Friday, May 20, 2011

Ups and downs

Spring has always been my favorite season, even when the weather changes dramatically. Here are a few examples...

1. We made it through the tornado's of the southeast, hiding our family of 5 in our closet as the power was lost for nearly a day. I did not take any pictures that night..call it a bit of fear on my part. We were blessed to only have a few branches on the ground the next day.

2. Rain makes beautiful flowers and a garden grow. Brad of course has worked really hard in our gardens to make the beautiful, including planted another vegetable garden. We are excited to taste the first veggie that pops up. 3. It is always so hot and humid the week of the kids gymnastics jubilee. This year it was in the 50's. Much more comfortable for the fans watching! Here are my 3 babies. Best friends. I love it!

Aidan and one of his good friends from school, Gracie.

4. This crazy weather pattern we have been in the last month. We had a week of intense heat..90's plus and then a week of 50's and tomorrow it will be back in the 90's. I don't know how to dress the kids when they leave for school. The girls wanted to read some books outside (which they do frequently), but they had to take a blanket with them early this week.
5. Warmer weather mean a couple things...school ending. Carsyn's last day was yesterday and Aidan and Brenna finish on Wednesday. We are so blessed to have a great school system and wonderful teachers. The kids love school and hopefully that will continue as they grow. Here is a picture from Aidan's class party today. They all signed each others t-shirts. The lady on the right Mrs. Sallie Power is his teacher (she is one of Brad's old students). She has been out on maternity leave with her first baby and filling in for her is the wonderful Miss Allen who is on the left. And the other thing....our summer schedule starts Monday with swim team practice.

I am off to take a walk while the weather is nice. Who knows when it will change again?

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Dogwood festival

I have always wanted to go to the Dogwood Festival for as long as we have lived in Georgia and as of this summer-that will be 10 years. We have no children in strollers (which is such a pain in a huge city to get around), so we road the train downtown and walked a few blocks to Piedmont Park. Brad and I completely fell in love with this park. If we could purchase a condo in this park we totally would. It is a place that the Kudlas family will visit often. Even though the Dogwood trees were past bloom, the whole park was beautiful and booming with visitors. Now onto the pictures. I think they explain themselves.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Gymdawgs

This was a great group of girls this year. We had so much fun and I am so proud of how well they did considering all the obstacles they had. We have 4 seniors this year. 2 of which I have coached since they were 11. I will miss them as they journey off to college next year.
Congrats Forsyth Central Gymnastics on a great year!