Happy {Preteen} Birthday to my twins!

Sophia and Arianna turned eleven this week! 

Hard to believe that I have been a mom for 11 years- feels a lot longer! 

 We enjoyed our traditional birthday breakfast 

than spent the day hanging out and dinner at Red Robins.

 The next day, they had friends over for pizza and cake and we all went to Lakeside till 10:30PM and then had a big sleepover. It was fun. 

 Bemis Library gives free tickets to Lakeside which is awesome and I never used to use them because I thought the park was so old, but the last 2 years, we have gone and the kids have LOVED it! (doesn't matter to them how old the park is and you can't beat free!)

 The vintage signs are super cool! 

 The kids brought their GoPro camera on all the rides- we have TONS of footage! 

Here is a cool video I made:)

 We also celebrated with our MC this week and the twins little friend, "J", baked them brownies.

We celebrated with Grandma and Grandpa as well...

Sophia and Arianna's Fifth Grade Continuation Ceremony

My sweet first-born twins have completed elementary school. I am so very proud of all their hard work over the past years. I am SO grateful for the amazing teachers that have motivated them and encouraged them and loved them so sacrificially. 

Ari was able to play some piano songs at the beginning of the continuation...

I really was doing pretty good emotionally until they started talking about several staff members retiring and the girls went through the line of teachers that have meant so much to them throughout their years at Hopkins. It was very beautiful as parent to see the love that these people have for my daughters.  So moving...  

 Many of these kiddos have been at Hopkins since the beginning and have become dear friends. 

Sophia was getting so emotional during the song- it was so unlike her. 

She just loves Hopkins so much! 

 So grateful for many friends and family who came out to celebrate with the twins! 

our principal who is retiring 

our awesome librarian