Elizabeth's End of the Year Party

 At the end of the year Elizabeth had an awards ceremony and a "fun" day.  The kids got to just have fun outside with water balloons and games.  They had a blast!

 Elizabeth with her wonderful first grade teacher. 

 Elizabeth with some of her friends from class. 

 The kids also both had swimming lessons with our same teacher as in years past. 

This is the first year Ben has wanted to go off the diving board at swim lessons!  We had a successful 2 weeks of lessons- they didn't learn as much this time- but I think that's because all they want to do is swim underwater and not practice their strokes!  We'll have to work on that this summer. 

Brownies

 For the past two years Elizabeth has been a Daisy girl scout.  At the end of the school year the girls got to make an important step - they became brownies!  The girls had a bridging ceremony at one of the Daisy's houses. 

After the girls cross the bridge they transition from being a Daisy to a Brownie.   

 All of our brownies!

 (darn - her eyes are closed!) Now Elizabeth is a full fledged brownie!

 Afterwards (or I'm thinking it's the next night) I can't even remember what we were doing but all of the sudden all of the kids were swimming in their clothes!

 Baby Blakely was there - Tom's brother's daughter.  She's so adorable!

It's definitely nice having a pool in TX during the summer!

Ben's Graduation!

 Ben had his preschool graduation at the end of May - I'm not doing too well on keeping up with blogging this summer!

 They had water day the last day of school.  It was a fun way to end the year. 

There was bubble blowing and all sorts of other activities.  

 That evening was Ben's graduation!  Jessica came with Cooper, along with Grandma and Grandpa H and Grandma B.  Grandpa B was out of town with work. 

 There Ben is, walking in.  His little nervous face is so cute!

 After they all walked in the prek kids performed a few graduation songs.  It was very cute. 

 Ben's walking up to receive his diploma - again with his cute nervous face!

 Whew - relief!  He's finished and much happier! :)

 Graduated!

 Ben's fans! (for some reason I'm having a difficult time getting the words centered under the pictures so excuse that please!)

 Elizabeth and Ben's PK teacher.

 One of the parents makes a personalized cupcake for each student - they did this for Elizabeth, too!

 Ben got a bag with all sorts of things inside-  a scrapbook, books he has made, photos, etc..  It was so fun to read through everything!

After graduation we came home to have a cookie cake - Ben's request!  I can't believe that Ben is on his way to Kindergarten!!

Special Days

At the beginning of the summer Elizabeth had a special tea party with Grandma B. and all of her American Girl dolls.  Elizabeth looks forward to these tea parties very much, they even made some special doll treats. 

We also went to an outdoor concert that one of Grandma B's friends was playing in.  We had a fun picnic, treats, and then the kids had fun dancing to the music. 

They are surveying the scene, trying to decide whether they want to get out in front of everyone to dance! :)

They finally made it out there...the dancing came quickly after!  It was a great evening!