Best Teachers Ever!

We LOVED the girls' teachers this year!  In fact we are convinced that the girls got the best teachers in the school (of course, you hear the same thing from all our friends so it seems like the school is full of great teachers!)

Here is Audrey with her teachers, Mrs. Mestayer and Mrs. White.

 Here is Brooke with her teachers, Mrs. Favaloro and Mrs. Allen.

End of Year

School gets out early around here!  Our last day of school was May 23rd.  Here are some cute pictures of the girls during that last week....though honestly I am not sure why they even went that last week as three days were early release and all they seemed to do was watch movies!

 

A little flashback to the first day of Pre-K! They look so young to me.

 Audrey on her last day of Pre-K!

 Brooke on her last day of Pre-K

 I think Audrey is trying to look FIERCE in this picture!

They are just so cute!

End of Year Luau

For the end of the year, the pre-k had a big Luau celebration (though I would say that it was more a water/fun day than a Luau).  It was so cute!  There were 14 different stations ranging from snacks to water slides to bubbles to shaving cream.  Each class had a little rotation and they stayed at each station for about 10 minutes.  I decided that the best way for me to spend a little time with both of the girls was to do the first 7 stations with Brooke and then go find Audrey and do her last 7 stations.  As luck would have it, those 7 stations happened to be exactly the same.  So I actually only saw the save 7 stations twice.  I just have a few pictures but here are a few:

Brooke with her friend Cullen

 Mrs. Favaloro about to launch Brooke down the slip-n-slide.

 Waiting for a turn on the princess slide

 Playing at the beach

 Audrey at snack time with her friend Asia

 Audrey at the beach

Popping the sharks - which were balloons (how gross is that water??)

Visit from the Tewes Family

I have been inspired by my friend Hollie who has totally rocked out her blog lately.  So I am gonna try to do a little catch up.

Over Mother's Day weekend, we had a visit from my dear friend Crystal and her family.  The girls had a blast playing with their daughter Evie who is 3.  We went to see Disney on Ice and it was super good.  I think that I enjoyed it as much as the girls!  And since it was Mother's Day we did a delicious Sunday brunch.  But for some reason, it never occurred to me to try to make a reservation prior to just a couple of days out.  Shock.  The restaurants had no reservations.  But when I called a local place called Bistro Byronz, she assured me that they were full of reservations but had open walk in spots available.  So we decided that we would get there 15 minutes before they opened.  Another shock.  Other people had the same idea and were there even earlier.  But all of the years that I spent watching Amazing Race paid off.  All of the other patrons were sitting waiting in their cars.  I asked (really I yelled) for Darren to go Go GO!! and get up by the door so that we could be first in.  And bam just like that we were in first place.  And all those other suckers waiting politely in their cars suddenly hurried to get behind us.  Hooray us!  And to top it off, the food was fabulous - as was the company!

 Attacking Evie after their "slumber party"

 The Disney on Ice did the stories of Belle, Tangled, Ariel, and Brave.  Audrey especially loved the horse from Tangled.

 I mean, could they be cuter?

 Obviously I could totally use the same photo caption from above :)

 Mother's Day was also the girls' half birthday.  They love to celebrate those half birthdays just like their momma.  Of course any reason to eat a cupcake for breakfast works for all of us!

 Sweet sweet girls!

 My mother's day photo with my girls.

Me and Crystal

Mother's Day Tea

All of the classes paired up and presented a Mother's Day singing presentation followed by some punch and cookies.  The girls' teachers paired up which was perfect for me as I got to see them both in the same show.  As a treat the kids got to dress up in their Sunday Best.  The performance was surprisingly great!

 Waiting for the school bus

 Both classes singing - Audrey is on the front row to the left and Brooke is on the back row just to the right of the middle.

 The white sweater crew!

 With Brooke's classroom BFF Cullen.  Though I am not sure what is up with her fake smile.

Me with my girls!

And the best gifts ever - the girls' responses to questions about me.  Seems like they know me pretty well.  Though to paraphrase my friend Stacy, the only news I watch is from TMZ.

Cinco de Mayo

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo this year we did a progressive dinner with some of our neighbors.  It was super fun and super delicious!

 House 1: Pin the Tail on the Donkey

House 1: Margaritas and appetizers (legal disclaimer: A did not drink that margarita!!)

House 2 (our house) Main course - build your own burritos with rice and beans.  And a photo shoot with peppers!

 House 3: Dessert and some crazy mustache fun!

 House 3: Pinata....Lonny was the tallest and he had to stand and hold the pinata.  Though we did not blindfold the kids!

And totally unrelated to Cinco de Mayo, a little sparkler fun (though really the whole evening was questionable in its authenticity as it was)

Face Painting and Love Bugs

A few weekends ago our city had a Relay for Life event.  I cooked some cookies for our church booth.  Other than that, we just went for some food and fun.  I bought some tickets and let the girls use them however they wanted.  So of course they went on the jumpy castles, bought some disco ball necklaces, some sweet treats, and always the face painting!

Here recently the area has been infested by love bugs.  Which the girls LOVE.  They get so excited about seeing them and catching them.  And they will not let me kill them. 

 Working hard at catching the love bugs.....

 until Audrey gets distracted by her burgeoning modeling career.