Wrapping up the school year

{Arianna} August 2011- first day of school

{Arianna} May 2012- last day of school

{Sophia} August 2011- first day of school

{Sophia} May 2012- last day of school

Twins with Ms. Sustr- first day

Twins with Ms. Sustr- last day

{Ella} September 2011- first day of preschool

{Ella} May 2012- last day of preschool

Ella and Ms. Pam- first day

Ella and Ms. Pam- last day

 So blessed to have such wonderful teachers in my children's lives this year- they encouraged, loved and educated my kiddos with such dedication! 

Teacher gifts for the end of the year

Twas a wonderful school year... 

Ella's Preschool Graduation

My heart is SO full looking thru these pictures- 

Praise God for His mercies and blessings 

which he has poured out in abundance in our lives! 

We love you, Ella and look forward to many more graduations ahead! 

Happy "Faux" Birthday!

The twins have a summer birthday so as the end of the year begins rolling towards us, they start asking if I can make them treats to bring in for their "faux" birthday! Of course I oblige because who doesn't just LOVE bringing in treats to school on their birthday!

 Sophia chose Peter Rabbit cupcake toppers which I downloaded for free. 

Arianna took hers in today. I made chocolate chip cookie bars (Michelle Weston, I use your cookie recipe and it is by far my absolute fav!) - it was SO much easier than cupcakes:) We still printed little labels for them for free:) I cannot believe how many free cupcake printables there are out there on the web.  Its a free way to add a little something to spice up treats, especially for kids.

This Friday (3 days away) is the twins last day of school!
I cannot believe it!
Where has this school year gone?

A First of Many More to Come!

The twins participated in our school science fair last week.

 They worked on a project with their friend J.J. 

sophia cracks me up with her peace sign

JJ's sister Alexa(in the purple)  is the pretty much the same exact age as Elijah- almost 4- she is WICKED tall! 

 He would come over after school and they glued letters, wrote their hypothesis, worked with carnations to see what liquids they would drink. It was a good first science fair project- easy and do-able by 2nd graders. The night of the science fair, they had a rocket making table and these cool air compressors that would launch the rockets. It was a FUN night:) We walked home around 8pm and the kids "flew" their rockets home all the way... it was so memorable.

Stay-cation

A few weeks back, we decided to take the kids about an hour away to a hotel for the night to go swimming and reconnect after a VERY busy week! It was ablast and the best money ever spent on a "vacation". It was easy and the kids still talk about it all the time! We stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and it had this HUGE slide that went outside and then into the indoor pool- super awesome! It was really fast too- sorta scared me! Of course, the twins were not afraid and did it over and over and over and over (you get the point!) Ella took a bit of convincing but after a while was going down by herself! Elijah would just go with Mark or I but LOVED it! We swam till about 9:00pm and then woke up and swam some more til check out at 11am.  They begged to stay another night:)