Scrubbin' Taters

Ali's Spring Performance

Ali's preschool co-op finished off a great year with a cute performance of yellow sunshiny sweeties. Ali and her classmates sang a few songs and she did a great job!

Me and my two favorite girls

You are my sunshine!

Brooke's Kindergarten Graduation

It is so crazy to think that kindergarten has come and gone for Brooke. Our sweetie pie graduated from a wonderful year of kindergarten. Mrs. Krepfle and ICS have been such a blessing to us this past year. Brooke has grown leaps and bounds in her reading, writing, math, and social skills. We celebrated this great year of accomplishments with a graduation ceremony at her school. Each set of parents got to go up on stage and read a letter to their child. As Steve and I were writing the letter weeks before I couldn't help but think about the last time we had to do something similar; for her baby dedication. My, how time flies!

Ali's turn is not too far away


Proud parents

They had the cutest cake at the reception. Each child had their likeness created in icing. Then there was a cupcake for each student with their face on it too.

Jeff and Laura: "Goodbye Keys, Hello Atlanta"

Jeff and Laura are no longer residents of the Florida Keys. At the end of May they packed up their lives and headed north to Atlanta where Jeff will start his new job at the Georgia Aquarium. And lucky for us, Orlando is the perfect half-way pit stop to hang with family.

Fogle Family

Laura, Jeff and our girls (and Luna perfectly posed in the background)

Ali's Preschool Fun

Ali's preschool requires regular parent volunteer days where I get to be in the class with her about once a month. These are by far Ali's favorite school days, and as soon as one parent helper day is over, Ali is asking when the next will be. Here are some pictures from my last parent helper day of the school year.

Playing dress up!

Hoola hooping in the hallway. It was a rainy day and they couldn't go to the playground on this day. Ali's favorite thing on the playground is the swings!

Brooke's Animal Poem

Last week the girls and I were headed out from home to visit the zoo. Brooke had jumped out of the car to get the gate for mommy and was watching the squirrels jump from tree to tree. She made up a little song and started singing it when she got back in the car. I was so impressed and encouraged her to make up some more verses. Here is what she came up with, ALL ON HER OWN!


Oh, I want to be a squirrel,
Oh, I want to be a squirrel
I would swing from the trees and feel the nice breeze
Oh, I want to be a squirrel

Oh, I want to be a snake,
Oh, I want to be a snake
I would slither around on the hard ground
Oh, I want to be a snake

Oh, I want to be a bird,
Oh, I want to be a bird
I would flap so high in the blue sky
Oh, I want to be a bird.

Brooke's teacher, Mrs. Krepfle, has sent home information on a poetry contest for kids, so we typed up her song and entered it HERE.

Pancakes and Geocaching

Lately, I've had a hankering for Old Sugar Mill pancakes! So we loaded up the car and headed for DeLeon Springs. I knew the kids would get a kick out of cooking their own pancakes on the griddle, and the weather has been so beautiful lately.

Brooke and Mommy wielding our pancake spatulas!

We ordered chocolate chips and blue berries for our pancake batter.

Ready to get cooking!

After we finished breakfast, we decided to hunt for some geocaches. We are still beginners at the whole geocaching world, but even with the practice that we've had, I still have not personally been the one to find one. It's always been Steve who spots it first. So after he found two that afternoon, he decided that he was not going to look for the third so that I could find it on my own. We got to the general area where it was supposed to be and he sat down. The kids and I wandered around looking for it, with Ali and I heading in one direction and Brooke heading the other. About 60 seconds later Brookie calls out, "I found it!" Hmmm.. not sure how I feel about geocaching anymore.

Boating Adventures

We've been having lots of fun on your boat this summer. The Mighty Minnow has been getting lots of use, just about every weekend and sometimes during the week for spontaneous sunset boat rides or fishing trips. Here are a few shots of our latest fun..

We bought a tube and have been tubing behind the boat on the Wekiva and the St Johns Rivers. This picture is Steve and Ali ready to blast off!

Mother's Day 2010

I am so behind in my blogging that I can't even remember what we did for Mother's day. Luckily I have my camera to trigger my memory! So, according to my camera's memory card, the girls and I went to a Mother's Day Tea Party..

We went to ride go carts at the Little 500 in Maitland. Brookie is now old enough to drive her own car. The track was pretty dead on Mother's Day so they let us take some extra laps.

Mother's Day in Kindergarten

Mother's day in Mrs. Krepfle's class was so sweet. The kids lined up in the front of the classroom and sang songs to the moms. Then each child read a card to their mother about why they were special (a secret envelope had gone home in the backpack for the dads to help out).

Then we got to complete a cookie activity together. We had two flower shaped sugar cookies, 12 marshmallow halves, some icing and colored sugar. This is what the cookies looked like when we were done..

It was such a special time to be honored by my sweet girl. I love being her mother!

Sarasota

The girls and I traveled to Sarasota to see Sarah in her class play, Peter Pan. The play was really cute and Sarah did a great job! Here is a picture of Brooke and Mermaid Sarah before the play.

The next day the girls and I went to the beach with Marie (aka. Grandma). It was a beautiful day and the beach was gorgeous!

Mermaid Ali

Building castles

Collecting shells

After lunch we found a splash park and let the girls run around and cool off. Then once the Moloney kids were out of school, we headed back to their house so the kids could play a bit before we had to head back home.

Don't Forget to Play in the Rain!

Fire Station Fieldtrip

Moms4Moms had a fire station field trip planned in Sanford, so the girls and I were excited to participate! Brooke gives the fireman pole a try..

Brookie in the fire truck!

Ali takes the wheel!