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Jun

awards time!

Categories: School

The school year has drawn to a close, and my kids have received all their awards. We were so proud of them! In preK, Asher didn’t get any “special” awards, but he really had a great year academically. His behavior is something that we will need to watch…kindergarten should be interesting! He loves to be the class clown and always making people laugh!

Asher’s award ceremony!

Ella’s 1st grade awards were next! She won the “writing” award for writing the best stories in her class, “All A” Honor Roll, and she got 2nd place out of the whole first grade in Accelerated Reader points, (that’s 100 students!) Her amazing teacher also gave out candy awards to her class. Ella received the “Milky Way” award for setting an example for others by having quality work that is out of this world! 🙂 Ella also got student of the month in February! She had such an awesome year! She is so smart, her reading and math scores are at a third grade level now…way to go Ella!

Ella showing off her AR medal!

Rilyn’s award ceremony was last, and she made us very proud! Rilyn also won 2nd place in Accelerated Reader points in all of 3rd grade (110 students!). She won the “Reading” award for being the best reader in her class, and got “All A” Honor Roll! Rilyn got student of the month in January. She is ready for 4th grade!!!

Rilyn receiving her AR medal!

Jun

Rilyn’s “cool” 9th birthday party!!

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Categories: Birthday and Rilyn
Tags: ice skating

We had Rilyn’s 9th birthday party at a local ice skating rink! Rilyn chose this because she had been to a previous birthday party there and loved it! I thought the party ran very smoothly, and the rink gives the kids a lesson right at the beginning of the party. However, one girl broke her wrist, and another twisted her ankle…so, maybe having an ice skating party wasn’t the best idea! Rilyn had a “cool” time though!

Off to a slippery start (before the lesson!)

Lesson time!

Rilyn and her best friend (who sadly broke her wrist during the party!)

All her guests!

Gotta have the sparkler!

Reading a birthday card!

Rilyn opened her presents from grandma and grandpa after the party at home!

I love how excited Ella is! She knows she gets to play with Rilyn’s presents!

Rilyn finally gets the American Girl doll she has been wanting!

May

summer’s coming!!

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Categories: Summertime

We have 7 1/2 days of school left!! This Memorial Day weekend, we kicked off summer early with water balloons and a slip ‘n slide at my parents Octaranch in College Station.

You can’t do anything but cry when it’s a double sister water balloon attack!

May

field day!

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Categories: School

Field day or rodeo?!?

James and I both were athletes growing up…so far 0 out of 3 kids have shown any desire to do so…you can imagine my sheer delight as Rilyn (field day was right after lunch), ran about 3 baton relays, threw up on the side, and then KEPT ON RUNNING the relays! It was like she was competitive or something!!!!! I see a glimmer of hope…

tug of war!!!!

Ella!

Wheelbarrow races!

parachute games!

Ella the anchor!?! Using all her might!

Spin around the bat ten times and then run…

I love her look of determination. You can tell she is dizzy, but trying to focus!!

May

1960s themed wedding!

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Categories: Family
Tags: Mad Men wedding

James’ sister got married on Saturday, the 18th and it was a beautiful and unique wedding! She stylized it to be a Mad Men/Pan Am themed wedding because her husband works with planes and they both love the 1960s. Here are some pictures from my camera. I was a bridesmaid, James was a groomsman, Asher was the ring bearer (a pilot), and the girls were flower girls (they carried vintage luggage down the aisle instead of flowers!) Here is a link to the professional pictures! They are amazing!

Here are some pics of the rehearsal dinner!

The bride and groom with Asher!

Me and my girls all dolled up 60s style for the wedding!

Oma and her little pilot!

the first dance.

Ella dancing with daddy!

the beautiful bride

May

May!!!!!

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Categories: Birthday and Julie

May is usually the busiest month in our household! We’ve got my birthday, plus Mother’s Day, our anniversary, not to mention James and I have both our moms’ birthdays this month too! Oh, and James’ sister got married two days ago! LOTS of celebrating!!

Right at the beginning of May, I played a character in James’ 3 day staff retreat (from his work.) It was a Sherlock murder mystery theme set in the Victorian age, and I was a suspect named Charlotte! So fun!

This is my birthday/Mother’s Day in pictures!

Me and my momma celebrating!

First swim of the year!

Rilyn!

Apr

Angry Birds party!

