Awards Day- Taylor

Taylor's Awards Day was the day after Sydney's!  Grandmom was able to make the trip, even spending the night the night before, and Parker joined us, too!

Taylor rocked the awards as well, getting the PE award (!!), Attendance, and Math!  We went back to her classroom for a post-ceremony party, and Taylor won the "Mathematician" award for her class!  So proud of this girl.

Class party:

Awards Day- Sydney

Sydney had her awards day last week!  She had to wear her "Sunday best" clothes (ha...ha... that was fun, making her wear a dress) and Stephen and I got to go watch her and her fellow 3rd graders in the school gym.

Sydney had only been there for 2.5 months (and that included spring break, milestones testing, field day and a weird end-of-school schedule), so we had kind of prepped her to not be bummed if she didn't get any awards.  We were so proud and surprised... girlfriend rocked the awards!!  She got the PE award (only one boy and one girl from each class got that!), she got All As, Attendance, and Math Master!

Super proud of this girl.

It's gonna be May

Do you have that N'SYNC song in your head now?  You're welcome.

May is here and is almost over!  Hard to believe.  We had a busy month of end-of-year school events, soccer, Mother's Day, a wedding, pre-K graduation and more... here are some of the smaller- but just as worthy- things we did. ;)


Leighanne's (surprise!) 40th:

Swim Lessons:

Parker has been taking swimming lessons for a couple of months, but this go-round, I decided to sign Taylor and Sydney up, too!  They know how to swim, but I wanted them to be pushed more to learn different strokes and skills.  It turned out to be the best thing, for them and for me!  They have become really strong swimmers (knowing how to do the different types of strokes), and I got to know some really nice moms whose kids go to our kids' school.  Win-win!

Quick visit back to our old town!

Stephen's work accidentally sent his trade show shirts that he had to wear to our old address... the girl who lives there now texted me about it Friday night (he was flying out to the trade show Monday AM).  She was sweet and offered to mail it to us, but there was no way it would make it there in time.  So, we decided to make a trip out of it!  We got the shirt, went to our old church and ate lunch out with friends!

First Friday:

We went to our town's First Friday event, where they had a band, food trucks, booths, etc. in downtown.  It was fun!

Peter/Jamie/Liam/Charlie came to hang out:

Church:

We have found a church that we really enjoy. We've done a few events with them this month, including a newcomer dinner, a rising Kindergarten breakfast, and... Stephen and I got baptized!  (We have both been baptized before, but we were both sprinkled, and this church believes in immersion so we decided to go for it!)

Post-baptism

Random fun!

Attempting to make play dough.  Fail!

Walking at a local park.

Parker playing dress-up at school.  Apparently, this is a daily thing!

Taylor's message to me in her agenda.

Popsicles on the porch.

"Picnic" time.

Sleepover!

Weeeeeeeeee.

We got the bikes out from storage and bought a tire pump and helmets (couldn't locate those) so now the kids can ride their bikes.

Taylor completed her gumball tests at her new school in record time!  She got her gumball machine for it.

We ran into an old (childhood) neighborhood friend randomly at Publix!  Parker was so cute and brought her flowers.

What a great month it has been so far!  Looking forward to more fun this summer.

Field Day

The girls had field day last week.  They had a blast.  The weather held out for Taylor's, but not for Sydney's... so all of S's had to be inside.

Taylor:

Tug-of-war champs!

Sydney: