Hardy Family: A few things in May

This Month has been SUPER BUSY!

Candice graduating from Pre School, Ethan Graduating his 1st year of Pre School.

Last Day of School., Summer break begins.

Candice Dance recital,

Brother getting married,

Trip to VA!

Nephew turns 3.

Major cleaning to the house, Laundry, and TONS of swimming!

Candice had her Dance recital on May 19th and she danced her little butt off, she did a FANTASTIC job and looked Gorgeous! Grandma, Grandpap, Po Po and Mo mo never miss a gig, And of course we all brought her flowers to show our appreciation to her dedication, and such an awesome job! I think receiving all the flowers is her favorite part. And getting to wear such a pretty sparkle dress.

In between all the graduations, and Dance, and Uncle Alan getting married, the time being home has been BORING.

Other then tons of swimming and running around doing errands.

We kind of watched a lot of TV more then we normally do.

While Mom and the washing machine NEVER stopped!

and packing....I did not think I was ever going to get done.

(these kids have enough clothes to wear one outfit in a month TONS and TONS of clothes)

Because I have a hard time flying, I procrastinated on packing.

I did not pack until the day before we left.

We flew out Wednesday and hung out at the hotel all night, and of course being that far away in a town that I have visited now 2 times with in 2 years for weddings. We had to go explore some history that we didn't get to see last year. We visited the smithfieldplantation, as we all know Sam gets a little bored easy and I had to excuse myself and her along with Ethan. So we went outside and explored the most beautiful green fields. My kids are not to sure what to do in that much grass. So we ran around and picked flowers (kind of). I loved the porch on this house! So we had a family picture

The next day Friday....we stole my brother and since my parents did not get to see where Dirty dancing was filmed, We went to take the tour. I LOVE THIS MOVIE! (Russ and I danced to "the time of my life" on our wedding, that is our song) So anyway, they had plenty of things to do there, the picture above is Alan and Russ playing tether ball. Alan won. Russ trying SOOO hard to win. After all this fun we had Alan back and ready for his rehearsal dinner.

Sam and Russ role playing, this is when "Johnny and baby were in the lake and Johnny picked baby up out of the water" However the lake is "dried up" and if you look far into the picture you can see a little bit of water, and that is all that is left of the lake :(

Memorial Stone for Patrick Swayze

Saturday came extremely fast, and the time difference was 3 hours. When we showed up to the church I was in AWW, it was absolutely beautiful. It took my breath away. The structure, the beautiful brick, the land scape, it is nothing like you see here in AZ.

(I did not get many pictures this trip, Because one I left my camera at home but brought my bloogie, two I miss placed my bloogie, and only had my camera on my phone, and three Sam kept me running the entire time that I had to excuse her and myself many of times, leaving me with no options to take a picture)

However in the church it was Gorgeous, Just everything.

Here is the bride and groom exchanging their vows, and becoming MR and MRS Cummins.

(again I missed the entire ceremony because Sam wanted to sing and be loud that we had to step behind the glass and miss everything!)

Russ was in the wedding so I had to get myself and the kids ready with in 2 hours, because I also took them swimming before we got ready.

Candice looked absolutely gorgeous! Her hair turned out, her dress was beautiful!

She has her pretty little smile on her face!

So much more I can say but I brag to much at times ;)

Something I have yet to upload off my phone, was at the reception. The guys were teaching Ethan how to dance. We have some friends that CAN dance, and dance super good. So they taught Ethan this, spin on his foot, and Ethan adds to this spin with a little jump. And he didn't land on his foot he landed on his face, leaving once option....Emergency room!

He split open his chin, and instead of stitches the DR glued it up. He said we will get the same results as if we did stitches.