Lydi's first day of preschool

Birthday Weekend

We celebrated Amy's birthday on Friday and Saturday. Friday was
her actual birthday and my good friend from highschool, Jill, was in
town with her family to celebrate along with us. Saturday night we were
at Amy's celebrating with Aunt Dale and Uncle Steve.

I made cream pufs and boy were they good!

Aunt Dale and Malia

Aunt Amy got 2 new little kittens

As you can see, the kids absolutely love them!

Amy's gorgeous birthday flowers

Only Amy can make fruit salad look like this, yum!

My sweet niece Tess

Amy's favorite cake, blueberry cheesecake (mom's recipe)

Cousins

Sisters

Amy getting sweet smiles from Malia

Happy Birthday

to

Aunt Amy & Great Grandma Nana!!!

Mud, Mud, Mud

After a huge storm that dumped piles of little

hail balls all over the grass, the girls asked to play outside.

I said you may play in the grass. Well, 5 minutes

later I checked on them and they were playing

in the mud. Kids will be kids. So, they played in the mud and

I took pictures.

Off to School!

First day of

KINDERGARTEN!!!!

We all went as a family to take Kayla to school.

You can tell she's the 1st child. Malia will probably

get dropped off when it's her turn :)

They meet in the cafeteria every morning and say the pledge

of allegiance before going to their class rooms

Kayla's teacher, Mrs. Smiley



Pictures of her classroom
It was a day filled with mixed emotion. We were super excited for Kayla to start
kindergarten because she was so excited to start kindergarten. She has grown up
so much in the last month and is no longer sucking her thumb and she is riding
her bike without training wheels. Big accomplishments and she's the
one who initiated them all. As we were leaving her today, I thought for
the first time about homeschooling. Partly because I was sad she was going off
to school but guilty I was putting her in an institution, leaving her to be
molded by her teachers and peers. It must not have been serious guilt though
because by 2 o'clock I was wondering why I hadn't signed her up for full day kindergarten.

Little Angel

A good friend of mine, Kristen, bought Malia this adorable dress .

Way too cute!!!!

.

I thought we needed some pictures of this

super cute, adorable, trendy little outfit

It says "princess" all over it

The front says "little angel"

The back has little angel wings

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. She is our little angel!
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(I'm still waiting for my photoshop lesson from Harley but for now, these will have to do)

Pool Day!

Our good friends from our small group live in a great neighborhood
with a great pool. Michelle is so sweet to always

invite us and make us feel welcome whenever

she is going. Today we went and I brought Genesis and

her girls as a last "whoorah" before she goes back to Hong Kong and

before school starts next week. It was a beautiful day and we had a

great last time together until next summer.

Sydney is telling Zoe to "go"! Sisters, too cute

Little fishies in the pool



Refreshing Popsicles

She's a great baby, so content in the stroller

Sydney asked if she could take Malia home with her to Hong Kong

So sweet!

Making Lemonade

When life hands you a bowl of Lemons.......

make LEMONADE

We got back from the hot park and thought it would

be refreshing to make our own lemonade

(once again, playing with the camera)

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And it was yummy! Gotta say that was my first time ever
making lemonade from scratch. I think the girls enjoyed it too! I'm not
sure what they enjoyed most, licking the lemons or the actual lemonade :)