May

May is always jam-packed with activities (end of school, birthday, etc.), and this year was no exception. We  started off with Kaitlyn's 6th birthday celebration. In keeping with her love of horses, we had a horse-themed party at our new house. 

Horse Cake and Snacks

Party table ready for friends

She invited all the girls from her school class, plus a couple of other friends and their siblings from church. We definitely had a full house of precious little girls (+ Ethan!), as you can see below.

9 six year olds + 3 little siblings + sugar = craziness!

Blowing out her candles

A very happy 6 year old!!

To add to the craziness, Kaitlyn's ballet recital was the same week as her birthday. We had two evenings of recital practice leading up the the big event Saturday morning. 

Kaitlyn and her class in the finale--she's on the far left (hard to tell with her ballet bun)

After the recital--she was SO thrilled to get flowers after her performance

Gran came to the recital--and so did Mimi, but I don't have a picture of her :(

Daddy and his little girl

My little ballerina!

After the recital, we went back home so that we could have another birthday celebration--this time a family celebration for Noah, Kaitlyn and Papa. 

More cake! That never gets old :) 

Most of the extended family. So fun to be all together!

We reached a bittersweet milestone in May--the end of Kaitlyn's time at OC. What a precious, precious place that is, and I am SO sad that she has reached the end of the road at that school. We had a sweet kindergarten graduation ceremony. I wasn't feeling particularly weepy that morning, but when her little class walked in holding the hands of the precious women who have been her teachers for the past four years and started singing a song about love, I lost it. We're talking big, ugly tears. I don't have very many decent pictures from the ceremony itself, but we did take some family pics afterward. 

Kaitlyn with her wonderful teacher Miss Melissa

Kaitlyn and Kate--inseparable at school!

So now that school's out for the summer, we've moved on to other things--like learning to ride a bike with no training wheels! She still has a ways to go, but we have the whole summer ahead of us :) More about our summer happenings in another post...