the end of the beginning

We have a first-grader!! Paige "graduated" from kindergarten this week! She's come a long way in just a few short months. She is now writing, reading, and doing math on a 1st or 2nd grade level! It's amazing! She had a wonderful and loving teacher that made it all possible!

Here she is as she left for school on her last day. Here she was on her first day.



The last day was basically just the awards assembly. I decided to take a few pictures of her and her friends before it started and this is when she told me, "You better go sit down!!"


And this is when I told her, "You better smile or I'm not leaving!"


Waiting to get her diploma:


Paige and her principal/superintendent:

splash down

This is the event that Paige looks forward to every year. She has been eyeing these monster water slides since she was 3. We still lived next to the school at that time and she could see them from our yard. She would plead with me to let her come to school early just so she could play on the slides. When it was time for her to start Pre-K last year, she was so excited that she would finally get to participate in water day!!





Here are the 5 amigos...the kinder girls!!

peace out

it was bring your daddy to school day

J was the featured guest speaker in Paige's class the other day. He brought in lots of dead stuff and told them all about a day in the life of a wildlife biologist. Afterwards, we loaded all the kids in the bus and took them to see all the alligators in one of the lakes on the ranch. They l-o-v-e-d it! They sang like munchkins all the way!



Notice his little "helper" in the front of the class.

blue belles

What she really thinks of having her picture taken.

on the way to McDonalds

them, not us. We were on the way to school. For you city slickers, this is what a traffic jam looks like where I come from.

because i'm the mommy, that's why

We celebrated Mother's Day today with a brunch even Fancy Nancy would have been proud of! We took J's mom and mimi to the Omni for Mother's Day brunch.

Me & the girls


The flowers I got from J & the girls


Brooke & Mimi




Paige and GG


Paige posing with the roses we received at brunch


A big shout out to the rocking' iPhone camera, for making these pics possible! Can you guess what my present was??

and it all begins...

Should I be more worried that she can get into ANYTHING if unsupervised for 5 seconds or that my 2 year old can already apply mascara correctly??

dancing in the rain

Well, not real rain. I'm not sure that Brooke has ever actually seen REAL rain, so a sprinkler is the next best thing!