Emma is in MIDDLE SCHOOL

How did this ever happen? How is my little girl in MIDDLE SCHOOL????

I mean wasn't this yesterday? (1st grade)

 I was worried that she was going to be too big for photos before school started so I was SUPER excited that she still humored her mom!

I even took off early to pick her up from the bus stop... and at that point I pretty much had the worst hour and fifteen minutes of my life!

I was waiting at the bus stop with my camera hoping to sneak a few more photos of her getting off the bus. All of the kiddos all got off and EMMA WAS NOT ONE OF THEM!!! I thought maybe she forgot that she was going to take the bus home or that she had missed the bus so I headed to school... Not there... I went back to her bus stop and drove all through her Dad's neighborhood (he had just moved to the neighborhood so that Emma could go to this specific school) NOT THERE... Not at his house! Back to school to see if any of the buses had reported that there was an extra child on their bus... NOPE still no reports of a child getting on a wrong bus... THERE ARE 30 BUSES AT EMMA'S SCHOOL. At this point, over an hour later, I was about to loose my Sh*t. Crying to Emma's dad and my Dad... I went back to her Dad's neighborhood and she had JUST arrived at her Dad's house!!! I was so revealed to hug her and we cried together... She had gotten on the wrong bus and had even driven right past her stop where I was sitting, She got to the final stop and FINALLY said something to the driver and he took her to the proper spot!!! AHHH

So happy that she was safe and that it wasn't anything major!!! She will always be my little girl... Even if she is a big middle school chica!

Picnic at Green Springs Park

When I woke the girls up at 11 a.m. (they went to bed at 5 apparently) I decided that we should all head over to a local park for a picnic. We picked up some yummy food and smoothies at Tropical Smoothie and headed to the park.

This was the view from our picnic spot.

Here are a few photos from the day 

Gibson was not interested in eating at all. He just wanted to walk around and explore

After eating the girls went off the explore on their own and I took the boys on a little walk around the pond. 

You can tell in the below photo that Gibson was a bit warn out after our fun at the park! The boys took a three hour nap this afternoon!!! AMAZING! 

Where did the time go???

Last Friday my little girl graduated from the 5th grade!!!! How is this even possible? It seems like just yesterday I was sending her Emma off to Kindergarten!

 

I mean a bow, a dress, and ruffle umbrella! Those were the days! I had to beg to get her into a dress for her graduation this year

 

I mean time has just flown by!!!

(First and last day of 5th grade)

 

I loved being at her Graduation ceremony on Friday! She had some really great teachers this year and I am sad to leave our little Beech Tree community!



and she even received the Presidential Academic Excellence award... but I already knew that she was a smarty!

One thing I know for sure... no matter how fast time flies or how big she gets she will always be my little girl!!!

Spring Soccer

Emma doesn't have a soccer game this weekend but I wanted to share some SUPER cute photos from a few games ago.

They are a mixture of Emma and Hunter playing during half time.