Welcome to Summer

Summer has been teasing us for weeks now.  First there was Memorial Day (which seems like such an appropriate start to Summer)...

But no.  Someone somewhere decided school should continue for TWO whole weeks after Memorial Day.  What the heck...just WHAT THE HECK?!  And as if that wasn't torture enough our best friends/cousins arrived.  Home from their year long adventure in Hawaii!  Call me a bad mom or a slacker or whatever but I totally let Carter play hooky to hang out with them...oops :)

Emme is practically beside herself to have her buddy Claire back...

So in spite of our definite lack of enthusiasm we pushed on and showed up (a few minutes early even) for school lunch dates with Carter...

And I even got motivated enough to put together a few cool mementos for her teacher (she was awesome after all)...

But there were the after school teases.  A swim date with friends...

And some taking care of business stuff like a trip to the dentist...

And of course there was fashion by Emerson...

And just in the nick of time (when we couldn't possibly drag ourselves out of bed a 6:30 am for even ONE more day) it was here.  The last day of school.  She grew this year.  Sneaky little thing...

After all the pomp and circumstance that last days are good for...

Carter was finally free!!  We celebrated appropriately with ice cream...

Summer in all its glory is stretching out in front of us.  If I can focus on sun kissed skin, sleeping in, having adventures and overlook the arguing over the wii remote and constant messes we will be in good shape!  Welcome to Summer.