Trip to T-Town

 The first week of the kids summer break the kids went to spend a few days with Mimi and DooDad in T-Town.  Mimi had so many fun things planned!  One day DooDad took off work and they took the kids to Albert Pike! Over the top! DooDad built a fire and they roasted hot dogs for lunch and caught craw dads.  Big fun!  (Thanks mom and dad!   Such a fun memory for the kids.  I know packing everything up was a lot of work!)

 They wet downtown one day to look for the Texarkana "little doors" that are hidden on the buildings downtown and then had a picnic lunch in the cute pocket park in downtown.

 Of course, they requested Chuck E Cheese! Lawson hit the jack pot on one game!

 They went to the farmer market one morning and picked out some fresh fruits and veggies that they cooked that night for dinner.  So fun!

 They hit Spring Lake park.

 Did some painting for possible artwork to hang in their bathroom.

 And watched the horse show at the Boot and Saddle Club next to my parents house.  Thanks Mimi and DooDad for a fun-packed few days!

May Randoms

We started out the month with Field Day at the kids school!  It was a beautiful cool crisp sunny morning field with games, snow cones, and a DJ! Good times!

 

 
 

 We got to enjoy Lawson's 4th Grade recorder concert!  It if you have never heard over 100 recorders being played simultaneously...you haven't lived! Wow! It's louder than you think!

 

 

 Lawson with her friends, Anna and Courtney with Mrs. Boch (music teacher)

One surprisingly cloudy and super cool Saturday the kids and some of their neighbor friends had a Rainbow loom bracelet stand.  They opened at 11:30 and I forced them to shut it down at 6:30!  They probably sold close to 100 bracelets...and made $55!  It was so cute!  At one point their inventory got low, and even the big boys were sitting loading their rainbow looms helping bring up the stock levels!

 BES Science Fair Winners (Hudson is in the red hat on the front row.)

 Lawson wrote a report on Gabby Douglas.  This is the little puppet of Gabby she made to use during her presentation.  So cute! Note the details: American Flag patch, Olympic Ring patch, London 2012 on the purple ribbon.  This puppet was definitely legit!

 We had a great time watching many of the Mavs playoff games out on our backporch!  They made us sad...but did better than we expected! Next year!

 We spent mother's day out at the Travs baseball game!  It was fun! Then came home for cookie cake!

 

I was given a couple of fun random assignments at work...both rather "day-before".  I was to set up a little welcome breakfast for our school districts new superintendent.  They wanted it to feel very "Bryant".  Thought it turned out cute!

Then I was asked to put together décor for one of the school districts Financial Administrator's retirement party.  So, I made a banner, some and some fun gift sack centerpieces.  Nothing like getting paid to look on pinterest and and cut out scrapbook paper!

 Lawson won a field trip to Mid America Museum for meeting her reading goals this year! I went with her and we had fun!

 First swim of the season!

 Hudson got a snorkel and did so well with it.  He swam like this all day! I was impressed!

 Rob and I tagged along on Lawson's EOY field trip to old Little Rock homes in downtown Little Rock.  They learned about how people lived before running water and electricity. 

This crazy kid! Looking too cool for school one morning.  Walked into the living room afternoon to see Captain America watching Captain America and acting out the movie play by play!

Rob tagged along with Hudson on his EOY field trip to the 4H center.  I heard something about boating and a rock climbing wall.  Rob sent me this pic.  I don't know what is going on...but looks like they are having fun! Looks like 1st graders gone wild to me!

 Lawson made all A's for the 3rd 9 Weeks! Sweet! 

 We celebrated Memorial Day with a swim with our friends, The Currys! 

Busy Month!

End of Baseball Season

 So sad to be wrapping up another year of baseball! We have had so much fun watching Hudson and this team play.  We won the pre-season tournament and then went undefeated until the last week of the sesason.  What fun! Here are a few pics and videos from the last few games of the season.

We have been lucky enough to be on Coach Brad's team the last 2 years! What an awesome coach!  Always so calm and gently teaching them from their mistakes.

 

Way to go Cubs!