Every year, our local fire department hosts breakfast on a Saturday morning. For $5, you get a huge breakfast, and the kids get to check out all the fire trucks! Our kids love it.
And then we spent the rest of the weekend watching the weather forecast. With my parents coming into town, we had invited her family up to the cabin for Memorial Day. Originally the rain was coming over the weekend . . . and then it slipped to rain on Monday . . . and then it snowed. We woke up to a fair amount of snow covering everything around us, and it still fell until 11am or so. But we perservered. My cousin brought their four-wheelers anyway, and by the time we were done with lunch, things had cleared up enough that they headed out anyway.
We had a great time visiting. And my parents love the cabin, so we stayed there as long as we could. We sent Christopher off to work the next morning and had him take Tyler into school, and spent a nice day in the now beautiful weather. Kaitlyn loved helping Grandma "make dishes" . . .
and "go for a walk" (which is in quotes because Kaitlyn was so distracted by the run-off in the ditches that we never made it very far).
Later that week, Tyler had a pizza party on his last day of school. I am sad to see this school year end, if only because I am nervous that next year won't be as awesome! When I look back at the difference between last year and this year, it is huge. Tyler really struggled last year, and instead of learning and growing had actually regressed in some areas by the end of the year. But this year, his teacher was awesome. She keeps those kiddos on track, and it really shows.
And this was actually her last class, as well. Next year she will be in charge of the assessment center, and will be helping out at the three preschool classes, but won't have a class of her own. I imagine you get pretty attached when you only have ten kiddos each year, so it would be really sad to lose that! We're going to have to keep in touch with her.
Next, we went to a local shopping area to have fun with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids are never all that into shopping (though they did like the awesome toy store) but when Kaitlyn saw this little gazebo/house thing she just hopped in and started dancing "like Angelina". And then she got Tyler to try it too.
I would show you pictures of the kids on the carousel, since that is Kaitlyns favorite thing in the whole world, but it looks like all of those pictures are on my mom's camera. Huh. Well, back to the cabin.
Kaitlyn also likes swings. We were nervous about the creek swing, since the water was gushing down in a hurry, but Kaitlyn pleaded with Grandma until she caved.
And later, we pulled up a random piece of plywood and found a bunch of huge worms. We told Tyler he could pick one up, so he just grabbed one and grinned like it was no big deal.
Kaitlyn, on the other hand, liked to put little pebbles on them to see them jump away (stinker), and didn't want them in her hand when Grandma offered. We needed a safe distance, here.
After that, my parents headed onward. They drove out from Cleveland, and then headed down to Las Vegas from here so they could see my three brothers that live there. It is a lot of driving, but we all love seeing them!
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