Summer Fun!

Since I was lazy and didn't post anything this summer, and today was a slow day, I thought, ok, I will go ahead and get caught up on what happened this summer.

Last year, Derik was put into "Track 5" which is bascially year round school. When his birthday hit on June 3 (btw Happy Birthday Cindy and Happy Anniversary Rick and Tammy) he was still in school. His school did a track and field day since June 4th was the last day of school for half the school. It was a lot of fun, but unfortunately I had some errands and stuff that I just couldn't put off, so I didn't get to see him run. Made me very sad. After my errands I went to the store and picked up a cute cupcake cake to take, and we passed out cupcakes to the kids at the end of the day.

Here's a slide show of everyone eating cupcakes.

We choose not to do the big birthday party until Saturday. He invited 5 friends, Alex, Xavier, Skye, Hunter and Jeffrey. Jeffrey was the only one that did not show for the party. We had it at Chuck E. Cheese at 10 am on June 6, 2009. I choose this time because it gave the kids double the tokens. We ended up with like 600 tokens. Besides the official party goers, the siblings of the kids also came and enjoyed the party. It was a lot of fun. All the kids had a cupful of tokens (Derik lost his cup a couple of times. lol.) Chuck E. sang Happy Birthday to Derik, and we had the most AWESOME! birthday cake. It was so yummy! It really was a good day!

Here's a slide show of the party.

The next summer event was Lexie's birthday. We choose to combine the official celebration on Rodney's birthday, July 4. I baked the cake. One thing to note, Do not try to do a shell edging with tube frosting. It just doesn't work. Here's the slide show

Our final summer activity was the day that Derik "graduated" from Kindergarten. I was so proud of my baby. There was a possiblity that he was going to have to be held back due to behavorial problems, and he was just having a really hard time with catching on to math. He was very far behind all the other students. After 3 months of stress and hard work, Derik did it! He passed! It was such a proud day! Here are some pictures of the celebration! They sang a cute song that had actions and helped the kids remember how to pronounce each letter of the alphabet. They sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and also sang a song that helped them count to 100. It was so much fun! After the songs, his teacher Ms. Kitchens (yes just the way it looks) handed each child a certificate, and a dvd of important moments throughout the year.