My heart broke for Emma…she sure looked cute but she got pretty nervous when it was time to sing.  :(

Here they are getting ready to perform!

After they performed their songs Mrs. Bradshaw had each of the kids come up one at a time and she gave them their Pre-K certificate.

Emma and Mrs. Bradshaw- we have ADORED Mrs. Bradshaw.  She was so perfect for Emma.

Mommy and Emma- she looks kind of happy here!

Aubrey and Emma holding their certificates:

It was great to see and catch up with several friends from Baylor as well!

Karen (Gooch) Marley and me:

Karen Gooch Marley, Me, Cheryl Chalker Metcalf, Kylie Lindsey Higgins

This picture was taken at the Bachelorette party on Friday night: Me, Karen, Cheryl

When I was asked if Emma would like to be in the fashion show during church I hesitated to say yes because she is so shy and freezes in front of a lot of people.  However, after I found out that some of her close friends would be on stage also, I knew she would be ok!

Emma got to wear a cute pillow case dress made of a chambray type pillow case with pink ruffle trim and a matching headband.

You can tell that Emma is a little bit nervous here…

Gabby, Emma, Mackenzie, and Kinley

I attempted to spiral curl her hair- a  lot of it had fallen out before the fashion show.

Giving us a goofy grin because we were signaling to her to smile!

Sally Shain is the adult on the left… she is the seamstress and my friend Carrie’s Mom.  Amy Monigold is the adult on the right- she used to be my Sunday School teacher in the youth group!

Our Administrative Pastor, Dave Bender, stole the show when he came on the stage to model some of the accessories.

This was the girls’ reactions to Dave coming on the stage:

Aubrey and Emma:

Foster loved looking at the water park from the windows… but once he actually got IN the water park he was very overwhelmed by all of the sites and sounds.  By day 2 he had warmed up quite a bit and finally got in the water!

Our first night there we got to meet up with Robin’s family at a nearby restaurant.  This is a very dark, blurry picture of Foster, Emma, and Zane in our hotel room.  It was so fun to get to see them.  Zane’s baby sister is due in just a couple of weeks!

Here is Foster getting ready to go for breakfast the first morning.  He drug his blanket through the entire hotel.  I definitely cleaned it when we got home!

Can you tell that Aubrey is excited?  Getting ready to swim the first day!

Notice Foster brought cars to the waterpark.

Foster liked going with Daddy through the water fort.  He liked when it “rained on me!”

Emma and Daddy

Time for a little Dip ‘N Dots break:

This was the look on Foster’s face each time the huge bucket dumped water- he loved watching it!

Storytime in the hotel… Emma and Aubrey listening intently:

Storytime:

Getting ready to leave on the last day… we had a great time!

Here are Emma and her good friend Karter:

Their recital is coming up in just a few weeks and I can’t wait to watch her big “Grease” performance!

We went to the early service at church at 9:00, then went to my Mom’s house for lunch, and then back to our house for an Easter egg hunt!

Family Easter picture:

Easter baskets:

Emma: almost 5 1/2 years old:

Foster: almost 2 1/2 years old:

Easter gifts from Nana:

The kids got a great summer water toy and sunglasses from Aunt Judy:

Easter hunt… ready to go…

Uncle Boom helped Foster find all of his eggs- he really wasn’t catching on to the “competitive nature” of the Easter egg hunt.  He kept hollering at Emma to tell her where the eggs were so she could come get them!

Mommy helping Foster find an egg in the bush

Eggs were even hidden in the rocks

“How am I going to get that egg up there?”…

“Got it!!”

And my favorite picture of the day…

I owe a very big thank you to my hubby for taking all of these awesome Easter egg pictures!  I will be getting this picture above on a huge canvas!

Here is a picture of most of her class: (Emma is in a pink Jenks shirt on the back row)

We left the school around 10:00 and walked to Walgreens.  At Walgreens the store manager took us on a tour of the store…

Talking to the pharmacist, Jack (I think?).  He talked to the kids about medication safety and also gave some tips and tricks for taking medicine that tastes yucky.

Next we walked across the street to Java Dave’s where the adults got coffee and the kids got snow cones.  I haven’t been to Java Daves in years and it was really great to be there again!  I used to go there in high school with friends to get coffee… of course that was before I knew about Starbuck’s. :)

Aubrey and Emma enjoying their snow cones

This picture was taken with my phone… the snow cones turned all of the kids’ mouths either red or blue.

Our next stop was the YMCA.  The Assistant Manager talked to the kids about the importance of exercise and then took them on a small tour.

They let the kids play in the children’s play area for about 5 minutes and Emma was totally overwhelmed by the chaos!  She came and stood by me.

Next, the YMCA worker led the kids in some exercises including jumping jacks…

…. and push ups (which Emma declined!)  She told me later that they looked “too hard.”  However, she came home and did about 20 push ups.

Next we crossed the street again to go to the bank!  Crossing the street was definitely the most stressful part.  I was thankful I was there to hold Emma’s hand.  I was so nervous about all of the kids next to all of the cars!

Checking out the pretty flowers outside the bank

Sitting down listening to the bankers

The kids each got to practice signing their first and last names

Learning about safety deposit boxes

Learning about safes where they store money

Up close and personal tour of the teller’s window!

Emma got to talk into the microphone and then send the tube through the chute.  She loved this!

As we toured the bank offices Aubrey said to her mom, “Mom, what is THAT thing?” pointing to the typewriter.  We had to explain to them what a typewriter was!  I guess in our day and age they have no need for typewriters.

Luckily when we got back to the school it was time to go home.  The kids were so wound up!

This next picture pretty much sums up the photo shoot.

These are “pictures of pictures” so not great quality but wanted to go ahead and post them and for family that want to order them, I can send you the link to the Jc Penney album.

Most of these pictures are very blurry because they were taken with my phone. :)

Emma has really become adventurous- she started going down the slide head first and backwards!