Thursday was the last day of school and we have started summer vacation! Anna Claire cried on the way home from school Thursday because she is going to miss her sweet teacher. When the vice principal put her in the car crying she said, "Anna Claire will be a teacher when she grows up. We're the only people who are sad to see the school year end."

Today we drove out to a local state park and played all morning. The girls were very surprised at the number of bugs in the great outdoors! We rented a paddle boat and the girls loved being on the lake, of course they weren't pedaling the boat:) Russ and I loved the warning on the boat that said, "Fast pedaling may cause tiredness in your legs."

Already???

Every Saturday our girls have a Saturday Night Slumber Party. They take turns sleeping in one another's room. Way fun!

Tonight is extra special because Magee, Russ's mom, sent them pajamas from American Girl that match their Bitty Baby pajamas! Does it get any better when you're seven and five and a half? And they look so adorable:)

It was also movie night at our house so over dinner we watched "Summer Magic" with Haley Mills. (Fabulous movie - I highly recommend it.) Anyway, the movie is set during the 1920s .

I went into the slumber party room to put something away and Anna Claire said, "We're playing with our babies. We're pretending we're in the olden times, like the 90s or 80s or something like that."
Seriously??? I laughed my head off! I remember thinking that the 50s were the olden times when I was a kid but I didn't realize it would all start so soon. I thought I had another 3-4 years before my girls called the 80s and 90s "olden" times!

Fancy

Today we went home from school by a lemonade stand that was raising money for Red Cross tornado victims. The girls were super excited to eat brownies and cookies in the middle of the afternoon! When we left the lemonade stand our local high school was just getting out and I made the mistake of driving through all the traffic. High school kids were everywhere; walking to their cars, to their houses, down the street.
This was the conversation that went on in my back seat:
Anna Claire: Are these all high schoolers?
Me: Yes.
Lizzie: They don't look very fancy. They look just like us.
Anna Claire: Well, this is not like Troy and Gabriella's high school! (High School Musical reference for those who have been living under a rock for the last 5 years)
Lizzie: Some of them, a lot of them just have on jeans and tshirts. Not fancy at all!

Mother's Day!

This has been a great weekend! I have been very loved by my family!

Also, we have had our funny moments thanks to Anna Claire:

She told me at lunch, "I hope you don't die on Mother's Day."

She decorated a pink bag in Sunday School for me and on the way out of church she said, "You can take that bag anywhere. But remember not to flush it down the toilet."

Role Swap

Saturday I was cleaning our house and when I got to the girls rooms they were helping me. Anna Claire and I were working in her room dusting and picking things up off the floor. She said, "I wish we could trade places." I said, "What do you mean?" She said, "I wish I were the mom and you were the little girl so I wouldn't have to do any work."

I laughed! It's not as if I were lounging on her bed with my feet propped up eating Bon Bons!