Memorial Day Weekend Fun

Daddy was flying back in for the long weekend - yippee 2 weekends in a row!  The kids and Mommy met Brooke, Amy and kiddos at you guessed it!  Isabella's Kitchen!

Daddy's flight got delayed but that was okay we were at the perfect spot to kill some time building things with the golf course water cups :)  And we saw Dr. DeSanto who delivered Ashley.  He was with his surgeon buddies and proudly introduced us to them as 'these are the people who still hold the record for the fastest c-section' LOL

On Saturday Mommy was having a birthday shin-dig for her friend Erica so Daddy took the kids to the Yangs to swim!

He had been missing playing with the kids!

That night he headed to his parents house for special time with them and the kids!

Mommy was having fun of her own too!  It was Erica's birthday so we headed to Kristen's room at the Westin Kierland Villas to celebrate the birthday girl!

4 amigas hung out by the pool and enjoyed a cocktail

Then we headed out to Kierland Commons for dinner!

More friends showed up and we all had a lot of fun chatting away!  

After dinner some of us headed back to the Villa to have cake and more chatting before heading home.  On Sunday we went out to breakfast at The Good Egg.  Mommy will sure miss their pancakes!

The rest of the day was spent on house projects and swimming.   And GOOD NEWS!!! We accepted an offer on our house!!  This AZ house sold in 18 days, the exact number it took on our MN house too!!!  On Monday we attended a Memorial Day BBQ at Mary's house.

The weather was perfect and we will take any opportunity to soak up time with our friends!

Trevor's Last Days of School

We can hardly believe this school year is coming to an end!  Pretty sure it just started!!!  So much going on with the move but Mommy wanted to make sure we captured these last few days the best she could!  Trevor picked out waffles for breakfast and then was way too cool for his Mommy to take a picture!  Boys!

Luckily he would take one with his friends Gabriella, Annastyn and his sister!

Papa John, Ashley and Mommy headed over to school to see the kindergartners end of the year program.  

They did such a good job singing about history and education!

When it was done we went back to the classroom and each kid received a special personalized gift from Mrs. Bundy.

She is so sweet!

Trevor tried to convince her to move to Bentonville Arkansas to be his 1st grade teacher but she's headed back to Houston, TX.

They played a photo slideshow with music.  Too cute for words!  Such good buddies with Ethan and Christian!

Each child was called up to receive an award.  As Mrs. Bundy described the award kids started guessing who would receive it.  

.Everyone knew when she said 'Laffy Taffy' award for the student 'who keeps everyone laughing while making sure the class sticks together to get done what they need to get done'...was Trevor!!!

Then the next day was his last day of kindergarten.  Tear.  

We are all in for a big adjustment over the next month but we are excited to have some summer fun now that school is out!!!!  

Daddy's 1st time home!

Our most amazing neighbors Lisa and Troy hosted a going away party for us - another reason Daddy came home this weekend!  She throws the best parties and thinks of every detail!  We went to dinner beforehand with the Feather's quick before meeting up with Lisa, Troy, Angie, Ryan, Becky and Brandon.  What a night!

These are the types of neighbors and friends that you dream of.  It's so lucky that we all had kids the same age who love each other as much as the parents do!  We went through some crazy neighbor drama (not between any of us of course) and came out closer than ever.  With these folks you can laugh so hard you cry, literally!!  So funny!!!

Lisa arranged some games for us to play.  She is the perfect hostess!!!!  A guaranteed fun time!!

The winners for the best participants of the 'In My Box' game were Becky and Brandon!  Hilarious!

Even funnier might be Ryan trying to take a picture with his new selfie stick!  Glad it worked because this is one night we never want to forget.  

As the night went on we got sillier and sillier.  Including a push-up contest between Mommy and Lisa.  Of course Lisa won, that girl has been working out and is one strong Mama!  Thank you Lisa for the most wonderful going away celebration.  We sure appreciate and love you so much!  We are going to miss being so close but don't worry we will be back and we have a room with your name on it anytime you want to visit Arkansas!  XOXO

The next day we had Trevor's last soccer game with Sereno.  We sure will miss Coach Wise.  

Trevor learned so much this season and was known as "The Rock" on the team.  

He would not let a ball past him and wasn't afraid to get in and get the ball!  

Mommy made some new friends too!  We enjoyed the end of year celebration they had at McDonalds.  

Of course we couldn't stay the entire time because we got a last minute showing request so off we went.  You never know when it could be the one!  Was kinda nice to have Daddy here to help prep the house so he could see everything that goes into it!!! Cross your fingers that it is the one!!

Ashley's Dance Recital

Daddy came home for the weekend so that he could do a few house projects and see his little princess perform at her dance recital!  She was ready to rock the stage!

She did great with her 2 numbers!

No stage fright here!

After her 2 songs she got to come and watch the older dancers.  Mommy and the kids loved it!  Daddy and the grandparents probably would have preferred to leave but we were in row 3 :)

Grandma and Papa John brought our tiny dancer a bouquet of roses!

Grandma's girl!

So proud of her performing all year!!  Not many 2 and 3 year olds get that experience!

After the recital they had a carnival outside with face paint, games, treats and balloons!!

Donuts at School with Papa

Trevor was a bit sad that Daddy wouldn't be able to attend his Donuts with Dad event at school but was excited to hear that Papa John would go instead!

Although it sounds like Trevor was far too busy hanging out with his friends to hang around Papa, shoot!

Mrs. Bundy announced that she was moving back to Texas after her one year here so she and Trevor share a special bond that these are the last few days at Fireside for both of them!  

Ashley's Last Day at La Casa

Ashley was excited for her last day of school! 

The girl was all smiles but did not want her hair curled today.  Luckily her hair has natural curl :)

We had fun at the ice cream social ... Ashley just had whip cream and sprinkles!

How they have grown since August!

We will sure Mrs. Harvey.  She couldn't have been the more perfect preschool teacher for our two kids.  She was gentle but firm, exactly what we wanted!

Photo-bomber Remy!

Mrs. Costolo was just as fantastic and is the Associate Director of the preschool so we were lucky to have her too!

And Ashley will definitely miss Miss Vicki who always has a smile on her face when Ashley asks every day after school for a piece of candy!!

We are ready for summer!!!  And soaking up our last 6 weeks in Arizona!