Evan's Kindergarten Mother's Day Tea

At the beginning of the month, Evan's Kindergarten class put on a Mother's Day Tea celebration.  I took the day off of work to be able to attend that and to also be able to attend Sean's field trip to Geer School the same day. 

I drove the boys to school, dropped off Sean and went down to Evan's room where he had a bunch of things made for me at his table.  There was a tray of cookies, muffins, and other treats and bottles of water for all the moms.  Evan was so proud of the things he made for me and I'm so glad I attended!

After we had some treats and drinks, each kid came up and used the microphone to say a sentence they wrote for their mom.  Evan's was, "My mom is the best at cooking me dinner." and it was adorable listening to them all!

I love my bug and I'm so blessed to be his mom!

Sean's spring soccer and his field trip to Geer School

Another season with the Plymouth Panthers and as you can see in the picture above, Sean is still one of the youngest and smallest on the team.  But, that's okay!  Last season, in the fall, their team moved up to House Level and started to play against other cities.  None of the teams were ranked.  After the results from the fall, his team was put in Division 1 and we've been up against the hardest teams around.

It's been a tough season so far with rainy weather, cancellations, and loses.  But, last week they played against Brighton (the only team that beat them in the fall) and our boys kicked butt!  They gelled as a team, they communicated, and they dominated!

In fact, Sean scored his first goal on this team!  It's been a long year and a half with him playing forward and not getting any goals, but the boys on these other teams that are mostly in 3rd grade can outrun him.  He was so excited to score and we are so proud of him!

It was an exciting game and good to see our boys back in action!  Evan enjoyed playing in the mud the whole time...

In other Sean related news, his class finished up their unit on the past and the prairie and went to the Geer School that's been around since the 1800's in Plymouth.  They had to dress the part and pack a lunch similar to one someone would eat from that time period.  They held their morning class at the school and then bused back to Farrand for gym in the afternoon.  Sean had a great time and I was able to pop in during their lunch break at the school to see them all!

Can't believe these kiddos are about to wrap up 2nd grade and move on to 3rd!

Prom, Farmer's Market, Teacher Appreciation, and Cinco de Mayo...Phew!

May always brings a full calendar, but it's one of my favorite months of the year because I absolutely love all of the fun events we do each year.  Prom was the first event up this month on Friday the 3rd.  Another year with chilly, rainy weather for prom, but the kids still had a blast.  I showed up around 8pm when kids were required to be there by then.  It's always so much fun to see the kids dressed up and enjoying themselves.  Some of these kids I've had since they were freshmen!

Fun fact:  Desmond and I planned Prom in 2010 and it was a Paris theme.  This is his first year back and now as an administrator and what was the Prom theme?  Paris!  So fun!

The next morning was the first Farmer's Market of the year.  The kids rode their bikes with Scott and I ran behind them since the weather was decent.  We grabbed some muffins and soap from my favorite soap guy.  I ran my best time and did a 5k total running there and back with a nice break in between.  We got back in time to make lunch and start yard work before the mulch delivery arrived.  Scott and Evan worked their butts off most of the day moving mulch!

I escaped while the boys were outside dealing with the mulch to run to Home Depot and get the supplies to make our Teacher Appreciation gifts for the boys' teachers.  This year we decided to make our own terrariums since the boys love cactuses and Arizona.  I bought the planters for $5 each in the Target dollar spot and picked up specific potting soil, rocks, and different succulents.  Each came out to about $20, which is what I've typically spent in the past.

We boxed them up, put some cute tags on them, and they were ready for school!

For Cinco de Mayo, we did our usual cook-out, but this year we invited my parents to come out to celebrate an early Mother's Day with my mom.  The boys both had soccer games back-to-back so it worked out well that my parents could see the boys play.  Dinner was shredded chicken tacos in the crockpot, grilled steak tacos, rice, chips, salsa, and guacamole.  Dessert were key lime cheesecake bites!  Yum!  The margs were flowing, Scott put on Mexican music on Spotify, and the boys were loving the nice weather running around the backyard in their new cowboy costumes Grandma made them to go with their boots from Arizona.

I might have forgotten about sunscreen...

Once the kids were in bed and my parents left to head home, Scott and I enjoyed sitting by a fire in the backyard.  We had a great weekend!