Fun in the Sun!

About a week ago we went to Lee's Summit for a graduation party. It was at a park and the kids had a blast......so here are some pics..........

So darn cute!

Swinging!

Hey Mom.....No Hands!

They are up to something!

My 4 Bambinos!

The kids really wanted a picture of this!



Chillin in the tunnel slide!



Me and my sweet girl!

This girl......I tell ya, she is something else!

What are you looking at???

Well here........look at this!

My honey and me!

Mr. Tough Guy!

 I thought this would be a cool place to get a pic of the 4 kids, these are the best I got.......they sure are cute though!

Ready to go home!

My happy baby boy!

We had a great time and then shortly after we left......Katelin puked all over Daddy's truck. So we pulled over on the highway and Daddy almost puked cleaning it up. She wasn't sick but had drank a pop rather quickly and I think that just upset her little tummy.

Later that night we were in the basement because of tornado warnings. Little did we know that the storms that weekend would cause so much devastation to our south, my heart is broken for the people of Joplin but that is a whole other post that I will share shortly.

After a busy day I had some tired and cranky kids....it made for a long hour in the basement!



Katelin's Birthday Party!!!

Yes.....it was 2 weeks ago!
Yes.....her actual birthday was over 3 weeks ago!
And Yes, I am just now getting around to posting these pictures!
What can I say............Life has been BUSY!!!!


Nonetheless, Katelin had a wonderful party......spent with great family and friends!!!!

The Invitation:

The Cake:



The Princess:

The Decor:



The Gifts:

Blowing out the Candles:

Evan enjoyed him some cake (I think he will be ready for his own cake in August)

We got to meet our new little nephew John! Uncle Stephen wasn't able to come to town but John and his mom, Sarah, came to the party with Grandma and Papa. Here's a pic of the 2 youngest of the cousins:

Evan looks so big next to John, Evan is 9 months and John 3 1/2 months.

Everyone had left except for Chris, Michelle, Brandon, and Mykayla and Kaylynn so we started a fire and cooked some hot dogs!!!

My sweet princess all tuckered out after a busy busy.....fun day!!!

Thank you so much for everyone who came and shared my girls special day!!!

Owen, Owen, Owen!!!!

Owen has kept me pretty busy lately and I finally have some time to share why!!!!

I got to go on Owen's field trip with him to Deanna Rose. Chet had to work so I had to take the little ones with me and they were sooo good the whole time. We had a lot of fun, I have to say though......it was a little long for an all day field trip. Owen is in half day kindergarten but the field trip was all day and Deanna Rose is just not a place you spend an entire day at. They had lunch as a class and did a mining activity as a class but other than that we were on our own. We had Owen's friend Tristan in our group so we visited the animals, played on the playground a lot and I bought ice cream for the kids!

Playing at the playground, mining activity and visiting the tee pee!

Some of the animals!

Milking the baby goats!

Then yesterday my boy officially became a 1st grader........i'm proud of him, he has really adjusted to elementary school so well! He has some areas that need to be worked on like his sight words but I am confident with a little bit of hard work this summer that we will have him ready for 1st grade in the fall.

For their graduation they sang some songs and got their diplomas. We gave Owen a graduation dog and some balloons, I think it kind of embarrassed him.

Getting his diploma!

His last moment as a kindergartener

Barber Shoppe!

Lucky for me, I don't have to take my boys to the barber shoppe because we have Daddy!

Before

During

After



Oh my.........

I'm not sure what they did!

I'm not sure who they did it to!

And i'm not sure who punished them!

But they appear to be in time out!

If you read my last post then you saw all of Katelin's ducks lined up in the tub, well this is how I found them yesterday! You may notice most of them are missing, boy......I don't want to know what they did wrong or what happened to them!!!!

They funny little people in my house, I love finding this kind of stuff......it always puts a smile on my face!!!

Do you have all your ducks in a row???

Yeah......me neither! But I know someone who does!!!

 No....Really.....She does.....Go ahead and take a look for yourself..........

 Okay, so she doesn't have ALL her ducks in a row because that is only about half of her collection! Oh and her little brother would wipe them all out if only he could get his little hands on them but lucky for Katelin..........

 he just can't quite reach them!!!

Want to know something else about my beautiful curly haired blonde??? I have to take a lot of pictures when her hair is done all cute like this! Any guesses why???

She doesn't leave anything in her hair very long! I do it all cute and she undoes it a short time later :(  It sure is adorable while it last.

Rylie, Rylie, Rylie

That will sum up this post..........it's all about Rylie!
I haven't blogged a lot lately because we have been sooooo busy! The end of school is almost here and there has been lots and lots going on sooooo....here is what's been up with my Ry Ry!

In April they had the 3rd grade musical, they had to dress in a 70's theme so here is my girl with her tie dye shirt and bandana in her hair. She had a small speaking part and did great. I wasn't able to get a great picture of the program though.

 Then at the end of April I went on a field trip with Rylie. We went to the Prairie Nature Center in Lawrence. It was fun to have some time with just my Ry. We had Liadon and Alleigh in our group. We went on a nature walk, got to see some cool animals and then got to go catch bugs. Chet stayed home with the little ones, I must admit this made me a bit nervous. I knew they would be fine and they were, no problems! I just hadn't left Evan with Chet for an entire day yet but I shouldn't of had any doubts........they had a great day!!!


Ry catching bugs, my group of girls, Rylie with fly eyes, & me and my girl!




My favorite was the Owl, can you see where the beaver's have been hard at work on the tree, Yuck....a big hair spider, and an opossum(they are actually kinda cute when not road kill)

  Rylie received the Character Trait award for Acceptance and Tolerance, proud of my girl! She gets practice with acceptance and tolerance with her little sister so the award does fit!!!

 We were so excited to go to School Day at the K, Chet and I had both got tickets so we were gonna spend the day with Rylie at the Royals stadium. Grammy took off work to watch the little ones. Well the night before, guess what??? Rylie came down with pink eye! She was the last to get it, I really thought it was gonna miss her. Big Fat Bummer! Here she is in her Day at the K T-shirt.

 And not only did she get pink eye but she also broke a blood vessel in her eye and it looked like this......

 Two weeks later it is still there but it is almost gone. Rylie was probably the most difficult to give eye drops to, she really did try to cooperate but kept moving everytime I was trying to put the drops in but we survived that. I got a note shortly after the pink eye stuff that head lice was at the school.........Thank Goodness we managed to avoid that one (knocking on wood)!!! Oh and it ended up cold and rainy during school day at the K so I hear we did not miss a good time, hopefully next year it will all work out for us to go and it will be a nice day.

Tuesday I went up to the school with my crew in tow for bug presentations and 3rd grade awards, I had my good camera but left my SD card in the computer so I had to use the camera on my phone (better than nothing).

Rylie, Emily, and Isabelle did a presentation on the Indian Moon Moth and they did an awesome job!

Rylie's playdoh moon moth, giving her presentation and Ry, Emily and Isabelle!

 And here are the awards she got......one for meeting all 4 quarters of her AR reading goal, KU reading award, one for putting an extra time and effort with the math academy and the one each for excelling on her math and reading state assessments. We are super proud of her, she works hard and does so well in school. Keep up the good work Rylie......you can do anything you set your mind to!!!

So this is a lot of what we have been up to, Owen has kept us pretty busy as well but we have Kindergarten graduation on Monday and then I will be sharing all that we have been up to with him. Along with Katelin's birthday party and a few other things. Hard to believe summer break is only 5 days away....too bad this cold weather is hanging around.