got some then too) as well as a camping patch. Next year I will be very involved because I will be helping out with the brownies, so I will be at every meeting. Kaylee will have to go with me so they are going to make her an honorary Daisy, even though she won't technically be old enough to be one. So she will be thrilled she gets to be involved. Part of me is like, ugg what was I thinking agreeing to this but another part is looking forward to it, and another part wishes I was going to be the leader. LOL Here are a couple pictures from the day.

Let the summer fun begin!

Today we had a playdate at the Splash Pad! The girls had a wonderful time running through the water and mommy had fun taking pictures and chatting with friends. The splash pad is FREE so we will be there often throughout the summer! We ended up running into Kaylee's friend from school there and she was thrilled. Hopefully we can have a playdate with them soon. After a couple of hours at the splash pad we went to Chandra's for a little bit and then home to shower and change to go out as a family to Fuji to get some Japanese food. It was yummy! I am so full I can't move so I am uploading pictures from our day :) I was supposed to go see the Sex and the City movie with some girl friends tonight but I didn't get through all the seasons on DVD and I really want to watch them so I didn't want both the episodes and the movie to be spoiled for me. Hopefully I will get through them soon and will be able to find someone to go see the movie with!

Well part of the song is true!

No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks!!! That is right my friends (hmm, I sound like McCain) school is out for the summer!!! I am so happy that this year is over. I am sad that time is going by so quickly and my baby girl is going to be in 3rd grade already.... BUT I am so done with second grade. We had such a rough year and I am hoping for a much much better year in 3rd grade! We decided that Mykenzie will still be doing school work at home this summer. Last year she forgot alot of what she learned and had to start over and since she isn't where we would like her to be anyhow anything extra will really help. She has done well in school, don't get me wrong, but we know she can do better. And thanks to teacher of the year we didn't know how much she could have advanced if she would have actually been taught. I am not going to start on that yet again though. She brought home a ton of workbooks that are less than halfway completed and she is not reading where she should be so she has her work cut out for her this summer. Plus we need to make her feel more confident about her abilities and make her learn to trust that she is smart enough to do this stuff. So it is summer and we are done with her teacher (thank you Jesus)but the books and pencils remain. We will still do plenty of fun things so don't think I am going to force her to do school work all day but she will have to do a few things everyday unless we are on vacation :) Happy Summer Break!!

Memorial Day Weekend

Happy Memorial Day!

What a great weekend! On Saturday our friends from South Carolina came to town for a visit. Mary is one of the best friends I have made as an adult and I miss hanging out with her terribly. We were together almost every day and our girls were the best of friends. Mykenzie and Sarah picked up right where they left off and it was wonderful! Of course they are too cool together and couldn't be bothered with Kaylee cause it isn't cool to have a little 3 year old hanging out with almost 8 year olds :) Once Jacob was ready to play (he fell asleep on the drive over) he and Kaylee hit it off and left the big girls alone for the most part. Night time came and they decided to go outside and catch lightening bugs, well they aren't out yet. So being the smart resourceful girls that they are, they decided to catch moths which were around in abundance :) Of course when they got close to catching one they freaked out and squealed like... well like little girls :) They ended up staying till 10:30 and we wish that it wasn't so late so they could have stayed longer. Hopefully next time they will come for a longer period of time. We will have to go visit them sometime soon as well.





Sunday came with me sleeping in! Woo Hoo! I love sleeping in so very very much. So we ended up skipping church, again. We will go back I promise. I am not a fan of the series he is doing right now so I am avoiding it. We played outside for awhile and then came in and watched Over Her Dead Body. It was funnier than I thought it would be. The girls played upstairs till it was over and then we all got ready to go have a late lunch/early dinner. After we ate we went to get some ice cream and Travis took the girls back out to play while I went in search of an open pharmacy. We put the girls to bed and Travis and I watched the movie Untraceable. Yeah, it was a little too scary for me. I don't do scary movies. It was good though I have to admit.

Today we took it easy. Mykenzie and I went to see Narnia 2: Prince Caspian. I liked it. I don't know that I liked it as much as the first one but it was pretty good. I seriously need to go read the books. My 3rd grade teacher read them to us but that was a looooong time ago. Geeze, Mykenzie is going to be in 3rd grade in the fall! I AM OLD! We were going to have hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill but when we got home from the movie it was pouring down rain so we had to settle for hot dogs on the George Foreman!lol not the same at all but what can you do. Pretty good weekend, now it is back to the grind of school for a few more days. Mykenzie has school Tuesday, Wednesday and a half day on Thursday and she is done for the summer. I must say the thought of not having to be out the door by 7:30 am sounds pretty great right now. The girls are just excited about going to the pool.

You're freakin me out!

