Pink Palace

At the beginning of the summer we received a free membership to a museum called the Pink Palace. We decided to go there on Saturday with the kids. I was a little concerned how the kids would do in an actual museum, but they did great. Emma loved the dolls, and Ty loved the sports stuff and the old toy blocks. After the museum we went to the IMAX at the museum and it was very good and informative on ocean life (maybe a little boring at the end too :)

Emma with the dolls.

Ty is going through an "I don't like having my picture made phase" So sometimes we get very cranky pictures.

Sprinkler Park

On Thursday last week we met our friends the Heath's (who are from Birmingham)at the Sprinkler park. I wondered if the kids would be too old, but they loved it and had a such a good time playing together, and Paula and I got to talk for two hours and catch up on each other's lives!!

Ty, Emma, and Gabe playing in the sprinklers.
Emma, Ty, Gabe, and Elijah.

Having fun.

Swimming Lessons

We had a GREAT time again at Mrs. Cathy's for swimming lessons. Both of the 2 weeks Em and Ty stayed in the deep end and worked on the front and back stroke, treading water, and diving. They had an absolute blast

Emma and Ty with Mrs. Cathy.
Emma jumping in.

Ty jumping in.

Emma diving.

Backstroke for Emma.

Ty diving.

Front stroke for Ty.

Lasts

We have had a lot of "lasts" lately because of moving out of our house. We've had Ty's last tball game, in which the other team did not show up so we just practiced on the field. Ty and Jeff had their last mowing time together, in Vancouver we will be downtown and in an apartment, so no mowing there! And then we also said "goodbye" to our house.

Ty's TBall team THE PIRATES

Ty and his teammates running the bases since the other team was a no show!

Fielding Balls with his team.

Emma saying goodbye to her room.

Our living room the night we all said goodbye.

The Final mowing day.

Mowing for the last time.

Summer Time at the Park

I have been waiting to post because I wanted to post about our trip to TX but I can't get my pics off of snapfish onto here, so I'll have to wait until I can get a dvd copy of them. Anyway, since summer has started life has been CRAZY for us. We got a contract on our house while Jeff was at camp and the kids and I were in TX. We were so excited except it meant we needed to get out by the 15th of June, which at that point was 13days away!!! So we are now in an apartment and have closed on our house!! Yay! Praise God, this was one of the major things that needed to happen before we could move to Vancouver. The pics below are of a rainy day at the park. We had such a great time. We fed the ducks and geese, and then we ate lunch under a pavillion. While we were eating we saw some squirrels digging in the trash can so we decided to put a cheeto out for him. Before we knew it, he had gotten the cheeto and then was nibbling on it. It was SO CUTE!!

Emma and Ty eating lunch

Feeding the geese that had us surrounded :)

Emma placing a cheeto on the sidewalk.

Momma duck and her babies playing in a puddle.

Here is the squirrel nibbling on our cheeto.

Emma's End of Year Awards

I must preface this post with an apology. Sorry I have gotten so behind, trying to catch up, so if you love to read about the Phillips' you can get caught up on the 3 following posts!!

Emma had an INCREDIBLE 1st grade year. She had 2 of the best teachers in the school and fun and loving kids in her class. On awards day every kid got several awards and then the lead teacher gave each student their own award, kind of a character award. Emma got the "kindness"award. Mrs. Nance said Emma received this because,"she always could sense when other children were hurting or upset and went to help and love on them." We were SO proud of our little girl. After the awards we had punch, cake, and fruit. It was a really special day.

Emma with Mrs. Nance.
Emma with Mrs. Julie.

Emma receiving her "kindness" award.


Emma with her friend Kennedi Bonds.

Emma receiving another award.

Our cake had their class picture on it.

The Goodies :)

Ty's Last day of Mother's Day Out

Ty had his Mother's Day Out program on his last day of school. He got to sing on the stairs again, which he loves and then he picked Chick-fil-a for lunch. He had such a great year, but he was ready for summer.

Ty singing songs with all of the kids.

Ty with his teachers, Mrs. Sandy and Mrs. Rachel.