Schools Out for Summer!

I don't know about you, but every single time I say "schools out", I have to sing the Alice Cooper song..."Schools out for Summer...Schools out for Forever" - So that song has been stuck in my mind the past couple of days as we approached Jonathan's last day of school! (Which was 5/17/12).
We had such a great school year, but honestly I am REALLY excited for the summer! We have so many fun things planned! I can't wait!
I'm not even going to talk about the fact that I now have a child that is on his way to PRE-K!!! What? I have several months to let this sink in and then we will discuss.

This was our end of year teachers gift. Jonathan and I did these together. I asked him what he wanted to give them and he said, "Flowers, they love flowers!" I found this idea on Pinterest and I have to say I am proud of how they turned out and I think the teachers really liked them! - I spray painted Chalkboard paint onto Terra Cotta pots! Jonathan picked out the flowers and helped me plant them in the pots! I believe he was really proud of them too!!

So for the last day of school, we were asked to an end of year Pool Party! One of Jonathan's class mates Reagan has a nanny named Beth. And nanny Beth has one of the coolest house/properties I have been to! We had a blast!
Okay, so a little disclaimer, my priorities have not really been on teaching Jonathan to swim. So he doesn't know how. I didn't realize that all the other kids would be little fish! He is signed up to take swim lessons this summer (and Ben and I are doing the mommy and me swim class!) So I plan on this summer being the one that Jonathan becomes a little fish too!

He sure does look the part, but that is about as far in as he got. The step he is on leads to an area right there is only 2' deep, which would have been perfect for him, but he just didn't want to go all the way in. 

But he liked playing with the toys. That is Taryn with him!

In the white cover-up is Nanny Beth (her house and pool).

Ben was great. It was in the middle of his nap time and he got a little cranky, but he got through it.

This is my friend Kirsi's little one, Mazie. She is 9 months now. So she gave Jonathan the perfect job for him, taking care of Mazie in the little floaty thing! Jonathan even scolded that little boy that is approaching because he squirted Mazie with a water gun. Ha!

This is Beth's property. It goes as far as you can see, literally, I can't see the back fence line from here! Crazy, because we are in Hurst, not far from the church! You would never guess this is tucked away back here. You can't see it here, but there is a guest house to the left behind all that greenery.

This is next to the pool area. They have a trampoline and 2 or 3 swing sets! Neat!

This is the Reagan!

Baby Collin, which I guess he is not a baby anymore, he is about to be 2 (Lily's little brother)!

The pool from a different angle.

He still didn't want to get in, but he sure did want to wear those goggles!

Yay! He got in the shallow area!

There is Lily!