April 2015

April was a very busy month, as always.  Elly's class at school had an Easter egg hunt in the school cafeteria that I went to help with.  There weren't too many places to hide the eggs, so the kids were just told a certain number they could get.  They were very excited about it anyhow.  

Coloring eggs at home is always fun.  

Peter and Ellen (our German neighbors) are always so sweet about bringing Elly little gifts around the holidays.  Often it's chocolate ☺

Easter morning

With Elly bigger now it's fun to go on bike rides with her.  

She still is more comfortable using her training wheels though. 

Elly still enjoys ballet

The school has a marathon club that meets once a week.  The idea is that at the end of the set weeks the kids will have run the equivalent of a marathon.  Elly wanted to participate, so I signed her up.  I wasn't too sure how much actual running she would do, but that first day she really impressed me.  She ran a total of 3 miles that first day!  After that she wasn't so excited about it, but still managed to run about 2 miles each club day.  Go Elly!!

Spring Fest at Patch is put on by CYS, so Sam is always working it.  Elly and I spend the day with him there usually.  This year there were horses and at first not too many people so Elly was able to ride quite a few times.

Sam arranged for the CYS nurse to come to Elly's classroom.  All the kids brought a stuffed animal to practice their new nursing skills on.  It was pretty cute. 

January - March 2015

When we returned from Hawaii we found out that our dryer broke while we were gone. One of the benefits we have being over here with the military is that we can get some larger items on loan, our washer and dryer being one of them.  Anyhow, we scheduled a time for someone to come out and check the dryer, but in the meantime the laundry continued to grow.  Even after they came out and decided it needed to be replaced it was going to be several more days, so for the first time in our 8 years here I loaded up the laundry and went to the laundromat on post. I'm still always amazed how quickly the American washers and dryers work.  Elly loved the process and really enjoyed helping me fold laundry before heading home.  She's such a sweetie ♥

February brought lots of parties going on at school for Elly.  Throughout Kindergarten I would go in on Fridays to help out in the classroom. I loved being in there with Elly and had a lot of fun helping out.  We loved her teacher, who made the year fun.  This was one of those days when they were doing an experiment.

Of course Valentine's Day brought another good reason for a party at school,  My little girl looked so cute all dressed up and ready for her ice cream party.  

In March we had our checkups at the dentist again and Elly did great as always.

St. Patrick's Day party at school.

Elly looked so cute as we were getting ready to go out to the Easter Egg hunt/Spring Fling on Patch☺

This has become a yearly tradition for us.  Of course, Sam has to work it every year so it's nice that we get the chance to spend time with him even though he's technically working.  This year there were horses to ride and Elly really enjoyed that.