A summer update

As usual, I am running behind in my postings.  I’d like to do a quick re-cap of the first month of summer to get me caught up.  (Please note, this also includes some of the end-of-school-year activities because I haven’t blogged them yet!)

 

Kenni’s dance team traveled all over this spring doing competitions.  The last one was nationals which was at Lagoon. They did really well.  It has been fun to watch this little team grow and progress over the last two years.  I tease that Kenni wasn’t born to be a dancer, but she is really getting to be good!

team prayer before their performance.  Isn’t that cute?

And of course our spring was full of lots of soccer.  This was Noodle’s first year & he loved it.

soccer!

We took the little ones to the dinosaur museum for a field trip. They had a fantastic time.

Baby J’s first slide!  (She loved it- you just don’t know it yet)

Preschool graduation.  Noodle happily sang all of the songs & did all the actions, but Smurfy just looked at the ground.  I think he was wishing he could crawl into it.  He is definitely his daddy’s boy.  (P.S.- Noodle is off to Kindergarten this year, but Smurfy has one more year of preschool.  It was really fun having them in the same class this year, even though they are not the same age.)

This year, Kenni & Sparky both took classes from Morgan Academy of Dance.  Kenni took hip-hop & tumbling and Sparky took an all-boys tumbling class with his two cousins.  It was his first year and he really loved it. Its hard to get that boy excited about anything that involves physical activity, so I was glad to find something he enjoyed so much.  (Honestly, I think he really just loved spending time with his cousins rough-housing, but whatever floats your boat, right?) Anyway- the following pictures are from their end-of-year review.

 

I just had to throw in that picture of baby J because i think it is adorable!  She saw her brother in the tub & thought she should join him. 

Kenni & her cousin got to go to a special sewing day at Grandma Ree’s house.  She called it “sewing camp” since my kids haven’t gone to any camps or done any lessons this summer.  (Due to the move, which was supposed to take place last month, but has been postponed till mid-July.  More on that later).  Anyway- they made these adorable hats & Grandma told me that Kenni did ALL of the sewing on hers all by herself. Grandma took them to a sewing store & let them choose fabric & Kenni was in HEAVEN!

Sparky’s first ever pinewood derby!  He turns 8 in July, so they invited him to come even though it wasn’t quite his birthday yet.  He & Seth worked on his car for a week and he was so proud of it.  As far as the racing goes, they didn’t do so hot, but Sparky didn’t care one bit.  That sweet boy doesn’t have a competitive bone in his body.  He was just glad to be there!

And last but certainly not least, there was baby J’s first birthday party.  I have at least 100 pictures from the event that I’ll probably have to save another post for, so for now I’ll just say that my sister & I did a combined party for J & her cousin Lena because they are less than two weeks apart.  We sat them down & tried to take pictures of them beforehand to use for a birthday card, but those little stinkers wouldn’t cooperate!  So, this one was honestly the best that we had.  I still think they are pretty cute, though!

 

PHEW- I believe that brings me to the end of June.  Actually, I just realized I still need to post the ABC’s of summer & our hardscrabble camping trip.  This post is entirely too long, though, so look for those to come.  Thanks for reading!