Richland Field Day 2012

May 11th was Field Day at school.  I went  back and forth between Abby and Allie's classes during the events.  Last year it rained so the events where held inside but this year it was sunny and we had all the events outside.  Here are a few pictures of the girls doing a few of their races.

Me and My Girls

May Update

I am so far behind in my blogging some of the following updates may be a little long and combined.  School ended in May for me and the girls and now we are busy with summer.  I am working three days a week and the girls are going to Day Camp where I work.   As for May 2012 it was extremely busy for all of us.  We started the month with Allie's Terrific Kid Program at school.  She worked hard all year long to be chosen as Terrific Kid for her class.  You can see how happy she is in the pictures below.  Our friend Reid was picked for Terrific Kid for his class for this time as well.  We are so proud of Allie and all that she has done this school year!

Next we help host a Honey-Do Shower for a couple in our Reach Group.  It has been a while since hosted a wedding shower for someone in our Sunday School Class.  We are all married (now) and we have been giving baby showers for quite a while now.  It was fun to do a wedding shower again.  We had a family BBQ lunch in the Great Hall at church and gave the Bride and Groom lots of gift cards to Lowe's for all those home improvement projects they will want to do.

 

Garrett (red plaid) and Melissa (sitting next to him) AKA Groom and Bride

Raymond with the Barber's and the Dudak's

Next we had the girls Baton Recital.  This was Allie's 3rd recital and Abby's first one.  Abby has decided she wants to go back to tennis in the fall. Allie will be staying with Baton.  Maybe she can be the U of M's Golden Girl one day....

Solo Routines


Pairs Routine


 Father/Daughter Toss - Raymond did pretty good tossing and catching 2 at a time.


The girls with Mrs. April


Champion Batons Club

Easter Weekend

On Good Friday we visited the Botanic Gardens with our friends the Spellings.   I took a ton of pictures while we were there.  It is such a beautiful place to take pictures. 





The following morning we went to the Annual Egg Hunt at Church. 






Jon Moultrie, from our Sunday School Class, taking candy from a child, with help from the child's dad.....

After the egg hunt we went back home and dyed our eggs.  The girls enjoy this so much.  Each year I tell myself that next year I will buy them each a dozen eggs to do and then I don't.  None of us like boiled eggs and I have no use for them so it is hard to buy them knowing I will be tossing them later. 

Terrific Kid ~ Allie

Allie has been working hard on becoming a Terrific Kid for her class.  She was chosen from her class for the last 9 weeks.  She came running out of school on Monday afternoon so excited to tell me she was the Terrific Kid for her class.  The program was help Friday afternoon.  She was so excited!




Our friend Reid was picked for his class (Mrs. Tamboli, Abby's class).



Allie worked very hard for this and we are so proud of her!!

Random April and May Pictures

It seems as summer has arrived early this year.  The girls new swimsuits.


Playing in the water while Raymond waters the yard.




A little boy in my class at Day School went to France and brought me back some soap from the South of France.  It is so pretty and smells so good, I almost don't want to use it.


School Projects ~ Abby made a female Mallard Duck and Allie made an Emperor Penguin.

Easter Lunch and Egg Hunt

We went to sunrise service at Highland on Easter morning.  We have the service on the front lawn of our church.  It was a little chilly this year but it was a nice service.  After service we had breakfast at church and then went to Sunday School.  After Sunday School we went to Ainsley's moms for an egg hunt and lunch.  We also played "picture shoot" as well.



Abby guarding an egg that has ducks on it.  We moved the egg at one point before they starting hunting and when they went looking for eggs she went straight here and it was gone.  She almost took out Cal while running to the flower.  We did put it back and she got to keep the yellow egg with ducks on it. 


Family Picture, I got this on a large canvas for our dining room.  I love this picture!!!




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