Week in Photos

This week has been the end to another school year.  Paige will now be a 1st grader and Lane will be headed into 3rd.  I'm nervous for the day when their homework will get a little too tough for me to help with.  I think I'm good for a couple more years.  With Lane's spelling words being words like corduroy, turquoise, and unfortunate, maybe I only have one more good smart year in me after all .  I'd better get studying.  On the last day of school, Paige got to celebrate her "birthday" with the snack of the day.  Since her birthday actually falls in the summer she was worried that she wouldn't get to chose between "whacks or hugs".  I guess the teacher gives them the choice to either be spanked or hugged.  What child would actually choose to get spanked?
Lane also got his summer haircut three days before summer break actually started.  He didn't like the mohawk idea.  Doesn't want the girls to laugh at him.  He also likes it short so that he doesn't have to style it every morning.  He acts like it was him doing the work!? 

No smile here!

This last week I was also able to finally spruce up my deck.  We don't have much space but now we have a little spot we can sit outside and enjoy the birds and squirrels.  It's shaded in the late afternoon/evening and just perfect.  Flowers make everything better.  Let's just hope they survive.

We finished the week off with a delicious dinner.  Blake's birthday is coming up and he'll be working and is on call this weekend so we celebrated a little early.  We couldn't think of a restaurant that we wanted to eat at (besides PF Changs, 2 hours away) so we did our own thing once again.  We are getting pretty good at special dinners at home.  I just wish someone would come and clean it up for me.  This time around we did our regular fondue but switched it up with using chicken broth instead of oil and cooking shrimp, chicken, and steak in it.  The shrimp was the best and Blake had to fight Lane off so he could have some.  The sides were bacon wrapped asparagus and balsamic tomato and mozzarella salad.  Finished off with cheesecake and fresh strawberries and blueberries.

Paige is just making sure that daddy is blowing correctly.

My little helper.  Anything to distract her from fighting with her brother.

Just being honest.

So that finishes off our week.  We had more rain than sun which means more video games with trash-talking.  Following by the lecture of "If you're going to dish it out, you'd better be able to take it".  See, we're learning/teaching important life lessons.  After all those days with the video games and rain I am now going to attempt to be a energetic, full of life mommy and plan a fun list of things to do this summer.  I don't want my kids to look back at their summer with no memories.  And I think that memories can be made in very simple ways.