Goodbye May

In May,

we had two turtle rescues and discovered: (Alex's interpretation) if mom sees a turtle in the street, she should keep going because on both turtle rescue attempts, she ended up having to call in back ups to do the actual turtle pick-up.

 

In May,

we celebrated eleven years of marriage. 

I am very thankful that we are both in it for the long haul.

In May, we celebrated Mother's Day.

In May,

we began swim team and finished kindergarten, first grade and third grade. Wow!

In May,

we listened to Conleigh play the piano beautifully, we watched Alex finish baseball season and we listened to Campbell tell the story of the first turtle rescue to her kindergarten class.

In May,

we counted our blessings and will continue to count both big and small ones in June.

Hello June!

Last day of school! Hip Hip Hooray!

 Hip Hip Hooray! It is summer.  

Spicewood ended the year with a fantastic field day.  Back in the fall, our school won the Rally for Recess contest.  Five schools around the country won a new $20K playground, AND an $8K field day.  There were bubbles, and slides, face painting and bungee jumping, and a DJ with great music! Dannon snacks and sno-cones. I seriously think it is a kid party that cannot be topped!


The younger grades had 2.5 hours in the morning and the older grades had the equivalent  in the afternoon. It was the best last day of school evaaa!


Some of the parents joked that the kindergartners are going to be disappointed next year when they are making foam door tags on the last day of school. :)

Campbell & her bestie Jessica

Alex & his buddy Ren

Love this picture of my bubbly girl!

Laughing that 3rd grade is over!! Yay!

Conleigh and her third grade teacher.

I think I made Mrs. Corbett really laugh because I went into their class when they were eating lunch. Mrs. Corbett said to me, "it sounds like you all will be travelling quite a bit this summer." I said well we'll be going to Florida and hopefully Idaho.

She said, "Conleigh said you are wanting to go to Washington DC." I said, I have never said that in my life.  She laughed and laughed. Then later outside at the party, I asked to take their picture. I held up the camera and said, "say Washington DC."

Again she laughed and said, "you are terrible!" Conleigh wanted to know why I said that. Little does she know... 

After farewells and adios', hugs and goodbyes, we took off in the golf cart to the after school par-tay!

Thankful Thursday

What I want to share that I am thankful for actually happened yesterday evening.  The girls and I were racing to the ball park to see Alex play his first play-off game.  Because I'm such a prepared mom, we had to go through McDonalds drive-thru for dinner for the girls.  I ordered, we drove up to pay and the employee told me the car in front of me paid for our food.  I couldn't believe it! That was so nice and totally made my day. So,  I asked how much the person behind me's bill was, and I paid for him. I hope the trend continued. It is those types of random acts of kindness that make you believe there is still good when we hear so much bad.

I'm also thankful that Alex and his team won their game. It was a terrific game. The best one all season. So, that adds another baseball game to the agenda. Alex will swim the first swim meet tomorrow evening, hop out of the pool and head to baseball. 

Today I am also thankful for tomorrow being Friday and my mother-in-law coming to town. She'll get to see the kids swim and go to Conleigh's piano recital on Saturday.

Weekend Getaway

Carlos & Charlie's before noon. Ah, vacation!

Peter and I flew to Paris this past weekend to celebrate 11 years of marriage. It helped that he had won the trip through hard work. We are both thankful for all of the sales reps he works with that helped make the win possible. Thank you!

 Here I am at breakfast at Mon Ami Gabi.  I chose a mimosa and eggs benedict.

Peter had crepes with blackberries and peach preserve.

 He said they were the best thing he's ever eaten.

 Oh, I forgot to mention it was the Paris in Las Vegas.

Pool time.

Peter and I flew in Thursday night and went to Auereole at Mandalay Bay. It is a wine bar where you order and girls are dressed like angels and 'fly' to get your wine in this very, very tall wine case. Unfortunately, we got there too late and the 'angels' had gone home. 

Food and champagne were good though.

We loved that both couples we went to Vegas with in the fall were able to join us again. They all came in on Friday afternoon. We went to see Rob Riggle from 21 Jump Street. He was hilarious and we laughed a lot!

Traci was in the chips at the Flamingo on Friday night. We love Roulette.

Saturday afternoon we went downtown. It was good to do that. There is such a different vibe going on and the minimums are lower. Good times.

Prior to our Brad Garrett comedy show, we went to The Wicked Spoon buffet at the Cosmopolitan.

Hello delicious! It was so great! I couldn't help but snap a few pictures of part of the dessert bar.

Here I am enjoying a chocolatopia dessert plate. Happy Anniversary to Peter & me!

About midnight, we took the romantic ride to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 46 stories high. It was really pretty and a great ending to a nice weekend getaway.

Viva Las Vegas!

Is this hilarious, or what?

11 years of wedded bliss (wink, wink)

thankful he chose me

may 12th marks eleven years

more thankful than words can express

love you peter.

Few Words - Lots of pictures

 Check out this monster.  Campbell was invited to a birthday party and this get-up was in the driveway. A massive grill with a TV and who knows what else. It  was pretty cool.

 Practice! Practice! Practice!  Recital on May 19.

 Game ball! Go White Sox.

 Last minute opportunity to go to the Austin Food & Wine Festival.

 Who is this guy?  Someone Samuelson? I guess he won one of the food network shows and many people were getting their picture taken with him, so I jumped on the bandwagon too.

 Loved getting to have an impromptu date with my guy. We are thankful for friends who took the kids last minute, all three of them.

 Look at this adorable fellow. He was our overnight guest last weekend. Our guys had gone camping and Ian's parents and brother and sister were also on camp outs, so Conleigh, Campbell and I took care of him. We all loved it!

 Ian was a trooper. He went with us to Campbell's last soccer game of the season.

 Campbell leading her team through the tunnel post-game.

 Conleigh and Campbell pulled Ian around our kitchen island about 100 times over the weekend. He looked so cute and was grinning ear to ear.

 The girls couldn't get enough of him. They want to hold him (and he wants to walk) and they loved giving him his bottle.  It was a great experience. He was so good and slept through the night. We'd do it again in a flash.

 Our little cowgirl!

 I made a quick trip to Houston to see mom and dad. I lucked out and got to see Spencer play a baseball game. He did fantastic as pitcher and when he batted. He is a real leader on his team. Unfortunately, they came up on the short end of the score.  I'll tell ya, our coach pitch here is a whole different species that the real youth baseball. Yowza.

 Is this the cutest bat boy you've ever seen? He takes his job pretty darn serious, and his seriousness continued into my picture taking.  Ha. As soon as the camera would flash, Ryan would serve up a big ol' grin.

Salmon over brown rice, Kale, and mixed vegetables.

A friend of ours has come down with the shingles. I have heard that it is so painful. She is literally bedridden, and she has three kids. Peter made them this delicious meal tonight before he headed to a Round Rock Express game with his friends.

Have a good weekend! We're going roller skating after school tomorrow and celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Saturday night with friends.