The Month of May

May is always a crazy month, here are some of the events that made it both fun and crazy......

We started out the month by finding out what we were having and much to my surprise

It's A Girl

I honestly was completely shocked I was convinced it was a boy. Ryan says he knew it was a girl but didn't want to tell me. So much for evening the score. I guess Logan will be in touch with his feminine side?? After the shock wore off..............we are excited. This little girl has thrown us for a loop from the beginning, I hope she doesn't give a us run for our money.

Happy Mothers Day

I am lucky to have these healthy, beautiful, crazy kids. I am happy I get to be their mom.

The kids and their friends thought they would start Spring/Summer of right by having a lemonade stand. They tried to make the lemonade from scratch and even added real lemons. They mixed it up in that bucket that they all kept tasting it out of. I don't think they sold much, thankfully, but they had a blast doing it and that's all that counts.


COOKING MOM

I had the opportunity to be the "cooking mom" for Ellie's kindergarten class. It was so much fun and the kids always looked forward to it. They were always disappointed if I was at class that day to do something other than cooking mom. Some of the kids in her class even called me cooking mom whenever they saw me. We tried to do things that coordinated with the letter they were on. We made mini pizzas, smoothies, granola, marshmallow octopus, and the final one of the year was letter Y. I felt like we had used yogurt a lot so I needed to come up with something else, plus it was the last one so I wanted it to be fun. At my sister suggestion, they made "you" or self portraits of themselves on sugar cookies. They all did a great job. I will miss being cooking mom. Ellie said, "I hope we have cooking mom in first grade."

Ellie's self portrait

Bailey had her bridging ceremony for Girl Scouts. She is no longer a Brownie :( She has had such a great time in this troop. Her troop leader is seriously amazing. Love her!! Bailey would be a Junior Scout now if she continued, but I think we will take a break. She has Activity Days, her leader is going to be less involved this year so I could be time to move on. I am hoping I can get her leader to do a troop Ellie's age.

Way to go Bay, what a cute Girl Scout you are.

Thanks to everyone for supporting her and buying cookies.

I am proud of her for all of the things she accomplished as a Girl Scout and the good friends and relationships that she made.

Miss Bay also had a busy soccer season. She played with a great team this spring. Her coach is awesome. We got lucky, that man was put on the earth to coach soccer. Bailey really improved and had a fun season. Her team won the championship. They lost won game all season and had to play that same team in the championship game, which they won. We have been playing that team for 3 or 4 seasons and came close to beating them a few times, but it was nice to get a victory. She really loved playing for Ice Purple. I think she will get to have the same coach in the fall, so we will see how that all plays out.

Sweet hardware


The team in action

Bailey, Megan and Natalie have played together for a few years. I am glad they were able to stay together when they got on this team. Cute girls!!

Bailey had her end of the year music program. She did a great job. She had a little one word solo and she was very into all of the songs, dances etc. She loves this type of thing. I could still sing most of the songs because she has been singing them around the house for quite some time.

3rd Grade Picnic

This year the 3rd graders decided to have an end of the year picnic. Our spring weather wasn't the best, so I am glad they had a good day. Ryan was able to come home for the afternoon so I could go help out, and I was glad that I did. It was fun to watch all the kids and help them play the games. Bay was a champ at the potato sack race, and she was a good sport in the 3 legged race when the only person left to pair up with was a boy she didn't really know. It was a fun day.

Memorial Day

The girls are in to wearing hats right now.

We didn't do anything to exciting for Memorial Day. Mel and Spence were in town looking for a place to live, so we just BBQ'd and hung out. It rained early in the day so I was glad that it cleared up in time to enjoy being outside. It did give Logan a good reason to wear his boots. He loves these things and every time we go to Target and he sees them for sale, he thinks all of them are his and yells "my boots, my boots" at the top of his lungs. Great fun. Good thing he looks so cute in "my boots."

May did not disappointed this year, always lots going on. Summer is on its way!!