Carson's Kindergarten Graduation

Back on Friday, May 27 Carson graduated from Kindergarten at Key. I've been meaning to do this post for weeks, but teaching summer school has gotten in my way!!
What a wonderful afternoon we had! I took a half day, so I was able to really enjoy this special moment with my sweet boy! I had a reeeaaalll hard time choosing pictures, so beware of picture overload!

Carson and the most amazing kindergarten teacher of ALL time, Mrs. Binford.

Here is my man before he left for school the day of his graduation.

Car and his mama

the stage ready for the kindergarten class of 2011


Carson's spectators, minus his daddy who was taking the pic

They walked out to the "real" graduation song, whatever that's called...I teared up!!

Key Kindergarten grads 2011

Mrs. Jackson (assistant principal), Carson, and Mrs. Chumchal (principal)


Carson's sweet friend Miss Ava

getting an award, and amazed by how many books his buddy Jason had read!


moving his tassel

Carson and his special friend Arianna

Mommy and Carson

Car and Arianna

Carson and Sammy

Carson and his twin friends, Kennedy and Bella

Ava and Carson

Carson and Jason

Proud Mommy and Daddy

We let Carson choose where he wanted to eat his graduation dinner, and of course he chose Spaghetti Warehouse, his all time fave! We figured instead taking him to the one in Arlington we'd take him to the one in The West End. We had a great time!!

walking in The Westend...it was way different from what I remember it being in my childhood, many places have gone out of business!!

Sam got me flowers from a vendor, made me happy! :)


thumbs up! The bear got his wish to sit in the train!

Mommy and Ella Belle

train at Spaghetti Warehouse!




The waiters sang to him!!

Posing in front of the old Planet Hollywood


We walked to the grassy knoll to see where JFK was shot

Sam almost bought a $7 travel brochure about the grassy knoll from a drunk guy!


looking out at the x that marks the spot where JFK was shot. The only people that really "got " the whole signifigance were Cade, Sam, and I. For the little ones it was just a fun scenic walk.

Miss Ella Cate with her mama's rose

What a fun night to celebrate our big graduate!

Field Days 2011

Sadly our 4th grade field day was cancelled 1/2 way through the festivities due to yucky weather! Here are some sweet girls and I after we had to go back inside.

Here are some fun boys before the bad weather rolled in!

Carson and I on Monday before his field day

Cade and I Monday before the field day parade!

Runners Club 5-6-11

Just wanted to document that last week at Runner's Club was the first time Carson didn't care how fast he ran the mile! He was too busy being side by side with his buddy Arianna!! Ha!!

Carson's Kindergarten Field Day

On Monday Carson participated in his first ever field day!! He did all kinds of fun events, and did great!! I'm so thankful he goes to school in the same building that I work in! I was able to see most of his field day without having to call in for a sub!

Daddy came for the festivities!
Mrs. Binford thought to get a pic of us, I'm so sad I didn't think to get a pic of Carson with her!!

Getting ready to starts field day with his group!

what a jump in the long jump!

jump roping



running races


football throw

bowling

more running


sack races

The 6th graders help with the Kindergartners field day, so Cade was in charge of the sack race! It was so neat....even though Cade wanted NOTHING to do with me taking pictures!! Oh the joys of 6th graders! :)


tug of war was the last event, and I already had to head back to class, so Sam captured this!!
What a fun day full of memories!!

13 Years!!

Tomorrow Sam and I celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary.
Year 13 has always meant something to me because that's how many years my parents were married before they got a divorce. I remember always thinking "how in the world could they get divorced after being together for THIRTEEN years?!?" I figured surely they would have had time to work out all of their kinks in 13 years, but I guess that's not how it worked for them.
With Sam and I, the kinks have been worked out, and I feel like we are way stronger in 2011, than we ever were in 1998! We (mainly me) were babies way back then! I'm so thankful for him!!

KKNA Live

Our school has an assembly each 6 weeks that recognizes honor roll, super citizens, perfect attendance, character trait recipients, and other special honors. It's called KKNA (Key Kids In Action). It's something that all of the kids look forward to!
Today Carson was recognized as a character trait recipient, and so was Sammy (his best bud). Sam came to watch today, and I brought my good camera to take pictures, but it was dead....so I used my phone instead. Story of my life these days!
Mrs. Williford makes a fun slide show of all of the character trait recipients, and here is Carson wearing a funny hat! Ha!!

Cade was also a character trait recipient this 6 weeks. He was a little less thrilled! :)

Carson and Sammy making funny faces on Mrs. Williford's slide show presentation!

I loved last Saturday!

Last Saturday we started the day out by meeting Chels, Carter, Abby Paige, and Brenda at Vista Ridge to let the kiddos play. We then headed over to Christina's for some yummy Mexican food and margaritas (me only:)).
Later in the day I met back up with Chels and Abby at Saint Anns in downtown Dallas for Jessica's 30th b-day party! We had so much fun!! Abby was a lil socialite in her black and hot pink A-dorable dress!
i love this pic of cade and abby!!


At Saint Anns for Jessica's 30th!

sooooo sweet!!