Highlights

Last week, you may have noticed the lack of blog post.  That was a Mother's Day gift to myself, one less thing on my plate for the day, but now I am playing catch up a bit.  We are just four short weeks away from the end of the school year and we have officially entered the crazy home stretch.  Not only do we have regular school work, games, and practices, but we also have end of the year concerts, talent shows, art shows, parties, etc. It's a lot.  Here are some photographic highlights of the last two weeks.

Carrigan's choir concerts.

Carrigan's talent show performance.  She made a video of her self roller skating and doing roller skating tricks, including "shooting the duck".

Elsie had multiple softball games.

Merrick had multiple baseball games.

Elsie had an eye doc appointment.  She picked out glasses and was a little disappointed to find out she didn't need them.

After having it long for several years, I did a drastic chop on my hair.

I organized and hosted a Super Saturday craft day at the our church.  I also led a craft for it, needle felt succulents.

There was also much more, not documented with photographic evidence.  The next four weeks are going to be a wild ride, but you know what they say, time flies when you are having fun.

Carrigan Turns 11

 It been a fun weekend, the perfect combination of crazy and relaxing celebrating our C.C. girl.  Yesterday was her actual birthday, but the fun started Friday, shortly after school with an epic friend party.  The girls played games, Hide and Seek and Sardines.  We had a piñata with a C.C. style twist.  First of all she made the piñata herself, because that's how she rolls.  We then filled the piñata with silly challenges the girls had to do to earn ice cream with ALL the toppings.  They had to complete 4 challenges to get ice cream and one challenge for every topping they wanted to add.  They ate pizza and ice cream with a ridiculous amount of toppings.  They wrapped up the night with a movie and popcorn and then sang and danced to Taylor Swift videos until parents came.  It was a 5+ hour fun extravaganza.

 Yesterday, was her actual birthday and the day had a whole different vibe.  She had picked out the food she wanted at each meal (cinnamon rolls, Wendy's, and homemade soft pretzels with cheese), but had not planned much else.  We opened presents shortly after breakfast and asked her what else she wanted to do for the day.  She said that she wanted to hang out at the house, play with her new toys, and play games.  As the weather outside was terrible and she had lots of fun, new things to do, we were happy to oblige.  We spent much of the day figuring out her new knitting machine, playing with her flying orb ball, designing fashion, and building a "floating lantern".  By the end of the day it looked like a birthday bomb had gone off in our house, but it was a nice change of pace from our typical busy, game filled weekends.

We love our Carrigan girl so much and were so happy to have this time to celebrate her.  It's hard to believe that she is 11 now and will be off to middle school in just a few short months.  The future is bright for this girl and I can't wait to cheer her on all the way.