Visit with Friends

Saturday evening, after spending most of the day with my sister and her family for my niece's graduation, we headed to Marion area to stay with friends.  We tried to find a hotel for Saturday night, but they were all full with the Indy 500 on Sunday.  This worked out great, though, since we were an hour closer to home AND we got to spend a little time with friends.

We went to church with Kelly and Tony and then before we headed back that afternoon, we of course had to go to IVENHOE'S.  Wow, I miss that place!!!  Here are a few pictures...

Damaris got "Crazy the Clown".  Super cute, and only $2 - did I mention how much I miss Ivenhoe's?!?

Dillon, Titus, and Tony

Stephen, Dillon, and Titus

Kelly and Jackson

Me, Kelly, and Jackson

Once again, the many faces of Damaris :)

What a nut!! :) :)

She is smiling AND looking at the camera...wow :) :)

Titus loves to read!

 I love listening to him read.  He reads very well for just finishing kindergarten...the teacher said he is testing at a 2nd grade level.  Nothing wrong with a good reader :) :)

Graduation

Normally we go camping for Memorial Day, however this year we got to go to Indianapolis since my niece was graduating!  She was supposed to graduate 2 years ago, but didn't get enough credits, so took a year off and then went back this past year.  I am so proud of all her hard work!!!!

Here are some pictures of our trip:

Snuggling with her bunny

Settling in for the long drive

I can rarely get Damaris to look at the camera, so I had to post this one :)

Stephen driving

The two of us :)

The boys wear green and the girls wear red.  Amisha is in the first row, the last girl on the left

As you can see, she went to a big school!  We estimated that there were 400-450 graduates.

Walking across stage to get her diploma!

We barely were out of the parking lot and Damaris was OUT.  :)

Way to go, Amisha!!!!

My sister, Carlyn (her mom) made the cake.

Titus with black lips from the frosting :)

Carlyn with my other niece Gillian, Titus, and Damaris

My other niece Elizabeth with her boyfriend Reese.  

She turned 17 on May 27, but we had to head back to Michigan so we weren't able to be there on her actual birthday.  Carlyn was pretty busy having a graduation and birthday back to back!  That's a lot of cake decorating :) :)

Amisha with her boyfriend Cameron

My sister Kara with Gillian

We were so glad we were able to go down even though we only had Saturday together.  Congrats Amisha!!!!

On the Lake

On the 20th Greg & Karen from our church invited us over for an afternoon on the lake.  It was amazing weather and the water was about 75 degrees.  It was awesome.

I was sooooo upset that I forgot my camera back at their house, and didn't realize it until we were already on the boat.  :(  We went tubing and water skiing.  Stephen even went tubing, and he is hydrophobic and can't swim!!  Titus also went tubing and LOVED it.  Damaris was willing to sit on the tube, but that was it :)  I hadn't went water skiing since high school, but I got up right up!  I was doing really good until I hit a wave and I completely lost balance!  But it was still a lot of fun!!

Here are a few pictures I took after we got back on shore.

 Do you see the turtle?!?

The turtle totally hit the rocks when he fell in - ouch!

 It was really bright out!

Sitting with our feet in the warm water

Here are some pictures the Sorrells took on their cell phones and then emailed us:

We had to be completely still for Damaris to get on the tube :)

Stephen and Titus

Birthday Party

One of the other couples in our church had a birthday party, and I had a few good pictures that I wanted to share :)

Walker - 1 year old!

He really did this all on his own...I have never seen a 1 year old eating his birthday cake get this messy!

So what's the best way to clean him up?  Outside in a "tub" of course :)

In addition to having a sprinkler for the kids, they had a bouncy house that the kids had a lot of fun with!

Titus having fun too :)

And of course Stephen had to get in on it too :)

This one just cracked me up :) :) :)

Preschool Party

Damaris's last day of preschool was the 17th, and on the 18th we had a picnic/party for the whole family.  It was a nice, warm, beautiful evening!

 Damaris going up for her certificate and gift from her teacher

Look at that face - proud and confident.  I had to laugh when I saw this :)

Music Program

The kids through 2nd grade do a short "musical" each spring.  They do a really good job!  Last year the preschool was involved, but this year it was just K-2nd.  Here are a few pictures:

This is one of their first songs they sang.  I thought they did a good job!

This is a video of one of the other girls in our church (on the right).  She was a clown fish :)

This is another boy in our church...we were laughing so hard because he wasn't square dancing like he was supposed to...his partner was basically forcing him to dance with her :)

The kids do such a great job and sound good.  I used to think I would dread programs like this, but their music teacher is great!

Damaris with her Preschool teacher, Mrs. Gostomski

Titus with his teacher this year - Mrs. Dickman