Mother's Day, 2 Birthdays, alot of Baseball, and a Great Kindergarten Graduation!!

May ALWAYS seems to be a crazy month with the end of the school year and all the things that go along with that!! Add in everything else that we do & have in May, you have one crazy month!!!

We started off the busy week with a great Mother's Day!

Braden had a great day because he saw Wilson!!

Everybody was smiles, before lunch....at least!!

Two days later... We celebrated our birthdays with Mom & Dad at Shogun's!

Four days after that, we celebrated Chad's birthday by going to the Celebration of the Arts, where I was on the Committee heading up the event & so the kids got to go & get their faces painted for the 1st time!! Braden was a Stormtrooper!

And Baryn did so good when Joy the Clown told her to close her eyes....that she fell asleep!! She was very still and got a butterfly put on!!

She loved it!!

Braden was trying to be a serious Stormtrooper!

Later that night, we went Bowling! Another 1st for both kiddos!! They did great!

Baryn even did good at carrying her 6 lb. ball!!

A Little help from Daddy, and away she rolled!!

Braden had so much fun!

Then this week started out with "field day" at school, with a bunch of water games & obstacle courses.

This parallel slide was a little hard for some of the kids to do, but Braden took right to it!!

Baryn enjoyed watching with MaMa & PaPa!

And today.............

My Little Man Graduated Kindergarten!!

They were so excited!

We got a quick family photo!

Here are the Graduation hats that I worked so hard on!! They turned out cute, even though they were collapsing a little!! The kids loved them!!

The kids got to throw their hats up, which was the highlight of the day for them!!

We are so proud of our Little Man!! He is amazing at school!! It was definitely a teary day!!

These are Braden's AMAZING teachers!! I can't wait for Baryn to have them!! He learned so much from them and had a wonderful this year!!

The kiddos from K-5 got to celebrate at Rachel's house after Graduation, and they had a blast!! We have a great group of kids & parents & look forward to another 12 years with them!!!

So that was only 2 out of the 4 weeks in May, and we still have more to come!! It has been another wild & wooly time at the Browns!! We keep chuggin' along and getting through it!! We look forward to an easy goin' summer!!

What I have been up to!!

Well, I haven't spoken to many of you in a while because I have been sooooo busy, so I thought I would show you what the heck I have been doing!! Since I last Blogged, one of my girls at the store got married, about the same time that my 2 other girls got sick, at the exact same time that ALL of Midland realized that graduation was coming and that they needed everything.... "yesterday!" I was definitely overwhelmed and at the same time, trying to do everything else within our personal life realm!!

For several weeks, we have been planning for both K-5 classes to come to our house, Friday, for Continent Day! The kids have been studying about all 7 continents and so we culminated by having a celebration at our house with all of the parents acting as teachers, teaching about different countries!

So the bus pulled up.......

and dropped off the 30 kids and 4 teachers!!

We treated their excursion as a flight around the world aboard 'Trinity Air'! Mom & Dad helped me put it together the night before, and then Chad helped put it back together the morning of, since the winds got a hold of it!!! What a project!!

I made the kids passports with their photos in them, as well as boarding passes, and I checked them as they entered the plane! Notice my 'wings' on my top, as I was the flight attendant!!

So they got seated, with their luggage in hand, and waited for the flight to begin!

Notice the exit door on the left, and the windows in our make shift plane!

This is pre kids, and our monogrmmed carpet!

We had a project for each continent, after each lesson, and a food from that country!

Then, I hired some special performers to come show us a little from North America! The kids loved them!!

Braden dressed up for the North American part to show the kids a little ethnicity!!

After 3 hours and a whirlwind adventure (my brain was SPINNING!) the kids loaded up & went back to school!! We had 30 kids, 4 teachers, 20 parents, 4 grandparents, 4 siblings, 4 dance crew members, 1 Head of the Lower School , and 1 admissions director!! Aghhhhhh! I am so glad that it is OVER!! but we had a great time!

Earlier in the month, we had a Birthday Party at Chuck E. Cheese!

For a friend of Bee Dub's!

And NUMEROUS baseball games, where Braden is still at 100% for hitting the ball! Sometimes he gets out at 1st, but usually he scores!! He has a great team that he just loves!

So that has been our last month in a NUTshell!! We still have a crazy May ahead of us with more Baseball, Field Day, Celebration of the Arts, Graduation, Surgery for Bee Dub, a visit from Chad's uncle in Germany, and numerous other events!! Wish me luck that I survive!