Last day of school

The girls wrapped up their school year with lots of fun activities--I can't believe that Abby is finished with middle school and moving on to high school!  Norah has only one more year left in elementary school--time is going too fast!

Norah has loved going to Becky's in the mornings before school!

Abby had the best advisor this year--we had to drop off Ms. Sinke's gift at her house since part of it was her favorite adult beverage--much deserved after a tough year 😁

Last day of school--Abby was headed on a field trip to Valleyfair

Abby's field trip extended into the evening, so Norah chose where she wanted to go for supper on her last day of school--she chose Taco Bell, but didn't want to eat inside.  We ate in the car and had ice cream for dessert from The Blast 🙂

Abby's last band concert

Abby had her last-ever band concert this spring--she started playing clarinet in 5th grade, then played for 3/4 of 6th grade, when schools shut down in March of 2020 and went to distance learning.  For 7th grade, they were back in hybrid/distance learning/full in-person, but with masking and uncertainty about covid, band looked a lot different--the entire band learned percussion when they were in person and just played their regular instruments on Google Meet lessons.  So really, 5th and 8th grades were the only "normal" years of band for Abby and she felt ready to be done after this year.  I have such fun memories of high school marching band, pep band, and jazz band, but hopefully Abby will find some other activities in high school that connect her with good friends!  My parents were able to come up for the concert, and we all thought the band sounded great!

Twins game!

My brother was in town at the beginning of May, so my family got tickets to the Mother's Day Twins game.  We were sad that Dave's family couldn't join us as planned, because of Dave's dad's health at the time.  The game was lots of fun, and we had great seats.  I even ran into a friend and her family in the gift shop, and we met up on the field at the end of the game to run the bases together with our kids.  It was fun to see the Twins win two days in a row (we had gone the day before with a church group)!

Hibachi

We had so much fun celebrating birthdays at Shogun with our good friends, Todd and Kaysie and their kids.  So many laughs, and such delicious food!  Even though we were stuffed afterwards, the kids seemed to think we needed some ice cream for dessert at Baskin Robbins.  🤔

Daughters of the King

Our church hosted a women's gathering this spring called "Daughters of the King".  There was fellowship, worship, a speaker, a craft, and delicious dessert.  I'm so thankful for the amazing friends that the girls and I have made at our church.  💜