Strawberry Festival

The best part of Memorial Day weekend in our town is the Strawberry Festival. It's very busy since Daddy helps with the pancake breakfast before the parade and at the Kiwanis corn booth but it seems like everyone in town is part too so we see lots of friends around the festival grounds.
Emily and Mommy got to walk in the parade with our Brownie troop:
We got to go on lots of rickety carnival rides. Claire especially loved this roller coaster:

They're flying away!

Un-Birthday Party

Claire and all the summer birthday kids got to have an un-birthday celebration in class.
Claire signed up to bring blowers and party hats. The blowers were very popular!

Brownies at Bolsa Chica

Emily's Brownie troop had their first field trip at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. We hiked for about a mile along the bluffs above the wetlands and saw the native and invasive plants, butterflies and talked about the animal that lived there (but hid for the most part).

When we were done walking, the girls got to explore the "touch tanks" and see what lived in the water:

Mother's Day

Claire's class hosted a wonderful Mother's Day tea for their moms. They made beautiful decorations and a yummy lunch. They also sang for us and served us.

On Sunday we took Grandma Holly to the Arboretum at Cal State, Fullerton. We got to see some really interesting trees and flowers. The girls favorite was this tree that had an interesting trunk. It grew in such a way that they could walk through the middle of it.

We loved this field of native wildflowers:

Awwww

A fun photographer came to Claire's school and took some "glamour" shots:

Spring Portraits

Claire's school always does their school pictures in the spring and Emily's does a "fun" picture. Here they are:

Pre-School Amtrak Trip

Claire's school has an annual train trip to San Juan Capistrano. Since we are such a large group (over 120 this year!) we get a car all to ourselves. Even though there was plenty of space, the kids had far more fun playing sardines in the seats:

We had a wonderful program at Zoomars where the kids got to try different things from the "olden days". Claire's grandmas were talked into being helpers at 2 of the stations. Grandma Wendy helped the kids grind grain into flour:
Grandma Holly had the next station where the flour had been made into dough and needed to be rolled flat then cut into biscuits:

Emily's favorite station was panning for gold:

Miss Lindsay made sure the kids didn't slack at the washtubs:

Zoomars is mostly known for its petting zoo. Claire and her friends loved holding and feeding the guinea pigs and rabbits:

It was a wonderful day making memories with our pre-school friends and families. We were all pretty tired on the way home but very happy.