Summer can officaily start...

 Our kids got out of school last Friday. It seemed that every single person has been out for weeks so we were very anxious for this day to come! Brody is modeling the little teacher gifts we made this year. B&B treats and a cute note that said "you are SENT-sational.  We have been so lucky to have amazing teachers this year. Both my kids had Mrs. Dykes for  kinder and I can not tell you what an amazing lady she is.  She has even taught me so much...I just love her! She is almost worth staying here in VA so Ronan can go through her class! I said almost...

 I planned a little end of school bash for all the kids around here.  As the bus rolled in you could hear all the kids cheering and yelling...it was so fun!  Then we launched water balloons at them...they loved it.

 It was a mad dash to get to the water balloons....

 We had 2 giants buckets full of water balloons which were gone in about 1 min.!  All that hard work down the drain...but it was so fun to see how much fun they were having.

 This GIANT slip n slide is always a huge hit...

Then is was over...and now we are in full fledge summer mode!  

On tap for summer...YMCA pool, lots and lots of beach days, visit from friends and Great Grandma, Norfolk Tides baseball game, trip to DC temple, piano lessons, math camp, and hopefully organizing this place for our big move at the end of this year.  It's gonna be a great summer!!

dance

Last week Sadie had her dance recital at the Norfolk Scope. If you know VA, you know the scope is big and downtown which was intimidating to me, but we made it through the dress rehearsals and Sadie did great in the recital. They danced to the song "9 to 5" which was ADORABLE!! They wore fake secretary glasses (which Sadie didn't like to wear) and carried little secretary notebooks.  So so cute!

I stressed about doing her hair for weeks!  Her hair does not hold a curl worth a darn, so I gave sponge curlers a go.  BAD idea!! Her hair was basically straight when I took them out, so I went back to the curling iron and prayed the curls would stay. It was OK, but definitely  need to come up with a better solution next time.

This video is awful, (we were not supposed to video or take pictures at the recital, but I had to get some footage for the fam to see!)

Sadie is 2nd from the left.

Happy Birthday Ronan...and Me

 Ronan turned 3 on April 17th. It was on a Sunday in the middle of finals for everyone so we just chilled at home and had a little family party. He loved it. 3 is certainly a fun age. Ronan is leaning so much at such a fast pace and lives life to the fullest! He keeps us on our toes for sure but we love him so much.

 Opening a Birthday package. He got beyblades...so now every time we get a package he thinks someone sent him new beyblades.

We have this super fun bike trail next to our house so we took a bike ride up to Noah's school. I was a little nervous Ronan wouldn't be able to last the whole time but he did great and kept right up with the rest of them.

 Noah being the much better parent than I am let Ronan make and frost all the cupcakes.

My Birthday was 5 days later. We spent the day together...ate way too much food at Chipotle (as you can see) saw Rio (loved it) and had a great dinner with Noah at Bravo.