School's out!

We have skipped spring and gone straight to summer! Our lilacs opened up with two days of sunshine. The smell is my absolute favorite, I love it!

Somebody named Teague has lovely curls after a bath. He told us he needed a haircut when he saw them.

Terri sent me a little cartoon drawing of a Mom carrying a ton of groceries and a little boy asking if she can also carry his stick! It made me laugh a lot because this boy loves to collect rocks and sticks. He found some really great ones the other day - I believe he called them the hook, lasso, and hand.

Teague really wanted to go to Clark's Park on Thursday. It was beautiful, so we did. These three were all super excited to see that the cowboy swings were up.

Last day of school! This year went very quickly, and they both had great teachers and friends. Their report cards were fantastic too!

Ave and her best buddy Korin after school. Ave had some tiger face paint which was lovely! Korin is kind of shy in school, but not around Avery. The teachers wanted to keep them together, so they both have Mrs. Laramie for first grade next year.

Carter and a couple of his buddies: Sam and Nate. They are both very nice boys, and I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of them this summer since they all live within a few blocks of each other.

Before haircuts!

And after! Carter had baseball practice so I missed his. Teague looks like a big boy now.

Because they had such good report cards, we took them to Butte's brand new Buffalo Wild Wings. It was crazy busy, but quite tasty and fun. The kids liked this photo area in the waiting room. Looking fit Carterman!

You too Avery Tigerface!

Teague is a cricket player.

We've been taking walks on the trail late at night. The goslings are getting much bigger.

Muscle man! I love when little kids wear sleeveless shirts. Teague said he was super strong because of the cowboy swings. They do give your arms a pretty good workout!

Summer time means sprinkler time. We were happy to see that Ave's 4T swimsuit finally fit her! The bottoms were made for a kid wearing a diaper I think.

Teague enjoys marching through the water.

This boy is just too happy in the sun! Hope everyone is enjoying beautiful weather like we are!

2 weeker

Sorry this is a week late. These last weeks of school have been crazy! Anyway, Kyle played in a cops vs. firemen charity bball game last week. The cops lost, but that's okay. It was a lot of fun to watch. There he is in action.

The cops had just a few more people on their team! Most of them were not basketball players though, so they just played to be charitable. Kyle enjoyed having Coach Green again as his coach!

Lori and Leena made signs for Kyle and Richie. We watched Lori lose a pretty big hand at a poker party one night. When Kyle said "Ouch, that sucks", Lori replied with "Whatever, it's chunk change." We have been laughing about it ever since!

The firemen sent over a little girl with donuts to the cops' bench during the game. It was quite amusing! It also allowed Kyle to reenact his picture!

Carter had a baseball game (which Grandpa nicely took him to). These two little monkeys had a good time with me though. Ave also loves a good donut (or two!)

Kyle is not able to compete in anything charitable without hurting himself. Luckily he just tore a calf muscle this time. It made some very pretty bruising down his leg and foot the next day. Ave loved it as you can see.

Me and my Boo actually took a selfie together (God I hate that word) while we went for a late walk last week. It was just a super pretty day on the trail.

This was about ten minutes later. When it does get dark, it happens quickly!

Nothing liking spreading lovely yellow weeds around Butte.

She was dressed up as Lucy from Despicable Me 2 the other night. She's a weird one...

Carter had a fun birthday party to attend  last weekend. His friend Dallas had a ninja theme. These blow up swords were a big hit. Here he is chivalrously attacking a girl from his class.

There was quite the melee as you can see!

We went over to Clark's Park a half an hour early to let these guys play a bit too.

Ave is weird...so I take a lot of pictures. I have to document this phase of her life.

Uncle Kyle was in last weekend. He hopefully only has a couple more weeks to work in Baker, then he'll be much closer in Three Forks. He and Avery found a fun game to play together on his new Kindle.

Ave's game got hailed out the other night. You can't even see the hail here, but it happened! Spring in Montana is always interesting.

