Goodbye...

...to Junior High and Elementary School.  Here are the girls on their last day of school.  Next year Peyton will start Middle School and Mackenzie will be at the High School (OH MY!).

 

Gator Roundup

Peyton's Fun & Field Day included lots of fun activities!  Bingo, Movie, Magician, Minute to Win It, Face Painting, Limbo, Dance Party, "Cow Chip" Tossing, Relays, Hair Painting, and so much more.  I stopped by for just a little bit and got a few pics.

Mackenzie's Awards

Mackenzie received a few awards at her last Awards Assembly of Junior High.  She received an award for all As for all of 7th and 8th grades,  the Outstanding Artistic Achievement award, and Achievement on the Explore Exam.  Always, so proud of how hard Mackenzie works! 

Soccer Party

Peyton had a party with her soccer team - the Breakers - to celebrate a wonderful year.  They only lost two games throughout the fall and spring seasons.  They had awesome coaches and played really well together.  Coach Tom provided pizza, drinks, and cookies and we had took photos and the girls got their medals and trophies. 

Red Liner Party

Peyton's team participated in a Red Liner Party for the students who passed all their addition, subtraction and multiplication facts.  Lots of red fun!  Red water balloons, red hula hoops, red sprinkles...I think you get the picture.  

This was a successful attempt (finally) of bursting a water balloon over the head.  

4th Grade Celebration

On Tuesday, May 31, Peyton had a 4th grade celebration followed by an awards assembly in the classroom.  Peyton made all As for the year.  On the last day of school she brought home a neat math worksheet that they did at the beginning of the year (with problems they had not learned to solve yet) that really showed how much the students learned this year.  I'm always very proud of what a hard working student Peyton is and how much she loves to learn.  

Memorial Day Weekend 2011

Over Memorial Day weekend headed to our friends, the Fords for "Ford Fest", and had so much fun.  Yummy food, yard games and great friends.

 We also had family and our future neighbors over to swim.  Here is my niece, Lexa:

 Snuck this picture of Mackenzie reading...she doesn't like it but I love it:

 Tate, I'm so excited for them to move in down the road in the Fall!

 Peyton eating her homemade ice cream from in the pool:

 My nephew, Logan:

It was a nice, relaxing weekend!

Chemistry & Soccer

On Tuesday, May 26, Peyton had her TREC Showcase night - Chemistry Unit.  Peyton really enjoyed this unit. I asked her if it was something she might be interested in doing when she  "grew up" and she said no, that everything had pretty much been discovered (I disagree, it seems like they are discovering new things to put in hair products all the time).  I said "What about a cure for CF?", she said "They will already have found it by then!".  I love the way she thinks!

 Teaching Jason all about the experiments...

 Dancing Raisins:

 They were so nice to let us go to the Showcase Night a little early so we could make it to Peyton's last soccer game for this season - the tournament championship game.  It was the tournament that I thought was going to never end because we kept having rain delays that moved all the games.  I think we ended up playing this game about three weeks after the original date.  Peyton and Emmalee were heading over to the coin toss:

Sadly, the game ended in a loss after overtime and PKs.  It was only the second game the Breakers lost during the Fall and Spring Seasons.  We were go lucky to have great coaches, teammates and parents!

Dinner

CPE Pet Parade!

It was Pet Parade at Peyton's school today.  Peyton decided to take Gizmo instead of Eddie, which I thought was the better choice after seeing all those doggies...I'm not sure Eddie would have behaved.  Gizmo was VERY well behaved!



Inhaled Meds

Mackenzie's daily inhaled meds. 30 nebulizers pictured, the average number of nebs Mackenzie uses in one week. She uses/we sterilize 1526 nebulizers a year.

Oral Meds

Daily oral medications - Adds up to over 12,000 per year!

For Mother's Day

In honor of Mother's Day, my CF Awareness Photo today is of the very first time I laid eyes on my (first) beautiful baby girl. She was born on Monday, July 21 1997... and this was the morning after, and, for only a moment before she got on the Angel Flight helicopter and was taken to ACH due to Meconium Ileus (one of the first signs of CF). I had to stay behind to recover from my c-section and was able to touch and hold her for the first time on Thursday. She had her CF sweat test and positive diagnosis at ACH on Friday, when she was 4 days old.

May 6 - Walk This Way with the Finest

Laura (our NWA CFF Development Director) & Stephenie. Stephenie won the Cyr Lawson award as the Finest Honoree raising the most money! And, she was smokin' hot! Fun night, fun event, lots of money and awareness was raised!

101 Dalmatians

Can you spot my little Scottie dog?