Hula Recital

Lorelei has absolutely loved her hula class this semester. She comes home and wants to keep practicing and teaching her dance routine to anyone who would like to learn it. So thankful for this affordable program and her sweet teacher. She is signed up for the hula camp they are offering in June and is excited to have Jaedynn join her as well. She is also planning to take hula again this fall.

This program goes all out for their recital, and we had several practices leading up to their performance. While this was hard on our bedtimes, it definitly worked the kinks out for the day of the performance. Lorelei did a great job! We felt very blessed to have a couple of special visitors who came just to watch! Nana and Aunt Heather made the trip to our place over the weekend and it was fun having them with us in the audience to watch our girl.

Dress Rehearsal Shots

Soooo thankful Aunt Heather could do L's hair for the performance!

Nana learning some hula moves!

Aunt Heather too!

Miss Celestine

(I will be adding the professional pics at the end of this when they come in!!!)

Spring Musical 2018 and GCA Golf Scramble

Spring Musical

One of the many things we love about going to a University Model School are the opportunities our kiddos wouldn't have without it. The school musical is definitly one of those. I have been happy for them not to have parts yet, although it has been discussed, so we may be in for a lot more practices someday...for now I have enjoyed the minimal practices and an awesome show.

They loved the songs from this musical (Danny and The Shacks) even better than the last and we listened to them every chance we had in the car. Lorelei also added "fire dancer" to her list of jobs and loved getting to do this during one of the songs with the other girls in her class.

(Disclaimer...I showed up to the dress rehearsal this year with my nice camera to take pictures for yearbook. Also the perfect chance to get shots of my own kiddos without those other silly parents in the way. ;)  I think I'll try and do this every year if allowed! Wouldn't have many good shots from the actual performance!)

It is VERY difficult to get a good fire dance shot, so you get half her face. ;)

"Israelites! Israelites! Punch two-three-four, run two-three-four, HUGH!"

Nayeli, Lorelei, Maddy and Reagan

Nayeli and Lorelei

Jaedynn and Lorelei

For those who want to see some snippets from the performances Brad put them together...

Golf Scramble

Most of you know Brad is an idea man. Well, he mentioned a while ago that he would love to organize a school golf scramble. Although I was a little concerned it would be a lot for him to juggle, I knew he would just have to learn that the hard way. (And he did!) After doing some calling around he found the ideal location, got the school board's approval, and got busy organizing. He did do an amazing job, almost entirely on his own. We hope that next year he has a few more helpers. :) He got many compliments, and the staff and participants were pretty excited about the prizes he got donated. Proud of that guy for working so hard for his school community. We heard encouragement from one of the dads who played in the tournament even though he had not golfed in years but signed up and had fun..."Thanks so much for setting up the tournament. Best GCA event ever."

Oh and of course, we cannot forget our two kiddos.

Makin has just been ecstatic to get more golf in and he was thrilled to be on his dad's team for his first-ever golf scramble. He was the youngest participant this year, with the only other youth golfers being two 7th graders. He won "youth long putt" (Brad said it was about a 6 foot putt. Makin jumped up and down when he made it and then danced all the way back to the golf cart.) and was elated to win the prize of an automatic putting system. Their team won second place overall, and Makin contributed to his team with them using one chip and about eight of his putts. He did have the best drive of his life, which he was excited about as well.

While Lorelei doesn't have the boy's enthusiasm for golf (yet...?) she has her dad's entrepreneurial spirit. She decided this tournament was the perfect opportunity to have her first bake sale. (All profits going to the school of course.) It was a smashing success!

Loaded up with prizes and supplies for the scramble.
Sooooo glad to get it out of our house! 

Their bake sale ran from 11 AM- 7 PM and they were quite proud of their sales.

Mrs. White lives in this neighborhood and was sweet enough to stop by and get some goodies.

Charlie rode along with the boys for the front nine.

