Here are the latest pictures from Hawaii. The whole family went snorkeling this morning. We will update more later. At some point a few videos of turtles should show up. It seems that Katy and Margaret have gotten into making instructional videos in the pool. More pictures every day. I will update and arrange everything when we get home.
Well, another school year is over and the children are already bored (except for Sam, who could play Super Smash Mario all summer).
The children all had good years, earning all A’s or the elementary school check box equivalents. This earned Katy a hot pink Nano.
More importantly, they are nice kids. Margaret’s teacher wrote her a note saying “You impressed me every single day this year, not only with your great work, but also by how much you love learning, by your great attitude and by how empathetic you were towards other people.” Sam’s teacher wrote that he is “sweet, kind, gentle and very bright.” (We knew that). Katy’s teachers don’t write notes, but her math teacher sent a thank you an email to her saying “thank you for being thoughtful. I enjoyed having you in my math class this year. You’ve been a wonderful student.”
Katy and Margaret had their summer recital today. They both did very well. I think piano is over until the fall now. Soon, it may be time for Sam to start up.
Sam had his first birthday party in a few years today. Supposedly, this was his 6th birthday party, but he didn’t actually have a party for his 5th birthday. Today we went to gymnastics. The kids had a great time running around and bouncing. I got some pretty good shots of them bouncing.
Just looking through things. Here is what my house looks like clean.
Margaret did a 5k this weekend. She has been training for it for a while with Girls on the Run. Lucky for me, there were a lot of people, so she couldn’t really run and then I could keep up. If it hadn’t been so crowded, she would have left me in the dust no problem. She ran the practice 5k in 32:53 about a week before.
Here is a link to an article in the local newspaper.
Sam and I went to Mississiippi to see my mom for Mother’s Day. We got to spend some time in Starkville, then we went to the coast to see the cousins, then back to Jackson and the zoo and to fly out.
While Margaret was off riding a limo, Sam, Katy, and I rode Segways today.
Here are a few movies of Sam riding his bike.
We all went to Maker Faire again this year. Again, lots of things we see that we think we can/should make. Katy has decided she needs a cupcake car to drive around in. Sam thinks this would be cool as well. We spent about 8 hours there and were to tired to go back for the second day.