Swimming Lessons

I'm way behind in blogging.  What else is new?  Oh well...

I signed Eli up for swimming lessons for the first time this year.  He was starting to swim by the end of the summer last year but he still had a long way to go.  He wasn't into the swimming lessons and we even started to wonder why we were making him go.  It seemed useless.

 We weren't sure he was going to pass his level 1 because he was afraid to float on his back without help from the instructor.  But something clicked the last two days and he was determined to float alone!  The last day was a free swim day.  They were allowed to jump off the diving board with their instructor in the water.  Eli loved the diving board!

And he even started swimming again like he was last summer!  We couldn't have been more proud of him for overcoming his fears!

They ended the two weeks of lessons with popsicles.

First Honeysuckle

The smell of honeysuckle takes me right back to my childhood of riding through the neighborhood and stopping to eat the honey from the honeysuckle (all while dodging the bees)! I love spring for that reason!

I introduced Eli to honeysuckle last month. We were out riding bikes and were passing all the honeysuckle bushes.

 

I have to admit, it took me a little bit to remember how to actually do it. But once I remembered and he figured out to do it he was hooked!

 

Eli has gotten so good at riding his bike without training wheels! I'm so proud of him! He can take off on his own and has figured out the brakes!

What a perfect night to ride off into the sunset

 

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Little Rock Zoo & Circus

Yes, both of those in one weekend! A few weekends ago we drove down to Little Rock to stay with my step mom. Growing up closer to Memphis we never went to the Little Rock Zoo, we always went to the Memphis Zoo. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice the Little Rock Zoo was! Eli loved it too!

Eli and I riding the zoo train

Eli was exhausted towards the end of the zoo and asked for a ride.

Riding the zoo carousel

 

The next morning Chad, Eli and I got donuts and coffee at Dunkin Doughnuts and drove around Bryant. Chad and I lived in Bryant, AR when we got married. We moved from there shortly after. The town has changed so much since we lived there!

We headed off to the circus later that day. Eli was so excited!

 

Leaving the circus. Eli was exhausted. He didn't feel great and hadn't had a nap... Not a great combo!

It was a short but fun weekend!

 

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Soccer Cookout

Did I ever tell you Eli was playing soccer this past Spring? Well he was, although he only actually played in one game. They were scheduled to have 5 games. We missed the first one because we were in Florida. Two were rained out. The last one we decided to miss so we could play in a golf tournament. I know. That's terrible of us! But Eli was so over soccer at this point and so were we. Honestly, Eli didn't care for it. The one game we made he was ready to go home after 30 minutes.

His soccer coach put together a cookout for the team at the end of the season. It was really fun and the kids had a great time! We met at a park, grilled hotdogs and the kids played. Eli got his first trophy! Which is already broken. But we won't go there...

 

Playing on the see saws...

 

The coach handing out the trophies

 

Eli was so proud to get his very first trophy.

 

 

The 2013 Razorback Grasshoppers

 

 

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Jack & Jill Golf Tournament

For some crazy reason I had the bright idea that Chad and I should play in a Jack & Jill golf tournament with the rest of my family. A lot of people who know me don't realize I know how to play golf. Maybe because I haven't played in 20 years! I grew up playing but stopped playing after about junior high. It's not that I lost interest, I just became interested in other things and golf took a back burner.

I'm so glad we signed up to play! We had the BEST time! Even if we did come in last with our score of 82! We didn't care what our score was... We were just there to have fun!

This is all of our family teams.... Carolyn (my aunt), Randy (stepdad), Me, Chad, Lauren (Chance's girlfriend), and Chance. I just want to add that Chance and Lauren came in 3rd in the entire tournament. Lauren had never played golf until about 1-2 months ago! Way to guys! Way to show us up ;)

Hole #12. I took this pic the first day. The next day I chipped it in (from the tree line on the left) for a birdie! Our only birdie the entire tournament!

I just love the delta! So beautiful to me! Maybe because I still think of this as home.

You can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl :)

We all decided this will become an annual event for our family!

 

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Graduation Day

Wow, I'm really behind in blogging! Oh well... I'll catch up one day.

My brother, Chance, graduated college from the U of A on Mother's Day weekend. Woohoo! We are so proud of him!

I forced Chad to pose for a picture with me while we were waiting for the ceremony to start.

Eli did amazingly good for the first 2 hours of the ceremony, thanks to the iPad and my phone. It was really bad timing though... It was right during lunch time. I didn't plan well and did not have any snacks in my purse. Eli was starving and tired. We ended up leaving a little early but made it back for pictures afterwards.

Randy, Chance, and Mom after graduation

I love this picture of Chance!

For graduation celebration we all went to eat at James at the Mill. What an awesome dinner! Good pick, Mom and Chance! What a way to end a great day!

 

 

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