Lady Hornet Softball

We've been having some fun going to softball games. Emily, James' sister, is the pitcher for her high school softball team. They are now headed to state this weekend. James has gotten to go more than I have because of our schedule but all four of us went this past weekend to watch them win the games they needed to win to make it to the State Tournament. The boys had fun too. Carter got so excited. He really likes to clap. So everytime there was clapping or screaming he was doing his part to help. Cason has gotten really good at screaming "Go Aunt Emily".
We're excited for you and we're proud of you, and we love you! GO AUNT EMILY!

SIX FLAGS

Gotta have funnel cake
Look at all those empty swings...perfect day to be there
Cason giggled through this ride.
This year we bought season passes to Six Flags. We went with some friends at Christmas and bought our passes then and they will be good through the end of this year. We are really excited about it. Cason had a BLAST at Christmas. We were so proud of him. We were going to be in the area this weekend because my cousin was graduating from high school on Sunday. We figured since we were there we might as well use our passes and go. So Carter stayed with Grammy and Pepaw at my grandparents house and James and I took Cason to Six Flags. We had such a great day. He told us at the end of the day, "I sure did have fun with you guys." and he also said, " It was a great day to go to Six Flags." He didn't know how good. We were a little worried about going on a Saturday. We were shocked by the empty lines...there were some rides we got off and right back on. We couldn't believe it. It was absolutely perfect. He is such a good kid and it's fun to take him for fun days!

Memorial Day

Let's GO!
I realized recently that all the people we run around with go to church with us. WHAT A BLESSING! We have some amazing friends. We are blessed by all of them. We are so thankful to God for placing us here and putting all these people in our lives.
One of the couples had a get together on the Memorial Day holiday. So we spent a day in the beautiful sun, eating yummy food, and swimming. Cason really got brave and just swam like a little fish all over their pool. We had so much fun watching the progress of the day. When we first arrived that morning he just wanted to kick his feet in the water, put on his goggles, take off his goggles, go check on his towel,etc...but within an hour or so he was all over the place and by the end of the day he didn't even need us near him.
Carter spent the day at Grandaddy and Joy's because he had already been at their house by himself a different time and because we just weren't feeling like chasing him ALL DAY. We'll take both boys next time!
Thank you Dowells for being such wonderful hosts!

End of Preschool

Cason "washing" cars on Splash Day
Carter and his buddy Evan

Cason and his class performing
Carter's little class performing

Carter with his flashlight, "This little light of mine"

Preschool came to an end on May 21st. We had a really fun year. It was Cason's third year to be in a class(his fourth year to be up there) and Carter's first year. They both had fun. Carter finally adjusted to seperating from me every morning and that made things much easier. For several weeks it was just him and his buddy, Evan, in their class. Other little ones that age seemed to come and go this year.
We had our end of year program on Tuesday the 19th and our Splash Day on Thursday the 21st for our very last day. We were so excited that Grammy and Pepaw were able to come and watch the program. That was the first time they have been able to do that. Joy also was able to come(Grandaddy had to work). Papa and Minnie and Aunt Laura were cheering on Aunt Emily in the softball playoffs.
Both boys did a great job onstage...they both get a little shy once there are people in the audience but they both were precious. Then on Thursday they had a great time playing outside and getting wet all day.
Here comes summer!