Spring-time Fun!!

A little bit of a Spring photo-dump today of fun things we did in May!

Cade and Reese had Ms. Dora's class spring program on May 4th.  There were 8 kids "graduating" and going on to Kindergarten next year so there will be a lot of new faces at Ms. Dora's in the fall!

It is always so fun to hear all that they've been learning and working on at Ms. Dora's!  The kids have learned so much, we are so glad the kids had the opportunity to go there!

A little crafting...

A quick trip to Deanna Rose.

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Reese has been the assistant hydration specialist for the flowers on the front porch and back deck.  She's an excellent helper!

We decided we better take in a Royals game before it got too crazy hot and before the baby arrived so we went on a Sunday in mid-May  It was a perfect little Sunday!.

The kids were content to chill out at the Outfield Experience for as long as we'd let them.

We did sit down for a little bit, and had snacks, of course!

I have kinda taken a liking to wearing Matt's Royals jersey instead of my own (entirely too small now) t-shirts.  It is hard to see the bump...unless I turn to the side.  Then it's pretty prominent!  This was at about 33 weeks.

Preschool Fun with Cade

I was happy to get to join Cade at his school for "Muffins with Mom" in early May.  I saw the date approaching on the calendar and took the morning off of work before knowing the details.  Wouldn't miss it for the world!  When we did get the invitation I had to chuckle that the event was from 9:00-9:20.  Twenty minutes.  But a very important twenty minutes nonetheless.  Worth the much-longer-than-twenty-minutes I had to spend on sub plans preparing to be gone for the morning this close to the end of the year.

I was excited to get to take Cade to school since I usually can't do the drop off.  We had a blast!

We had breakfast goodies and they had gifts for the moms and put on a little program for us.

The following week, Cade "graduated" from preschool.  (Which for us is just moving from preschool to pre-k as we won't be venturing off to kindergarten just yet.  No way am I ready for that!)

Isn't this picture the sweetest thing ever?!  

Cade's little buddy in his class

Ms. Amy has been an excellent teacher for Cade!  She definitely just seemed to "get" him.  Cade has mentioned a couple times this summer that he misses Ms. Amy which I think is so sweet!  

We also celebrated Mother's Day when I got to eat out and pick the restaurant not once but twice!!  I also received this lovely picture they colored of me.  How sweet of my little family.  While it does make me question my make-up routine a little I couldn't be more thankful for the gift of this journey of motherhood that God has blessed me with!

College-life Weekend

Many moons ago, Gentry and MaKenzie (who we often affectionately refer to as "The Kid") came to spend the weekend with me in the dorms at K-State when I was a wee, little freshman.
We kept the tradition up reuniting for sleepovers in Boyd Hall with Gentry and occasionally at the G-Phi house.
We realized that after MaKenzie's approaching college graduation our opportunities for college-life weekends were, well, non-existent (without being overly creepy anyway).  We knew we had to make the short trip to Stillwater, OK to soak it up while we could!

The Pi Phi house welcomed us.




And they don't welcome just anyone, you know.


Our hostess, The Kid!

We enjoyed shopping in the cute little boutiques and being Stillwater tourists.

Touring the campus

Hangin' at "Aspen"--coffee shop for hip people like us.  (Does anyone use the word "hip" anymore?)

We had a great time hanging out with MaKenzie's friends and seeing her stomping grounds.  I must say, OSU is not messing around with their Ag affiliation.  They truly are "cowboys" down there.  

Not sure how this pic ended up on Facebook...but what can I say...we Sauder girls love a little karaoke.  I believe this was Backstreet Boys, I Want It That Way.  Classic for sure.  It should also be noted that it was like 8pm at this point and there were about 4 other people present.  

This is apparently the cool place.  Note to self: light up palm trees = happenin' place in the eyes of college students. (Does anyone use the word "happenin" anymore?)

A few weeks later we found ourselves back in Stillwater again to celebrate MaKenzie's graduation.

I can't believe our little MaKenzie is a COLLEGE GRADUATE!  Was this not just yesterday?!  Congrats to MaKenzie for all of her hard work.  I know I'm biased, but MaKenzie is one cool cat.  She is such a thoughtful, caring, witty, not to mention fashionable and beautiful, woman of God!  Her contagious smile and infectiously fun personality make her one of a kind!  As always, we are so proud of you!  Thanks for helping me (try) to be a hip, happenin' cool cat!