Saturday, May 15, 2010

Birthday, Mother's Day and a Sleepover

We've been busy over here in Harstad territory. I'm in the final stretch of finishing up the school year and there's no rest for the weary. This time of year is full of tests, reports, more testing, and more reports. It never ends!

I did take a break one evening to celebrate my birthday. I had a wonderful day celebrating! My students (current and former) brought me cards they made, gifts and one girl even brought me a vase of roses from her mom's garden. They smelled heavenly!

Clay and I had a date night over sushi and martinis. After dinner we went to get my Nook from Barnes and Noble. For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about it's a device to read books electronically. I was introduced to it from a former student's mom that I've become friends with over the year. She kept showing all these cools things you can do on it and I was sold! I've read one book so far and am on my second one. I love it and can't wait to use it this summer during our travels.

The Sunday following my birthday, I celebrated Mother's Day. Clay and Courtney got me a really cute purse for the summer and we celebrated with a brunch over at my sister's house. Nothing like omelets and mimosa's and make the Mom's happy! The afternoon followed with a long nap and a steak dinner from our own grill. YUM!



Last night Courtney had her first sleepover with her cousin, Kelsi (or Kiki as we like to call her!). Our nephew, Brandon, was having his slumber party for his birthday and we thought she should stay with us so the boys can well...be boys. The girls had so much fun and love each other so much. It's adorable to hear them call each other Kiki and Tootie, play jokes on each other and genuinely care for one another. We're so blessed!

They played FOREVER on the slide last night!






Silly girls and their suckers!



So cute!



Hope everyone is enjoying the spring like weather!