Having fun with our friends

Here we are on Day 3 of summer vacation and we've had so much fun already!  Here are random photos from my iPhone......

Happy 3rd Birthday John!

The gang at the party

Swim meet with Avery 

Ready to go to the pool

Jake and Abby came to play while Avery and Kaitlyn went to swim practice 

Abby and Avery slept over, here they are opening Abby's birthday present

Time out at the park--can you believe Emma was the one that went to play?!?!

This is how we roll...taking the gang to Wal-Mart

Kaitlyn's End-of-Year Party

Woohoo!  Kaitlyn finally had an event at school in the afternoon so I could actually go to it!  (Forget the fact that it was the second-to-last-day of school and I was up to my EYEBALLS in teacher work, packing, sickness, etc!)  It was great to be able to be there and see her with all of her friends.  She received 3 awards including being the only child in her class to get the Gold award for getting strait A's all year long!  Go Kaitlyn!

Receiving her awards

Snack time!

Her good friend, Megan

Playing a trivia game

Mrs. Seiter with the girls

Mrs. Seiter with the boys

Class photo

Kaitlyn with Mrs. Seiter

Kaitlyn and swim buddies with their swim coach(and third grade teacher) Coach Jeannie(Mrs. Decker)

Kaitlyn with Ms. Riley

 Of course, I didn't think to get a photo with Kaitlyn and me! :)

Kaitlyn's First Swim Meet (5/19/12)

Avery and Kaitlyn

Lining up

Ready to dive

And she's in!

Freestyle

Ready for the next one

She's in, with a splash, we are working on her dive!

Butterfly

Ribbon with her time printed on back

Lauren wanted a photo with Daddy  :)

Last one

Her favorite, the butterfly.....  :)

Pre-School Graduation

We had so much fun at Emma and Lauren's pre-school graduation ceremony.  We love Ms. Tea and will miss her very much.  Emma has had the same buddy, Miss Shelby, for 2 years.  We could barely tear Emma away from Miss Shelby at the end of the night.  Lauren had two buddies, Miss Rafee and Miss America.  Miss Rafee was already in tears when we walked in the door and Miss America and I were both crying after the sweet slide show.  Such sweet young ladies that I know my girls will miss very much!

Dinner out at Cheddar's before the ceremony

Emma with her buddy (of 2 years), Miss Shelby

Lauren with her buddy, Miss America

Lauren with her buddy, Miss Rafee

Good friends:  Lauren, Catherine, Emma

Getting her scrapbook from Miss Shelby

Gettign her scrapbook from Miss Rafee and Miss America

Sharing a snack with her buddies

Emma found a private place for just her and Miss Shelby to eat