Friday, May 21, 2010

Where did this year go?

Seriously! Where did it go? Most of the school years do fly by, but this one just seems to have disappeared! I feel like I was just preparing for the challenge of having a 1st grader, a middle schooler, and a high schooler and now we are down to the 3 week count! I guess with the challenge of keeping up with chauffeuring and volunteering with 3 in 3 different schools made the year go by in a blink!
We've been busy winding down the end of the school year. The boys each have one big project due this week they are busy working on this week-end. We've been busy with end of the year activities. Faith's class had their 1st grade music program and open house last night. It was the cutest performance with a "children around the world" theme. Some of the children wore traditional country costumes and of course Faith dressed in her Chinese best!
Here she is all dressed for her performance. She was so cute with her hair all done up in a bun. She did not want to move for fear of it falling out.



Those dimples I just love!


She would fold her hands so cute when she would stop to poise for a picture.....



Proudly showing off her school work to Daddy after the performance

Yeah! Her bun lasted through the performance!

When we got home I tried to get some photos of her out by our pool in this traditional Chinese hat. (One of our neighbors proudly gave Faith this hat she had bought from her travels in China years ago) She wasn't much in the mood for pictures.





Also this week we attended Dean's High-school high honors award ceremony. Dean completed his first year of highschool with a 4.0 average!

What a wonderful accomplishment for his first year of high school! We are so very proud!



It has been unusually cool for this time of year and I am hoping it starts warming up soon! I am so looking forward to the lazy days of summer spent in our pool! The first signs of summer are here though. Last Saturday our towns farmers market opened...........

We bought lots of fresh veggies that were delicious! I love strolling the market on Saturday mornings and can't wait to do it again tomorrow.
Happy week-end!

6 comments:

Sharon said...

Gorgeous pictures as always!! You are So right about the time flying by! This year was a blink! Even Barrington for the first time in his life thought it went by so fast.

Joanne said...

I totally agree ~ this school year has flown by! Love the photos of Faith - I was going to ask where you got the hat too :) Congrat's to Dean - that is an awesome accomplishment!! Hope you had fun at the farmers market today!

Joanne said...

I totally agree ~ this school year has flown by! Love the photos of Faith - I was going to ask where you got the hat too :) Congrat's to Dean - that is an awesome accomplishment!! Hope you had fun at the farmers market today!

day by day said...

Hey Colleen!! Oh, I agree about the time flying. My goodness....where does it go? And it just gets faster and faster, doesn't it?!

Faith is soooo beautiful....loved all the pictures of her in her pretty blue dress...also love the hat!!

yay for Dean with a 4.0! Wow!!

Happy week-end to you, my friend!!

love,
~m

Chasing Dreams Photography said...

beautiful pictures as always : ) Colleen I agree..time flies by way too fast!!!! Faith is beautiful!!! Love those dimples : )

Beverly said...

love all of the photos. so beautiful. the header photos is oh so beautiful as well. love it. Happy for summer to be here but yes, the year went by so, so fast.