End of School 2015-16

I'm going to attempt to retroactively document our whole summer by starting with the end of school and working our way through!  Here we go!

Kindy 500

Joey and buddies at Kindy 500

Union Singers' end of school performance

School's out ..... for summer!  Some celebrations

Neighborhood party

Half of the Stone Creek Drive kindergarten crew on the last day

The last day with Mrs. Sorgen

Last day of K & 2nd

Melanie with her 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Masters

We were lucky to have Mrs. Sorgen for both of the kids' K years (she was Miss Compton when Melanie had her!)

Bonus K picture

Fun with Friends

Just a few random pics over the last couple of months with friends.  Jeff & I went to Arkansas in late March to help Aunt Barb celebrate her retirement from Subway.  The kids spent Friday night at the DeHarts, and enjoying the Union Spotlight Night - an amazing event that the PTO puts on every three years.  This year, the school was transformed into several national parks, and the students visited each area, learning more about the parks.  The pics were amazing, and the kids had a great time!  Saturday night of the same weekend, the kids headed to Fishers for a sleepover with Charlie & Sammie, and of course a good time was had by all!

With Alexsandra at Union Spotlight Night

Weekend lunch with girlfriends

Dinner with the Huffords

Proof that Melanie DOES love Lulu

Mrs. Sorgen's K class at Union Spotlight Night

The magic of Marc Lehman w/ Wyatt & Molly

Field trip to Kelsy Farms

Spring Break '16!

In the basement of the Sears (Willis) Tower

Exploring the "Bean"

Family Bean Time

Navy Pier

Gardens inside Navy Pier

Mel is proud of her first lollipop, Joey is proud of his new puppy

I'm sure Jeff's having more fun than it looks

Legoland!

In the jungle at Legoland

I love the look on Joey's face

All kinds of Legoland fun!

Intense game-playing with Becky

We made a whirlwind trip to Chicago over the second weekend of Spring Break.  The break itself was cobbled together with school Access Days, a sleepover at Gigi & Poppy's, having a neighbor sit for a few hours one day, and with my cousin Erica another day.

We left on Friday afternoon and spent two nights in Schaumburg.  The hotel pool, as always, was a big draw; we visited it at least 5 times.  We had a few good meals, spent all day Saturday downtown Chicago, showing them our old apartments, and then visiting Sears Tower (I still can't call it Willis - but Joey calls it Serious Tower, which is way better), Millenium Park, and Navy Pier.  Sunday we visited Legoland and then met Becky & Jeff for lunch at Portillo's.  All in all, many Chicago highlights were covered in well under 48 hours!

Easter

Birthday present from Grandma

An attempt to get a pic with the pretty church flowers

Happy Easter from 801!

While Mom's inside getting food ready.....

We spent Easter in Frankfort at Gigi & Poppy's with Julie & Brant this year.  As is evidenced by the pictures, Joey continues his love for getting cleaned up for church and special occasions....

Birthday Party

To celebrate Melanie's birthday (of course the celebration deserves its own post!), we booked a room at the Staybridge Suites in Carmel.  I chose this hotel because it not only has a pool (and hot tub), but also has a movie room.  Melanie invited her two cousins, and two friends from school, to stay the night.  What I thought was a great deal for 20 hours of entertainment turned even better when we got our room for free because of a booking error.  We ended up with a king-sized bed and a pull-out couch (instead of 2 queens plus the pull out).  The girls had a great time, and there were a LOT of laughs and shenanigans.  There were five trips to the pool -we closed it on Saturday night and opened it on Sunday morning!  We watched Hotel Transylvania 2; after some equipment errors about an hour in at the screening room, we finished the movie in the room.  I ended up with the king-sized bed to myself - although of course I didn't sleep much due to checking on my charges all night!  It was a perfectly-chosen group of girls who got along great and had a lot of fun!

The boys joined for some swimming

Movie room.  There were 7 chairs, but this is how they piled in

This may or may not have been at 11pm.

Dear everyone here, just so you know, you are the coolest people ever.
Your BFF, Melanie

All but one of them actually slept on this foldout bed

Breakfast Sunday morning