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Asher had an Angry Bird birthday party! It was so much fun to plan! Here is the link to James’ awesome short video he put together of the big day!

https://vimeo.com/65970036

Here is the party in pictures!!

I made Angry Bird balloons using a template I found online. Click the picture for a link. (I drew my own orange and green Angry Bird faces though.)

For party favors, all the guests got sling shots! Inside the golden eggs, they got rubber bird balls they could use with their sling shot!

I bought all these eggs at Easter time for his party!

You can get Rubber Birds Bouncing Balls (pack of 12) here. And sling shots here.

<“Foam “Wooden” Blocks“> found here.

While guests arrived, the birthday boy and guests jumped on the trampoline!

Asher’s sisters had an Angry Bird tattoo parlor too!

Before we started our first activity, James showed all the kids the golden eggs that they could win during a game. Little did the kids know who was behind them…

First activity was using “bird eggs” (Cascarones or confetti eggs) to throw at each other. I bought 6 dozen at Easter! 🙂

Next up was pinata time!

Then it was time for (Angry Bird) pizza!

After pizza, was the sling shot game! James and my brother built a 3 foot tall sling shot and we blew up 60 lime green balloons to use as “piggies”! James set up the boxes that the pigges were to be in with pins. I painted mini dodge balls with angry bird faces, and when a child slung a ball at the piggie balloon, the balloon would fall back on the pins and POP!

A pack of three mini dodge balls was $9 at HEB

Uh oh! The piggies are back and they’ve got our golden eggs!!!

Time to get those piggies!

See the blue Angry Bird flying?

Bam! Knocked out the top piggie!

Asher going for another turn! Every time a child knocked a piggie down, they got a golden egg with a prize inside!

We had a few crazy Angry Birds that had a little too much energy! LOL

It was getting hot outside, so we took a break for some cupcakes and ice cream!!

I love the sparkler candles! My kids are never too sure about them…

My kids always love the party blowers!

present time!!

After presents, the kids went back out to do some more damage to the piggies with the sling shot…this was what was left!

Piggie carnage! Lots of eyeballs and snouts!

Apr

Asher is FIVE!

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Categories: Asher and Birthday

Asher turned five years old yesterday! He is an active boy, who loves to climb on furniture and jump off of things. He tests his boundaries constantly, and actually got his clip moved down to yellow on his yesterday for kissing a girl (on the cheek thankfully!) He loves to cuddle, all things art, he is warming up to soccer (next up karate in the summer, and flag football in the fall!), has started to read, and still loves me the most in our family! (ask him, it’s true.) 😉 I wouldn’t say he is an independent boy, but rather likes his sisters and I to do things for him, (and most of the time he gets away with it!) What can I say? He is the baby of the family! Here is his special day in pictures! (His Angry Bird party is Saturday, stay tuned!)
Traditional wake-up birthday donut!

Traditional “run through the crepe paper” on your birthday!

When Asher opened up his new mitt he said, “Look, I got a glove that holds a football!” And then he pointed to his new bat and said, “When can we play golf?”

He loves his new Angry Bird!

I couldn’t go up to preschool to eat lunch with him (because of standardized state testing), so I did the next best thing! I wrapped up all his lunch items!

We went to Chuck e Cheese for dinner to celebrate with his BFF!

I caught them in their “secret hideout” doing their “secret handshake”!

His favorite thing to play at Chuck E Cheese!

Asher and Caden! Friends since birth!

Every birthday, we like to make homemade cards. This year, I used his soccer picture and his Angry Birds party theme to create this:

Apr

Easter celebrations 2013!

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Categories: Easter

Some of the many ways we celebrated Easter this year!

Egg hunts at school!

A visit with the creepiest Easter bunny I’ve ever seen!

Another egg hunt with Asher’s soccer league! (I love how Rilyn ran like her life depended on it for the eggs!)

Rilyn was sick on Easter Sunday, so grandma came after school last week to bring her Easter goodies to us! Right after the kids got off the bus, they got to have an Easter egg hunt!

Grandma hides a “golden egg” that has a jackpot inside-a $5 bill!! This year Ella found it!

Asher was not too happy!

He started crying and refused to participate in the egg hunt! He wised up after a minute though when he realized his sisters were finding all the eggs while he was throwing a tantrum!

I wanted to include this picture of Rilyn because this is what she likes to wear to school these days in 3rd grade. A fake pony tail and high top shoes! Interesting trends…

After the egg hunt, grandma showered her grands with goodies!