McQuay

McQuay

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Evette graduation

In the middle of May, Evette finished up her second and final year at Hillsdale High School's "Little Knights" Preschool.

Sorry for so many pictures... no I'm not. She's adorable and beautiful and smart and kind and thoughtful and creative and a problem solver and spunky and stubborn and strong and my baby. 


The next three pictures are of Evee with her "buddies" Kayla, Isaiah, and Inigio. She had a teenager in the child development class be her buddy throughout the preschool day. The 3 hours of preschool spanned 3 different class periods, so 3 buddies. (she actually had 4, double duty during 2nd period, but he wasn't there). Look carefully and you can see her little "thank you, I love you" pictures for her buddies that she drew of and for them.





She had so many sweet friends in this little preschool!!


Coming up to accept her award as "most creative". 










Evette giving hugs to her sweet teacher, Ms Trisko. We all super love Ms Trisko. She's amazing and loves those kids.  Evee and Ms Trisko had a special bond - they were sweet friends. We're going to miss her!





She's grown through this preschool program. It's amazing to see....

This was her first day of preschool 2 years ago...

End of last year....

Start of this year....

And now graduating this year...

Don't make me talk about how grown up she is or beautiful or smart or whatever or I will cry. I am having major pangs of leaving our toddler world behind and entering the school years. I don't want to talk about it.


Afterwards we went bowling to celebrate!








Memorial Park w Jarmans

The first weekend of May we packed up our minivan full of sleeping bags and firewood and headed to Memorial Park in the Santa Cruz mountains for some camping with our dear friends, the Jarmans.


There were a good number of banana slugs to be found.

Everything was a little wet and a little cold, but it was beautiful! Deep dark greens and  browns and earthy smells....mmmmm. 

Because what is camping if not for the smores.


Smore station all set up and ready to go!


Getting ready for bed with their glowsticks/light sabers.

Snuggly sweet sisters.

Getting the morning fire roaring with Daddy-o




English muffin egg sandwiches for breakfast! Sooo delicious!




Our campsite was so beautiful! So quiet, hardly any other campers (everyone was afraid of the rain, but we won that bet!), and so much for the kids to explore and play.


After we cleaned out of our campsite in the morning we went exploring - hunting banana slugs, climbing tree stumps, finding cool sticks, ya know... all the good stuff.


A banana slug with a banana.....

We found this great little stream that we played in and skipped rocks across.


Big hallowed out redwood tree trunk! So huge!



good one, Evee......

The gnarly roots of that huge tree!

"This is our new house...."


It's unfortunate that California is so ugly, ya know?


Great place, great friends, great times.