Preschool

From this

to this

Where did the time go??? Bradley had his last day of preschool, and I was a wreck! He was totally fine, and excited to have t-ball and kindergarten to look forward to. Until I made the mistake of talking to someone about how sad I was within earshot of Bradley - then he was a little sad... oops :( I don't think he totally understood that that was his last day and he wouldn't be going back. He has started to ask multiple times since then when he has preschool again, then he remembers and gets a little sad. It was just so much fun for him. I was hesitant to bring him anywhere because I am so used to, and LOVE, him being with ME all the time. I absolutely loved his teacher and he felt comfortable and loved it there from day one. We met some really good friends that I know we'll keep in touch with and I'm just so glad he had such a good FIRST school experience. We all went to City Park for the end of the year picnic with everyone and got to ride the trolley and play for a couple of hours.

A day in the mountains

We all went up to Dad and Jan's to enjoy some lunch and company. Mindy and the family were busy getting ready for the graduation party, so they weren't able to make it. The weather was so nice and my kids automatically wanted to explore the rocks. Sure reminded me of when I was a kid and spent HOURS wondering around those rocks.

Grandma getting some nice Ayden time :)

And Sammie time :)

water rocket :)

Bradley was his normal, cautious self. Staying away from high areas and not ducking down under and low trees.

And of course Gracie was her normal, adventurous self. Going into little caves...

And right up to the edge :(

Her favorite was collecting all the different sticks

Watching Wallace and Gromit

Riding DRIVING the mule

 

Mindy Townsend B.S.W.!!!

Mindy graduated!!! My wonderful, amazing, multi-talented, loving sister graduated from CSU. After leaving CSU about 14 years ago to have her amazing children she returned a couple years ago to pursue her degree in social work. After juggling family, work, and school for 2 years she is finally done!! I am super happy for her and can't imagine doing all that she's accomplished in school while still having time for every soccer, baseball, volleyball, AND basketball practices and games that her children take part in, AND working at the same time. It's a big deal and she should be super proud of herself! I can't wait for her to get into a job that she loves in the field of social work. We all went to her pinning ceremony before graduation and then went out to lunch and I was able to take some pictures of everyone.

Dandelions

They're real flowers right? Well, my kids think they are, so that's good enough for me. Up until about 2 days ago when Kevin sprayed the yard, our yard was FULL of them, worse than I've ever seen it. But my kids loved it! They would pick them and bring them to me for a present, then get more to put in a little cup with water so they could have 'real' flowers in their room.

Rain

The other day it was raining pretty hard and my newspaper was out on the driveway so I thought it would be funny to ask Bradley to go get it for me :) He said, "Mom, it's raining!!!" like it was out of the question, and Gracie said "Gracie do it!" :) Her excitement spread to Bradley pretty quickly and they both ran out to get the paper, then came back inside and wanted to do it again. So I told them to go out back and run around. 

Bradley is so funny, he came inside and kept changing clothes - because he was getting too wet (duh), then he thought that gloves on his hands would keep them from getting to wet and cold (but it wasn't even cold)

Gracie stayed out the whole time, getting soaked and loving every minute.

 

Kite Festival

Last year I heard about this kite festival not far from our house but we didn't think it was windy enough that day so we didn't go. This year the weather was perfect so we thought we'd go check it out. It was a zoo. There were SO many people there. It was really nice though, the kids got to make a little kite and it looked really cool with all the different kites in the air. Luckily the park was big enough that we were able to go off and find our own little spot. Bradley did a GREAT job keeping his kite in the air. Gracie mostly sat on the ground and played with the string :) And Sammie was very excited about all the flying objects :)