June Fun

Hello family and friends!  I am back, with punch!  I am playing catch up and having fun looking through old pictures!  I have missed writing about our family, just as much as you have missed reading.  Here's to loving, living and learning every single gorgeous day God has allowed, whether it brings sunshine or rain.  I will start with a couple pictures from our move to the new apartment.  

The far right corner conveniently became a third bedroom.  The area is pictured a little closer in the photo below.  Merrick gave the space a whirl first, but it works much better for Rowan.  All of the kids recently got loft beds, and desks for under their bed.  The kids are loving the extra personal space this provides.  

Kierce in her all handmade, completely recycled super hero costume at her school's Comic-Con.  Her comic character she created was Tee Tree :-)

With her front cover of her comic.  Her principal gave her special recognition in front of the entire audience for actually using trash to make her costume.  They were supposed to be costumes made of mostly recycled material, and most costumes weren't.  We had fun making it, and she had fun parading around in her costume!

Merrick with his friend Christopher after his graduation from preschool!  They had a gorgeous ceremony, like NO other preschool graduation I have ever attended before, and a gorgeous bay park location!

Below are photos of the girls last day of school.

They were lucky enough to end their school year with field day!

:-)

Kierce's teacher gave all of the students each a hat with their names on them.  The kids had fun signing each others hats!  The girls both had white pillow cases and had their friends trace their hands and sign it to keep a memory of this school year.  I can't believe Rowan has now moved on to 5th grade and Kierce is now in 3rd grade, but was hand selected to be in a 4th grade class.  After a little transition period, the girls are loving school.

Rowan had a graduation ceremony, as she moved into middle school this year.  I will be uploading a ton of videos to YouTube if you are interested in watching her graduation and watching Tee Tree in action :-)

Our very own exchange student, actually brother, Esteban visited the states and we were lucky enough to share a meal together.  Dana and him had enjoyed a Van Halen concert the night before, and he was off back to Spain after a hug and a kiss!  We can't wait to see him again :-)

Here we are enjoying some family time at Seaworld!  The kids are starting to get brave, see that ride behind us???

Some rare time out with friends from Merrick's preschool.  

Some beach time!

The kids and I had a blast one day during the summer, riding our bikes on the boardwalk at Pacific Beach!  They had just received these cool shirts from Aunt Dawnie and Uncle Kenny!