What's Up Wednesday

Today, I’m linking up with Shay, Shaefer and Mel for What’s Up Wednesday!

What we're eating: 

We tried three new restaurants this month which I am pretty proud about since we are pretty loyal to our favorites! We loved them all!

• La Grand Orange (pizzaria and bakery)
• Jalepeno Bucks (Arizona BBQ and Mexican food)
• All Pierogi Kitchen and European Market 

All Pierogi was so authentic and they even had live accordion music playing! It was such a cute little restaurant.
We also made one of my mother-in-law's amazing desserts.

What I'm reminiscing about:
This picture popped up on fb last week. I graduated from college 7 years ago!!! How did I get so old?!
 
What I'm loving:  

 I'm loving Jack's future career change from a paleontologist to an aquarium worker :)

Two months worth of meme screenshots :)

 
 
 
 
 



What we've been up to:

• Biking! Jack REFUSED to ride his bike (even with training wheels) so after almost a year of nagging, we moved on to plan B :) We bought a bike attachment and Jack (and David) LOVE IT!

 
 
 And now we just have to convince Kate to like bike riding!!!

•  We got a babysitter for Kate and went to Sunsplash water park to celebrate the beginning of summer!

 

• We walked around the Riparian Preserve. We saw fish, ducks, turtles, bunnies, and rats! Kate loved the ducks and squealed and waved every time she got near them!

 
 
 

•  Jack and David started a little gymnastics class for the summer

 

• Bird watching! haha Jack and David found a pair of binoculars and have been looking for birds outside every morning!

 
 Spencer made this pictures and it is SO DAVID!!! hahaha He's always asking for snacks!

•  eating lots of popsicles! 

Kate's squats cracks us up!

 

What I'm working on:
Car issues. Both of our cars started acting up on the same day!!! Boo!

What I'm dreading:
Losing Jack's first tooth! Jack has his first loose tooth and it is DRAMA already! I can't imagine what it's going to be like when it actually comes out!

What I'm excited about:
In high school, I volunteered at a special needs bowling league and I ran into two of my bowling buddies the other day and they remembered me! :) It made my day!

What I'm watching:

What I'm reading:
I loved these two books!


What I've been listening to:
I hope for silence but mostly hear a lot of screaming all day :)
What I'm wearing: 
Swim suits, workout clothes, and dresses. All summer long!!!
What I'm doing this weekend: 
Nothing major!
What I'm looking forward to next month:
So many trips and visits packed into June! I can't wait.

Last week of school!

 Jack's last day of Kindergarten was today and he had a cute little graduation ceremony this morning. It was hard getting Kate and David mobilized this morning and I felt a little annoyed that we had to go to "graduation" today after I had already volunteered at his class party yesterday, but when they started playing the graduation march and Jack walked down the aisle of cafeteria chairs, I couldn't stop crying! Being a mom is hard, but there are cheesy moments like this when it all seems perfect. The lyrics of the end scene of the Greatest Showman went through my mind again as I watched Jack "graduate" -  "It's everything you ever want. It's everything you ever need. And it's here right in front of you. This is where you want to be." :)

Jack is bigger and smarter but still the same kind, curious, and passionate little boy he was when we sent him to Kindergarten last year. He had a great year in Miss Roy's half day class and met so many sweet friends :) A little over a year ago, I registered him at an all-day kindergarten at a poorly ranked school in Davenport, Iowa. I'm sure he would have done fine at that school, but I feel like moving to Arizona last year was such a gift. He got a great education and I was given the gift of more time with my sweet Jack.







Other things we did this last week:

• We swam! We love that Lifetime Fitness is just down the street! David and Jack are now able to swim outside while I teach my one private swim lesson and they have been loving that! Some days, it's also nice to put Kate in the child watch when we don't have the energy to take her swimming with us :) She's crazy!

 

• We went to the splash pad with our neighbors! We love these guys and don't know what we are going to do when they move this summer! 

These two played "family" almost every morning together this year on the days they didn't have preschool. They are the CUTEST little buddies and I love eavesdropping on their conversations!

• We had our last Kindergarten play date! Every Tuesday, we took turns picking up these cute boys from school and having them all over to play and it was so fun (and crazy!) I kind of weaseled my way into this playgroup at the beginning of the year and I'm so glad I did!

• I took just David (and Kate) out to breakfast after dropping Jack off at school. 

 

• We met up with my aunt and amazing ballerina cousin, Macy, last weekend in Phoenix for her dance convention. I had never seen her dance before, and she was seriously amazing!!! She got 2nd place for her solo dance! We went out to dinner at the La Grande Orange before. I had never been before and it was so yummy!

Here I am trying to be like her ;) hahaha