The end of the school year is always so crazy and crammed with award ceremonies and programs but I have to admit it is one of my favorite times of the year! I love when summer starts and the schedules and the rushing and the deadlines come to a halt and life just slows down.
Carter has been taking Tae Kwon Do for the past few months and he has loved every minute of it! He kept asking when he would get to test up to his green belt and in June the day finally arrived. He took it so seriously and did a great job.
Look at that smile! He was so happy to finally have his new fancy green belt. I think every single person we talked to for the two weeks leading up to his test heard all about how he was testing to become a green belt:)
Rylynn is still our little artist and has loved taking monthly art classes from my friend Christine. These were her two latest paintings from a class on Monet and impressionistic painting.
Here is a collection of her other pieces she has worked on throughout the year. She loves her art classes!
Carter's pre-K class had an end of the year talent show and Carter performed his amazing summersault rountine where he rolls around in circles so fast you can't even believe it. He does it forward and back. His teacher calls it the human hamster wheel. He was excited about the cookies at the end! I was so proud of him because he is my shy boy and he got up there and did a great job. When he was finished he ran right over to me and stayed on my lap until the adrenaline died down.
Rylynn has also been in piano for the last few months and she is doing a great job. She had her first recital and played two songs, one of them by memory. She did great and we were so proud of her. She is my worrier child(I have no idea where she gets that from:) so the last few days leading up to the recital were very stressful for her. She didn't sleep very well and kept worrying about messing up. But then true to form and again like her mother, on the day of the performance she marched up there with total confidence, announced her name and the songs she was going to play and then did a great job!
Carter had a huge Preschool graduation celebration complete with caps and gowns. He was quite the excited little graduate!
These are his two best buddies at school and church. Aiden and Sam.
I couldn't resist a pic with two of my soon to be three boys! Beckett didn't get the memo to smile apparently.
Carter getting his diploma from Miss Teri. We have loved this preschool and Miss Teri so much! Carter was so excited to get to go to Miss Teri after he saw Rylynn have so much fun in her pre-k class.
The proud graduate!
They had a cake party afterward and the cakes were so cute with little individual pics of the graduates on the cake. It was yummy too!
This is the happy third child who gets to play with his sissy and Carter every day now that they don't leave him to go to school anymore!!
Just in case June wasn't busy enough we also celebrated Father's day. This is the yummy strawberry cheesecake french toast I made for Garrett's father's day brunch. It was a big hit.
Sadly, we also had to say goodbye to some of our favorite people in June. Our neighbors and friends, the Albrechts moved away to Boston. Rylynn loved their girls Maya and Eden!
These were our parting gifts from the Albrechts. They are kind of big on gift giving:) Garrett got this classy shirt!
I got this very practical pregnant belly mug filled with carmels. My favorite thing about this gift was that when Carter saw it on the counter the next day he asked me, "Mom is that a bum on that cup?!"
Since Aric had to leave early we got to go and cheer on Jessica in her marathon and be her surrogate family(along with her real kids of course). We had a celebration dinner after complete with a marathon themed cake! I look awful in this picture by the way. Oh well. I hate preggy pictures! I can't find any pics of little Camden but the boys really miss their little friend. They would ask me almost every morning if Camden was coming over to play. We miss them sooooo much but are so proud of them for taking a huge leap of faith and moving to Boston. Our late nights have been quite a bit more boring since they left but we hope to live close by again sometime soon! We lovingly refer to ourselves as the Hallbrechts:)
