Preschool Graduate & Dam to Dam

She did it, Laura graduated from preschool and is off to kindergarten! During the spring sing graduation, I was that parent that had to wipe away tears. Laura looked so grown up and confident. I swear, it feels like we just brought her home from the hospital. Seeing her singing and looking for us with her big smile made me really feel like a proud mom. I told Eric that he's in charge of the first day of kindergarten drop off, I don't want to have to dig into her backpack on the first day to smuggle Kleenex from her school supplies. 

Now that Laura is finished with preschool, there's room for Sam to go in the fall. We just received the official letter that told us Sam will be at my school. Yea!

I've been on summer break for a week now. Last weekend Eric's parents visited and Aunt Liz, Grandpa, & I ran in the Dam to Dam race. We had a wet and windy wait for the buses to pick us up to take us to the Saylorville Dam. While waiting in the giant line before dawn, it reminded me a lot of Black Friday shopping. Totally stupid, yet I do it every year. When will I ever learn?

Everyone finished the race with better times than the previous year. At the end of the race, we met up with the rest of the fam without any problems. Grandma packed some pretty fun Frozen coloring pages and Sam and Laura sat in the middle street of the most crowded part of the post race area and colored their brains out. That's a good busy bag, Grandma!

Post race we took an "ice bath" in Saylorville Lake while taking the pontoon for a cruise. My lips were blue when I got out but I will say I had minimal soreness the next day.  

The rest of the pictures will speak for themselves. 

Hooray for summer break!