At the last assembly of Ellie's Kindergarten year, they gave out awards for attendance and reading achievement. Ellie received a certificate of perfect attendance for the school year as well as a medal for reaching "gold" level reading, which means she read over 60 books. She was very proud of herself, as were we all, so much so she wore the medal everywhere the next few weeks, including on our cruise.
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| Ellie is very proud of her reading medal |
This was the end of blueberry picking season and we made one last hurrah out to the blueberry fields in Somis. It was scorching, and most of the blueberry bushes were picked clean, but we were still able to come away with one basket of blueberries. Oddly enough, there were plenty of strawberries this time, whereas the times before yielded minimal strawberries and ridiculous amounts of blueberries.
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| Selfie! |
The last day of school at the YMCA. Nono got in on the action.
DTS Annual Summer Picnic. I went to pick up Nono early so she could come play games and listen to the live band playing.
On the tram going to Disneyland. This Disneyland trip was to meet Charo's family. We had breakfast at the Plaza Inn so the kids could take pictures with the characters. Other than Minnie, Nono was terrified of all the other characters.
Ellie's 6th birthday. We asked her what she wanted to eat for dinner. Guess what her answer was? Souplantation!
We were worried that going to the beach on July 4th weekend would be crazy, but thanks to a tip from Bill Perkins, we went to a nice beach in Ventura that wasn't bad at all. The shore was rather rocky, but because they had breakers every 100 feet or so, the waves weren't very big. Unfortunately our feet got scratched up because the waves were breaking the pebbles over our feet. But the kids had a blast building sand castles and digging for rocks.
Continuation of July 4th weekend. Spent at AhGong AhMa's house.
Nono's 3rd Birthday celebration at school.
