2nd grade here she comes!

Lexi's last week of school was filled with all sorts of fun activities, field day, cup stacking competition, 4th quarter awards,class parties, field trips and lots hugs goodbye for the summer!

Lexi and her friends at Zoo Boise!! I'm so bummed I missed it but Prestons last day of school was also that day so he needed me a little bit more :)

Lexi and all her besties!!

apparently she thought she needed to steal some poor kids hat cause her mom neglects her so bad and forgot to send her with one!

Lexi and Effie!

My future Wilson Wolverine!

Sack race!

Preston and Lilly killing time with the jump ropes!

This is Lexi's best friend holding a sign that said GO LEXI!!! for the cup stacking comp. Her whole class had signs for her and another boy that was competing from her class!

The kids had practiced for weeks in P.E. then they took the "best" girl and boy from each class and they got to be in the competition in front of the whole school! When Lexi knew she got picked for her class she went in early before school everyday to practice!

I was so proud of her for doing this, I had NO idea how intense this was going to be. The whole school cheering all the kids on, it sounded like a state football game in that gym! Here they are checking her time!

She didn't win but she's for sure a little winner to me!

Lexi brought home an EXCELLENT report card Thursday which officially wraps up another school year for her! She'll be spreading her wings into the 2nd grade come Fall!!! I can't wait to see what the next year brings, we'll have 3 kids in school, I'm now PTO secretary and Wilson has become a second home, which I absolutely love! I hope my kids never get sick of me being at their schools!!

8 months.

Those blue eyes just melt me every.single.time.

she loves to pull off her socks and sucks on them, niiice...

finally a good pic of her bottom 2 teeth and she's also got 1&1/2 teeth poking through up top!

She's officially the shoe monster, no ones shoes are safe around here anymore!

7 Months.

My baby girl growing too fast!

Shes ahead on everything...Shes officially in her crib and out of her bassinet cause she decided that it's fun to stand up in it, she walks along the furniture, pulls herself up on EVERYTHING

:(.............. Her Dr. was prepared to talk about not leaving her on beds anymore cause she should be rolling over real good now and so on, yeah we passed that stage months ago!

Lilly patiently waiting to get the heck out of there! If we stay too long they may want to give her some pokes too ;)

A Lexi Moment.

Lexi's school had an assembly where she was awarded a certificate in reading! She was very excited that Rhett got to be there to see this!

It's been crazy seeing how much she has learned to do this year! I swear I wasn't doing the stuff their doing til the end of second grade, but just like everything else times are a changing!!

I only got to be there for half of the assembly and of course missed her getting her actual award (Kloe had a Dr. appt.) !

That's my girl!

Zoo weather!

A few weeks ago my brother got to visit for about a week and since it had finally warmed up we took advantage of the weather and headed to the zoo, the place we completely feel at home ;)

Lilly got these pretty scrapped up knees about 5 minutes into our visit, she just couldn't get to the monkeys fast enough!

me and Lexi!

The girls -1!

Rhett, Lexi and Lilly!

The penguins were loving the weather and put on quite a show for everyone!

Kloe was such a good girl as usual and let us pose her where ever we wanted without a fuss!

Kloe and Uncle Rhett!

Kloe got to go down her first slide and Chris got some nice elbow burns!


It was a fun visit with Rhett and a nice way to kick off the Summer!!

Lilly's gardening skillz.

The weather has been amazing the last 2 weeks and my Lilly has the planting bug...

She has been asking for the last month when she was going to be able to "garden"

so she was one happy girl when she got the go ahead Wednesday morning!

I even pitched in cleaning out all the flower beds...

then it was time for lunch and a little cartoon time, she normally does not suck her thumb but I had to snatch a pic cause it was so cute!

resting....

for a few minutes anyway then Kloe was up and ready to go so.....that got Lilly in the mood for more planting!

She convinced Chris to help her garden her seeds, the seeds shes been coveting for the last 2 months.

She worked hard, planting every single seed separately in their own tiny little hole!

little does she know the minute she came inside it was like a squirrel buffet out there, I'm pretty sure there's nothing left... So I will be planting some grown flowers there in the next few weeks so she's not completely heartbroken!

The little things...

Since Lexi started the 1st grade she noticed the number of kids that are "walkers" everyday and for that matter she has also noticed the number of kids who ride the bus...she's in the "group" of kids that get rides every.single.day. so of course she has asked pretty much everyday when she'll be able to be a walker. I'm pretty sure she dreams about walking home! I cringe at the thought, I see these tiny kids walking everyday and it's like nails on a chalkboard to me, I just want to follow them home to make sure they make it. Anyway I'm well aware I could walk her but lets be honest here, that sounds like no fun to me with all of the kids! So her wish finally came true when Chris surprised her at school Wednesday and walked her happy little self all the way home!

I had to be all creepy standing on the porch with my camera all the way zoomed so I could capture her first walking home experience!

needless to say she thought she was cool

and that dad was even cooler for finally letting her do it!

I like being brought back to reality and remembering it truly is the little things that matter the most and probably the best memories they'll remember when they're all grown up!