Last Day of School

Its been a quite a year; lots of ups, a couple downs, and busy, busy, busy!!! The kids have all had WONDERFUL teachers and a GREAT school year!! 

But we are ready for SUMMER!!!!

Meeka 1st day of preschool
Sept 2012 - 3 yrs old

Meeka last day of Preschool
May 2013 - 4 yrs old

Logan (2nd grade) and Melina (K) 1st day of School
Aug 2012 - 8y & 5y old

Logan (2nd grade) and Melina (K) last day of School
May 2013 - 8y & 6y old

Spa Birthday Party

As you all know by know Melina's birthday was this weekend. We celebrated on Friday night with a Spa Party. I let her invite all her friends without narrowing her list because it was Memorial Day weekend and I thought a lot of kids would not be able to come…no the case. So she celebrated with 17 of her friends. The kids were all great, but thank goodness I had my trusty sitters to help me out! I was defiantly FUN night and I had FUN planning the party too!

I made a sleep mask for her invite 

When the guests arrived there was a  bin for their street shoes
and they each picked a pair of flip flops.

They decorated their flip-flops

Melina's finished Flip Flops

Enjoying Pizza and Pretzel Sticks 

Each girl got a spa basket filled with goodies for their spa night

A mirror, puff, towel headband, nail kit, bath salts,
lotions, scrubs and a mask

1/2 the girls did pedicures

foot soak

And the other 1/2 did facials and then they switched

Just couldn't pass up this picture! Too cute!!!

While their mask was on, they put cucumbers on their eyes

And of course we finished up the night cake-
An ice cream cake!!

Happy 6th Birthday Melina!

On Saturday 

Melina Jo turned 6.        

She was lucky enough to get to celebrate with her friends on Friday night and her family on her birthday. Since most of our family lives out of town that doesn't happen much!

She is my spunky girl who loves girly things but has quite a bit of tomboy in her too. 

She loves music, coloring and dancing on the soccer field.

Her 6 yr. old favorites:


Favorite Color: pink & purple
Favorite Food: Hamburgers (from Dorothy Lane), Mac-N-Cheese, Spring Rolls, and Tomato Mozzarella Stacks
Favorite Restaurant: Asian Gourmet
Favorite Song: Call Me Maybe
Favorite Show: My Little Pony
Favorite Movie: Tangled   i  like  coloring
Favorite Game: Sorry
Favorite Dessert: Ice Cream Sundaes
Favorite Clothes: Dresses
Favorite Animal: Kitten
Favorite Sport: Soccer
In Her "Spare Time" She Likes to: Dance, Sing, Gymnastics, Jump on the Trampoline, Ride her Scooter & do make-up.
What she Wants to be When She Grows Up: Teacher

Dance Recital and More

This weekend was beyond busy! We had softball, soccer, dance, Cub Scouts and Girls Scouts. We even threw in a sleepover. 

Dance Recital 

The girls LOVE to dance so they were so excited for their recital!! We ended up at the rehearsal for hours and hours (because Melina had numbers at the beginning and the end of the show) before heading home for less than 2 hours before we had to head back for the actually show. We have enjoyed our year at dance and made some great friends, both the kids and myself, and we will miss it. Although, I think we are all ready for the break too!

Ready to go!
(Carson stayed home with a sitter)

Striking a pose.

This is the pose of choose for dancers apparently!

Melina and her buddy Allison in the dressing room backstage

Meeka waiting to go on stage.
I was the backstage mom for her class, which is why I am back with her.

Melina's ballet class on deck.
(I am sad I didn't get any of her in her tap costume)

After the recital the girls chose Asian Gourmet for their celebration dinner.
Both girls ate some sushi, Melina's favorite food is Spring Rolls and Meeka LOVED the Edamame. 

Young Eagles Flying Lessons!

The same time as we were at the dance recital rehearsal, Logan was at the Greene County Airport, learning to fly a plane. He had a small flight school and then got to go up in a Stimson 4 seater plane. He flew with 1 other boy, so they flew to another airport and landed and then switched seats and flew back. He got to take the controls of the plane for a minute too! He loved every minute and thinks getting his pilot license is in his future….we'll see about that one! 

All geared up and ready to go!

 Girl Scout Celebration and Pinning Ceremony

On Sunday the Daisy's had their end of the year party at Build a Bear. They opened the store early for them and they got to choose and bear and an outfit. They had a blast! After that they went to a park and had some lunch and they had their pinning ceremony where they got their year 1 pin.  

The Girls waking up their animals

Melina is cleaning her bunny

Daisy's and their new friends!

Saying the Girl Scout Promise.

There are a couple of other things I have been meaning to write about (including a great healthy and YUMMO recipe I made this week) but I feel like I am barely keeping up with life these days! Hopefully this week I'll get some thoughts down. 

Daisy Scouts and Camporee

This was out biggest Girl Scout week of the year! The girls did their first "field trip" with a trip to the fire station. And then on Saturday was the Camporee; an all day event at Girl Scout Camp.

In front of the ladder truck

They took the ladder truck up as high as it would go!

Jr. Firefighters

Camporee

The Camporee Theme this year was Beach Party. The theme is voted on by all the troops in the council. And then each troop gets to choose which activities they want to do from a list of themed offerings. Our girls chose, Daisy Cooking (which we missed because we went to our 9am soccer game before heading straight to camp), Treasure Hunt, Mermaid Buddies and Creeking.

Melina making her Trail Mix at one of the stations on the treasure hunt.

The girls after they went across the big swinging bridge.

They got a stamp for their clue book at each stop.
They also got a piece of craft material.

Hiking along the hunt!

And the end of the treasure hunt they had a craft
to make with the supplies they collected.

They made a seashell wind chime.

Thank goodness I went shopping for new rain boots on Friday!!
Mud and Muck should have been the theme!

"I'm Dirty and I LOVE it!"

Making her Mermaid Buddy

The Daisy Troop

Creeking was her favorite activity!

She found lots of craw-daddy's and some other  creatures too!

But she can always stop and pose!

"Oh, I think I see something!"

She was not afraid to turn over rocks to find things!

A Girl Scout tradition at camp is swapping pins (who knew?- not me!).
Each troop makes a bunch of little pins and they all swap at camp.

We were all tired and dirty by the end of the day, 

but it was so much fun!