Teacher Appreciation Week

Last week was teacher appreciation week at Carson's school. It was a busy week and as the room mom this was a lot of work for me BUT we do absolutely love Carson's teacher and wanted to make sure she knows how appreciated she is. The week was organized so on Monday we made her a book with a letter from each of the kids on what they learned in Kindergarten this year. Then Tuesday was flowers and Wednesday was classroom supplies.

Here is Carson with the flowers and bandaids. 

Then on Thursday we got her a gift card from the whole class and then on Friday I had the kids make her this tree with their finger prints. 

Do not be deceived by how simple this looks. It was SO much work, mostly on Aaron's part. This was not a template I found on pinterest and printed. This is something we, and by we I mean Aaron, made from scratch. Aaron says he is not helping me with any more teacher projects for a few years. :) 

The price you pay

Living in Texas is wonderful and we love it but man we do not love the mosquitoes.  But these mosquitoes sure do love Millie. Aaron took her to the woods to helps with something and they were out in swarms. Her entire leg looked like this, both legs just covered. Poor baby. 

A Lesson Learned

So my marathon training has come to an end and so amazingly... our Saturday mornings are open. So we decided to go for a hike early Saturday morning before Carson's soccer game. Well my friends had told me about this great hike that was really pretty and kid friendly. Well we started on the hike and people kept saying that we were really adventurous for doing this with kids. The hike was kinda tough and I didn't notice any water. Turns out we had started the hike on the wrong end! So I ran back, with Brooke on my back, to get the car and meet Aaron and the Cs at the other end. 

It was a long, hard hike and the kids did great. We did find some water to play in. 

Josie of course had a blast. 

Brooke was a trooper. 

Slow and steady. 

Well sweet Carson was waiting the whole time for the waterfall. Of course the waterfall was on a different path, ya know the kid friendly pretty one. I owe this boy a waterfall. So our new plan is to go back, start at the pond with the ducks and the fish and the turtles and then go on the 2 mile easier hike to the waterfall. We sure love living in Austin with all the beautiful things to do. 

After all that hiking we ended up missing half of Carson's soccer game. :( But that didn't slow the C man down. He made up for lost time and played like a mad man. He was hustling, scoring goals, playing defense and having a lot of fun. 

Sports Date Night

Carson had a full sticker chart again (Camilla's is only half full) so he earned another date with Dad. He choose to have a sports date. They took the tennis rackets, soccer ball, foot ball, baseball gloves and the light sabers for good measure. :)

Well I am happy to report they played every singe sport. Carson had so much fun and the boys were very sweaty by the end of the date. 

There may have been a trip to Sonic afterwards for slushes and corn dogs. Life is good. 

Field Day

Carson had field day this week. He was so excited about this. We had been talking about it all week. He came home from school the night before and wanted to lay out his clothes immediately. We were lucky that Aaron was in town this week so he was able to go and volunteer and watch C ma in action. He was having such a great time. We made these capes for each of the kids to wear. They were Ms. Erhart's good apples. 

They each got a snow cone. Carson got the flavor Tiger's blood. He thought that was pretty awesome. 

I came up and brought the girls so we could eat lunch with him. The girls were thrilled. Camilla was beyond excited to sit at the big table with Carson and he was so sweet to his sisters. 

And then he was off to bounce in the bounce houses and continue having fun. 

He was pretty worn out when he got home that night. Such a fun day! 

Millie's "Recital"

So Camilla has absolutely loved her little dance class this year. She has had so much fun and she is really quite coordinated and does a great job. Sadly when we found out about her recital it was on a Sunday. We were bummed (I was real bummed) but we decided to just make her dress rehearsal a huge deal and tell her it was her recital. I mean after all she is only 3. It was the cutest thing ever. 

Getting ready in the car. They told us that getting make up on a 3 year old can be hard so do the best you can. Not hard to put on Camilla, she was all over that. 

I got bright pink lipstick and tiny bobby pins to go in her hair. 

She was the cutest ballerina I have ever seen. 

It was great because we had front row seats, Aaron came and we just cheered for her like it was the real deal. 

She did such a good job. 

So graceful. 

Love this bum. 

After the show with Mom. :) 

After her show we let her pick a place to eat dinner and get dessert. We let her be the star and she was loving it. 

She picked pizza for dinner and milkshakes for dessert. All the kids were very excited. I am very proud of my little dancer. 

Boys gone wild

So I decided to take a spur of the moment trip to Arlington to visit my grandmother who has been in the hospital for over a week. I was worried about her and knew it would be a few more weeks before I would be able to come and see her. So I decided to go with the girls and leave Aaron at home with Carson since they had soccer and we had just been out of town for so long and there was so much that needed to be done. 

Well Millie was thrilled to go to Grandma's house and I got everything all packed up and ready to go and little Brookey started throwing up. I wasn't sure what to do and my Mom told me I could still come so I just went with it. I gave Brooke a good nap and left later than planned. Well Carson was SO excited to have a boy's weekend with Aaron. He immediately started planning all kinds of fun things to do. 

He picked dinner. Which was make your own burritos of course, Carson's favorite meal of all time. Aaron told me he put together two huge burritos and ate it all. 

Then they started their party. Carson made signs to put up on the Wii and on the trampoline of things you had to do before you could play or jump. He is such a fun boy. Aaron let him pick out all the treats. He picked ice cream, popcorn, chocolate chips - you know the kind of things Mom never lets him eat. 

Meanwhile things were good in Arlington. Little miss B was still feeling sick but went to bed early and Millie was on a late night high. She just stayed up entertaining us, brushing my hair and when Grandpa got home she just followed him around and helped him make a pizza for dinner. 

Millie and me went to bed together, very late. 

In Arlington we went to visit Mimi on Saturday morning and Brooke would have none of it. She started screaming bloody murder when we went into her room at the hospital, I mean real tears full on screaming. I had to take her out and she was gripping me like vice. Millie danced for her and talked to her some but I felt bad that we just couldn't stay long because Brooke was just so scared of that place. She looked good though and I was happy that I had a chance to visit with her and my Uncles. 

In Austin Aaron put Carson to work cleaning the house. 

And then they were off to soccer - Carson scored a goal! 

They also had pictures before the game. We love Simon. 

After the game Carson started saying his tummy hurt but he went to the Baldwins to play while Aaron went out for a guy's lunch to celebrate Ben who just finished his dissertation. Hopdoddy's of course, and I was jealous, of course. 

Then everything started to go downhill. Aaron took Carson to the park to play while he was playing tennis with some friends and then Carson started to throw up. Meanwhile me and the girls were at Mia's birthday party and Camilla told me she was feeling bad. So I was carrying her to get her up to the hotel room and she started throwing up on me. It was bad, real bad. Poor Millie girl could not stop throwing up. 

Carson had a whole party planned for that night and he was so sad he wasn't feeling good. Aaron turned on a movie and five minutes later found this. 

Millie threw up all night and my Dad started as well. Then it went onto my Mom and Cory. What a mess! No one is going to invite us to visit for awhile. I sanitized and did a whole bunch of laundry and packed up my crew and drove us home, even though I had gotten it too. This was a serious bug.