Brag alert

 

It was award day at Ocean Spring Upper Elementary and it was a proud day for this mama.  Amelia received five awards, including Principals list (straight A's for the whole year) and Highest Grade Point average in Social studies.  

 

The next day Amelia received these awards as well.  The trophy was third place in Accelerated Reader Points from the entire fifth grade class (around 400 students).

The plaque was 4th place in Accelerated Reader Points from the entire Ocean Springs Upper Elementary (around 1200 students).

She had 652.5 points!!

Way to go Amelia, mommy and daddy are so proud of all your accomplishments!

 

Luke also had a big end of the year!  Here he is performing in his Oak Park talent show.  We were so proud of his willingness to go up in front of his whole school and all of those parents to play his guitar.  He played "Amazing Grace" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."  

Luke also made the principals list for having straight A's the entire year.

Way to go Lukey!  You are an amazing kid!

Eating my words...again

 

This is our garden.  Here is the backstory... all winter Addison was begging Daddy to plant a garden.  He promised and promised he would plant her a garden when the weather warmed up.  Typical of my husband, one day I came home from the gym and we had a garden.  Built, planted, watered and labeled.  Done.  In like two hours.  

Typical of me, I peppered my sweet husband with questions...Do you even know how to garden?  Have you ever planted a garden?  Do you know what month we are supposed to even plant things in Mississippi?  How often do we water tomatoes? 

I may have even chuckled a bit or mumbled a few things under my breath when he answered, "I got this."

Okay, Farmer Stephen, I thought, good luck.  

What I don't have a backstory on is why my children are so often in their jammies in my blog.  

 

But look at this.  Our first two red cherry tomatoes.   Addison got to pick the first fruits of Daddy's labor.

 

First taste...

 

Wait for it, wait for it...

 

Delicious!!!

 

Here I am, literally eating my words.

 

BEST TOMATO EVER!!!

So everyday Luke and I get a few delicious cherry tomatoes!  (Luke and I are the only ones who like tomatoes)  

I love my Farmer Stephen!

Now, we are awaiting the strawberries and cucumbers!  

(Dad, this reminds me so much of coming home from school at our Manchester house and eating all of the cherry tomatoes before you got home from work)  So, so good!

 

What have we been up to?

 

It is the last week of the school year and that means busy, busy, busy!

What have we been up to?

Amelia and Daddy wanted to fit in one more bike ride/donut stop before school let out.

 

Addison's end of the year school program.  

 

Catching giant toads in our jammies.

 

Accelerated Reader reward party at the skating rink.  (It was not a reward to me because I spent an hour walking around the rink with Luke and his friends death gripping me while periodically having a child's skate slam into my ankles and toes).  

 

Awards ceremony at gymnastics.

 

Field Day for Luke!

 

Guitar recital

 

Piano recital

 

5th Grade Field Day!

 

Hop, Mimi, Hop!

 

Celebrating my sweet JGo's birthday with tennis and mimosas.  

 

More fun with tennis friends at The Taste of Ocean Springs.

 

The sweetest day ever

 

The day had finally arrived, the day Addison had been waiting her whole life for!  Sweet Natalia's wedding.  We got to the church early for hair and pictures and to take in all the wedding fun.  Addison gasped when she saw Natalia and ran up to her immediately to give her this hug.  

 

Then it was time to get Addison all fancy.  

 

Look at this sweetness.  She had her eyes glued on her daddy the whole way up the aisle.  

 

Addison stood so perfectly and sweetly the whole wedding.  We were so proud of her and the wedding ceremony was beautiful. 

 

Fun with sissy.

 

Weddings are so fun!

 

Addison always has a lot to say and there is not a more patient person on the planet than Natalia.

 

Addison and her adorable ring bearer, Jake.  They were darling together.  This is after the wedding as I was just getting some casual shots of the two of them.  We were just remarking how uncharacteristically sweet and calm Addison was and then watch these events unfold...

 

Jake decided to bunny ear Addison for the picture.

 

And WHACK!!  Addison slammed her flowers over Jake's head.  

There is the Addison we all know and love.

 

Dancing with Daddy.  My heart couldn't take much more sweetness.

 

But I always have this guy to crack me up.  Luke's moves are phenomenal.  

 

A brief break from the dance floor, our family did not take many dance breaks.  Us Bosko's can rock it!

 

Our little Addison with Natalia and big Addison, the new Mr. and Mrs. Dent.

Yes, the groom's name is Addison as well.  

 

I love this picture of the girls waiting for Natalia to toss her bouquet.  

We of course stayed until the last moment of the wedding, we saw Natalia and Addison off to their honeymoon by holding sparklers for them.  It was a beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple.  What a sweet blessing Addison got to be part of it.  She cherished every little detail of the wedding, from the pictures, to her walk up the aisle, to the first dances, to the cake cutting, to the jamming on the dance floor, all of it.  She loved it!  And I loved watching her enjoy every second.  It was definitely a day filled with lots of love!  

Congratulations Natalia and Addison! 

Watershed

 

Second and Third Grade Connections Musical

America is the Water That Unites Us!

Synco De Bayou! 

 

All original scripts and songs that were so cute to educate their school (and parents) about our very own Pascagoula Watershed.  And if you don't know what a watershed is, ask Luke, he will tell you all about it.  

 

 

Each child got to choose to be an animal from the watershed and they painted the animal, researched it and peformed a rap about it.  For real, a rap.  So hilarious.  

See all the kids in the above picture.  Luke's part was his rap about the Nighthawk and in between the lines of his rap, his friends would all slap their hands and say, "Whoomp, there he is."

 

So proud of our little Nighthawk.  

 

Second grade Connections students.  Great job kiddos!

 

Luke's Nighthawk.  Luke was so inspired by researching all the watershed animals and birds that he saved his report card money and ordered the official Field Guide of North American birds.  We have been so impressed with Luke's Connection teacher and Luke's traditional classroom teacher this year for inspiring the kids to crave more information.  He loves to research things at home that he learned about at school and he journals and draws and reads about them.