The Start of Summer

Summer has started, and also summer classes!  Naomi it taking Soccer, Basketball, Theater, Swimming, and Zumba!

This is a warm up for soccer to strengthen those legs.

The first basketball class was in really gusty winds, you can see Naomi's hair flying.  The temperature also dropped to about 75 after having been about 90!

Tadpoles in the pond at the park where she has most of her classes.

In her first theater class, they were trying to get the kids into character.  Naomi was a police officer (because of her hat).

Here she's saying 'Stick your hand up!'

The next time around she was a pirate, and she said 'Argh!'

Getting ready for swimming.

Jumping through a hula hoop to see if they can touch bottom in the deep end.

Gotta have the snorkel gear!

The rest of Memorial Day Weekend

Naomi hosted a tea party at Yaya's house.  The girls enjoyed Pomegranate lemonade tea, Baby Bell cheese, and pastries.

Her cousins Jessica, Madeline, and Rebekah were able to attend.

We also took the kids out to White Sands National Monument.  Naomi is always pretty cautious about going too fast, but luckily the sleds moved pretty slow with her.

Here she is trudging back up the hill to go down again, it's a lot of work!

She's standing at the top of the dune.  It was very bright and pretty warm that day.

This is 'Thank goodness I finally made it back to the top!'.

Target Practice

We went down to Las Cruces for Memorial Day weekend, and our first outing was some shooting practice at the range.  Naomi is sporting her stylin' ear protection.

Pa is helping her to aim her gun.  It's a little 22 rifle.

Now Daddy's helping her out.

Aunt Jennifer is holding her up.  I think she wanted a better view of the milk cartons being shot.  It's always fun to see if they are hit because water starts to spout out of them.

Yaya is in her gun slinging position!

Kindergarten Graduation

Naomi's last day of Kindergarten.  She's holding a picture that I took of her on the first day of school back in August.  She's ticked because she did NOT want me to take a picture of her!

Poor Naomi was the very last one to graduate since they went in alphabetical order.  She's receiving her 'diploma' from Mrs. Mosley.

Here we are after everything was finished.  They had an ice cream social for the kids after the ceremony.  There was some pretty strange combinations since the kids made the party food list on their own.  Naomi's ice cream creation consisted of mint chocolate chip ice cream, cookie crumbles, sprinkles, whipped cream, and cherries!