Family Fun

We had lots of fun getting out of the heat and playing with the Wilkins side of the family last week. My Aunt Annette & Uncle Orton and all their kids and grandkids and greatgrandkids met up in Pinetop for the weekend. We hung out, ate lots of fattening food , shot guns (those without babies) rode suped up golf carts and went fishing. Most of the pics had to be taken by others(those without babies) so this is what I got! It was a great way to spend Father's Day and wouldn't you know the fish really weren't biting but those that did ended up on Katelyn and Dave's rods! I swear my hubby never gets skunked , thank goodness cause at least I know we won't starve to death if the poop ever hits the fan. But now it seems my dear sweet little girl is going to follow in her Daddy's foot prints. She caught the very first fish on her own little rod! She was sooo excited until it came onto shore belly up basically and when Daddy put it on the stringer she cried cause she wanted to bring it home and put it in our fish tank. Then she needed to know if it was a boy fish or a girl fish. There was a little fibbing going on for that one but it seemed to appease her until Dave caught the next fish which happened to be whatever sex the first one wasn't! How lucky are we?

Busy Bees!

Well May was filled with lots for us to do and celebrate. We had Mother's Day which was also our 9th wedding anniversary. Wow, time really does fly. Dave had to go out on a fire so we still have to celebrate sometime soon, I hope. I mean every day is a celebration of course (eye roll) but it would be nice to go out for an evening where we can finish a sentence without interruption, ya know? So looking forward to that.

Katelyn had her end of year pool party at the dance studio followed by the annual dance recital. They did 2 numbers, 1 tap and 1 ballet and she did an awesome job, such a little ham!

That was followed by our Disneyland trip- so much fun but so exhausting there and back in the same day. She is still talking about that and already planning her next visit.

The following week was the graduation ceremony at Katelyn's preschool. They sang songs and gave each of the kids a book "all about me" with great pictures from throughout the year along with a special ribbon and certificate. We really lucked out in finding Ms. Amy and we all are going to miss her next year.

So all of our activities have ended and we've been trying to think of what we'd like to try next. Playdates anyone? We have swimming lessons starting next week and we are doing the summer movie program every Monday morning. I think Katelyn mentioned something about horses so I think I'm calling the Reed's to see what's up with the riding lessons they've started.

The other exciting/scary news is we just found out Kate gets to start Kindergarten this year!!! She missed the cut off date by just 2 months so we had her tested to see if she was ready and she did really well. The semester starts July 31st so that is just around the corner, I'm not sure if I'M ready but........ so I guess we need to squeeze in another vacation quick before we only travel with the masses on weekends and holidays, yuck!!! Maybe we should wait one more year???