Friday, May 29, 2015

Bryan's B-day and Happy Memorial Day!



We celebrated last Thursday in two ways . . .It was Bryan's birthday, and it was the kid's first day of summer!  

On Friday, we made a trip down to SE Kansas to see Great Grandma and Grandpa.  We made our typical trip into McDonalds and had a fun meal together!  We then headed back to their place and enjoyed some of Great Grandma's infamous no-bake cookies!

Kayla enjoyed seeing Grandma's dog collection . . . this girl wants a dog so bad:(

This was the result of eating Grandma's no bake cookies . . .all of the boys were OUT!  We headed to my parent's place for a quick overnight visit.

Tyler playing with his cousin.

Bryan's birthday cake --Happy Birthday daddy!

Kayla with Camden!

Mom's strawberry patch has been most prolific this year . . . so I was the happy recipient of some berries!

The weekend was pretty much rained out -- which has pretty much been the story for this past month.  So, a family game of Monopoly seemed in order!

I think Joshua was just about done here . . . All of his properties had been mortgaged, and he had $5 left to his name:)

We did manage to get some fishing in on Sunday . . . no real luck catching anything, though:(

The neighborhood pool was late opening -- the water was too cold according to city ordinances.  Like I said, it was been cold, rainy and nasty around here:( However, later in the week we happened to see that it was open . .  and the kids INSISTED on going for a swim.  It was FREEZING though!

Last day of school (a wee bit late) and some other belated items!

Last day of school of 2014-2015!  Joshua finished 4th grade, Kayla finished 2nd, and Tyler finished Kindergarten.  They all had a great year of school!

This was the beginning of school year -- Tyler had a little mishap the night before school started in August:(






 And a few pics to get caught up . . . we completed our AWANA year late April.  Tyler (aka Superman) did a great year with his first year in Sparks -- guess we forgot to button his vest:)


Kayla finished her last year of Sparks -- and completed everything there was to possibly complete!

Joshua completed his 2nd TnT book -- so proud of all of them!



Kayla's 2nd grade class did biography reports -- including a cutout poster board.  She chose Milton Hershey (the girl has a serious sweet tooth!), and since he was from Hershey, PA, it was super fun to reminisce about when we lived very near that in PA years ago!

One of Joshua's last Treble Makers performances for the year.

"Muffins for Mom" event at Tyler's kindergarten class.  




Some photo ops at church!

I am so blessed!

Art night at school -- Tyler's masterpiece on display!

And Kayla's . . .

And Joshua's . . .

Our first Royals game of the year.  Fun to see them beat Detroit -- Go Royals!