June 2025

 

I hate having to get up early and go to work in the morning, but I love the morning pictures of Rose I get :)

Sometimes I even send some back :)

Something that Rose did not like this month was having to get her last tooth out with a little help from the dentist...but they were successful!!

Here is Rose with all her 'sparkle' dollars from the tooth fairy

And the tooth fairy brought a new game which we all love :) 

Rose finished 7th grade! There were lots of fun memories, but Rose is ready for summer break!!

We celebrated summer break by taking Rose and some friends to Hershey Park. Since Rose was having fun with friends we were able to have some relaxing parent time with coffee :)

We also had some friend with friends and did a mother-daughter aerial yoga class

When the summer started Rose was going to go to work with Justin a day each week....here are pictures of her first and only day so far...

Started off with donuts....

Field trip for supplies

Relaxing on the internets...

Lunch time...not sure how much actual work was done ;)

We've also been spending lots of time outside between raindrops. 

We found our first firefly of the season

And our potatoes are growing well. If you don't have a skeleton in you planter, what's the point?

We also got to finally take our paddle boards out for their first time on the lake this year!

And when it's been too wet outside we've had fun indoors.

We've made some new cookie recipes, this is my favorite so far: Pistachio Chocolate Chip.

Rose and Justin's Birthday present arrived! They wanted the new Switch 2 that wouldn't be released till June 5. They waited patiently because they both love MarioKart. Rose says it was worth the wait

 

We took our annual girl's trip to Ikea. We had some meatballs and got lots of finds we just had to have :)

Where we adopted a new friend :) Meet Ollie, he's the newest addition to Rose's crew and we all love him!

We ended the month with a family trip to Hershey. It was hot, but we did some of our favorites and then headed to Troegs to cool off. And we ended the night with ice cream because it's summer and we love ice cream :)

May 2025

 

This month was full of school and family fun!!

Since birthday's were right at the end of our spring break vacation, I didn't bake a birthday cake for these two, so we celebrated with a lemon blueberry Bundt the next weekend. Rose and Justin are still also patiently waiting for the new switch to be released which they decided to both request as their birthday present...so the celebration just keeps going! 

Justin also made another appearance as school trip chaperone for Rose's 7th grade trip to Washington DC. It was a full day, but luckily they had nice coaches for the trip. 

They saw some monuments while walking around. 

And visited the natural history museum and air and space museum before it was time to drive back.  Rose loved the trip and the time with her dad :)

Rose played in the orchestra and band for their spring concerts

And she was able to play with Chamber Orchestra at Music in the Parks at The Hotel Hershey. 

After playing the kids went to Chocolate World and then Hershey Park.

Since we have annual park passes this year, we went along too for a date day!

Since Rose was with her school group, after we rode some rides we headed to Troegs, for a tour and food! Yay for parent time :)

Another fun school event was Rose getting to pie a teacher. They bought raffle tickets to support Four Diamonds and Rose's ticket was selected. Luckily this was her homeroom teacher and she was a really good sport about the pie :)

AND for the first time ever, making her school trip chaperone debut, was MOM!! Rose was able to go with the theater group to see Lion King on Broadway and mom went with to chaperone :)

Our group walked around and went in a few different stores

Before getting to see the play. It was amazing and mom definitely wants to go back!

Our family also went on our first camping trip of the season. We returned to Tobyhanna State Park, but Rhonda (Red Jeep) made her hauling debut. She made it, so 'good job Rhonda'!

We saw a lot of wildlife including a beaver Rose saw on the lake

A deer who visited our campsite

And a woodpecker who is out there somewhere ;)

Rose was also busy taking amazing photos

In other fun events. This cat gobbles down her food and then returns it. We got this cute little sign to make it a bit more fun when we find her piles :)

When she's not busy puking, Rose loves to cuddle with her cat, so that's cute.

Rose has also taken over the pole barn couch to hang out with her dad some evenings.

New shoes were selected

And mother's day was celebrated with ice cream :)

Some days Rose just needs a Wawa run

And some days the parents just need a beer run :)

This month Rose did not cooperate with a picture one morning for mom, so she sent a picture of dad...he's cute too :)

But there were lots of Rose pictures the rest of the month!!