Summer Relaxin'

 This is how Ryan would eat breakfast in the morning. Feet out on the deck and waffle in hand.  He's a goof!

 And I caught these two snuggling on the couch watching a movie. I'm so glad they have each other :)

Fishing with the Boys

We took the boys fishing on Sunday afternoon at a little lake near our house. They got new fishing poles from their Grandma and Grandpa Richardson so they were anxious to try them out. BB was pretty good actually and he was so determined to catch a fish. Sadly he has little brothers who think it is more fun to throw rocks and sticks in the water so the fish weren't really hanging out by where we were. Maybe next time!

 And like all fun days, we usually leave with one in tears. Ryan fell and scraped his nose and that's not even why he was crying. He just didn't want to leave the dirt!

Last Day of 1st Grade

 I didn't get very many pictures on the last day of school, but I did manage to get one of Brady with his teacher, Mrs. Mitchell. She was the best!

Here's a picture of his whole class

               


















And this is the cover of his yearbook and his class page inside it. They sure are a lot fancier then the yearbooks I have from elementary school :)

First Grade Teacher Gifts

Brady loved his first grade teacher so much. She really was the best! So we put together a few teacher gifts at the end of the school year to show her how much we appreciated all the hard work and love she had shared with us. 

I found this idea on pinterest, but we found a cute plastic reusable cup with a lid and straw and inside we put chapstick, sunscreen, little packs of lemonade drink powder, and an itunes gift card for some tunes for the summer :)

 BB made her a cute thank you card to go with it

 I volunteered to make a slideshow of all the class photos from the year for the kids to watch in class on the last day of school.  It turned out really cute and I went ahead and made a copy for each of the kids to have as a memory of such a great year.  I also put all the pictures from the slideshow in a book for the teacher and had all the kids write her a little note in it as they were going around signing each others yearbooks on the last day. She  absolutely loved it so it was worth all the time it took :)

It was quite a stack of DVDS to make. He had a huge class this year!

HIKE

Hiking with our boys. We never make it very far with all the rocks, sticks, and nature that distract them  every few feet, but it's always a fun thing to do together. Love them!