So Kaylee's new thing to say is now some form of "You're freakin me out man" I often tell her when she is having a fit over nothing to quit freaking out. I probably say it more than I ought to. lol However she has figured out how to twist what I say and use it in another context and it makes sence when she says it. She is nuts.

What a week!

This week has been emotionally exhausting! To make a long long story short, we had a scare concerning Kaylee's health. She was tested to determine if she was diabetic or not. The initial tests her glucose levels came back high so she had to fast overnight and go back for more testing. Thank the Lord they came back completely normal and she is not diabetic. It was a very long couple of days though.

Yesterday was Kaylee's last day of school. They had a bounce house and a pizza party and then right before they left they made ice cream sundaes. Kaylee really loved school this year and has learned alot. Her teachers were wonderful! Her main teacher wont be coming back to the school next year so she will be sad not to see her anymore but her teacher's aide will be the music teacher next year so she will still see her weekly :) I can't believe how fast this year went and that we are at the end of the school year! Mykenzie still has 2 weeks left but I am sure they will fly by. I have Mykenzie signed up for swim lessons in June as well as VBS at our church and a sports camp at another church. With all of those things June will fly by just as quickly as the past few months.

Here are a few pics of Kaylee's last day at school :)

Ahh Friday

Today we were out of bed by 5:30 and out the door by 6:20 headed to Chandra's for our yard sale. We stayed pretty busy and sold a bit of stuff. Still have tomorrow left so I am hoping the rest will go tomorrow, at least the toddler bed and mattress! Then I took Mykenzie to get evaluated for swim lessons. She is in level 2! Woo hoo! I am thrilled she gets to skip level 1 which is where I thought she would be for sure. It is a 6 lesson class so hopefully by the end of summer she will have completed all 5 lessons and rock at swimming :) She doesn't start till June 3rd and will go twice a week. Right now she is the only one signed up for the class so that is sweet cause she will get lots of attention if she is the only student! I want to put Kaylee in also but I am NOT getting in with her. I guess I should have checked into it to see how old you have to be to go in without a parent. Either way I will put her in next February-ish so she will be able to do basics by next summer.

Right now I am debating on what activities to put the girls in and I think I am leaning toward putting both in gymnastics. I was going to do dance for Kaylee but it is pricey with shoes and leotards and then costumes for the recitals. So I am thinking that gymnastics will be the way to go. Plus if they are in the same thing I get a discount ;) And I think they will both love it. Mykenzie has been begging for me to put her in it.

I think I am going to put Mykenzie in softball also. We missed Spring sign ups but we will catch it next time around. I think she would like to do that but if she decides against it oh well. Once I get Kaylee checked out by a cardiologist again (nothing is wrong, she has a murmur still and we had issues when she was born so I just want it checked again before I let her do sports) I will look into getting her into some type of sports as well. On second thought I should find a place that does tennis for Mykenzie, she would probably really enjoy that. Hmm. Anyone know of a place that does tennis here?

Now for the funny of the day... When getting Kaylee out of the car to take Kenzie to the swim thing I look at her and say, "you look like a ragamuffin" and she said I look like a drag a ga gone. I laughed and said "a ragamuffin" and she says "I look like a draga queen!" OMG I have such silly children

Muffins with Mom

Kaylee's school had muffins with mom this morning. We dropped the kids off at their class and then went down the hall and chatted for a little bit. When they were ready the teacher came and got us and we lined up in the hall. Then each mom stood in the doorway and the teacher called the kids name and they came over and took our hands and showed us to our seats. So cute! We then ate our muffins and then came gift time! They passed out these ADORABLE cookbooks! Each child told there favorite food that their mom made and then explained how she makes it! What did Kaylee pick? Cereal and Pop Tarts! LOL Here are her words on how to make it...
"You get some milk and put it in a cup and drink it. You put cereal and milk in a bowl. And that's all! You put the poptarts in a toaster- chocolate and strawberry. It pops and then you eat them."

The kids also traced their hands and cut them out and attached it to a long piece of string with a heart in the center that said "Mommy, I Love You This Much"

After gifts we planted a flower in a pot together and brought them home. It was a fun morning and Kaylee loved showing me the things that she had made for me. She gave me so many hugs and just kept telling me over and over, "I love you Mommy!" Such a sweet girl.

Kaylee and her friend Addison

Kaylee getting dirt for our flower

Kaylee and her flower for mommy
Mommy and Kaylee

Kaylee and the gift she made me

Picture on the front of the cookbook

Makes me laugh

I am not a fan of Taylor Swift's voice. I do however like alot of her songs (not so much saying Slow instead of Low, if you read that post) This new song of hers called Picture to Burn really makes me laugh. I know it isn't that funny people but it is the little things in life that make me smile and this is one of them, especially the first verse :)