Animal Presentations

Savannah's class has been working hard on gathering information on animals for the past few weeks. They had an at home art project that they worked on and also an in school project where they worked with a partner to develop an oral presentation on a different animal.  Savannah was paired with Rylee and they researched the Tiger.  Today was the day that parents were invited in to see the presentations.  I was amazed at their work with Microsoft paint in drawing the animal on the computer and also in their presentation skills.  It was very cute! 

Here is Savannah's at home project that she completed on the giraffe.  She worked hard, alone, and was quite proud of her work. :)

Spring Challenge Run

Luke and Preston warming up for the challenge run

Savannah and I running hard!

Mrs. Safran's class picture

Yummy popsicles for everyone :)

Cooling down after the run

Today was the Spring challenge run for Savannah's class.  The PE classes have been preparing and practicing for some time now to get ready to try to beat their number of laps from the Fall.  Our family was super excited to be able to participate with Savannah today.  I ran with her the entire 8 minutes and Preston was able to watch (and cheer) with daddy from the sidelines.  He was really more excited that Luke, his best friend from WEE school, was also there to watch his brother Jack.  It was such a fun morning!  Oh, and Savannah ran 5.75 laps (about .8 of a mile) before time was called. Way to go Savannah!!!

He Finally Gave In To Naptime

Lately Preston has pretty much given up nap time . . and rest time for that matter too.  But this afternoon I noticed that it was super quiet upstairs and when I went to check on him this is what I found.  He was passed out on the floor with his B on his chest, some gold play coins in one hand, and the train table pieces all over the floor.  Silly boy!  I guess he had done all the playing he could handle and just fell asleep right where he was.  Oh, and you gotta love the socks with shorts look, I guess he wanted to keep his feet warm. :)

Easter & Spring *Break* 2013

 

Savannah and Preston in their Easter outfits

Spring Break started this year with Easter.  Well, we had Good Friday off too, but I used that day running around trying to find Easter shoes for the kids outfits and doing various other errands.  We also enjoyed a friend's birthday party at Monkey Joe's on Saturday before Easter.  Then we woke up bright and early Sunday to see what the Easter bunny left, packed the car, headed to the early service at church, and then drove to Burlington for the day.

 

Great Grandma with Graham Cracker himself!

How sweet is this picture.  I LOVE it!!!

Easter family picture

Pawpaw with Savannah and Preston

 After a long day of travel on Sunday, but much fun, the Spring *Break* week began with My Gym camp on Monday morning.  Both Savannah and Preston went and had a blast! 

Tuesday we met some friends at Space Kidets for a morning of jumping and playing.

Wednesday we ventured to Carowinds for the morning.  Thanks to Grammy and Papa we all have season passes again this year so we started early with enjoying a day there during Spring *Break*!  It was quite windy, but super sunny and fun!!  The kids had a blast with the Poplin boys and I have to say I enjoyed being able to talk to Elizabeth too. :)


Snoopy photo shoot

Preston was chosen from the audience to participate in the peanut show

Thursday we enjoyed a day at home!  We invited some friends over for dinner and loved being entertained by their 2 year old twins before the daddies arrived for dinnertime

 

Friday was Charleston time!!  We woke up and got all packed up and hit the road for Charleston so Dave could run the Cooper River Bridge race.  The kids were over the moon excited about staying in a hotel (I won't post the picture of them jumping on the bed or the one I should have taken of Preston falling out of the bed in the middle of the night) and loved the mini vacation.

Savannah wanted a picture with the horse that pulled our carriage

 They enjoyed their first carriage ride on Friday before dinner.  As we walked down Meeting Street we found a Peanut shop that had tons of delicious samples.  Here is our Peanut with daddy.

Then we woke up Saturday and could see the race from the window of our hotel.  We watched for a bit from the warmth of the hotel and then ventured down to watch for daddy to race by.  He did great and finished the 10k in under 50 minutes!  Of course there were tons of freebies and food afterwards that we all enjoyed.


Savannah and Dave with their "hotdogs"

Way to go daddy!!

Ending out the Charleston adventure with a trip down Waterfront Park

 We met up with some friends, the Annans, at the park under the bridge where the kids enjoyed playing and getting out some excess energy before we hit the road to head home.  It was such a fun trip!!  So it's Tuesday now and I'm still trying to recover and catch up from our Spring *Break* and wondering why they call it a break at all . . . other than no school, it was more work for me and super busy too.