Miscellaneous May...

Maddie's Pirate Play...

The 4th graders did an awesome job on their Pirates of Punctuation Production the last week of school!!!  Maddie practiced all of the songs for over a month and really did great!  Plus, she was a really cute pirate (the cutest in fact!)!!!  Good job sweetie and I loved being there to see it all!

Mothers Day 2011...

Fom Lauren...

LOVED her answers on this one... !!!

Very cute!

From ALL of the kids... and let's face it, they can all be stinkers at times!

From my man!  Totally a perfect pick from him!

From Maddie girl!!!  Very sweet!

Also from MAddie...

And more, beautiful artwork from Monkeygirl!!!

All my LOOT!  Except for the VERY YUMMY cupcake they gave all of us Moms at church, which I shared with the kids after lunch!

Being with these AWESOME kids makes being a Mom fun!!!!!  I sure love each of them more than they could ever know!  :)  Thanks to my family for making the day so special.  Thanks to my Mom for being a great example of what a Mom should be and preparing me for my job!  I love her and know how lucky I was to get her as my mom!!!  My sisters are all SUCH great moms as well and I learn stuff from them all of the time!  Thank you to all of the MOMS in my life and my kids lives!!!  :)

Girls Camp Fundraiser...

To earn her portion of camp $$$$ this year the YW did a fundraiser where each girl could bake, babysit, work, etc., for $$$ donations they could put a dollar amount to each job.  She chose to babysit for $5 per hour and bake cookies, brownies, cinnamon rolls for $7 per dozen.  She even included a handmade thank you note with a drawing on each one!  Everyone loved her treats and all were impressed with her mad babysitting skills!!!  She cleaned up and everything...   She was sooooooooooo excited to go to camp!

My Favorite Day at the Beach!

We try to go to the beach on the day each week the kids get out of school early for some family time.  The weather doesn't always permit, but when we do get there we have a blast.  It is truly one of the places where everyone has a great time just being together and the best thing is there are no cell phones, computers, stereos, video games, ds games, etc. ... just sand, water, treats, and eachother!!!

There was a pod of dolphins not very far from where the break was on shore!!!  We have seen whales further out at times as well!  The beaches in Central CA are so great for seeing all kinds of things and never crowded... more  like private beaches!!!