Smackdown Live

Kennedy loves WWE - she knows all the main characters on Smackdown vs. Raw.  John Cena is one of her faves.  Shane and I asked her how she could watch it knowing that it wasn't 'real' wrestling and she quickly told us "It's just entertainment."  Like duh parents...who wouldn't enjoy it?  I remember Dad watching WWF every Saturday morning with Hulk Hogan - I think that may have ruined my chances for enjoying WWE.

WWE Smackdown Live! came to Tri-Cities a couple months ago.  Kennedy's Papa Don got tickets and just the two of them went to it.  It was on a Thursday night so the deal was Kennedy had to have all her homework done so she could go.  She worked really hard the weekend before and finished her book report (or 99%) of it. She was ecstatic!

He bought her Smackdown paraphernalia like an autographed tshirt and a DVD set (yahoo - more Smackdown action to watch later! oh sorry that was my sarcastic voice). She had a great time and it was a special night for her to be one-on-one with her Papa. She is still talking about it months later.

Slide!

Isabella is growing so fast - it seems like she's getting so tall.  She still loves playgrounds and when we were at the carnival there were a zillion games to play, bouncy houses and kids but she was very content playing with us on the playground.

Shane and her tried to race but she won everytime:

 I attempted to win but even with a head start she still won:

 Reach!

 

Planter Box

I have been missing doing yard work - yes - I know that sounds crazy!!!  Shane made me a big-size planter box so I have a little garden.  I love it so much!

The girls helped me pick out some herbs and flowers and they found a couple of fairies to put in the garden.
Isabella didn't want your ordinary fairy - she found a fairy dog.  She loves hiding it in the plants and now that they've grown so big you can barely find the fairy dog.  

Kennedy picked out a more traditional fairy girl.  Usually she is resting with her elbows on the edge of the planter box although Isabella likes to hide her too - and likes to hide her face down in the dirt. 

Debbie bought them two new little creatures for the planter box.  Kennedy got a lizard (of course).  I'm hoping this is as close to having a lizard in my house as I will ever have (I'm STILL anti-chameleon).

 Isabella got a snail and he's made friends with the fairy dog - they hide out together.   

Unfortunately, the girls found catepillars (Isabella said it was NOT a catepillar, it was an inchworm) in the garden this weekend which solves why many of my leaves have holes in them now.  Definitely not an organic farmer, I sprayed the heck out of them this weekend with pest control.  Hopefully those pesky inchworms go away.

Carnival

Kennedy had a end-of-school carnival.  There were tons of games and bouncey houses to pick from. 

Isabella went "fishing," painted with sidewalk chalk, and did a cupcake walk.

 She also got her face painted - it turned out MUCH better than her happy face-face paint in the park last year. 

 Kennedy and Laney were pretty independent.  We didn't see them all night until it was time to go home.  They both got their faces painted too - Thing 1 and Thing 2 (except it looks like they are both Thing 2 - oops!). 

 

The Big Shoe

At the end of school Kennedy's music teacher puts on "The Big Shoe." Each class sings a song or puts on a musical performance.  During the changeover of each class to the middle of the gym stage, the steel drum band plays and the kids in circus club show off their skills.  Kennedy has been in circus club the last two years.

We thought the class - I think it was 1st or 2nd grade - did an awesome job with their dragons.  And they were fun to look at:

This is Kennedy with her friend Lainey Lacey showing their circus moves with spinning plates:

Kennedy on rode stilts & a unicycle:

Kennedy's entire 5th grade class performed with muck buckets - who knew a bucket could make such a great beat:

5th grade Promotion

Kennedy had her last day of school today.  Last week was full of end-of-school year activities.  One milestone for Kennedy was her 5th grade promotion ceremony and the beginning of summer before middle school!

Here are some pictures from the day:

Isabella, her Meme, and her Nanna

Photo courtesy of Isabella.

Kennedy received her Safety Patrol recognition from Officer Clark who used to be our next door neighbor:

 Kennedy and her best friend, Lainey Lacey.

La Loose Llama

Last weekend Nicole came to visit me.  Shane was working on the cabinets and wood flooring in his cousin's house so that left plenty of girl time for us. Because I was pretty sure I got a new full-time job (woot! woot!) and that my interview went good we took a tour through Target and picked out some work clothes for me.  Nicole and her good fashion sense picked me out some cute dresses and tops.  I didn't tear off any of the receipts until this week Tuesday when I officially found out the job was mine (yahoo!).

We went out to sushi and watched alot of Tabatha Takes Over.  She frightens me but I love her!

Kinda on impulse we decided to go to Lucas Marc Hair Academy (a school of Cosmetology).  I haven't had a haircut since October and needed a trim on a budget. 

 Cost of haircut = $8!! (can you believe that!?)
Cost of haircut + tip = $13!!! (crazy amazing!)
Time of haircut for 1/2" trim = 2 hours (ouch!)
I'm not sure Tabatha would approve of this time but the price point and customer service was good.

We also hiked Badger Mtn.  I warned Nicole that this hike isn't like the hikes we do at home...it's more of a hill than a mountain.  We burned a few calories and then burned a few extra chasing a llama around. Yes...you heard me right.  

On our way up we started to see a creature in the distance:

 It kept getting closer:

and closer:

It walked within a few feet of us and we realized it had a leash on it.  We let it go on by and soon after we saw a lady running down chasing it. She had stopped to take a picture of her llama and it had escaped from her. 

We continued walking up the hill and at the top there was a whole pack of them:

About an hour later on our way back down we found a man running in socks and Tevas chasing this llama all over the side of the mountain.

This llama would let him get just close enough and then run away.  We felt it most appropriate to bust up laughing and take pictures rather than help out.   We started to feel bad and tried to help wrangle it in.  Nicole and the llama-man-chaser had it cornered into a trench but it quickly escaped.

We did our best but decided since we were too chicken to grab the leash anyway (this thing had HUGE teeth) we would make our way back to the car.  When we got back to the car Llama-man-chaser had wrangled it in and was leading it back to the car for the lady.

All llamas were present and accounted for:

 La loose llama was an unexpected and great surprise to our windy hike.