Pool Time!

Lauren and Emma love the pool. Emma is getting to be quite the fish and is jumping in from the side and swimming with a noodle way before Lauren ever did! I think she wants to be "just like Lauren".

Birthday Highlights

Lauren had a birthday celebration at school Friday afternoon, and that evening we had the neighbors over for dinner and more cake. I made a poster selecting pictures for every year of Lauren's life and we talked about cool things that she did each year in front of her class.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN!!

My Work Featured through Business Wire

I am famous...well, sort of. A package I designed for 3M connectors was just featured in a business wire news release this morning. I've been eagerly anticipating this news release, as well as the release of the package design. It was a vast improvement from what the product had been packaged in for years.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/3m/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=1000940&newsId=20090604005118&newsLang=en

Before...

And, After...

Move Over Hallmark Cards...

The girls' school had a fundraiser and put Lauren and Emma's art on everyday greeting cards. It was a cool idea so I bought a bunch to give to Grandmas and to keep for myself. I was also very proud because Emma's art made the school catalog's front page (out of ~200 students).

This is Emma's art...I love the way she made the grass using her fingerprints:

And this is Lauren's art...not an inch of unused paper:

Pictures at school

Emma's teacher sent us a few pictures of Emma in her classroom from this year. -Bill

Busy weekend

We had another action packed weekend. Jessica has more pictures and will post them later.



Friday after work we went to the pool for a couple of hours and brought a pizza for dinner. Emma must have worked up an appetite because she ate 2 1/2 pieces.

Saturday morning we went to the park in the morning and then went out on the boat with some friends in the afternoon. We took out a wakeboard boat and Jessica showed off jumping the wake. After that the kids all went tubing and had a great time. We dropped off our friends after we swam for a few hours and then went to Carlos and Charlies and got some food to go. Lauren decided to take a 30 minute nap in the boat while we waited for the food.

Sunday morning we went to Church in the morning and then hit up Costco for a few bulk items and then Pizza again for lunch. The girls love Costco Pizza. In the afternoon we went to the Pool for a few hours. Lauren is getting very good at swimming and Emma is now jumping into the water all by herself. She even can grab a noodle and swim around by herself. -Bill