Double play dates are always lots of fun. Luckily all kids like to draw with chalk outside!

Teague looked smashing in this outfit from Terr, Abb, and Jord the other day. Kyle and I are big fans of the V-neck on him!

This little man had some gorgeous curls today. That means it's almost time for a summer haircut.

Ave was just a bit tired yesterday. This is how she fell asleep on me! Hope everyone is enjoying the last day in May!

Dance and visitors!

Dance time has arrived! Ave has been going to tumbling on Monday and jazz on Tuesday since September. She was ready for her dress rehearsal on Monday. Her tumbling routine was to a sped up version of "Let it Go". She looked lovely.

Ave was able to sit with us for the first half and go back at intermission. She wore a dress as a cover up, and we got a picture with Jordan before the show started. Jocko was awesome as usual. This is her costume for Bad Romance - a very cool tap number.

After the show - Avery was able to be in the finale this year. I am pretty sure she was the smallest girl up there. She looked super cute! Ave was really happy to have Jordan be one of her tumbling teachers this year too. They are buddies :)

Second day - Ave had jazz on Thursday. She did great! We are proud of both these lovely girls.

My fellow volleyball coaches, Geah and Katrina, have girls that dance also. We got a quick picture of them after the show on Thursday. Ave, Reece, McKenzie, and Brooklyn were all super cute up there.

Nate's fiancé Alex graduated from Tech this weekend, so there was lots of family from Sunburst in Butte this weekend. They brought Teague's clothes for their wedding this summer for him to try on. He looked smashing! The little Jordan shoes were my favorite. He will also have a cool bow tie and aqua suspenders for the big day.

Baseball has been freezing so far this year! Carter's game on Friday had so many cold, wet fans. We have the best families ever! From l-r: Avery, Jordan, Kaity, Chelbie, Me with a sleeping Teague, Mom, Aunt Terri, Callie with a double thumbs up, Nate, Alex, Dick, Diana, and Alex's brother Kyle. Thank you all so much for watching Ave dance and Carter play!

We had a nice dinner with everyone at The Hanging 5 on Saturday night. We went to The Hampton afterwards. Callie had rooms there for her parents and Nate and Alex. The kids were quite happy to swim (or do whatever Teague does!).

Carter is getting quite good at somersaults in the water!

Boo had a quick warm up in the hot tub.

So did Kyle and my little weirdo.

This picture makes me laugh. Ave is just about to get Nate with a wave!

Nate and Alex are great with kids. They listened to Teague talk and talk and talk for about three days straight! Congrats to Alex on her graduation too! She flew through Tech and had the highest GPA for her degree class.

Teague might be in need of haircut! He thinks this looks totally awesome though...and it does!

I realized in my rushing on Thursday I had no good pictures of Boo in her jazz costume. We had to remedy that. It was the most colorful costume I've ever seen! Her pose is pretty great too.

Oh yeah! She's got some moves!

Had to show off her tumbling moves also. She's getting good at the splits. She's quite limber! She must get that from Auntie Kelsie.

Her basket is most impressive! I asked her to not lick her toes for the picture. Yep...she does that.

Headstand time!

And the bridge

She did a great job!

This is a very Ave-centric blog. She also had her first tee ball game yesterday. It was freezing, but she had a good time.

She was the last batter so she got to run all the way around. She hit it pretty hard on her first swing both times!

Run Googles, Run! (Feel free to say that in your Jenny from Forrest Gump voice)

She was sticking her tongue out at us, too bad I missed it.

This turd likes to nap through baseball games and then stay up until 1:30 or so. Good thing I'm up!

I was folding clothes, and he decided he needed to show me his workout routine. It's impressive!

Lastly, Callie and a couple of her buddies. She got to stay three nights with us, and we all enjoyed it. Teague especially missed her right away when she left for Missoula on Sunday. "Auntie Callie" is the best! Thanks again to everyone!