June is a crazy time for us. We have the end of school year wrap-up activities, a birthday, a wedding anniversary, and daily life happenings. To say the least I am a little behind in the blogging. I had wanted to give some of these individual entries, but that isn't going to happen.
So I will settle for a chronological synopsis.
Midge was able to participate in the Hershey's Try-outs. She competed in the 800 which is two laps around the track. She is only 10, but she turns 11 this year so she had to compete in the 11 and 12 year olds. She did a fantastic job and placed first for her age group so she has been invited back to compete in the state meet in July. It was a cold day but we were there to support her.
Leo brought along his little buddy.
Immediately following her race we went over to Leo's soccer end of the season party. His coach had some kind words for him and he got a trophy that was a cut out of him.
We then headed up to my parents to help them work on the RV and get it ready for camping trips this summer. While there we took the kids up to Chip Ross park. I haven't been up there since high school.
Huck was able to walk most of the way himself.
It was fun to be able to see my parent's house from the top.
On the way back Huck started getting tired so he hitched a ride.
When we got back it was time for Midge's orchestra concert. This entire year she has been practicing several times a week violin with a great teacher before school.
Mr. Weissbarth is really good with the kids. He started with a ton of students and we watched the kids fall out one after the other. Midge complained sometimes but she stuck with it and learned so much. We are really proud of her.
My parents were able to come down to support her.
Ken's mom was in town and was also able to come down and see her.
The other big event was Little Miss's preschool graduation. We were supposed to do it in a park, but as you can see it was cold and rainy.
I love this picture of these two.
We wanted to try out a new hairstyle for the events and here was our attempt.
Great job sweet heart. You did great.
Right before we started the graduation Little Miss looked at me and said, "Where's daddy?" So I got on the phone and called him and told him his little girl wanted him there.
He hurried over and she was so excited to see him there.
My little Leo had his birthday the day after school got out. Unfortunately he woke up on his birthday throwing up. He was so angry that he was sick on the first day of summer break and his birthday. The next day he was doing better so my family came down and we celebrated his birthday. My father made him this amazing plane by hand. Now we just have to keep Huck away from it.
Both of our older kids earned Em's Baseball tickets so we took them to a game. What did they think of America's favorite past time - Boring.
We have really been on the go and have been wearing the kids out. I had to take pictures of Huck in this position because it is hilarious that he fell asleep this way,
but more importantly I needed evidence that he actually sleeps.
Every year we go strawberry picking. This year we chose a new spot called River Bend Farms. I really liked it. They were very friendly and they only charged $1 a pound for u-pick strawberries.
We ended up picking 48 pounds of gorgeous sweet strawberries.
We then proceeded to make strawberry shortcake...
fruit tarts...
Victoria's strawberry cake...
strawberry pie, smoothies, strawberry waffles and pancakes. Yummy!
