Another One Down

The Pre-K Graduate

onto 2nd Grade...

End of Year Gifts

Found these ideas online and had to make my own...

Summer To-Do List

and beach bundles (O magazine, beach towel, and sunscreen)

and Connor made notecards for the Principal (these have become my new favorite gift)

can't believe yet another year is over

Happy Birthday Connor!

We celebrated Connor's birthday this weekend. He wanted a LEGO themed party. This is what he got...

The invitation

this was separated into individual pieces and mailed (or hand-delivered) with instructions to put it together to get the details of the party.

The weather was p-e-r-f-e-c-t, so all of the activities took place outside.

When guests arrived, they all made guesses.

The winner got to keep the LEGOs.

They each wore a Ziploc bag necklace for collecting LEGOS they received for completing each "level". Those LEGO pieces were to be used for the last activity.

Activity #1: Lego Drop Relay
Teams had to carry a LEGO under their chin and drop it into a jar. The team with the most LEGOs in the jar was the winner.

Activity #2: Sticky Hands
Using "sticky hands", they had to pick up as many LEGOS as they could in 2 minutes. Hilarious!

Activity #3: Balloon Pop
Balloons were tied to each child's ankle and they had to pop a friend's balloon to collect the hidden LEGOs inside.

Activity #4: Tallest Tower
The LEGOs were spread all over the table and they competed against each other to see who could construct the tallest free-standing tower in 2 minutes.

Activity #5: Create and Guess

They had 5 minutes to create an object out of LEGOS for the rest of the group to guess. Some of them were very clever and detailed.

Activity #6: Build a Car

Using the LEGOs in their bags, they were instructed to build a car. This was so cool. They did way better than I woud have!

Then we had cake

I learned that frosting a cake really takes some skill. A skill which I DO NOT have. Aren't those candles cool? Found them on Amazon.

Then the kids raced their cars down our homemade ramp. They loved this!

Favors

I bought both the silicone mold for the chocolates and the candy blocks from Amazon.

Ta-da! Party's over. Afterwards, I said that this party was so easy and took very little effort. I think everyone had a great time.

Easter

This year, we made "carrots" for all of the boys and girls in Carly's and Connor's classes (that would be 35 carrots - a lot of cheese puffs!) We made Peeps treats for Carly's class and the teachers received monogrammed eggs.

We were up on Long Island for the majority of Spring Break but had to come back home for Easter since school started again on Monday. Our time on Long Island was relaxing...not on the beach though. Not warm enough yet. We enjoyed our time with family - and happy that we were able to be there to celebrate our sweet niece's 2nd birthday, and Matt's father's birthday.

Easter was very nice - a beautiful, warm, sunny day. We enjoyed a liesurely morning while C&C hunted for their Easter baskets. No clues this year...the Easter Bunny must've been lazy! They found them, though, with very little trouble. After a wonderful service at church, we came home and C&C hunted for eggs. That evening, we enjoyed a not-so-traditional meal of surf -n- turf with my mom. Mmmm mmmm!

RUN Terry Family RUN!

Whew! What a day!

At it again...

Those highly anticipated, silly leprechauns were at it again this year (though crazier than ever!). Check out some of their silly stunts...They also scattered chocolate gold coins throughout the house. C&C had a ball searching for them and were hysterical each time they uncovered some other silly thing the leprechauns did. I "prepared" the traditional St. Patty's day breakfast...L.u.c.k.y C.h.a.r.m.s cereal with green milk and both kids enjoyed a green lunch!

These are the pots o' gold that we made for the teachers and the "lucky" treats Connor shared with his classmates...

Of course, we couldn't end the day without a green dinner...doesn't this look appetizing?

Happy St. Patty's Day!

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