At the end of every year, Ambleside has a Shakesphere Festival that includes ALL grades. This evening included the pre-K, Kinder and 1st grade reciting several Sonnets and the "May Pole" Dance. There are 2 plays performed by the older kids and supper is served with popcorn and snowcones! Here are some pictures of that fun...BUT HOT night!!
I think I will just let the pictures speak for themselves! This was one evening Anita, Neal, Keith and I all got together to clean out the barn for Mother's Day-as that is what mom said she wanted. So after we worked all afternoon, the kids got to enjoy the fruits of our labor! Keith, Neally Boy and Dad hung up the horse tire swing...which the kiddos LOVED!!! (Ignore Kenedee's swollen eye-that was from a mosquito bite)!
Well I am going to backtrack....TO EASTER! I LOVE EASTER as it is one of my favorite holidays. I always enjoy going to church in Miles on Easter, as it just takes me back to being a child and always imagining when I had children and taking them to church Easter morning. BUT! It is SO early-8:00 service so that meant we had to leave the house by 7:30! After church, they had an Easter Egg hunt..then brief stop at Grandma and Grandpa's house....then home for a bit to enjoy all the treats the Easter Bunny left....and then over to my Aunt Pat's for Easter Lunch and another Easter Egg hunt. The weather was SO pretty and just an awesome day to spend with my kiddos and reflect on all the blessings and awesome things I have to be SO thankful for! 
Thought these were cute!! Kids were all dressed and ready to go play at Grandma's house!!! Any time Kory has a hat on, Kenedee wants to wear one also! Usually the one that Kory is wearing!! :) 
2 Teeth are now missing from my little monkey's mouth!!! One was lost at Kenedee's birthday party and the other one was a few days later. He was so excited about losing them, as he has been asking me for about a year now when that would happen...also completely motivated by the idea of the tooth fairy leaving him money!!
My precious little girl
I have loved you from the start
You are my little miracle
Laying closely to my heart
All the dreams I prayed you'd be, Are all the things you are.
You are not only my baby girl, but also my shining star.
(Music is special just for my baby girl!)
