Art projects from preschool: Four year old originals

Still playing catch up on my blog. I finally took pictures of all the pictures that Brooklyn had made at pre school and colored at home. This little girl has such a passion (still) for all things coloring, drawing, sketching and painting. She told me that "if you try really hard mama, you too can be an outstanding artist someday". My favorite has to be the first one, of Benny, Jesus and herself at the park. Melt my heart.

 

 The kids both made finger print flower pots for me for Mother's Day at church. This is Brooklyn's:

 This is Ben's:

Summer is here!

The kids and I met some friends at the park the other morning and they were having so much fun and SO didn't want to leave so I decided to offer a plan b) we decided to blow off naps, our grocery shopping, and all the other boring responsibilities to just have a day filled with play!

So we headed to Burgerville for some lunch, complete with milk shakes for the road. Ben indulged in one of his favorite past times (drinking his ranch) 😝

Then we headed back to the park and played with the ducks down by the water. I said "don't get in the water". See how well they listen. Ha.

They both completely submerged themselves and Ben was a total duck chaser.

It was a great day filled with hilarious things these little people say. Brooklyn asked me how she can become a dog while digging in the sand. Every time Ben lost sight of Brooklyn he would say "where my Brooklyn go?" I love that he calls her "my Brooklyn".

There was a 6 month old puppy that was playing in the river, before I even had a chance to do anything Ben walked over, scooped up a chunk of suck poop and fed it to the puppy. Blech!

I think my favorite story from today however, was up at the play structure. Brooklyn befriended a little girl named Ella. They were watching a squirrel run up and down a giant tree. Brooklyn named the squirrel "Lilly". She looked over at me and said as loud as she could "mom! I think Lilly is twitter-pated". As in "in love" from the movie Bambie. 

Welcome summer! We've been excited for your arrival!

Graduation! Here and gone.

Matthew Charles Feenstra, MBA

 

Graduation has come and gone, but we are still basking in the glory of the accomplishment.

 

The pictures below are from the hooding ceremony which was on May 3rd. This was an intimate ceremony just for the MBA graduates down at the world trade center. It was pretty cool to get to see all the graduates get "hooded" which is the honor that comes with the higher degree. Chuck and Lisa met us there and then we went and celebrated with dinner. 

 

 

 

Then on Saturday was the actual graduation at the main Newberg campus, which was for all graduates. The kids and I met Bethany and Cris there. Titi came prepared with a movie loaded on her ipad. Thank goodness, because it was a long ceremony.

Matt graduated with a 3.99 GPA, I could not be more proud of this man. To be perfectly honest, the post graduation high was not quite what either of us anticipated. It's been a really abrupt adjustment...but we both feel like that's because the experience was so great and we are just looking forward with open hearts about what God has in store for the next steps and stages. Not only for Matt's career, but for our little family as a whole. We are so blessed. Now, if anyone wants to invest in some student loan debt you just let me know ;-)