Splash Park

A lot of the girls in Elizabeth's kindergarten (now 1st grade!) class met up at the splash park to play and eat popsicles. 

Elizabeth is wrapped up in the purple towel. It was windy!

First Day of Swimming Lessons

The kids had their first of MANY swimming lessons today. They are going to take a lot of lessons this summer because we want to make sure they are strong swimmers! They are taking lessons from the same great girl they took lessons from last summer. They said they were pretty tired after their first lesson since they aren't used to swimming yet!

In the picture, Nathan is hanging onto the diving board and Elizabeth is hanging onto the rails. They must have been tired! 

*As I finished typing this, I realized Elizabeth was looking over my shoulder reading. She read EVERY word (except "hanging") all by herself. I guess I have 2 readers in the house now! How can that be? 

New Camera!!!

Laura got me a SUPER nice camera for my birthday (early present). I am actually afraid of it because it is so nice. I don't know a THING about photography or how to take pictures, but I will try to learn some-at least enough to take some nice photos. 

Thanks L! You can borrow it at any time! 

I went to the backyard to take a few pictures yesterday. It was the first day of summer vacation! I don't know how to do anything fancy with it, so these are just regular pictures. I just pushed the button. 

Elizabeth picking and eating all the raspberries. 

Nathan swinging. We're going to try to have him wear his headgear as much as possible this summer. The more he wears, it the faster he's done with it!! He's only been wearing it for 5 months but we sure wish he was done. 

Hydrangeas of course. 

School is out!

Yesterday was the last day of school! I will never have a kindergartner again! 

The weather this last week was crazy! Monday and Tuesday the temperature was 102! Yesterday on Friday, a big rainstorm had rolled through overnight. When the kids left for school, they wore jackets and it was 58 degrees! It was warm and sunny by the time they got home at noon on the last day, but it was still just crazy!

She wore her long skirt too to stay warm on the walk to school. 

Goodbye Kindergarten!

My big boy is done with 2nd grade! 

They had an awards assembly at school and he came home with lots of awards! He had 111 AR points this year and that was among the top in his class. He ran 10 miles in their junior joggers program so he got an award for that. He also won "Outstanding Student in PE" for his class. so that was neat! 

Time for summer!

Field Day

Here are some pictures from Field Day yesterday. I was in charge of a station so I took a few quick pictures when the kids were over in my corner. 

Bouncing around!

Waiting her turn to run the Long Sprint. 

Still waiting. 

Water balloon handoffs. 

Her long sprint race. About a second after I took this picture, Elizabeth stopped running. She turned around and said she had to go to the bathroom. So that was it! She did not finish her long sprint. 

Jeremy was "lucky" enough to be put in charge of a relay. Trying to explain how a relay works to K-2 students was not so easy! I think Jeremy got stuck with the hardest field day station. 

Nathan doing his long sprint. He is not winning the sprint. 

Balloon toss. 

Messing with his balloon. 

More balloon tossing. 

Bouncing

Cherries!

It's cherry season! We are lucky enough to have a U-Pick orchard just a few miles from our house so every year, we go load up. Elizabeth loves the Rainiers and Nathan's favorites are the Bentons.

Their peaches should start in about 3 weeks so we'll have to get some of those too.

Almost done with Kindergarten

Not much school left now! 2 days! I took a few pictures of Elizabeth heading off to school the other morning. She looks so much bigger than she did at the beginning of the year. 

The hydrangeas are blooming! They are all pink, but many have taken on quite a purple tinge and in some places are looking blue! All of the soil "acidifying" might be working! 

The Sweet Williams are looking very pretty too.