Celebrations!

We had a lot of things to celebrate/commemorate/acknowledge at our most recent family get together! We covered Mother's Day, my dad's birthday and saying goodbye to Laney, Zsaz and Alex before they moved to Cincinatti. We had a lot of fun with playing inside and playing outside and even took a walk to the playground. It was very very hot so we were also glad to get back into some air conditioning afterward! 

Bubbles!

Trampoline!

Pickleball!

Sitting in the shade!

Gifts!

Cake!

Unrelated to this day but my dad got his first hole in one recently and we were so excited for him!!

The kids!

The party people!

 

Cecchetti!

Paige took her Level 5 Cecchetti exam last weekend! These tests are not easy and a lot of extra practices and studying goes into preparing for them. Paige and her friends even got together on their own a couple times and they were very focused! We had to wait a day or two to find out but she passed! We're so proud of her and she's excited to be moving on to level 6!

Ready for her exam! They had to arrive 2 hours ahead of time

Her testing group-Sydney, Emma and Paige

And with Mrs. Barr!

 

Junior Academic Awards!

Owen worked so so hard this year in school and really took it upon himself to take care of homework, get help when he needed it, and stay on top of deadlines. It has been so great watching him step up a little more year after year and then to be recognized for his effort at the Academic Awards was awesome. I hope he feels as proud of himself as we do of him!

Freshman year, Sophomore year 

Waiting in line for his name and award to be read...

We have a picture like this from every year!

LJ and Owen

and with TJ

Owen, Quinn, LJ, Luca, Timmy

 

Northern Lights

I didn't know we were going to be able to see the Northern Lights until the day it happened and I was completely blown away by it! You couldn't really see it well without the aid of a camera but the Northern Lights were something I thought I would never see so I didn't mind that small inconvenience! The colors were amazing and beautiful and it was fun to see people outside just enjoying a shared experience of wonder!

 

Mother’s Day!

Mother's Day was supposed to be...go on a 2 hour drive to Pittsburgh, watch Owen's soccer game at 1, check out Pat's cousins bookstore, eat somewhere fun and drive home. But the game got canceled so instead...we all slept in a little bit, we tried to eat at Forage but they were still cleaning up from brunch so we ended up at Melt, everyone showered me with gifts and cards and we ended the day with Trivial Pursuit! It was such an unexpected treat to all be home with no plans but to be together!

 

Group Dance Pictures!

Let's Get Loud

Mr Morale

It's All Coming Back to Me

Invisible Battles

Padam Padam

Uncovered

X

Hot

Proud Mary

 

Lately

We got a new couch!

Trampoline basketball-check out Owen's jump!

More basketball!

Some volleyball!

The 8th graders took a field trip to the high school. Try to find Paige!

Paige's pig got featured at the district art show!

State Cup games are in full swing!

The park is finally getting green!!