Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day!  Emily told Joe she wanted to make me something earlier in the week so my sweet hubby went to the store and bought a bunch of crafty things.  On Saturday afternoon they worked together (and Joe even remembered to take a picture of Emily working!!!):

 They made me a headband with lots of pipe cleaners that says "You are the Best Mom":

 I love it!!!!!  Abigail made me a flower pot at school with her fingerprints:

 And Emily made me a bookmark with her fingerprints for the flower at school:

 Abigail decided the photo op was over . . .

 Later on Sunday I saw her sporting my cool headband:

For dinner we went to my fave restaurant Cr@cker Barrell.  It was a great day with my family!

End of School Year Activities

Thursday and Friday were filled with lots of end of year activities.  Thursday morning the girls' school had their end of year singing program:

 Thursday evening we had Emily's PreK graduation program.  Here's her class waiting for the program to start:

Before the program started Emily and her sweet friend Maddox were in deep conversation.  I LOVE THIS PICTURE OF THEM!

 Singing some songs:

 Performing with rhythm sticks:

 Receiving her diploma:

 Her teachers Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Stewart were such great teachers!!!

 We had a reception after the ceremony and the class sang another song for us:

 These girls love to hug each other tightly:

 One of the Moms from the class passed away right after Christmas.  Our class provided this plaque near a tree the church planted in her memory:

 The girls with their great friends Julia and Liliana:

On Friday morning the school met at a bounce house.  Everything was too big for Abigail's taste so we spent a lot of time together in the lobby "playing" Pac Man.  Emily had a blast:

 They had pizza and cookie cake and then some of us stayed afterwards outside the jump house and the kids had the best time running in this grassy area.  Abigail and her little friend Matthew enjoyed walking and running together at their own pace (way far off in the background):

 Emily found a snail so the kids decided to build him a house out of pine straw.  I'm sure the landscape group is going to love us:

 

What a great school year!!!  We sure will miss seeing these great kids each week!

Weekly Update

This week I've finished sewing some new dresses for the girls.  I made this dress for Abigail to match an outfit Emily wears that Dee Dee had made:

Since I made Emily a t-shirt dress with cupcake fabric, I made Abigail this one with some flower fabric that I had.  I only had enough fabric for 1 dress each:

 

 

 I also made these 2 t-shirt dresses for the girls that they wore to their spring concert this morning at school:

This week we met Joe for dinner and I caught Abigail with her doll's pacifier in her mouth:

Crazy girl wouldn't take a pacifier when she was a baby but now she will . . . go figure!

We also tried omelets in ziploc bags this past weekend.  I've heard about them but never tried them before.  The girls had fun putting their cheese into their bag and watching it cook:

 

And I have to show more of Emily's sorting!  She got out her paper dolls this week and we had no where to sit because doll dresses were everywhere:

 She even had them on the table so I couldn't put my drinks down.  We finally talked her into putting them up again : )

And finally, we are getting ready for the end of school.  Joe got a really good deal a few weeks ago on the Le@pster 2 so we got Emily a new one with her own case and new game for all her accomplishments this year at school.  We gave it to her last night because her graduation is tonight and we knew she would want to play it the second she got it:

 Today we had the girl's concert (pics to come soon) and tonight is Emily's preK graduation and then tomorrow we are meeting all the kids from the school at a jump house to play and eat pizza.  This has been such a great school year for the girls.  And I have LOVED Emily's whole PreK class this year.  We really are going to miss this great group of kids!!!!

Zoo Time

On Thursday, I had Rachel's girls over so she and her husband could go to dinner.  I was paying her back for keeping Emily and Abigail for me one afternoon when I left for Dallas to see my roommates.  The girls had fun in the back yard:

 We enjoyed pizza and popsicles for dinner . . .

 and watched some TV:

On Friday we all went to the zoo together:

 The giraffes were getting frisky with each other yesterday.  This was the cleanest picture I could capture of them : )

Eating cotton candy:

 

 Everyone was ready to go for a ride instead of walking:

 

 

Here is the same crew a year ago at the zoo.  It was a little harder last year to get everyone to look at the camera: