put a fork in us... we're done!

our last week of school was a doozie!  monday was a holiday.  tuesday we had neely's pre-k graduation.    

   

neely had such a sweet pre-k teacher.  she will surely be missed.  i can't believe that kid will be in kindergarten next year!  

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wednesday kevyn had a field trip followed by an ice cream party and then the schools end-of-year pep rally (or pepper rally if your kevyn).

funny story...  i had no idea where we were headed for kevyn's field trip until we were loading up!  i knew the name, but i thought we were headed to one town and was corrected by another mom as to which town we were actually going to.  and here's the kicker...  i thought i had never been there before until we were pulling up and it all started to look familiar.  i need a nap.

thursday we had kelby & nat's flat stanley party and then kevyn's kindergarten graduation that evening.

kelby & nat did such a great job on their flat stanley projects. ok, who am i kidding...  darren and i did great!  parents were invited to attend the presentations and we all high-fived and commented on how well we all did as parents.  it was really quite comical.  i was, however, really impressed at how well all the kids did with getting up in front of the entire class to present their project.  it was like they had no idea public speaking could even be considered scary.  to them it was no big deal.  i love that!  

at our school, kindergarten and 8th grade do a joint graduation ceremony.  while lengthy, the ceremony really got me excited for my girls and all they will get to do and become while at our school.  i REALLY like our school if you can't tell. 

another funny story...  (i can only say it is funny now.  it was NOT funny at the time.)  we had mexican food (kevyn's pick) prior to kevyn's graduation ceremony and although i knew before hand that enchilada's would be risky, i gave in and we went for it.  all throughout dinner jeff and i repeatedly reminded kevyn to lean over her plate, don't take big bites, keep her napkin on her lap, etc.  towards the end of dinner i thought we made it with only a few tiny and barely noticeable spots.  yay!  until we coached her again to be sure to lean over her plate to take a bite and she leaned right into her plate!  yep.  brown enchilada sauce all the way across the front of her dress.  crap.  i took one last BIG drink of my margarita, loaded up the girls, and raced to the house to change.   

we are really going to miss mrs. z.  we joke that she can teach kindergarten one more year (for neely) and then she is going to have to move up to a higher grade so we can double-dip.  thankfully we don't really have have to say goodbye to our teachers since we still see them every sunday in church and at sunday school.

and friday we had closing chapel, end-of-year awards ceremony, and then class parties.

see all those cute signs???  the ones my brain was determined to forget to send to the printer, pick up from the printer, and cutout and paste to a stick until 11 pm the night before?!?  yah, those.  welp, they are the same signs that my youngest accidentally dropped in a big puddle right before taking those pictures.  i wanted to cry, but all i could do was laugh.  so if they look droopy, its because they were.  and wet.  and i'm really thankful these pictures are taken at a distance and you can't see the watermarks.  geez, these kids...

and when the school bell rang for release at 11:15 AM we loaded up and hooked it to dallas for our cousins high school graduations.  whew!

~becky

easter 2015

brrr!  don't let the shorts and short sleeves fool you...  easter this year quite chilly!  so much so that our original plan of hosting our family easter at a local park was changed to easter at our house where we could get away from the wind.  the girls love having all the cousins at their house (as do I!) and holding easter here made it feel more easter'y to me.  for those of you who don't remember, our house was once my grandparents house and the house we held every family gathering at.  the picture below of all the littles lined up on the driveway for the egg hunt resembles the pictures of their parents all lined up many many years ago.  (although I do remember some front porch starts as well.)

of course, the aunts (or antz as they like to call themselves) had some silly games prepared for us...  

see...  we all fit.  ;)

sunday after church we headed over to jeff's aunts for a wonderful meal and a HUGE egg hunt for the girls!  and in keeping with tradition, there was a pinata and cascarones too!

i just love kevyn's face when she realizes she found the goose egg!

sweet cousins!

~ becky

spitz reunion '14

i've really been slacking here...  this post has been sitting in my drafts for a few weeks.  i decided yesterday that today i needed to find the time to write some brief commentary and then post for all to see.  

labor day weekend we were able to spend the extended weekend with family at our annual family reunion.  you can see years past here and here.  this is something that our girls look forward to many months in advance.  they are always asking when we get to go back to "reunion camp!"  the aunts (aka antz) do a great job of keeping everyone entertained with the crazy games they come up with and there is plenty of pool time and playing with cousins too.

my mom and her five siblings take turns with the meals with each family hosting a meal.  somehow several years ago this turned into "themed" meals and it is so much fun seeing what the families come up with!

we had a disney themed meal with all things disney and princess and pirates...

a german themed meal which included uncle don playing his tuba...

our meal was teen beach movie themed...

and a frozen themed meal.  this definitely was a crowd pleaser as we have a lot of little girls in our family!

neely was trying her hardest NOT to show me her powdered sugar covered lips.

we also had an iron chef themed meal, but i unfortunately left my camera in the cabin at that time.

as for the crazy games i mentioned above, we did this sock on a bottle that you dip in bubbles thing and then blow bubbles everywhere.  (give me a break...  YOU try naming that!)

and then there was the frozen t-shirt contest where you grab a frozen shirt and then figure out how to thaw it enough that you can put it on.  first one to wear their shirt wins.

and we had boat races!  each group scavenged for supplies and then we all met at the pool to see each others creation.  our girls didn't win but it was still a ton of fun!

there was also the annual non-talent talent show!  along with silly skits, there was a lot of singing.  mainly songs from frozen.  (am i the only one who's skin crawls every time that song starts???   i'm so over it!  let it go!)

kevyn's initially was going to sing a song from teen beach movie.  but about 20 minutes before the talent show started she came over and whispered to me that she would no longer be singing.  she would be dancing!  um, ok?  i asked her if she needed a song and she replied no.  

for those of you who are not around her much, kevyn loves to have "reformances."  every gift giving holiday for the past few years i've been "gifted" reformances.  yay.  what makes them even better is that they typically end in tears when i tell her 10 minutes into them that its time to start wrapping it up.  so i guess really she might be correct when saying "reformances"...  it's like a performance on repeat.

so like i reeeally needed her to perform to a song so that the song would end and hopefully she would too. not just mean momma telling her to wrap it up.  thankfully she ended up reforming to a song!

THANK YOU so much to my family who witnessed kevyn leaping across the stage for the duration of a song and then gave her a good round of applause.  it made her day!

oh!  have y'all played the charades app!  it is so much fun and free!

well there you have it!  another awesome reunion in the books.

~becky