Look how well Stella was staying in the lines...she just turned 3!!!

Father's Day was a blast.
Went to the pool with Daddy and braved the AWESOME water slide for the first time!
Zoe fought her fear and Ruby took the swim test without batting an eye.
You have no idea how much MORE fun we'll have at the pool this Summer!!
Then we headed over to Kittery for fried clams....mmmmmm

Graduation day...Stella thought she was all that and a bag of chips...and she truly was!

Oh my...this girl.
LOVE!

Zoe won THREE awards!!!
I loved the surprise and knowing she was chosen to receive them...not everyone does.
I am SO proud and best of all her fragile esteem was boosted!
She got one for her excellence in creativity for Art, the Presidential award for physical fitness (her second year in a row), and a class award for Most Creative.
Perfect way to start the summer.
Oh yeah...she got the teacher we wanted!!!!!!!!!!

Ruby-Doo received an award too!
For her 'Outstanding Artistic Skills'...she really is SO artistic...I love all her drawings...SO CUTE!

Look at her trying to read the awards...so funny!

She's a big kid now...the lockers are all cleaned out.

Ready for first grade!

Can you believe how much she's hamming it up for the camera?
SO unlike her!

See ya' Kindergarten!

A lick for me a lick for you a lick for me....
Now this is hilarious.
I don't even think they even realized I was recording them.
Zoe had given them a lollipop to share...and that they did.

oh please...

last nights sky...

deep breath in, deep breath out...count to 10, feel yourself breath from your toes, ohm....

it's quite beautiful out and once again it's like pulling teeth to get my kids to go outside for more than five minutes. i've tried every tempting thing i could to just GET. THEM. OUT!!!!! when i was a kid i LOVED being outside and could keep myself entertained for hours...mud pies, biking, rollerskating (am i dating myself here?), swings, hide-n-seek, climbing trees...gosh the list goes on. my older girlies were threatened (gasp) with having to wash the windows, clean the floors, and organize their room if they didn't go outside...you gonna guess what they're doing right now? r says to me 'i want to do the windows' and z said 'i'll do the floors'....are you freaking kidding me right now? i should have prefaced this post by saying this morning i offered to take them to the beach...groans and grunts ensued. i then offered to take them to a park...no, no, no! finally, reaching my boiling point i told them they'd be going to full day camp next summer instead of sitting around the house...and you know what? that's just what i'm gonna do! this sucks!