Our First Graduation

We began the first of many graduations in our family today with Lillian's preschool graduation.  This is so bittersweet!  Lillian began Harmony Hill Preschool when she was 20 months old, 3 days a week.  She has loved going there every single day she attended!  She has had some awesome teachers and made so many great friends as well as me making friends with their moms and teachers!  I can not believe that this is coming to an end and we will actually be in the state school system this fall!  Lillian is so excited about Kindergarten, but I know she will miss the friends she had at Harmony Hill!  Congratulations to our little graduate!

Lillian and Henry, her friend since she was 20 months old

Class of 2025

The girl buddies: Lillian, Luci, and Quinn...also friends since 20 months!

 

First Pool Visit of the Year

It was a hot 90 something degree day and my kids weren't napping.  My neighbor, Mary said she was taking her girls to the pool, so I decided we would head out there too.  I'm glad we did.  It felt perfect and the kids had a great time and got wore out to sleep well tonight!  Marjorie had her first swim in a pool ever and really liked it.  I carried her around and passed her to Mary and she was having a wonderful time.  Then     I sat her near the sprinklers in the splash area and she laughed and played with it too.  It was a great afternoon.

                           Andrew playing with the baby float after Marjorie preferred for me to hold her.

                                                           Lillian paused for a photo

                                                     Marjorie liked hanging out with Mary.

                                                   Loving the water

                                            Lillian with her buddies, our neighbors: Jordan and Taylor

                                                                    My little water baby

Marjorie loving the sprinkler

Marjorie sure enjoyed the sprinkler area of our neighborhood swimming pool.

Splash Park Opens

The weather is getting hot and it is that time of year again to start the water fun!  My friend and neighbor Karen and I were talking this weekend and realized that it was almost opening day for the Splash park!  It opens here on May 1st.  So since it was a very warm day today, we decided to take the kids out after nap.  They were very excited to finally get to play in the water this year and wear their new swimsuits.  Marjorie wasn't so sure about it at first and cried when I first put her in the water, but after a while, she had fun getting wet and watching the kids run around. And so begins a season...or 2 of fun in the sun!

My 3rd 10k!

I completed my 3rd ever 10k this past weekend!  I ran the Capital 10k last month and decided to run this one to keep me motivated to keep on running!  This was the 30th annual Bun Run and the first year they added a 10k.  I ran the 5k two years ago....when I won that barbeque grill!  

I have been bugging all my friends for a while to come run with me and when I saw my sister, Molly had ran 5 miles on Saturday, I told her online that she should come run it with me and to my surprise, she actually did!  It was so nice having someone to ride with and hang out with before and after the race.  As well as it was just good to see her.  She, Katy and I had a good sister time!  

I was proud to complete this race beating my Capital 10k time of 65 minutes 30 seconds.  This run I finished in 62 minutes 7 seconds!  It was a nice improvement and made me feel good that I did improve over a month!  Now that it is the hottest time of year approaching, I may not race for a while!  But it was a fun one and glad I finished on a happy note this season!

Parker and Katy Came to Visit

Katy and Parker came to Round Rock for the weekend to see Lillian play t-ball. I failed to get a picture of them with her at her t-ball game, but we had lots of fun other places.  Parker enjoyed going outside to play in our yard as well as playing at the fun new all abilities park in town.  They had some good cousin fun and we had a nice visit with them!  

Toy Story 3 on Ice

I was very surprised at myself for keeping this secret for several months from the kids.  I got a flier that Toy Story 3 on Ice was coming to town and I just had to take them!  Andrew LOVES Toy Story more than anything and Lillian likes the movies too.  So I bought tickets to opening night and actually kept it from them the whole time!

Yesterday, I told them that I was going to take them somewhere in the evening while Daddy kept Marjorie at home.  They were very curious, but I wouldn't give in and tell them.  I told them it was a surprise.  When we got to the Cedar Park Center and went in, they weren't sure what we were doing.  We went and found our seats and then Lillian saw the ice and asked what that was.  I told her that there would be people skating on it.  She grumpily said, "I don't like this!"  Then I told them that it would be Toy Story characters and they both got big smiles and were excited.  Here are a few pictures of them in their seats....Lillian on the edge of her seat excited to see it start.  Then after every new character came out, she would point like in the 2nd picture and say, "Look Andrew!!!"  They enjoyed every bit.  It just got late and they and I got tired!  It was a cute show!  I really enjoyed the Ken and Barbie part...Ken and his many outfits.  I had that Ken growing up.  I remember he came with a little plastic chimpanzee!  He was my favorite Ken because he had bending arms...not the straight ones like the blonde Kens!  ha ha

The bows at the end

Mickey and the gang came out too to introduce the characters

My favorite!