Bakes sale stop at hole #10 and thrilled Dad bought him brownies. :)

Happy Golfers

April Adventures

Playroom Progress
I love organization. So much. However keeping up with the toys has gotten a little more difficult. I have had these things on my list for a while but getting the time and money to get it all done made it take even longer. But finally, we have organized Legos and dress up!!!

There were certain drawers I fell in love with at The Container Store...which side-by-side were about 1/2 inch too wide for Ikea cubed shelves. So of course my Knight-In-Shining-Armor swoops in with, "I'll just build you a shelf." And so it began.

Thankful for this guy for working hard on this project!

And for those of you wondering about that dress up storage...we found this leather ottoman on a  local sales page. Now there are dress up clothes in it instead of kids of course. It also doubles as a stage or place to sit so we are loving it!

Moms Night
A couples of moms were really excited to try out an Escape Room, so off we were for another Mom's Night Out. We had such a fun time and went out before and after the Escape Room. You are given 1 hour to find the clues in the room. Each clue leads you to another key, another key etc. (I think there were at least 12 locks...) In this room we had to unlock a key in the floor which had fake gold, which was the end goal. I loved to see how well everyone worked as a team to get us out in time! We made it with 10 minutes to spare! (Apparently 40% or less actually make it out!) I was relieved to find out quickly that they don't actually lock us in the room to solve the clues...as soon as they told us that the idea was much more fun! :)

A Little Lake Time
We always love a chance to play in the sand when the weather is nice!















Pizza Field Trip
We have so enjoyed having a field trip each month this semester! This last one of the year was to California Pizza Kitchen. We toured the kitchen and then each child was able to make their own pizza. My favorite quote after we chatted about the day was Makin talking about watching the cook throw up the pizza dough. "I thought it was going to hit the ceiling!" Such a fun time with friends!

Spring Weather
We have headed to the park after school a few times now that the weather has warmed up. One Thursday we had an official 3rd grade get-together at the park and then a few of us went out to eat after as well. Jaedynn brought out her guitar and Lorelei and Reagan enjoyed watching her play a bit.

We headed out to fly kites one Friday afternoon with Julia and Amelia.

Brad and Makin fit in a fair amount of golf this month. Brad is organizing a school golf scramble so that has been the added motivation to get them both playing or hitting range balls more consistently. (Of course he would do this all day every day if he could!)

Bluebonnets

We headed to Ennis this year to enjoy the amazing natural beauty that is Bluebonnet season in Texas and were so glad we did. We hope to make a special trip each year as it is just so different being able to take in the beauty of fields in bloom.

We took a bit of a risk as there were chances of storms. This did put a damper on my lighting and timing for photos, but we were trying to avoid anymore cold fronts that seem to come up each weekend this month. It has been quite an up and down weather spring so far and it made it harder to get perfect weather for our visit.

We drove along one of the bluebonnet trails and loved being out in the country.
The kids loved seeing the cranes out with the cattle.

By far one of our favorite moments of the afternoon trip...stopping to pet and feed the Belgian horses.

Can you tell she is in love with horses?

Can't find what the red ones are called, but there are usually a few scattered in the sea of blue.

Hold hands...

Our girl has quite the fear of thunderstorms...so all things considered she handled it pretty well.

A few minutes before this there were people scattered throughout that field behind them...we were one of the last ones to leave when the raindrops were about to start falling but I was glad to catch this even though I couldn't keep taking shots for it to be perfect.

Phone pics giving me trouble when uploading but wanted to include them!

Strawberry Picking

I have extra time tonight, so thought I would quickly get this posted. :)

We had such a beautiful morning heading to a local strawberry patch! I haven't tried to go strawberry picking in about 7 years because our last attempt in Texas was a bust. Brittany told me this place just opened and it was great! Quite a few moms from GCA turned out so it was quite a bit of fun just running around with friends after picking.

Happy pup and kiddos while we waited for them to open the field.