School's Out!

We're officially out of school for the summer! Actually we've been out for a week.

Here are some of the highlights of the last weeks of school.

Shari received an honor roll award for her 6th grade year. Yeah Shari! Keep up the good work!

Molly promoted from Elementary School to Middle School, finishing her elementary years with a Gold Presidential Academic Award of Excellence.

After having the girls with me for their entire elementary career, I will now be the only one at Cram. I didn't go through the separation when they went to Kindergarten, they were with me. Now that they're both in Middle school I'm feeling the separation.

The McKinneys were in Laguna for a wedding, so we met up with them for lunch and a walk along the beach. We couldn't figure out how long it has been, but a while for sure. I used to babysit their 3 boys who are now 34 and 35. Yikes! That makes me sound old.

We continued our day with a bike ride to the harbor on the girl's new bikes. We all enjoy this so much. We'll have to do it a few more times this summer.

We can't seem to go down to the harbor anymore without stopping for ice cream and running to the fish market for some fresh fish to take home for dinner. All traditions that we love!

So, it's the beginning of week 2 of summer and the girls are off to Camp with our church Jr. High group. This was a decision Zeek and I made in an effort to help the girls make some connections with kids at our church. (They don't know anyone because they always just sit with us in church and haven't gone to their own class in a couple years). Molly was okay with it, but Shari had a hard time. Please pray for a meaningful time for them and that they will want to get involved with the youth group at our church, building relationships with other Christian kids. Our prayer is that God will work in their lives.

Mother's Day

I feel very loved!

I think this is the third year that we've gone down to Dana Point, had brunch with Mom and the rest of the family, then headed to the harbor on our bikes. I absolutely love this Mother's Day tradition. As we left the harbor on our bikes the sun peeked through and made for a nice ride back to the car.

Part of the tradition is to stop for ice cream at the Scoop Deck. They got me Espresso Chip. I think it was the best ice cream I've ever had.

My sweet husband made a perfect dinner!

At the harbor he picked up fresh sword fish (I'll only eat fish when it's that fresh). Then grabbed some fresh shrimp to go with it and made this beautiful dinner.

I have the worlds best family!

The Sky Trail

We enjoyed another fun afternoon playing on the Sky Trail at Forest Home.

We really like this yearly tradition before camp opens.

The girls are like monkeys!

5 Ducklings

It's always a relief when we have a successful hatch!

28 days is a long time and the anticipation of 27 1st graders is pretty intense.

Thankfully we have 5. Two were delivered via c-section. One performed by Molly and the other by my parent helper who previously was a biology teacher.

Easter Eggs

We blew out and decorated some Easter Eggs

Decorating Eggs is always a fun tradition and every year they're different.

Spring Break

Here's a recap of our Spring Break which is quickly coming to an end.

Zeek's sister, Debbie came to visit.

We spent a few days at Valley Center playing.....

target shooting.....

Quad riding.....

sitting by the campfire making s'mores.....

jumping......

the girls loved messing with Kenny "Princess" and Josh "Turbo".....

All good things come to an end.

We got plenty of snow the second week of Spring Break and had friends come to play in the snow. Jonas couldn't get enough.

Look at that smile!

Tias kept sinking in "this deep snow."

Shari is an expert sledder.

Molly zips down the hill.

It's been a great time off, but is went way too fast.

Snow Days!

We've had snow the last two weekends. Here are pictures of some of the fun and work we've had. I just want to say how thankful we are for the snowblower. How did we ever make it without it?