Pre-K Graduation

The girls officially graduated from their Pre-Kindergarten class at school this past week. They are off to Kindergarten this fall! I was getting teary eyed watching the video the school had put together of pictures of the kiddos from when they first started at daycare through the years. They also gave us a book with tons of pictures from the past four years that the girls have been at the daycare. I can't believe how much they've changed!

Official graduation photos:

Diplomas - so it's official!

Miss Mikayla's Pre-K class

The cousins got to stand by each other

The girls each got an award during the ceremony (along with all the other kids - ha!)

Getting their diplomas from Miss Josann and Miss Mikayla:

Celebrating at the end of the ceremony!

Other pictures after the ceremony:

These are the books the teachers made for us with all the pictures. They are awesome!

Avery with one of her best friends Myranda

There was a small cake reception in the cafeteria after the ceremony. The girls have made some really great friends while at daycare. I'm sad that none of them will be at our same elementary school. But, I'm sure the girls will make many more great friends in the future!

Avery, Myranda, Maddie and Morgan (after they had just eaten blue cake!)

Avery, Chloe, Hannah, Myranda, Maddie, Morgan and Audrey

The girls with their teacher Miss Mikayla

Avery, Olivia, Myranda, Grayson and Morgan

Some highlights from the ceremony:



(You can really hear Avery saying the Pledge of Allegiance because of the way she was standing and the microphone placement! She has such a little munchkin voice! Ha!)

Party weekend!

This past weekend, we went back to Rochester for a weekend of parties.

We got into town on Friday night and decided to let Matt try out the famous Darcy's horseshoe. Horseshoes are made up of a piece of Texas toast, your choice of meat, french fries piled on top, all covered in a cheese sauce. It's definitely not healthy, but it tastes good!

He loved the horseshoe!

Since we were at a bar, I asked if they had any non-alcoholic beer options...

This is what they had... never seen this before!

On Saturday, we celebrated my parents and their friends 40th wedding anniversary. There was a party with plenty of yummy food, lots of drinks, cupcakes AND cake, and dancing! We had a great turnout and surprisingly not as many leftovers as we expected. Matt was in charge of the bar, so he had an excuse to be hanging out near the alcohol all night. : )

My mom and Barb's wedding dresses

Half lemon/half white = so good!

Cupcake stand

Red velvet and chocolate cupcakes

Mom, Erin and Dad line dancing

Mom and Dad sporting similar fabric to my mom's bridesmaids dresses - gotta love the 70's!

On Sunday, we had a double wedding shower brunch for my brother and Sandi and for my cousin Brian and his fiance' Sarah. My dad's side of the family all came over for the festivities. My aunt Lucy had them play the Newlywed Game. Brett and Sandi won in the end with a bonus question - who would you cast in a movie to play yourself and your fiance'. They got it half right - Brett = Nicolas Cage.

After the shower, we changed gears and had a college graduation party cookout for my cousin Chris. This was my mom's side of the family. So, out went one family, in came the other. Of course, this is what happens when you have more than one party on the same day...

Wedding shower table cloth, graduation cake

It was a busy weekend, but so much fun to catch up with family and celebrate! Congrats to my Mom and Dad on 40 years! Congrats to Brett and Sandi and Brian and Sarah on their engagements and upcoming weddings! Congrats to Chris on graduating college!

Congrats to Michelle!

On Saturday night, we celebrated Michelle's graduation with a party at the PO.

Michelle wanted to liven things up a little, so she suggested we play a game of Disaster.

It started out with a small group of us...


And quickly grew into a game of "Double Disaster"!






9:31pm - the keg is dry, my friends.

And that was the end of Double Disaster, which was probably a good thing.

Later that night, Matt had a fierce case of the hiccups. He was trying everything to get rid of them.

Apparently, he got the most expensive spoonful of sugar ever = $1 million!


I think he ended up curing them with Ross' suggestion = bitters over lime(?).

We had a great time! We finished off the night with gyros (we don't live in Greektown for nothing!) Matt made friends with the cashier. He's always so friendly when he's been drinking. : )