Last Day of School and First Week of Summer!

 I just noticed my blogs have been heavy on the  girls lately, so I wanted to give Jacob the attention he rightfully deserves:)  I took these last night before we went on a Mommy/Son date to see the movie Maleficent.  It was a definite hit in his book, mainly because he got to see something the girls couldn't and they were already in bed when he got home.  I do love my boy, he's a little ray of sunlight in our lives.  He was adamant that I take a pic of his muscles below:

 We've been busy watching him play some tournament baseball, quite a bit of fun for the family, and it is amazing how much better he has gotten compared to last year, what a year of growth, strength and coordination does to a kid who is about to turn 8 next month.  Love him!

 He's one cool kat!

 He can hold his own eating buffalo wild wings:

Brian told Jacob he could take those down like a man.  Here is what Annie said:



 It was the last day of school for my sweet kiddos, can't believe I'll now have a 3rd grader, a 1st grader and a preKer!  I'm getting old along with them!

 Last day of school neighborhood-wide, school-wide water balloon fight.

 A drowned rat!

Boogie down Brittmoore video:



This inspired them wanting to make their own water balloons, they were pretty proud of themselves when I taught them to tie their own balloons because believe me, I'm SO over tying balloons!

 14 years with this handsome guy, and a very nice unexpected week-night date night when Rick came into town and watched the kids for us!

 Gwyn's art:

 Summertime means pool time with a homemade water feature of the sprinkler in the deep end!

 My beauties:

 This is what you wake up to when you've got a son who is a hit with the 2nd, or I should now say 3rd grade girls.  We got "forked" and chalked...our yard covered with lots of plastic forks stuck up in the yard and our driveway chalked with messages to Jacob:

 I've been getting up early to walk, and my little trainer decided to go with me:

 I was apparently going slow enough that he decided to ride up ahead and take a nap while he waited for me!

I have arrived!  I took Gwyn and Annie to get pedicures while Jacob was in a little summer basketball camp with his buddies, such fun to have girls!

 Cutest pic ever, probably the only team they will ever be on together, go Piranhas!

 Gwyn had a little playdate with some friends, $1.87 can of shaving cream = 2 hours of summer fun!

 Can't get enough of this cute little sweet baby girl, who was super excited when I went through all of Gwyn's clothes and now she has tons of new skirts and dresses to choose from!

 Intense, going to get all of the shaving cream out of this bottle!

 Painting while Jacob is in camp!

 Gwyn's painting:

Gwyn's Kindergarten Graduation!

Sweet Gwyn graduated from Kindergarten.  My sweet girl, we love her like crazy.  She was still requesting work from her teacher during free time, she's a goody-goody, just like me!  I love this picture of her in her program:

 She got a little bored:

 Love her and her awesome teacher!

The sweetest graduation song ever:

  We've been blessed to have Ms. Rincon for both Jacob and Gwyn, hoping to hit the jackpot again with Annie in a couple of years!

 The kids had field day after graduation, one sweaty Gwyn after the relay races...I was volunteering, so I couldn't get pictures of the kids doing their fun games:

 Three sweet friends and their sisters:

 Jacob and his crew after field day games, after they had their popscicles:

 Annie completed her gymnastics class and got a trophy, her first trophy, she was so proud!

A video of her performance:

  Gymnastics buddies:

 Yay for Annie!

 My sweet girl is a little crazy person on her scooter!

 This boy put away a whole slab of ribs at Pappasitos...apparently they were EPIC!

 Love my boy!

 Gwyn's picture of her family:

 Two sweet sisters cheering on Jacob at his baseball game in the HEAT!

 Happy Anniversary today to Brian...14 years, it has been an awesome ride!

Funny things the kids said:
Me to Jacob after I showed him the picture above:  Do we look the same?
Jacob:  No, you look prettier in the picture.  Your skin looks smooth and you don't have any freckles and your nose looks smaller.  Daddy has a lot more hair.

Softball and Baseball Season is Over...Kind of:)

Gwyn's little softball team made it to the championship playoffs, they lost the game to a team they had already beaten twice this year...they were having an off game and the Pink Panthers were having an "on" game.  Nevertheless, Gwyn got two doubles and received a trophy that she thought was the greatest thing ever.  She was super proud, but maybe not as proud as her number 1 fans above, Jacob and Annie who were dressed in their battle red and armed with a foam #1 finger and a pom pom...Gwyn has a brother and sister who love her dearly!

 Gwyn and a few of her sweet friends:

 The team about to get their trophies:

 Me and Gwyn...love this little left handed girl:

 Yes, we were the obnoxious team of parents with their cars shoe polished!

 Jacob's team did awesome this year as well, they finished a bit too early for me, so close to winning that last game.  They made it to the gold bracket of their 8U division, and came in I guess about 8th place out of 36 teams.

 This little one was super stoked about getting to be on swim team, practices have begun.  She is doing so great and is even practicing with both the 6U and the 1/2 lappers for extra practice.  She loves being on Jacob and Gwyn's team...go Piranhas!

 Sweet Annie and her friends got to do something fun while the big kids are still in school!

 Annie and Emerson and their new friend they met in Old Navy:

 Cutest thing ever:

 Jacob and Gwyn's Spring pictures came back.  I dressed Gwyn in the exact same outfit as I did for the Fall pictures, and Jacob the same shirt just in a different color...I'm getting my money out of those outfits, ha!

 This awesome kid lost tooth #7, he pulled it himself while at school so that he could go to the nurses' office and get this tiny little box to take it home in.  He also made the 8U Select tournament team for June, so we've got another month of baseball for this boy!

 Annie always dressed and ready for swimming:

 How beautiful is this precious girl??

 Absolutely love this!  Gwyn told Annie to color in her name in the driveway as she got on the bus and went off to school.  Annie finished the whole thing, even had to switch to white chalk when the blue ran out because big sister gave her a job and she had to finish!

 I can never get enough of these!

 Jason got a homemade card from Gwyn for his birthday. Is this not the coolest card ever?

Jacob has started doing multiplication tables to 12, and I was telling the kids how I loved doing them and made it to the 5 minute club (all three tables: addition, subtraction, and multiplication), but I always got beat by David Bradford.  Annie started saying, David Bradford, we'll get him for beating Mommy and doing this crazy thing:


I sent this to David Bradford and he showed his daughter who made him take and send me a picture of his 4 minute club trophy from Garfield elementary...I said, that's so wrong, I only got a button and he got a trophy!  I never knew that!!

A video of Gwyn getting her trophy:

Funny things the kids said this week:
Brian to Jacob:  What kind of a car do you want to drive when you turn 16?
Jacob:  A limo.
Brian:  To be driven around in, or are you going to drive it.
Jacob:  I'll drive it, and pick up all my friends. (ha!)