May

We started May with a picnic in Kleiner Park in Meridian with Emily and the twins.  Cece decided to eat lunch on the rock and Lilli put raspberries on her fingers like olives, I don't think I've ever seen that before!

And now that Cece is big enough to hold on to the big swings, she loves swinging.  She never would swing in the baby ones.

Hannah moved back to Kansas for the summer so we are babysitting her hammock and have already spent hours in it.  Cece loves Marcel!

The girls decided to build a "road" for their toys with all of our games.  It was a huge mess and hard to clean up but they were having so much fun.

Selfie :)

We got this fun new game from Katrina and they love it.  I was so surprised to see Cece could match the bugs to the answer sheet.

Our house has very limited hiding spots but that has never stopped us from playing.  One day I found her in the play pen.

A different day, all the games got dumped out because the pieces and cards were perfect for pretend money.

Lilli has been spending so much time in our office drawing, cutting and gluing, etc.  One day I tried to go through there to switch the laundry but Lilli didn't want me to so she offered to switch it for me.  She had to use the step stool and then climb almost into the washer to reach the clothes but she did great!

Halfway through the month Marcel's jazz band had a year-end party (jazz band is an after-school club so they don't go all the way to the end of the school year) so we brought brownies to the party and let the girls finally play on the instruments.

And after the party, we went to Roaring Springs and got our passes picked up!

We love forts!

Lilli graduated preschool and is headed to kindergarten in the fall!

 

On the first nice day after graduation we had a classic summer day: bubbles, bugs, and chalk!

Coloring is one thing that the girls can usually do without fighting :)

We went to the Youth Ranch and got a new game.  We love GuessWho?

Marcel and I went to Parade of Homes in Boise for the first time. The houses were crazy expensive, but so fun to walk through.

Marcel is on breakfast duty on Saturday mornings and it is just about my favorite part of the week!

Lilli has been so fascinated in taking pictures!

Marcel and I have started running together again.  And we were talking about signing up for the same race we did last year and Marcel said "how about we do the 10K together this year?"  Okay, deal. Official training starts the day after school is out.

Anniversary #6

We started our 6th anniversary by exchanging our candy gifts.  We are 6 for 6 on giving traditional gifts and plan on continuing the tradition.  I love how it focuses us in on something particular to give, even if I wasn't the most thrilled to bring so much candy into our house.

I didn't know how to present candy besides a candy gram.  But I'm terrible with words and puns so I got A LOT of help from pinterest.

Marcel, on the other hand, is fantastic with words and puns and he wrote me this sweet note and handed me the candy as I read it out loud.

 

We didn't intend to do our May envelope dates on our anniversary but the 2 weekends leading up to it were rainy so we kept putting them off.

On our way to the Farmers Market!

We stopped in the middle of our adventure of the market to take in Freak Alley.  This was my favorite spot.

Last year, Lilli told us non-stop about the donuts she gets at the market.  And when we went to the market last year, we only went to the second location and the only donuts they had were from a bakery so we got them.  They were delicious but when we sent her the picture of our donuts she replied that they were wrong.  This year we found the right ones and they were yummy!

Then we went to see Pitch Perfect 2 and took a selfie on the escalator, so that our picture didn't turn out too dark (see below!)

 We went home for a few hours and Marcel took a nap before heading to Applebee's for dinner.

The other May envelope was to go to the drive-in, but we were super excited about the movies so we decided to camp in the backyard.  When we got home from dinner and looked at the forecast, it called for thunderstorms so we decided to camp in the living room.  We had to move the coffee table and one couch out of the way, but it fit perfectly.  Marcel decided to do the dishes and had me set up the tent on my own.  It was really easy because the only poles just make an x, but it still felt good to know I did it on my own.

Then we watched a movie from our Netflix queue that I already don't remember the name of and played Phase 10.  It was probably one of my best games ever!