Whirlwind

Seriously, this past month has been a complete and total whirlwind.  It just flew by, and I feel like I've barely even had a moment to catch my breath!  But life is about to get a LOT simpler if we can just make it through the rest of this week!  All our sports and other activities are coming to a close, I'm almost done all the thank you gifts for teachers, coaches, etc, and my calling will be a lot less time consuming for the rest of the Summer!  Maybe Lee and I will actually get to spend some evenings together again!  We have just been running from place to place, and having to split up to be at 2 places at one time.  But enough complaining, there's been a lot of fun moments as well, so here are some of the highlights:
   At the end of May, I got to go on another "Girls Trip" with 4 of my friends to Palm Springs!  The new plan is for it to be an annual thing every Spring, but I was surprised Lee was okay with me going away again.  He is definitely a supportive and caring husband, who never complains about what I want to do.  I did feel a little guilty since I just went away in December, but I have to admit, it was another wonderful break and a fun time with my friends!  I had never been to Palm Springs, but it was BEAUTIFUL!  The mountains, desert, palm trees, and golf courses are a beautiful combination!  The weather was 41 degrees, but we were just happy to have some sunshine.  We spent about half our time at the pools in our resort, and the other half shopping and eating out!  I came back home feeling refreshed and excited to see my kids again, and so grateful for such a wonderful husband!  I missed him a lot.  Made me really want to go on another trip with HIM!

Next highlight was the Piano Recital that Ash put on for all of her students.  She did a really good job, and gave them all cute awards and stuff.  Unfortunately Mason had a baseball game that night which Lee though he really needed to be at, so Mason missed the recital, along with 2 other of Ashlyn's students.  It still turned out good though.  And saddest news ever is that Ash has decided not to teach piano anymore, so this is her last year teaching my kids! She will be MISSED for sure!!

Then, Dakota also had a dance recital for her Hip Hop class.  It was the cutest thing ever, I loved seeing her moves!  I am going to keep putting her in Hip Hop and live my dancing dream vicariously through her! Ha ha.  She had a lot of fun with her friends in her class too.

Griffin has also graduated from Preschool, so we went and watched his little "recital / graduation ceremony". It was cute to see him sing his songs, and he was sure proud of the graduation certificate he got from his teacher!  He is SO ready for Kindergarten, but will definitely miss his friends from preschool as well!  His class also got to have a day at Midnapore lake, and a bouncy castle day.  Good times!

 And then of course, the thing that has been keeping us the most busy over the past couple months, is the sports!  I have promised to post pictures of them at their games, so I will finally do that!  Mason is still loving baseball, and he has the sweetest most encouraging coach ever, so it has been so wonderful for his self esteem.  He's improved a lot of the season.  Dakota is just killing it in Soccer, she just had the best game ever this week, we were so impressed!  She scored a couple goals and just missed like 5 more!  And Griffin is such a cute little soccer player - he does so well when he feels like playing, but sometimes he just doesn't feel like trying!  He's loved playing with his best friend Jack though.

And what was Scarlett doing while we went to all the sport games?  She was just "hanging out", ha ha!

And last highlight to add - Lee and I actually did find time for a date night out!  We went with the Irvines to the shooting range to shoot some skeet.  It was SO much fun.  I actually did quite well too, even out-shot Caleb.  Lee did the best though!  It actually is a pretty cool feeling to shoot one of those clay discs though and watch them shatter!  We want to go again soon! :)  Here's a sweet picture of me and Katerina with out guns!!

Oh and I don't think I mentioned that my new calling is a Young Women Advisor for the Mia Maids.  I love working with those girls, and love the women I work with too, but man, I do not like teaching the new curriculum!  It consumes me all week stressing about it and trying to come up with a lesson plan out of nothing!  Especially since the girls in my class don't talk!!  I guess it will help me learn and grow though!