Moose Point State Park

Emma's field trip for Kindergarten was a trip to Moose Point State Park.  When I was growing up we never went out of town for field trips hardly.  But Emma's class traveled over an hour to the ocean to a park.  Originally we had asked Emma if she wanted us to chaperone her field trip.  Her response was this.  I'm copying and pasting this from my husbands facebook status: 

So on my way to dropping Emma off at school today, I ask her if she wants me to go with her on her upcoming field trip? Her reply:
Em: No daddy.
Me: Why not?
Em: Cause I need a break.
Me: A break from what?
Em: Daddy, I just need some time away from you and mommy!
I couldn't stop laughing, apparently we smother her!

Seriously!!  When Brian came home after dropping her off from school and told me this I about died laughing.  But also I was kind of sad that she didn't want us to go!!  However, the next day she changed her mind and said she really wanted us to go! That made me happy again! 

Emma rode on the bus with her class and Brian and I followed behind in our car.  The weather didn't look too promising on our drive there.  Cloudy and drizzly.  The plan when we got there was for the kids to have their morning snack, then head down to the ocean to play and explore around the tidal pools! 

Emma and her best friend Allie.  These two are so cute together, and have grown soooo much since meeting in Pre-K last year!

I was super nervous about the kids walking out onto these rocks.  With the water and seaweed is was super slippery.  But there were no injuries at all!!! =)

The water was a tad bit cold! 

Found a crab! 

I have always wanted to find a real starfish, one of the kindergarten kids found this and I was so excited about it!  I love starfish!

Miss Emma with her teacher.  She is an amazing teacher and Emma just loves her!

And a class photo before leaving the beach area =)

All the kids had a BLAST!  They were all so good.  There are 5 Kindergarten classes in Emma's school and every class was well behaved and had a really good time.  Even the parents had fun =)

Today is Emma's last day of Kindergarten.  Forever.  Oh my word this makes me sad.  I cannot believe how fast this year went by.  We started out the year kind of on a rocky start with Emma not wanting to go to school, to waking up every single day now even on weekends wanting to go to school.  She has had the best kindergarten experience.  Her teacher has been amazing and she has learned so much and made friendships that will last forever.  I may or may not have cried a little this morning.  I even brought my camera with me to her school this morning to take pictures of her going into school =)

She was so excited to get into school this morning!! =)  Running as fast as she can!

Her school doesn't do a Kindergarten graduation, which kind of disapoints me.  But oh well.  After she gets out of school today we are taking her to the mall to build a bear, so she can build a bear =) 

I hope everyone enjoys their day!!!  I'm sure mine will be spent with a few tears, my baby is growing up!!

Memorial Day Weekend 2012

Happy Memorial Day everyone!!  We have had an awesome long weekend!  It started Friday building our patio and it ended this afternoon with a parade.  Yesterday we had a BBQ here at our house with family.  We finally got to break in the patio with some yummy food and drinks!

The girls had so much fun playing together.  We have no boys in our family hardly at all.  There is one boy on my side of the family, but none on my husbands side.  It's so strange.  He came from a family of 3 boys, he has 2 brothers.  And now all his brothers have girls.  So strange huh! 

I surpised Emma yesterday with this dress.  She saw it at Target back a couple of weeks ago and wanted it soooo bad.  She loves the Disney show Austin & Ally, and this is one of the Ally dresses from Target.  She had to put her cowgirl boots on to go with it!  Love it! =)

Emma with the girls!  My poor niece Haley in the very front got sooo many bug bites on her face while they were at camp. 

I didn't take too many photos yesterday at the BBQ.  This morning we headed out to the parade =)

Emma and Lottie get along sooo well.  They just moved here from Germany.  Lottie's dad is in the military.  He left bright & early this morning to go back to Germany and he won't be home until Christmas.  Lottie was so sad this morning.  =(

The picture above is one of my brother in laws driving the firetruck.  My niece and his wife were in the back =)  My other brother in law was suppose to be in the parade as well, but he ended up having to go to a medical call with the ambulance. 

After the parade Lottie was a bit upset about her dad leaving so we wanted to take her mind of things for a bit so we made a stop at the University of Maine farm.  Emma has loved this place since she was about a year old.  She loves going to see the animals.

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.  I know that we sure did!  I wish the weekends were longer =)

Long Weekend!

I just *LOVE* long weekends!  I ended up taking a day off from work Friday so I would have Friday, Saturday & Sunday off!  I thought maybe it would be a nice relaxing few days off....boy was I wrong!! haha  Friday my husband had planned to start working on our patio area.  He had a friend of his coming over to help him.  Mind you neither of them have any patio experience at all.  So they got started not really knowing exactly what they were doing. haha  They were shoveling sand into the area they wanted, and then out of the blue one of our neighbors appeared with a tractor!  This was a HUGEEEE help!  He loaded all the dirt into the area where we needed it.  I just love my neighbors =)  Brian, his friend, and Me all worked until about 7:00 pm last night.  We started at 10:00ish.  It was a long day.  We ended up going out to eat last night when all was said and done.  So today we got up at 8:30, and headed to Home Depot to get a few more things we needed.  Today it was just me and my husband doing all the work.  We got back from Home Depot around 10:00 and again we didn't stop until almost 7:30 tonight.  Oh. My. Word.  Putting a patio down is HARD work.  I am sore in places I haven't been sore in a long long time! haha  I took a shower this evening and I think I stood under the hot water for at least 45 minutes.  So here are the photos of what we accomplished!

Day 1.  Prepping the area where the patio will be.  =)

(doesn't he just look soooo happy )  =)

Don't mind the Rhubarb bush in the backyard that has gone to seed at the top.  I usually get out to cut it and make something with it, but there wasn't much time this year.  Looks pretty crappy right now! =)

Our awesome neighbor and our Friend doing some of the work.

Emma was soooo good while we were doing this.  My husbands mom came down and kept her company.  Emma has a playhouse that we hadn't cleaned yet this spring.  So my mother in law emptied it all out, I got Emma a big bucket of warm water and soap and she went to town cleaning her kitchen set.  And the cool part of her kitchen set, it was my husbands when he was her age =)

She insisted on wearing her boots outside =)

TA-DAAA!!  There are some that are kinda crooked and not exactly 100% even, but you know what, it was our first patio we have ever put down.  We had to go in and fill all the holes with sand.

I love how one of our cats, Bella, is sitting in the window in this picture! =)

I'm sooo excited to start using this!  We still need to rototil the front portion you see in the picture.  Then I will plant some flowers and plants and it will look much much better.  Brian also needs to sand down the wooden beams a bit as well.  Tomorrow i'm going to get my patio table on it and we are having a BBQ with some friends and family!! 

I hope everyone has a great rest of their weekend!!! =)