The End of an Era!!

Rylee is the last kid in the family.  And this week, she finished elementary school.  This means we are ALL DONE having children in elementary school!  How crazy is that?!!

This has nothing to do with school, we just have been experimenting with her hair to try to dampen the poof and encourage the natural curl.  It is going fairly well. 

Anyway, she had a short and sweet "Promotion Ceremony"  Which consisted of waiting her turn, then walking into the gym, posing for photos and collecting her certificate.  

This is the masked photo, since all the kids had to wear masks at school.

And faces!  The unmasked picture. The aid is on the left, and Rylee loved her.  Her teacher is in the right, and we loved him too.  It was a good year and a good ending for her.

And here is our selfie to celebrate!

 

Delaney did a thing

This is Delaney.  

She has glorious golden tresses that are soft and perfect.  But she was tired of it.

So we went to the hair salon.

The stylist put all the lovely locks into a braid......

...... and cut it all off.

Then she snipped some more.

And even more!

And this is what Delaney wanted and she loves it!

This is the gelled version.

This is the all-natural look.  She loves the coolness, the ease of washing and wearing, and the cuteness.  

She's cute.

 

Exciting times for Callie

Callie had a big birthday.  You know.  The important one!  Well, one of the important ones.

She requested Strawberry Pizza Pie. 

Fine.  I like Strawberry Pizza Pie and my birthday is right after HER birthday and I didn't have time to make cheesecake, which is what she wanted, because I didn't have the ingredients.  So we had what I wanted on her birthday and then we made cheesecake later that week.  And both were delicious.

Se, she ate it and she liked it.

And she got good loot.

She's so cute.  I like her.  a lot.

And now she is old enough to start learning to do this!!!!

 

Mostly Levi. And a little Marian

Levi loves to ride in the car.  Every time I grab the keys, he looks at me hopefully.

So I usually bring him on short trips, like to take Callie to Track practice or to pick up library books.

Today he came along while Marian practiced driving.  She looks so intent, while Levi is having the time of his life!

And this silly dog!  He has been fed. But he will bring his dish all over the house and hope you will take pity on him and feed him more.  Silly dog!

 

Hiking the Medford Mountain

Adam and Savannah took us on a hike up their mountain.  Actually, we drove most of the way up and hiked a loop around the not-top. We had a really good time and the kids all enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to hike and chat and see the kids all running around together and having a ball.  I love seeing our kids play well together.

(And then, alas, we went home on Saturday.... another 13.5 hour drive.  But totally worth it!)