Life Group Lake Day

One of the couples in our Life Group happens to have a boat.  They were super nice and invited us all to go out on it.  We were missing two couples so that it always sad, but we did have a great time.

We rode around a little bit, swam a little bit, but mostly we all learned (excluding Jarod and Karen - they taught us) to Wake Surf.

Love our Group!

Had fun just riding on the boat next to my man

Wake surfing is a water sport in which a surfer trails behind a wakeboard boat, surfing the boat's wake without being directly attached to the boat.^[1] The wake from the boat mimics the look and feel of an actual ocean wave. After getting up on the wave by use of a tow rope, wakesurfers drop the rope and ride the steep face below the wave's peak in a fashion reminiscent of ocean surfing.

 So Neil and I actually did not ever let go of the rope, but we had fun being towed :)  

Go Neil!

Jazz hand!

End of a great day!

Last Week of School

This last week has been CRAZY busy!  We wrapped up Preschool for Haven and are looking forward to Transitional Kindergarten (TK) at Bud Rank in the fall.  We also wrapped up Kindergarten for Justus and what a great milestone!  He will stay at BR and start grade 1 - whooo hooo!!

We ended the year with a small swim party.  It was the Friday before the last week of school.  J was the only boy but as you can see he has no problem with that. Haven was there also, but she was not ready to participate in picture time.

Swim party friends

 Then on Monday was their unbirthday party celebration for all the kids who have birthdays in the summer.

Tuesday was the Water day.  Unfortunately it happened to be an unseasonal cool day so the poor kids were pretty chilly.  I think they had fun anyway tho.

Weds was the Kindergarten celebration.

Haven made some friends along the way too - this is at Js celebration

 Thursday was Havens Preschool Celebration and Js BBQ which I chaperoned.

BBQ at the park

 Friday was the talent show.  We watched kids K-3 show off their talent.  Super fun!

Bringing flowers to his teacher

Thanks for a great year!

At the Talent show

Digging in the dirt with his buddy

 After school on Friday we met up with a couple of friends for lunch with promises of more playdates throughout the summer!

Friends at lunch

Friday night we had our friends from Indonesia that are in town over for dinner.  And since it was the last day of school, the kids stayed up with us until about 10:30.

Let Summer Begin!!

Havens Big Day

Yesterday was Havens time to shine.  Her preschool held a Celebration and she got to go up on stage and sing.  Haven is such a performer.  Unfortunately I had to miss because J had a BBQ that I chaperoned.  But Neil, Gigi and Papa got to go support our Beautiful Girl.  And trust me, Neil did a great job videoing so I could see it all!

Performing

 Haven sang and then they went back to the classroom to pass out the rest of the work the teachers had.  The teachers also gave the kids a gift.

Classroom

 Then it was onto the lawn for some cake and punch.

With her teachers Mrs. Bren and Mrs. Karen

 Justus picked out some flowers to give to Haven.  So sweet!

 Our family celebrated by getting some pizza.

Proud of our Girl!!

Js Big Day

Today was Justus Kindergarten Graduation.  But it wasnt really a graduation, so they call it a Celebration.  But hey, we all know the importance of what it means.  He did it!!  He hit a major milestone and is moving onto the next level.

Gigi, Papa, Neil, Haven and I went and supported J.  The Kindergarten classes sung us some super cute songs and then we went back to their room to get his super cute/fun/cool memory book that the teacher made for him.  Love it!

Kinda blurry because I only used my phone.

With his memory book

 Then we went and celebrated at Red Robin.  YUM!!!

 Great day!!!

Gilroy Gardens

I have been wanting to take the kids to Gilroy Gardens for awhile now.  My goal was to make it in either April or May and we just squeezed it in :)

We started out a little late since it was that morning that I woke up and sought out Neil to see if he would be up for my scheme.  Luckily he was!

So off we went.  We got there about noon.  The park opened at 10.  We grabbed a giant pretzel as our super nutritious lunch and headed off to ride rides and check out the sights.

In line for the boats....yummy pretzel!

First ride of the day...boats!

H and N on the boats

Can you spot J and me on the swings?  H was to short to ride.

J wanted to ride this ride all by himself.  Oh the independence :)

 By 4:30 Neil was starving and *somewhat* annoyed at me for not stopping for a meal sooner.  The kids were voicing there complaints also, so we did end up stopping for some pizza.  We did get caught up in what is now the infamous Balloon ride.  The line seemed so short but ended up taking us almost an hour to get through.  Meanwhile my whole family was starving....oh, but what fun it was - said in a somewhat sarcastic voice ;)

The notorious Balloon ride

The notorious Balloon ride

This was one ride H could do but J was to big

Fun family time

The park closed at 6 so we ended our time with an ice cream.

On the way home we stopped at a couple of the Farmers Market to pick up some fresh produce.  Perfect ending to a great day :)

End of Tball

Monday night was J's last Tball game.  He actually really liked going to Tball and for the most part payed attention and tried really hard.  The best part for J was getting his medal :)  He was super excited for it.

Neil's big run

I was so proud of Neil today as he completed his first ever half marathon.  He has trained for a long time for this and he did so good!!  He completed it in 2 hours and 12 minutes.  Way to go!!

N with the kids - they were not to happy having to wait around

Way to go Neil!!

 The kids and I made it out to be there when he completed the run.  We didnt actually see him cross the finish line...I still cant figure out why, we were right there.  Must have been that potty break we took :(  But anyways, we saw him right after.

The route

The finish line