Scenes from Spring

This time of year always gets away from me. The kids are about to finish school for the year, and that's when school activities and events pile up.

Here are some scenes from around Raleigh and the lake house to show you what we've been up to this spring.

Anson worked very hard on this diorama project for school. It's a "temperate deciduous forest" biome...

Charlotte's Mother's Day Tea play for me and the other moms in her classroom...

Anson and some buddies at a birthday party...

Mother's Day breakfast at the lake...

Trying out the new slack line at the lake...

Charlotte's soccer team picture - they did great this year (maybe not in the posing well for pictures category, but in the playing well category)...

I chaperoned the fifth grade field trip to the North Carolina aquarium on the southern shores. Let's just say it was an adventure (the second pic is the group I was in charge of)...

We went to a downtown arts festival and rode around in a few rickshaws, played games, made some art, and saw a concert...

Russell and I painted the kitchen cabinets at the lake ("after" pictures to come later this summer). NOT a fun task...

The lake slightly flooded, and the water lapped over the bulkhead...

It was cold enough Memorial Day weekend to have a fire and turn on the heat...

But ahhhhhh, it finally warmed up...

Charlotte and I killed some time doing nail art. She calls this "fireworks"...

The kids enjoyed a ginormous water slide at a friend's party...

I enjoyed the beautiful flowers on our back deck, thanks to Russell...

Lastly, Russell was able to leave work for a bit (NOT an easy task for him) to join Charlotte at school for "Doughnuts for Dads," an early morning celebration of dads since they usually don't get as much attention at school as the moms (since Father's Day is during summer break)...

Up next for the kiddos this week: field day and fifth grade graduation. Then, it's SUMMER BREAK!!!!