Almost summer!

May is done and we are STILL in school. This has been the longest school year ever :) I am so thankful the kids were able to go back face to face this year! But, we started later than usual, so now we will go until June 10th this year. 

It is really hitting me now that we are at the end of the year how much I have missed this year and that makes me sad. I miss going to eat lunch with them, popping in on their birthdays, going on field trips...but now that it is the end and Easton will have awards next week that he will just bring home and I won't get to hear anything from his teacher about his year is hard. K4 and 3rd grade for them will be done, and Easton did it 90% wearing a mask everyday not able to see his friend's faces. 

Trying to focus on the positives, but we are ready to enjoy our summer break and I am hopeful to head back to a normal year in the fall. The kids have been back in the pool! I don't know how we went so long without one, we love it! 

The kids wrapped up their Wednesday AWANA church nights for this school year. 

My little Kylie is off to college next year and signed to play soccer at Stetson! I am so proud of her and can't believe she is already at this point in her life. 

Random picture of Easton's art. I love his little character drawings he does. 

The library is back open, so we have been riding the golf cart up to check out books again...

So, baseball ended...so we thought. My boy got a call and was asked to play on the All-Stars team! I am so excited for him! It is his first time, and he really put in a lot of hard work this season, so now he gets to see his reward from that. We play this weekend and gosh I know it's a silly little ring, but Easton has his eye on the prize and really wants to win his first ever baseball ring. :) 

Drake's sister moved down to Panama City, so we went over there for a weekend. It was so nice out! Emerson had a yucky cough/croup the first night and it made me so thankful for our pediatrician! She was able to call in a steroid to the pharmacy down the road from us and Emerson was able to feel better and enjoy the rest of our weekend. 

Easton's favorite part...free breakfast! haha I love my little old soul bargain hunter. 

Since Drake's dad and Kim were down helping her move in, they were also able to come our way to watch the kids play a game which was nice. 

With Emerson being in K4, they already had their last day...but she is back at school for camp now until we are done :) Here are her first day, last day shots. I can't believe she will start Kindergarten next year! We did find out Easton's old K teacher that we loved will be back, so I am so excited about that! 

We did a family mud run with the Stilwell crew. We had so much fun! I was luckily already mentally prepared for Emerson possibly not liking the mud...and I'm glad I did because she hated it. She wanted me to hold her, so that was not ideal but Easton had a blast. 

Another random event we did last month was an adult/junior golf scramble. Poor Easton didn't have much help from me :) But we had fun and I made a great memory with just me and my boy. 

We also went to a Blue Wahoos baseball game on Drake's birthday (38!) and had a lot of fun and changed seats 323,556 times :) But the kids lasted the whole game and we got to watch fireworks after. 

Football camp with some buddies...

Jude's birthday party...

Lowes...I have been updating and redoing the outside area (adding a dining table so we can hopefully sit out and eat more this summer) and painting/updating bedding in the kid's rooms. 

Looking forward to finishing up this school year and making lots of memories this summer!!

My favorite month

April is my favorite month and this year's April activities were great! 

We went to the high school track meet (Easton and his crush :))

 

Emerson's babysitter Riley came to watch her play TBall. 

I celebrated my 37th birthday this year! It actually fell on Good Friday so we were off of school and Drake took the day off. I wanted to have a family day and ride over to the Alligator Farm. We had so much fun! You know I love anytime we can do anything new. 

This was something I wanted to do for a while, but when I heard about it last year we were already in the summer months so I didn't really want to walk around miserable at that time. We got to hold a baby alligator. Emerson refused at first, but worked up the courage and we went back around for a picture. She was so proud haha

Family time during the day and a dinner date at night. It was a pretty solid birthday. 

Then, we enjoyed our Easter weekend...

We went to church and then over to my parents for the afternoon...

Weekdays have been busy but so fun. Easton has mixed in some golf...we will be kicking off tournaments this summer again and I just signed us up for an adult/junior scramble in May, I better get to practicing! 

I have loved this baseball season! It just been enjoyable for both kids on their teams. Here is Emmy when she got the game ball, she said, "I got the gaming ball!!" 

There have only been a couple games where both kids played at the same time which is nice. 

A random sweet note from Easton for Emerson's lunchbox. Gosh they pick so much but can be so sweet to each other sometimes too :)

Family garage workout...

Attempted tie dye towels. They were not perfect, but fun to make and they love using them to dry off after showers at night. 

And then...it was time to celebrate Emerson's FIFTH birthday. So exciting and so sad all at the same time. You know the usual mom emotions that come with your kids getting older. :( 

She had a party at Pinspiration and we just kept it small and had a "playdate" with 3 friends instead of a full room. It was perfect for her. They were able to do 4 craft projects and then we went down the road to eat pizza and cake. 

:)

lots of outside playing...

and then one of Emerson's presents was a ticket to the Snow White ballet. She really enjoyed watching and was dancing all over the place afterwards. Drake and I took her there and Olive Garden so I think she felt pretty special. Don't worry, Easton spent the afternoon playing at Carson's house :)

Playing piano with Nanny...

more baseball...

playing with birthday presents...

and back to more baseball :) 

Emmy dressed as a teacher for Career Day. Oh are you dressed like mommy?! No...she wanted to dress like Mrs. May haha So happy that she really loves her teacher this year. 

Getting our nails done :) 

Then Drake and I went for our anniversary night celebration to Santa Rosa Beach. We usually do Destin, but went a little further down this year to 30A. We had a great time. Shopping and dinner the first day which worked out since the weather was not great. 

Then the next day was beautiful so we got up and rode our golf cart, and beach cruisers around before eating at Seaside and heading home. 

A stop at the lot to feed the turtles, and ended up feeding this guy who is now named "wings" :) 

Our land is paid off and with the market how it is now we were tempted to sale it and put that towards a lot that has a few acres. But, when we really talked about it and asked Easton his thoughts, he did not like the idea. Our little lot is right near his best friend and one day we can just ride our golf cart to my parents house, play golf, etc. 

We still tentatively plan to truly look at building there once Emmy is done with 2nd grade since the K-2nd grade school is walking distance for us now. 

I'm not sure how April is already over! But, we were heading into May which I thought would be slow as we finish up baseball, but we have already managed to schedule a final baseball tournament, weekend trip, mud run, and golf tournament. 

Staying busy and having the best time! 

xoxo