Visiters and some fun time

So one I got to go pick up my little sister and her boys from the airport super early Wednesday morning.  It was barely Wednesday morning, like a little after midnight.

 

That wasn't the plan to begin with, my mom was going to pick her up and me and some of our friends were going to meet her there to welcome her back to Idaho.  Her plans changed when she missed one of her connecting flights and had to find some other ones.  So I volunteered to pick them up so my mom wouldn't have to be in Boise that late and then be up in the morning to do summer reading at her library.

So I was excited to pick her and her boys up.  We really do miss them and we don't like that they live far away.

When we got home my girls were still up and Melyni's boys didn't show any sign of being tired.  So we got to sit up and talk and the kids played for a while.  I think we stayed up till 3 am, not sure though.  It was good to talk to her and find out what's going on in their lives.

 

So on Wednesday, Katie and her kids came into Boise to come pick up Melyni and her boys to take them to my parents house.

I told them while they were here we should go to the park that has water and the kids could play for a while, it was a pretty hot day.  I think the kids had a lot of fun (Tracy we will go here when you come and visit, I think Winston will love it).

I think Ross really loved the water and of course the bigger kids did too.  The other little ones didn't play to much in the water, they wanted to go play on the play ground, which is also fun.

 

I got some pictures of the kids and a video of Ross, Tyra and Kamille playing in the water (I don't know if I will be able to get it to upload though, but I will try).

It was a lot of fun watching them all play.

 

Playing in the water...

Victoria reading a book

 Playing at the park...

 

After the park we went and got milk shakes and ice cream at Artic Circle

They are half off 3pm to 5pm.

 

After the ice cream Katie went and bought pizza for dinner, Thank you Katie.

We met back at my house and had dinner and us girls talked while the kids played.  After dinner we went to the mall for a little bit.  All I can say about taking all those kids to the mall is WOW, they were crazy.

 

It was good to hang out with my sisters and their kids.  I always love hanging out with them, I will hopefully get to do that a lot this summer.



End of the Year Teacher gifts.

I wanted to share these ideas cause I think they turned out great.

I do have to thank Pinterest for such cute ideas.

 

I usually make or get the teachers something at the end of the year, but this year I thought it would be fun to send something home with the kids.

I have been helping out at the school this year and got to know the kids in my girls class fairly well, so I thought I would be nice and give them something too.

 

For the teachers I got the idea from this website

Orange You Glad It's Summer

 

I just put my ideas into it.

 

I put in a lot of goodies.

There is a orange cup with some orange crystal light, gum and Reese's Peanut Butter cups in it.

I got one of my most favorite lotion from Bath and Body Works, Mango Butter in there.

One of my favorite Scentsy scents, Peach a la Mode (which they no longer sell).

Cheetos, Orange Chocolate and a Lei and a cute little sign.

I printed out the sign but my printer was almost out of ink so it didn't turn out so well with the color so I colored over it with an orange marker and I think it turned out great.

The Teacher loved it, I guess they probably wouldn't tell me if they didn't.

 

As for the kids...

 

For Tyra's class I had to be a little careful, she has a kid with diabetes, so I knew I could do anything with candy.  I hope what I did would be ok.  The kid said he would have to take it home and check with his mom.

 

I got this idea from Pinterest, there was no website for it, just a picture.

 

I got the Crush singles and a bag of popcorn.  I wanted to put a straw in there but I couldn't find the ones I wanted, so they had to go without straws.

 

I hope the kids liked them, I thought it was a cute idea.

 

For Shelby's class I did something really fun.

I came up with this idea all on my own, aren't I a smarty.

 

 

I made play Kool-Aid play dough and came up with this cheesy cute saying.

I got the recipe for this play dough from this website,

Kool-aid play dough

If you use grape Kool-Aid it really smells good.

 

Shelby's class loved it, they were so excited to get play dough.

 

So that is what I did this year, now I will have to try to top it next year.  We'll see, I may just be lazy and do nothing.

I had a lot of fun helping in the girls classes this year.  It was good to see who their friends where and really get to know their teachers.

 

 

MOVIE NIGHTS

We haven't done movie night the past two Fridays, we have just been busy and just didn't get it done.

Movie in the park starts on Friday though, we will be enjoying that as long as the weather is good and no kids are sick.