Little Chef's Academy

For Molly's birthday, we gave her a cooking class at The Little Chef's Academy.  Yesterday she went to her class.  They made strawberry shortcake. She enjoyed it.  In two weeks she has a cooking camp from 9-11 Monday-Thursday through the school district.

 

 

The biscuits were cornmeal.  Molly actually tried a bite of it, but did not like it.  She ate her strawberries and whip cream though.

Molly's Dance Recital

Molly has been eagerly waiting for her dance recital for the past few months.  It was finally last night.  Here is our little ballerina.

 

 

 

 

 

My friend, Morgan did Molly's hair and she loved it.  It was three french braids going into a pony tail. 

Field Day

Today, Tyler had Field Day at school.  Here are him, Kyle, and Colby's field day pictures from Kinder, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.

so you know who is who, from left to right, it's Colby, Tyler, Kyle

 

 

Luckily Colby is just moving about 45 min away to Boerne.  They bought 11 acres of land.  Tyler got to go out there with Colby and his family Wednesday and he had a blast.  They have a creek, pond that they fished in, they went exploring, saw deer, collected fire wood...Tyler hasn't stopped talking about it.  They're going to get chickens, pigs, and bunnies.  I see lots of summer spent out there.

Mud Day!

Today Molly had Mud Day at her school.  They brought in a huge pile of dirt, wet it down, and the kids could play in it as long as they wanted.  Molly enjoyed it!

Molly and Kaelyn

They had tables set up to pretend to cook/bake with the mud

 

 

Molly and Payton.  Payton did not play in the mud last year and this year said he wasn't going to, but ended up getting in and having fun.

This is the back of her. 

Once the mud weighed them down, they could take off their shorts and shirts and play in their swim suits. This picture was right before I left.  I imagine she stayed in a awhile longer.

This is the picture her school had on their facebook.  I don't know why it's so big.

Baby Shower

This past Saturday, Debbie, Morgan, and I hosted a baby shower for Rachel.  We had it here at our house and it turned out really nice. The colors were bright pink and gold.  Morgan made all the cute decorations; Debbie took care of food and games; and I was in charge of desserts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rachel is due June 28th and unfortunately, they'll have moved by then. We have our big family trip to TN in August and I'm pretty sure we're going to come home through Nashville. So we'll be able to see them and meet the new baby. 

Camping Trip

Two weeks ago we went camping in Garner Park, the same place we went last November.  We went with Rachel and her family again.  This time Debbie and her son, Jackson came too.  We had great weather and the kids were able to play in the water this time, which was nice.  Here are all the pictures.

Tyler getting the tent all set

 

 Heading to the water

 

 

 

 

Me and Rachel

Rachel, myself, and Debbie.  Two of my favorite ladies!

After swimming for awhile, we got snow cones, fished, and rented paddle boats and kayaks.

Molly and Scott caught 3 fish.  They were the only ones that did.

 

Here is crazy boy up front.  The kids had to keep life jackets on.  Tyler jumped off to swim around and when he did, the life jacket came off over his head.  About 20 seconds later, he realized, his glasses got thrown off.  The water is so clear, but we could not find them.  We searched for over an hour. 

After more playing in the water, we went back to our campsite to cook dinner.  The kids made hot dogs and the adults had hamburgers.  I also brought some mac & cheese to make on the grill-it was ok.

After dinner, it was time for s'mores.  I had bought peeps after Easter for the kids to make colorful s'mores.

After dinner and s'mores,  went went back down to the river to skip rocks and let the kids run around.  On the way back, I saw this little flash of light.  It was a lightning bug.  I have never seen them in TX.  The kids love catching them in IL.  As it got darker, they were everywhere.  The kids had a blast running after them and catching them.

 

 

Saturday morning we went for a short hike after breakfast and then headed home.  We did a lot on Friday and didn't feel the need to tire ourselves out even more on Saturday. 

Molly and Payton.  She really is smiling even though she looks to be in pain.

This is the best family picture we got.  It's Scott giving Molly bunny ears, not me.

Molly loved picking all the different flowers we passed.

Another camping trip over.  I know Debbie's husband was bummed he had to miss, so hopefully we do another one sometime this summer.  It'll be without Rachel and her family since they're moving in 3 weeks.  :(