We started off May with Cory finishing up his Wax Museum project. He worked so hard on it and did an awesome job being Phineas Gage, who I had zero idea about.
The first Saturday was our annual Raise the Bar for Haiti event. Last year there were 13 teams. This year, 33. It was awesome! Busy and hectic, but so good. We had the best volunteers and judges and our athletes that competed did really well. Putting on an event like this is always fun and exhausting!
Dance performance for Little A.
Token carnival picture
Farewell BBQ for our friends the McMannis'
BFF parade picture is becoming a tradition. She is all kinds of beautiful, inside and out.
Our baby as Spotted Tail in his Kindergarten graduation play.
We headed to Dallas for a quick weekend escape to watch Regionals. Always fun!
Kindergarten graduation. So amazed at this boy and this school. I have all kinds of feels about him moving next year.
8th grade recognition.
I can't even talk about this right now.
A great group of buddies!
His girl, Janae. Sweetness.
Best friends :-)
Last day of School for Corky. So thankful for his teacher this year! She made the transition to public school for him a dream!
Love the friends he's made!
8th grade rec party. It's like prom with khaki's.
This girl is all kinds of awesome.
Prepping for a MASSIVE garage sale in mid-June. Lots and lots of things. We're hopeful this will put a big dent in our adoption fees coming up!
We celebrated Cory Luke's birthday! 10 years old, you guys. 10! He is sweet as can be. He got a cool art set, had a sleepover with some buddies, pizza, cake and ice cream and we called it a day!
Some time in the past few months, she stopped being a little girl.
Dance friends!
I really do like this crew of crazies. Caleb would ONLY get in the picture if Janae was in it, too. We joke with Elijah that Caleb is some serious competition for him and he better watch out. ;-)
And the month isn't complete without a little(or a lot) of basketball. Elijah had a tournament down near Wichita. 3 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday and then we hauled him up to Kansas City so he could be at St. Paul for basketball camp this week. Thankfully, Seth could get him there so it saved us a few hours of driving. We miss him like crazy already.
So, I think thats all of May.
When life gets that crazy, I try extra hard to be present in each moment before the next one comes slamming in. It always makes me look at our lives and reevaluate it, too. What can we say no to? What can I do to simplify the house, the meals, the schedules so we can all have some time to slow down. I crave slowness. I am resigned to the fact that our lives aren't exactly conducive to slow, but we continue to fight for it!
Happy SUMMER!
