June 24 - STEM Camp

Last week Jillian attended a half day STEM camp at our elementary school with one of her teachers and the school librarian. They had a jam packed week! They did a variety of challenges including designing and building a waterslide, making mini firefly robots using the top of a toothbrush, making ice cream and more!

Daring Duck Drop Waterslide Challenge

3Doodler Pens and Rubber Ducky Accessory Making

Camp Chair Challenge

Ice Cream in a Bag

 

June 19 - My Dimpled Munchins

Love these Orcas!

Julia - year 10

Luke - year 7

Jillian - year 3

It's great, to be, a PineBrookwood ORCA!

June 18 - SpongeBob SquarePants & Band Camp

Summer week 2! What a wild week of driving all over town (for me LOL). Julia kept up with her normal summer schedule: coaching in the morning, private lessons a few days a week at local pools and club swim every afternoon. Luke was at the Stars and Stripes band camp all week, where he was 5th chair in the top band. And then he had club swim practice every evening as well (different pool from Julia of course!). Jillian had swim practice every morning and then theatre camp at a local community college all week. She attended with her friend Guinevere and the girls loved it! The camp was comprised of local students from ages 5-18 and everyone tried out on day one for parts. Jillian and Guinevere both got up on stage and performed songs in front of 30+ kids plus camp counselors, so proud of them. Jillian sang a Girl Scout song and told me she sang "with a lot of energy!" She was cast as a 'Simple Sponge' named Sage (as well as all of the 7-8 year olds) and they sang a song and were on stage a few times. What a fun time!

In addition to this crazy schedule, the kids had dentist appointments, Bella had a vet appointment and Crumble was bit by another cat (we think) and also had to go to the vet. 

After that crazy week, we capped it off with a swim meet on Saturday that was very, very hot. But the kids maintained great attitudes and did great! What a week.  

June 9 - Camp Happy

Summer 2024, week 1 is in the books! Jillian attended Girl Scout "Camp Happy" at a local park for the 2nd year. She was assigned group 2BA with group leader Chickadoodle and goddesses Biscuit and Trumpet. There were Brownies total in her group which included Jillian and 3 other girls from her troop. She had a blast! Everyday the girls rotate through different activities: songs, crafts, canoeing and archery. She loved her goddesses, especially Biscuit, and even went into the wet canoe this year. What a great week of memories!

Camp Happy

June 1 - Beach Day

And just like that, another school year is over. Julia's last day was Friday, June 24th, while Jillian and Luke were done yesterday. Yesterday was a CRAZY day during middle school drop off. A strong storm came through as I was dropping off Luke and Anna. It was raining so hard with gusting winds that the roads starting flooding. Visibility was so bad that I had to pull over and wait for the storm to calm down. Half our neighborhood lost power for half the day (we were fine luckily). There was also hail, the 2nd hail storm in less than a week. Hail balls measured over 1" in diameter. Crazy May weather!

On Wednesday this week, I took Julia, Ava and Myah to the beach for a few hours. It was overcast most of the day but the girls still had fun. The water was warm and it was pretty empty. 

Galveston Beach