Summer Splash

WE LOVE SUMMER TIME!

we have already done a lot of swimming and hit lots of splash parks as well, even with our cousins.  Aahh... my silly girls.

               Abby's last day of school: dressed for warm weather with a good chance of rain.

Jeana's school had an end-of-year picnic at a little amusement park nearby.  And I experienced the first taste of Abby being left in the dust.  Jeana and Abby are pretty much best friends and do almost everything together, but Jeana ran into a friend at the park, and Abby was left to ride by herself.  I think this was a slight taste of the future for me and it made me kinda sad.

Okay... so for all of you out there bugging me to update my blog and post pictures, better check out all three/four pages of older posting.  I posted from January until now and am officially giving everyone the opportunity to feel updated on my life so you can appreciate my efforts to blog, b/c I still can't decide if it's my thing.

Dance Recitals

A few days ago, David decided to get rid of one of the biggest trees in our yard.  It took up a lot of space, was crooked, and had a million leaves.  I was a little nervous b/c it was a heavy Sycamore.  We even tried to cut at an angle, tie up the tree and aim away from our swing set and the new grass seed.  Needless to say, it was heavy and found its own path...right on top of our new grass seed and swing set, however, the swing set won the battle and our house survived and that makes 9 trees down and probably 5 more to go.  But every project makes our yard feel bigger and better!

Abby's Fieldtrip

It is the end of the school year and Abby's class got to go visit a local farm.  They saw strawberries and plants, turkeys, chickens, donkeys, turtles, goats, rabbits, ducks, cows and my favorite horses.  I asked Jeana if she wanted to take horseback riding lessons and she said yes.  She said she wants to have a horse, but I told her we don't have enough room at our house.  So she said, "Mom, I have a good idea, how about we could get a pony because they aren't as big and then, when I am not at my horse lessons I could practice on my pony."

Sports of all Sorts

This has been a year full of sports and can I just say I am SO ready for summer?!

This year David and I ran a race together and joined a soccer league with an over 25 cut off, so luckily we were all out of shape and didn't really matter that 1/2 the team had never played.  We had a good time and set up a blanket for the six to nine kids that came with moms and dads and since they ran around and colored in books and we rotated out to watch kids, we were deemed the day care team.  Dad also helped coach Jeana's basketball and T-ball.  

Jeana did basketball, dance, swimming lessons and T-ball this year.  However, she told her T-ball coach, that was her favorite.  And I guess the 1 1/2 hr. long practices have paid off b/c the other day at a birthday party a parent commented that Jeana was the only one who could swing the stick hard for the pinata.  So either she's had good practice or it could just be she was two years older than the rest :)

Abby played soccer, but not much to her liking, though she thought the trophy was awesome.  She also did dance and swimming lessons and in the mean time knows how to keep Mom on her toes!