The Final Grad Parties...

Though Heidi is not done attending graduation parties - we are done! We wrapped our final 3 parties this weekend. All joking aside, it has been fun attending these parties, meeting family, seeing the old photos, and catching up with people we haven't been able to see for awhile. Buuuttt we are also happy to get our weekends back and I'm happy I'm done giving graduation money to kids :) 

First up, we had Michael Marshall. The Marshalls are friends of ours, in our fantasy football league and Michael has known Heidi since Kindercare daycare days! We adore him and it was fun looking at everything and catching up with our friends. Side note, his party was during the crazy air quality days and the Canada wild fires. We all squeezed into the community center in our neighborhood to avoid outside - it was hot, but better than being outside in the smog. The smoke was no joke. We had headaches for a couple days and our eyes hurt. We are glad we had a rain storm this weekend to break it up. 

Sunday we had the lovely Ashley! Another Kindercare daycare buddy and it was great to be back at their house with hayrack rides and catching up. Luckily by Sunday, the fire smoke cleared out. 

I spy Lucy!

Lastly, we headed into Cleveland and went to Noah, Jason, and Emilys' grad party. Though we didn't know very many people, it was great to meet family members and celebrate the graduates. 

The summer is going fast! We have about one more month and Heidi is off to college. She is basically ready and now it is just hanging out and enjoying the time. Lucy starts school volleyball this week and we are getting her school items ready too. The time is going to fly! 

Here are the remaining other photos I received from friends.

Random! We have been keeping busy over the last couple of weeks. We had more grad parties to attend, shopping for school things for college, volleyball open gyms and tryouts, and lots of other things. I have been very bad about taking photos lately, so here are some random ones.

When it was 115 degrees outside - we tried to not go anywhere and instead entertain ourselves in our house. Lucy decided to make a whole obstacle course for our remote controlled cars. It was actually a lot of fun and challenging! I wish I would have taken more pictures of the whole thing but we were busy participating too! It is ok, I have a feeling she will build another track another day this summer.

The 4th of July weekend was extremely hot for us and none of our friends were having people over - I'm guessing because we have all had to throw our own grad parties as well as we are all experiencing fatigue to parties. We instead played a bunch of games, board games, card games etc and had a great time just hanging out as a family. Even Heidi and Noah joined us. 

Let's face it, there has been a tremendous amount of attention towards Heidi recently and Lucy has been doing better at handling it more maturely. While I was out dorm room shopping with Heidi, Chris surprised Lucy and finally getting a skateboard that she earned during volleyball. He took it further and actually got to design her own wheels and she got to pick out the design of the board etc. She was thrilled. After the 4 hour event, here is the 1 photo was have from it. Lucy petting one of the shop dogs. :) 

Heidi and I while they were away shopped for basically everything else she needs for her room and then we also assembled everything. Things are coming together and Heidi is getting really organized. We just have the last wave of items to arrive from online shopping (Not everything is available in the stores - annoying) and then we can say we are ready for college. Heidi's goal was to get everything purchased and ready by the end of July. I think she is going to beat that goal. She said, that way the rest of the weekends and weeks are just seeing friends before they leave and enjoying her free summer.

Lucy was very excited to show her new skateboard. Lessons are being arranged and we could see her skating down the sidewalk soon!

Guest what? We had another grad party! This one was thrown by our good friends and they did a great job. Lucy played ping pong almost the whole time in the garage and was having a blast. 

That evening, Chris and I stayed at the party, while Lucy joined the Belciks to watch Nicholas in the musical Legally Blonde. Lucy just loves to attend whatever he is doing. 

This weekend is the last grad party weekend for us - with just 3 more parties! Poor Heidi still have them all the way into August. She is definitely over the parties. We will hopefully finish gathering the last few dorm room items and then the full attention to Lucy's birthday coming up in about a month. The summer is going fast! 

Another Grad Party

It was the Belcik's turn to have their grad party. We went over early and stayed late :) It was beautiful weather again and we had a blast. 

Lucy & Heidi!

Some Karaoke...

The rest of the weekend was running errands, getting things done around the house and relaxing! We have no plans heading into the 4th and we are all excited about it!