I love after tax season Spring! I feel like a new person each year with a renewed sense of freedom. I get to cook more, be up at the school more and simply enjoy life more. It's wonderful! Here are a few pictures of the end of May.
My company is celebrating it's 10th year of business this year. Can you believe it?! I hardly can. It's been an interesting, stretching and mostly wonderful 10 years, and we are so incredibly blessed by it. I wanted to do something a little fun to celebrate, so I rented a suite at the Braves' game. We beat the Reds which was an added bonus! I decided to make the evening even more celebratory by having both employees and friends there. Ryan and I had a great time celebrating with Mary, Heather and their husbands, Adam and Alex (unfortunately, my two other employees, Larry and Sandy, were unable to make it), along with our friends, Jamie and Alan (Jamie also worked as a season preparer which was fantastic), Brian and Jill, Chris and Denna, Elizabeth and Jeff, and Heather and Andy. In this picture with me are Jamie, Elizabeth and Heather. This was a fantastic night!
The girls always love face painting; they spent a couple of hours one morning painting each other's faces with the set Mia received for Christmas.
For Christmas, David and Jan gave Ryan a gift card to buy this outdoor inflatable screen and projector. We are loving it! We set it up on our back deck in the evenings and enjoy watching shows (like Downtown Abbey, pictured here) or movies. The World Cup just started this weekend, and we watched a game of that on it too. We can't wait for football season this Fall!
Mia had such a great time at Noah's "Mad Scientist" birthday party where she got to make slime!
Poor Lily was wiped out one afternoon and ended up napping on the couch; it's very rare for her to take a nap, so I had to snap this picture. She's all curled up and sucking her thumb; other than the size difference, I could have taken this same photo almost 8 years ago. She hasn't changed!
I was treated to a Mother's Day breakfast in bed of waffles, Greek yogurt, blueberries and milk. Yum!
The girls had made some crafts to give me which was very sweet. Mia's class made these heart-shaped pins with different buttons on it. The one on the top right has some sort of Chinese or Japanese writing it on, so we decided it probably says "I love you Mommy" on it. Lily made me this rainbow loom octopus from my favorite band colors. It's quite impressive.
Mia filled out this at school. I couldn't stop smiling!
I love these two so very much!
After church we came home and Ryan grilled hamburgers for us; they were awesome as always. For dinner, we went over to Wayne's house which was a nice treat. I was glad to have a picture with my Mom. I love this lady to pieces, and I'm so grateful for her!
Loved that we got a picture with Wayne too!
Snaggletooth Lily here missing four teeth (two on top, two on bottom) at once. Oh so super cute! Hard to tell here, but Mia is missing her bottom two middle teeth too. The tooth fairy has been busy!
We always love when Grandpops comes to town. In addition to getting to spend time together, he treated the four of us to dinner at Rathbun's which was fantastic and appreciated!
The school held a carnival since the kids did a great job raising money with their Fun Run. Take a wild guess what the girls were most excited about...
We surprised the girls and took them strawberry picking at a nearby farm after school one day. We'd never tried it before, and it just looked fun; we were right! It was a pretty warm day, but we had a lot of fun together. When we got home, we couldn't wait to sample our goodies in milkshakes.
After a wonderful Spring, we're ready for Summer!
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