Monday, June 30, 2014

End of School!

Peregrine School Carnival!
My kids love going to the carnival!  Even Ethan likes going, because he knows that old friends will be there.  All the kids who went to Sawtooth Middle school usually come back for the carnival, and they all meet up and hang out.  They were even good sports and played all the silly classroom games together.
London ran off with her friends, and had a great time!  So that left Aubrey and I to play together.
She wanted to start at the scooters.

 She played the tootsie roll game.  They wrap the kids in backwards tape, so the sticky part faces out, then they roll them on the floor covered in tootsie rolls.  Whatever sticks to the kid, they get to keep!
I had to help with temporary tattoos in Mrs. Bellamy's class for a little while, and my friend Ang took Aubrey to do some more fun things.
Afterward, I had to take her to the doughnut hang.
This is my favorite by far, I love watching the kids try to do this one.  I helped with this one a few years ago in Mrs. Workman's class when Ethan had her, it is always good for laughs!





We spent the rest of the night doing the book walk, Aubrey won 2 books.
Ethan and London were more interested in the pop walk and the cake walk.  They both won a 2 liter bottle of pop and thought they were awesome (they are).  They all got way to much candy and had a crazy good time, and Ethan was so glad to see old friends.  He had his first moment of nostalgia, and spent the rest of the night reminiscing to me about his friends and wondering when he would see them again.

FIELD DAY!
Aubrey and I were only too happy to help with Field Day. 
Water games, tug of war, plenty of sunshine-yes please!
She and I helped with the squirt game.
The kids partner up, one has on a blindfold and holds the squirt bottle.  The other partner leads the blindfolded one around and they all squirt each other.  And maybe we squirted everyone from the sidelines.
One of the first classes we had had our sweet friend Matti in it!  She's the one in the purple shorts.


Tug of war was right behind us. 
I was so excited when London's class had their turn to do tug of war.  I knew London would totally get into it, and she did not disappoint!
Look how soaked she already is!  It had only been 2 games and she was dripping!





GIRLS WIN!!!



It was so cute and so fun to watch all these kids!  They took this game so serious, and us moms and even Mrs. Bellamy got in on the action.  I forgot how much tug of war hurts your hands!  So fun!
And the losing team always landed in a big heap of giggles, love it!
Now it was their turn to come do our game!
London and her partner Reagyn.  They are such good good friends!!!  I love it!

This picture just makes me laugh!
It was London's turn to wear the blindfold, and look what she did with her glasses.
I was laughing so hard, I'm glad I got the picture!  She is just too funny!
I took her glasses from her after this.


Too funny!  And the first sunburns of the season, whoops!  I may have forgotten the sunscreen, go mother of the year!
We love Field Day at Peregrine, these teachers have so much fun with the kids, I love it.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Now, before I start here...my Ethan would not let me do a picture of him on the last day of school, but believe me, he was soooo excited!  He is no longer a 6th grader, and no longer the youngest in the school!  Wahooooo!
London was excited too, but a little sad.  She loves her friends and she loooooved her teacher this year, so she was not as excited, but she still loves summer and I think she was ready to get summer started.
She was ready to roll!
 And one last picture with Mrs. Bellamy!
She was such a great teacher and had such a great influence on London.  She and I became good friends too, and I will miss her next year!  So glad London had her for a teacher!
Let summer begin!

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Memorial Day!

Oh my gosh!
I lost access to my blog for a month!  That was way too hard on this mom!  I just got back into it, and then Google went and screwed up a bunch of stuff and I couldn't even access it! 
Once again, my brainy, wizard of a husband fixed it!!!  That man is a genius.
Our Memorial Day weekend was pretty quiet, but it made my kids soooo ready for summer!
London has been playing with her dragon puppet tons, which makes me so happy!  I loved it when I found it, and loved making it, it's so simple, but so so cool!  And he is definitely a sea dragon!

 We went to our friends the Paines for a bbq, and Cris got called in to work at the last minute, so it was just me and the kiddos, but we didn't mind too much.
Here is London and the Paine's daughter, Kate.
They think it is cool that they have the same name because London's middle name is Cate, so they are super good buddies now.
 There were lots of kids to play with, tons TONS of food!  We felt like we were at Thanksgiving we were all so full, and there were so many desserts to choose from.  We all had food in our necks and still kept eating-not the best idea...
It was a lot of fun!  I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted to, but enough.
Here are my girls on the swings.  Ethan and Josh went in to figure out chess, and now Ethan would like a chess set of his own.
Good thing he is mowing lawns this summer I say.
Get your own chess set son!  I love that kid, truly I do.
I know, a short post, but I am so relieved to be able to access my blog again.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Aubrey's Preschool Graduation!

It's that day.
The day I have been dreading.
Aubrey graduated from Preschool!  
What am I going to be like when they graduate from high school?  Or college???   
A mess, that's what I'll be like.
We have loved Miss Janet!  She has taught all three of my little musketeers, and we adore her!
She does a patriotic themed graduation every year, and it's so cute.
 They start by saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and the kids know it so well, and were very respectful of the flag.
 They sang This Land is Your Land, God Bless America, Grand Old Flag, and Yankee Doodle.  Yankee Doodle was my favorite, I loved hearing Aubrey practice singing, "I GOT a Yankee Doodle sweeeeeeeet heart!"  It is absolutely precious, I love that girl!
 Each of the kids had a part, and they all did awesome!
 And of course our sweet Grandma and Grandpa Edwards came to see her graduate!  They even gave her a big candy bar as a present.
 Hugs all around!

 She wasn't supposed to come see us just yet, so she had to go back up and get her diploma!
 Way to go Aubrey!!

 I just love this sweet lady so much!  We are going to miss her to pieces. She invited us to come over any time and see her, she loves all of my kids, and the feeling is mutual.  She and I had a good cry and a long hug because we can't believe she is done teaching all of my kids!  I have always told her that after Aubrey graduates she can retire and that always felt like such a long time away, but here we are!  And Miss Janet is not retiring.
 They started their hug and Aubrey was worried about knocking her hat off.
 But who cares!?  You need to give a good hug!
 This is Miss Janet's grand daughter, Raimee.  She and Aubrey became such good friends over the year!  We plan on getting together with her through the summer and doing birthday parties and staying in touch.  I really hope we do!
 My sweet little graduate.
Check out that great big candy bar from Grandma and Grandpa!!
I love how she is just standing there with her little hands open! 
Thank you so much!
She was so sweet and shared with London and Ethan and I.  
Because she learned sharing.
And it stuck.
 Here's Aubrey and Tucker.  She loves this kid (her words, not mine).  
She likes that when he walks into a room full of just girls, he always says, "Well hello ladies."  And it makes her giggle.
 After graduation, we made our fairy garden!
I think it turned out so cute!! and Aubrey checks it every day to see if the fairies took any of her treasures.
 It looks like a party, a cute little miniature fairy party, and I bet they love it!
 And there's the swing.
It simply would not be an Aubrey fairy garden without a swing.
I'm so proud of my sweet Aubrey!
Now, stop bawling about it Mom!