June!!!!

 This little girl already has the right idea....trying to fill her big sisters shoes! And I think she has a pretty amazing big sister whose footsteps she can follow in. Seriously, she adores her sister!!! And just about as equally, she LOVES shoes! Total girl in every way imaginable.

 Love these two together! Even if Conner makes her scream a lot because he tries to hug her and kiss her and cuddle her to the point of making her insane. But these two have such a sweet little friendship. And the older Carys gets and the more she interacts, the more I can see little mannerisms of Conners that she has picked up on and adopted. It is a good thing she will be starting preschool next year because she is going to be Sooooo sad when he goes to Kindergarten!

 You know you are doing something right int he way you are raising your kids when their lunch request is In-n-Out! At least we have that one covered. Phew!

TK has been Full of at home projects! Which Kellen has just eaten up. Near the end of the year the class was going to have a "drive in movie" day where each kid was to make a cardboard box car to bring in to class that they could sit in while watching their movie. Daddy helped Kellen spray paint the box white and cut out the top. And then Kellen did the rest of the designing! I was so proud of him. He picked the colors, painted it himself, helped make a grill and even had the idea to put a license plate on the back! Such a little stud!

 Conners was asked to draw a picture of his family for his end of the year book at preschool. This is what he drew. His teacher wrote the names for who each person was....Apparently Conner believes that our family is not quite complete.....

A few of my other favorites from Conner this year. He is a real developing little artist. For the longest time Conner could't have cared less about coloring or anything of the sort. But by the end of his first year of preschool he had really begun to enjoy and embrace coloring. So much so that crayons and paper and markers are now a permanent staple on my counter top. Funny how they each develop on their own and at their own time. And then suddenly they just get it!

 I was cleaning out my bedroom and found a big folder or Makenna's art work from 1st grade. As much as I would like to save everything that my kids do that I love, it just can't happen. Especially when those drawings are done in chalk. So next best thing, take a picture and save it!

This boy right here is one tough kid! I sometimes think that certain things in childhood are a right of passage. One of those things has to be a really good crash on your bike. And Kellen can certainly check that one off his list now. 

Kellen is probably my most cautious child. But even then, accidents happen. We were at the park with some friends and the kids were all riding their bikes around the path that went on the outside of the playground. Well, Kellen must have take a curve a little too close to the fence and I am assuming his handle bar got caught in the chain link fence...his bike crashed and he went sliding on the pavement.....face first. Thank goodness for helmets! This could have been really bad had he not been wearing one. There were lots of tears at first. I actually thought he had broke his wrist because he was holding his hand and screaming running over to me. But he must have gotten his finger caught in the fence between it and the handle bar because a couple of his fingers had lost a lot of skin and gotten scratched pretty painfully. There were even more tears cleaning off the wounds at the park and a deeper cleaning at home. But he handled it really well. The saddest part was that the next week was the last week of school and he was really embarrassed to have to go to school looking like this. Unfortunately kids can be mean, even without totally realizing it sometimes. Kellen is a sensitive kid. He is also not the type to really defend himself if someone were to tease him. I talked to his teacher to make sure she knew he was worried about it and sent him to school with a brave face on. Thank Goodness prayers were answered and no one gave him a hard time. If anything they thought he was pretty tough and cool!

Last Day of TK, still sporting his battle wounds! My how he has grown in one year!

Mrs Zarzan! By far one of my favorite teachers my kid have ever had! She is awesome! And I still think it is the sweetest thing how much she and Conner grew to love each other, just with their before and after school hugs! Glad that Carys will have her in a few years when she hits TK!

Shave Ice after school on the last day!

The way Makenna is with pets reminds me so much of myself as a kid. I can vividly remember having dogs sleep in bed with me and feeling like my dogs were practically pushing me out of the bed. But I just let them because I loved them too much and loved to cuddle with them. It's safe to say Makenna must feel the same. 

Another season at the sportsplex complete! She is really developing into an incredible soccer player. And its been neat to see it become something she really loves and looks forward to. This season at the sportsplex was the first time that she was always excited and didn't complain about practices every week. She looked forward to them anxiously! At the end of the season we talked and she decided she wants to play AYSO went it starts up at the end of August. She wants to play a long season again, so we will see how it goes. 

Those eyes and those lips! The color of her eyes keeps changing. Makes me curious what they will end up looking like!

Swimming day at Grammy's pool with our good friends the Knoops!

These kids had a great idea to make a lemonade stand as a way to earn money. So we put a date on the calendar and went into business with the neighbors. We had a bunch of lemons donated to us. We worked hard all afternoon squeezing lemons and making Really Amazing lemonade. We also baked cookies to sell. We set up our tables, advertised to our friends on Facebook and went to work. Believe it or not, these kids raised $45 in one afternoon! That combined with a big $20 tip from Grammy and these kids walked away with a  good chunk of change!