Baby Face!

 Decorating a mug for Father's Day coming up! 

I'm so happy since she could do all the decorating by herself this year!

 We started the summer off by diving off the diving board.

 She dives so fast that I had to take screen shots of the video. 

 She starts off just like she's diving off the block at swim.

 I asked Madi to sort the books we borrowed from Dr. Button so I knew which ones she had already read so I could return them.  I found two stacks and even labels for me.  :)

 Monday - all ready for Camp Aunt Shelle!

 Tuesday - ready with a snack of crackers!

 This is genius!  Madi loves to do her dolls' hair but it gets all messed up and tangled.

 We saw this doll head just for styling and had to get it!

 Wednesday

Dressed ready for the pool so they could go to the movies, eat lunch at Villa then headed to the pool! 

 Here are the movies we'll be seeing this summer.

 Thursday 

 Thursday we skipped the pool so we could get ready for her dance rehearsal! 

 All dressed and ready - but thought her costume made her dress too poofy! 

 Thankfully, on rehearsal night we can arrive and leave in costume as long as she has a coverup on. 

 Backstage was incredibly hot but we managed a few cute pictures of our Baby Face!

 

 Madison & Lauren

 It's call time!

 We haven't practiced as much as I would have liked but she said she knew her dance.

 And boy did she!

 She didn't miss a step in rehearsal and her arm placements were great!

 All done!

 Friday

She looks more like 16 than 6 in this picture.  :(

 Recital time! 

 All lined up and waiting to go! 

 Grandma Heider, Aunt Erin, Uncle Rod, Grandma and Grandpa Mayberry all came to watch her dance! 

Flowers for his best girl!

 Cooling off after the show at home!

 She wanted to take a silly picture too!

 Daddy put a flower in her hair!

 Saturday morning we had breakfast with Aunt Erin and Grandma then headed to a nursery to pick out plants for Grandma and Grandpa's patio.

  I'm not sure how much help Madison was but she sure had fun collecting flowers that had fallen on the floor.

 With the dance recital behind us, I feel like it's really summertime now!

Last Day of Kindergarten!

A fun little comparison of the first and last day of Kindergarten!

And again with the first day of Kindergarten with Daddy and the last day of Kindergarten with Daddy. 

 Mommy & Madi on the first day of school . . .

 And on the last! 

She's grown up and changed in so many ways since that day back in August 2013! 

And then in some ways she's still our silly little goob!

A few weeks ago we made a "Class of 2026" with one of Matt's old white shirts.

Madison made it colorful with fabric markers and voila! we have a new tradition.

It'll be neat to see that shirt get smaller and smaller with each passing year.

One last picture . . .

before she ran down the sidewalk . . .

and into the school for her last day of Kindergarten.

I went into work for a few hours since they released at noon on Thursday.

My friend Amy sent these pictures of Madi while the classes were outside have a water balloon fight in their autographed shirts!  So I headed to get her a little early and we met a bunch of friends for lunch at Blue Sky.  The kids played in the sandbox while we all visited one last time before fall.

I left work in a rush so Madi came back with me for a few hours. 

A big perk of working with Dr. Button is all the great and NEW books she has on hand.  Madi read me book after book all afternoon!

Then we headed to Tripp's house for a quick celebration with his friends before they headed to Adrenaline City!

Maci, Tripp & Tuck

Then the littles came and spent the first night of summer at our house!

We were safely parked in our driveway! Thank goodness!

Back in our scrapbooking days Shelle and I saw a neat tradition to have your kids write their name on the same sheet of paper at the end of each school year. 

One year down and MANY more to go.  :)

I started this tradition last year and continued on again this year.  Matt received the book Oh the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss for a high school graduation gift so we've taken it and had Madi's past teachers sign it at the end of the school year.  It'll be neat to look back on years and years of teachers' thoughts and words.

Mrs. Olivarez sent home a first and last day of picture for us! 

We started summer off by making Kool-Aid.  Our poor child has never made or had Kool-Aid at home.  :)  A packet of it came home from her teacher in a summer kit so we had to make it!

There was lots of bike riding and playing outside.  They had dinner sitting on the patio watching tv.

Matt and I thought it was a pretty great evening after we finished up bathtime and sat on the couch to watch a show.  Then I helped Maci use the restroom and wash her hands and saw this . . .

I had checked on her and thought she was being quiet but had no idea the work she was putting in to paint her ENTIRE feet!  I quickly texted my whole family that Maci's visiting rights had been revoked.