Bittersweet

I was going to put some more pictures with this post...but it didn't seem right. This month was full of graduating and celebrating. Emma graduated from preschool, I have 3 cousins who graduated from high school, and Sunmi graduated from high school. (She has been staying with my parents for the past 2 years-her home is in Korea) Anyway, we celebrated Sunmi's graduation last week-which was sweet. So very sweet. Sunmi did an awesome job at holland christian. So we were so happy and proud of her for this accomplishment. However, with the end of the school year means it's also time for her to go home. Which is the bitter part. This was a super hard good-bye as she is looking at going to college in Korea. She became such a part of our family-and the kids just adore her. She truly is missed. I'm sure she is happy to see her family--but her family in America misses her!!


We love you Sunmi and wish you all the best!!!

Preschool Graduation

On May 21 Emma had her preschool graduation. It was such a fun little program that the kids did. They sang some songs, did some nursery ryhmes, recited some bible verses...just kind of shared with us in a nutshell what they did in the year. Emma had such a great class-and we are very thankful that she'll be in the same class as most of them next year in Young 5's.


The class acted out the book "Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see?" Emma had to say " I see a red bird looking at me". It was just precious.

Here, each child made a picture of what they want to be when they grow up and they came to the microphone and shared it with the audience. Emma wants to be a princess. :)

Her class

Emma and her teacher Mrs Sytsma. Emma just loved both of her teachers. She always wanted to go to school. And it was really a blessing being able to send my child to a school where her teachers pray and care for the kids. We are so thankful and excited that Emma will get to have Mrs Sytsma again next year!!

Way to go Emma!! You did such a great job in preschool! We are so very proud of you!!!

Mr & Mrs Jake Czerkies

On May 15 we welcomed Cassie 'officially' into our family. It was a fun fun wedding. A long day for the kiddos-but they really did great. Emma ended up falling alseep at the reception around 11-and Logan wasn't too far behind her. Emma was the dancing queen of the night. She started it off by dancing down the isle at the chapel-and ended it with dancing all night long at the reception. This is the happy couple kissing--which there was lots of-and when that happened, Emma would cover her eyes. :)


She was by her uncles side for most of the night...

Taking a little snack break

The place where we took pictures had all kinds of fun things to do while we were waiting. And since most of us hadn't been on a tramp in quite some time-we opted to give it a spin.

Logan had the most fun...jumping on the tramp, playing football, running around-he had so much fun that he tuckered out and slept through the wedding ceremony.

We wish all the best for Jake & Cassie!! Love you guys!

Dutch Diva

I'm not really sure dutch & diva belong in the same sentence, but Emma was being such a little 'Diva' while posing with her new dutch costume what else is there to really say?!? This is the first year in a few years where I have costumes for all of my kids! Emma's was made special by a friend, and we are so grateful for the awesome costume that she put together. Emma tells us that she looks so pretty in her costume, and she is right! She wanted it on again this afternoon so I figured I might as well snap a few pictures of her. She did all the posing herself-I just followed with the camera.