End of School

The last couple of weeks of school are always crazy ones.
The kids have been in a school-wide Dance Festival, a music recital,
a piano recital, pre-school graduation, Kindergarten graduation,

field days, soccer parties...
It's been busy.

Here's our graduated Kindergartner.

She's grown up so much this year!

Lillie's graduation from Fairytale Farm Preschool.

Highland Elementary's Dance Festival was a huge hit.

Noah's class performed to Dancin' in the Street.

He couldn't wait to get it over with.

Chloe's class performed a great little Elvis number.

She was partnered with a cute little boy named Beckett.

Make sure to watch the video at the bottom of this post. So cute!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone.

My kids are growing up way too quickly!

I'm ready to have them home with me.

Bring on the Summer!

Our Dog

Meet our dog. Her name is pain-in-the-butt.

Um, I mean Princess.

Brian surprised me with her last October.

There has been a long list of casualties since she joined our family.

Our back door...

A few missing trees...

15+ sprinkler heads...

Both of our hoses...

Just to name a few on a very long list.

She barks at everything, jumps on people, licks your

face, digs the yard and chews everything.

I know what you're thinking.

Why do you still have this dog?!

Here's why:

Lillie adores her.

Noah and Chloe are at school and Milo's asleep.

And Lillie's out back with her good friend

having a wonderful time.

And that's why pain-in-the-butt, um, I mean Princess

isn't going anywhere. :)

Pinewood Derby 2010

Why be fast when you can be Smart?

Noah decided to build a Smart Car for the

Pinewood Derby this year.

It turned out great!

Everyone loved it and it ended up being a lot

faster than we thought.

Noah has a great bunch of friends in our neighborhood.

They are all very nice boys.
Noah's car won a first and two second places and
made a lot of people smile.
Especially Noah.
Way to go, bud!

Lillie is 4!

Our sweet Lillie Mae turned four this month.

Her day started out like all our birthdays, with a cupcake

and Happy Birthday to You in bed...

Then she hurried downstairs to find her presents.

We've been wanting to get a Power Wheels for

a while now. I found this one in a D.I. pile in

the back of my friend's truck.

A new battery, a good scrub and some vinyl

flower stickers and it's ready.

Lillie was thrilled!

Lillie wanted a Fairy party this year.
Here are all the sweet little girls we had over.


After finding fairies in the yard, the girls came in and
made little homes for their fairies with moss, flowers,
berries, leaves and sparkly rocks.
They loved it.


Happy Birthday Lillie Mae!