swimming lessons

this summer i have vowed that the girls will take swimming lessons, well at least one of them anyways. lacey started this morning with a few other kids in the neighborhood. our teacher, ms. rhonda is wonderful!!! lacey seems to really like her and not to mention she is getting to swim with her buddies - ben, spencer and valerie. what is so cool is they are basically the same age, which works out great! it was a bit chilly this morning so i was pleased that i didn't have to get in. poor lace was shaking and her lips were turning blue because she got so cold. i hope the weather warms up this week, so i can get in the water and work with her on what she has learned. i'm just hoping that by lacey learning to swim it will spur lela on. i honestly hate the fact that lela is so scared of the water. during the whole class this morning i had to keep reassuring lela that ms. rhonda wasn't going to let anything happen to her sister. every few minutes lela would say, "i don't think that is good idea." oh lela, please! does she look like she is scared and gonna drowned?

summer has officially begun

and what better way to celebrate than with the neighborhood kids! this afternoon after school we had an end of the year party at the park to celebrate the beginning of summer. it's hard to believe that this school year is offically over and our very first year of elementary school is behind us. now we must look ahead down to the road to what lies ahead...second grade! way to go!

so girly...

i was checking out my newest favorite blog tea rose home and saw these awesome pin cushions. not being someone to just sit around, i went upstairs to my "junk" room and found some scraps of fabric, thread, a silk flower (which of course was a gerber daisy - my all time favorite flower) and velcro and well...here it is my new pincushion to wear around my wrist. love it!!!

a yankee doodle honors day

program was presented today by welch elementary's first grade classes. lela was so cute dressed in her red, white and blue singing "yankee doodle" and "god bless america." it's hard to believe but this is our last week of school...yeah! we made it through our first year of elementary school. we did the time go? lela was presented with two awards today. the first award was a citizenship award for exemplary behavior and valuable service rendered in class. her second award she got was for all-around outstanding student (positive attitude and outstanding effort.) we are all so proud of her! way to go, lela!

a trip back in time

yup, that's what i'm calling our trip yesterday out to oconee county. we went and visited an extremely old house built in the 1700s that belonged to one of kevin's ancestors - william daniell. i actually find all this to be really cool because i don't know much about my family history and well, we know quite a lot in regards to kevin's ancestors. who they were, where they came from and what they did. pretty neat, uh? i only hope our girls will one day appreciate this knowledge knowing exactly who "their people" were. it gives you ties to something, which i don't feel like i have. what a gift!

i brought my camera and made some pictures of the house which according to kev's uncle has under gone so major renovations. william daniell who lived in the house died when he was 97 years old. he married twice. his first wife bore him 13 kids and his second wife bore him 11 kids. talk about a house full of children, i can't imagine. it makes the duggar clan seem small in comparison.

our young graduate

well, lacey finally made it to preschool graduation. we are all so proud her. she was so cute with her class singing songs and getting their diplomas. gosh, it's hard for me to believe that she will be in kindergarten in the fall. where has the time gone with her? it just seems like yesterday she was starting preschool and now look at her. here are few pictures from her big day.

look at my "new" shirt

i have made the most awesome discovery of my life. it's this absolutely cool blog called tea rose home. i found this tutorial to make this ruffled tshirt on it and i just had to share. i went to one of my all time favorite stores - target and bought me a couple of shirts and walla....here's my new tshirt. much cuter now that i've added the ruffles, don't ya think??? i now have my eye on another ruffled tshirt on her blog. that will be my newest project in the coming weeks ahead. oh, i can't wait!!