Nathan's award ceremony

Nathan is ready for 3rd grade! He had a great 2nd grade year and is learning Spanish like crazy! It's amazing but it does put extra work and pressure on all of us. I think we will be happy we stuck with it in the long run though. The great thing about the dual language program is that we are with the same group of kids every year so we have all gotten to know each other really well and special friendships have formed between the boys and moms! 

This year Nathan got an academic medal, was on the A honor roll, had perfect attendance, and was named Mr. Manners by his teachers! So proud of him! He had an 89 in math the last half of the 9 weeks and worked so hard to bring it up. 

Happy 40th Birthday!

Happy 40th birthday to the best husband and father!!!! We know how great he is but it's wonderful to see that others think the same thing. Wayne's office threw him a surprise party at the Whiskey Cake restaurant. He thought he was meeting a co-worker there to talk about a problem at work. We all hid in a back room and jumped out when he arrived. It was so fun! He said he was so relieved he wasn't going to have to fire someone! I've met most of his work friends but there were a few I've heard about but never met so it was nice to get to know them. I was so proud of Wayne! Everyone I talked to couldn't say enough nice things about him and it was nice to see everyone just having fun and not worrying about work stuff. I thought it was so special to see the amount of thought and effort they put into this party for him. We had a wonderful night! The one sad thing was that on our way out, Wayne was carrying the huge whiskey balloon centerpiece...the wind caught it and it blew apart! We watched the whiskey bottle float away and he was just left with balloon balls which he so elegantly modeled for me to take a picture of :) 

Fun in the Sun

Two days before school let out was fun in the sun day. There were inflatables, snow cones, popcorn, a friendly game of volleyball with moms vs. kids, and lots of smiles!!!!