The Mellens

Happy Friday!!

• Hope everyone has had a great week. We have had a wonderful week here. The weather is just incredible. Spring has sprung and even though pollen is coating everything, it’s still a beautiful time of year. We’ve all been enjoying more outdoor time and loving the warmer temps. Spring rocks!!
• Happy Birthday to Baby Zoie!! Heather & Mike welcomed their baby girl into the world on April 11th. Our first niece/girl cousin!! We haven’t met her since they live in Virginia, but we are super excited and loving photos!
• Last week was Spring Break, so we went down to Seagrove Beach in Florida. That’s down between Destin and Panama City Beach in the Florida Panhandle. That area used to be much more quaint and secluded. These days it’s much more developed and busy. We still had fun though. I posted a ton of pictures on my Facebook for friends and family to see.
• Today is Macey’s last day of CRCT (standardized) testing at school this week. They started on Wednesday with the reading portion of the test. Yesterday was the Language Arts portion and today is math. It’s surreal that our big girl is taking these tests. Wasn’t she just in preschool?
• Speaking of preschoolers, Mariana will turn FOUR in less than a month. That is just wild, isn’t it? It truly doesn’t seem like it’s been four year since she was born.
• Mariana has four weeks of school left in this preschool year. She has gone three mornings per week this year and will go every weekday morning next year. She LOVES preschool! She’s always excited about it!
• Macey has five weeks of school left. They have some fun activities coming up like a field trip to the Center for Puppetry Arts,  fun run, spring fling, field day and the annual 5th grade students vs teachers kickball game (the other grades get to watch and cheer). Lots of fun things happening – after CRCT, that is.
• Both girls have their dance recitals coming up on May 8th. Mariana’s pre-ballet recital is in the morning and Macey’s tap/jazz recital is in the afternoon. Additionally, Mickey is playing in a co-ed softball tournament at church that day. Whew…busy day!! We are SO looking forward to it.

Hope everyone has  a wonderful weekend!!

Macey and I went to her school’s “Muffins With Mom” celebration this morning. We both had to get up a little early and be ready to leave home by just after 7am. We got behind a school bus in our neighborhood, but we still made it ahead of the really big rush. We got one of the last parking spaces and went to the cafeteria to get our muffins, juice and coffee. (No coffee for Miss Macey, of course) It was a packed house this morning! It was so nice to see the moms there having muffins with their little (or big) ones. Macey and I found a spot at a table and enjoyed our little breakfast. Before long, the entire cafeteria was FULL and people were finding places to sit on the floor. Wow! It was a really nice way to start off the morning for Macey and me. I walked her to her class and got to talk to her wonderful teacher. I love to see the girls in their classroom environments – it’s so neat to get a glance into their school days. My day has started on a VERY happy note.

Here is a photo of Macey and me before we left this morning. It’s an iPhone shot, so the quality isn’t that great, but our big girl looks adorable no matter what:

Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL day!

Happy Friday,
Kelly