A quick update!

The kids sure are growing up fast. I honestly feel like it is happening over night sometimes. Cambree and Brinlee will be finishing kindergarten and 1st grade next week...We are all very excited for summer vacation. Aidan says a few cute words and it is fun. He is obsessed with putting on shoes so the he can "go"! He finds shoes and says "go" all the time. I am not sure if he knows that the word go means to go, or if that is what we call shoes? Basically, he wants to get out of the house as much as possible! He loves to be outside and his new favorite thing is to play in water. He loves playing with the hose, playing in puddles and playing in the swimming pool. He is a water lover! Here he is reaching into the pool. We kept thinking he would fall in, but he never did--until today when I was draining it. He didn't care. He just splashed around and when I tried to get him he would run to the other end laughing.

He has also developed a lovely habit of putting his hands down the back of his diaper and pulling it down...This is the result...

A wedding, a recital and a new middle name...

On Saturday Mike's mom got married. It was really nice and we are excited for them. Between the two of them, they have 21 kids and 28 grandkids. It will be quite the family gatherings from here on out!




Cambree had her ballroom dance recital last night. It was AMAZING! It was so fun to watch all the different schools perform their numbers and I was amazed at how well they did for only practicing for the past 8 weeks or so. They had costumes for all the groups that were beautiful and Cambree loved the blue skirt that they had her group wear. She wants to do it again next year and hopefully Brin will want to do it too.

Speaking of little Brinlee...she is at it again... Yesterday I told her that she couldn't let Aidan have a hard candy and she replied to me: "CAN'T HAVE IT is my middle name"! So, I guess I must tell her that she can't have things a little too often or something. Honestly, I don't know where she comes from!!

Running a MILE in 1st Grade?!?!

The past two days the elementary school kids have been running a mile with their PE class. Today was Cambree's turn. The PE teacher sent home a note that says if you would like to come and support and cheer on your student, that would be great. So, we bundled up and braved the hurricane winds that we are having and went to watch.

It was a great lesson to be there for. The teacher said that life was like running a mile. Sometimes things will get hard in life and rather than giving up, you just grit your teeth and push on through. (She gave ideas of ways to make running more bearable...) After watching Cambree run four times around the track and losing a little steam at the end, Brinlee ran with her and I at one point also jogged along side her. (Scary thought right?)


All in all, it was a lesson that made me think and even though I didn't think they would REALLY make 1st graders run the ENTIRE mile, I am glad that they did it and I hope they learned something today too!

Living here is LAME!!

This is what my 5 year old screamed at me this morning...I don't know where in the world she comes up with such things and sayings, but after having spent the morning with her crying and screaming at me, I am realizing that things are going to be changing around here...I just don't know where to begin.

Last night was Brinlee's Kindergarten program. The school does this in place of "graduation". They sing cute songs and they do a little dance and it is over in 30 minutes. Could you ask for anything better?
Brinlee was hilarious to watch. She was a little behind with the actions and most times she was looking off into space, or at something interesting behind her. All in all though, we were pretty proud of our little kindergartner Brin!!