JUNE....Well, June before last weekend.
Can you believe that this little girl is going to be in the FOURTH GRADE??? The kiddos school had a blessing and sending ceremony before the school. The ceremony is mostly for the sixth graders who are graduating from upper elementary and moving into junior high, but after each of the sixth graders have a few minutes to share their reflections, they give a small bouquet of wild flowers to one of the third graders, since they will be graduating from lower elementary and entering upper el in the fall. Miss Madeline was so proud.

I snapped this sweet picture as we were leaving the sanctuary to go to a potluck. What a tremendous blessing it was having these two wonderful ladies to nurture and love on my Timothy for the school year!

Mike helped with the grilling...he's the best there is ;)

Madeline having fun with some of her friends during the potluck. These two young ladies happen to be moving to upper el with her next year.

Check out these last day of school smiles!

Riding his bike after the last day of school. He happens to be patching as well. He's doing such a great job. It isn't fun to use his weaker eye, but he has been patching for over an hour a day now for the past couple weeks. (Some days over two hours!)

We've been to the park a few times already since school let out for the kids. They love this park right by the zoo in town.

Madeline still loves climbing to the top of this every visit...

...even though it's a lot of work, and has already left her with several blisters!

We went to the drive-in and saw Up! Loved it! Before the show started we played some miniature golf.

Pretty sure they weren't supposed to be climbing on this "mountain," but there was no sign...so I snapped a picture before I made them get down. =)

I'm really enjoying this business of having no classes to attend! I hope I haven't ruined myself come fall, but for now, I'm just enjoying summer as Mom. I'm always Mom, but Mom sans medical school is a lot more fun! I have some great pictures of this past weekend when we went home to Ohio to visit our family, so those will be up soon too.

-shannon