A few photos from Sienna's "First Friday" presentation in May.
Below are some photos from the Crane's school auction event which is held at the Crown Casino (not a casino but part of the Four Seasons). It was a "Togas and Tiaras" theme. I still can't believe that Patrick dressed up. I honestly think he was more worried about standing out by being the only one in a suit :)
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| many dolphins swam by during the event |
We went to see a children's production of "Gypsy. It was put on by the Adderley School (the theatre arts program that the girls do in the community) and it was held at the Lobero Theatre here in Santa Barbara. Host was Don Johnson (no more Miami Vice white suit for him).
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Mother's Day
Some photos from Track and Field day at the school. |
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| Sienna's class cheering on the big kids |
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| Sienna with her favorite teacher (performing arts) |
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Jaeda's last volleyball session for the season at UCSB
Gymnastics' show final for the year |
May 18th...Sienna finally learned how to ride her bike without training wheels and yes, we went out and got her a new and bigger bike after she mastered this one :)
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We have been trying to get out for family Sunday hikes up the mountain or trail walks. This walk was in the Douglas Family Preserve (not far from our house). The girls love their Camelback packs and new hiking shoes.
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looking over the cliff to Patrick's favorite breakfast place on Hendry's beach
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| the school organized 3 different food trucks to come on one of the hot lunch days (a taco truck, a panini truck and a pulled pork truck) |
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| the new bike |
At the end of May, we went to Cabo which is in Mexico for our friend, Mike's 40th birthday. Mike, Dave, Ryan are some of Patrick's closest friends. They all went to the University of Western Ontario together and played on the varsity volleyball team together. The 4 couples all flew in from different places (New York, Alberta and Ontario). Thank you Joey for organizing!! An incredible trip with incredible friends!!!
Patrick's parents came to visit and to take care of the girls while we went away for 4 amazing nights!!!!!
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| Patrick, me, Dave, Tasha, Mike, Joey, Ryamn |
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| Tasha, Joey and I |
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| at the Container restaurant for dinner in San Jose |
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| Ryan, Pam, Dave, Mike, Patrick, me, Tasha, Joey |
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| Pam and I |
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| dinner at the One and Only Palmilla |
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| dinner at Javier's restaurant at resort (Cabo Azul) that we stayed at |
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| Pam, me, Joey, Tasha...thanks for all of the chats and great laughs |
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| just a tad bit of competition...eekkkss |
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| in Cabo San Lucas for dinner...on our way to Edith's |
When we got back from Cabo we went to San Ysidro Ranch to the Stonehouse restaurant to celebrate Patrick's mom's birthday and a belated Mother's Day.
June has been an incredibly busy month. The girls have had lots of birthday parties so far, Jaeda had her class trip to the Chumash Discovery Village in Malibu, we had a baby shower for one of the moms in Sienna's class, Sienna had a biographies assembly at school, Jaeda had her final performance for theatre group (High School Musical), both girls had their end of the year class parties (which occur during the school day off of the school campus), Sienna had her graduation, Jaeda had the 3rd grade egg drop, Sienna had her last First Friday (in the library where they each got up on a chair and thanked their parents for something from the year), the girls had field day on their last day of school (Thursday, June 13th), my mom was here for a week and Patrick will have been away for 2 weeks. Oh and we are finalizing everything at the new house before we move in next week. Are you tired yet after reading all of that??!!! I sure am and we aren't even at the end of the 3rd week of June.
Some photos of the Jaeda's class trip to Chumash reserve
The third grade egg drop. The kids had to design a vehicle for their raw egg that could survive the drop from the top of Cate Hall. Jaeda survived the drop from our balcony at home but not from the roof at school :(
Sienna's last First Friday.
The girls are still really wanting a dog. With Jaeda's allergies, we are still desperately trying to find the right dog for our family. I took Jaeda to the new Pottery Barn Teen store in Thousand Oaks a few weeks ago and there was a pet store but just with tons of different breeds of dogs. This is the one she loved :)
A big thank you to cousin Carrie for all of your help with our dog search. Still wish we could have gotten one of your gorgeous labs.
Jaeda's "High School Musical" performance
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nice that Nana could be here for it
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Sienna on a school trip
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Some photos of Sienna's end of the year class party.
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| on the trolley from school to the party |
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| Sienna presenting to one of her teachers the gift that she and her classmates made for her wedding |
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| Ms MacMurray opening the wedding gifts |
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| Ms MacMurray and Miss Soto opening the end of school gifts |
Jaeda's end of the year class party
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| Mrs Yee opening the end of the year gifts |
Sienna's Kindergarten graduation
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| reciting a poem that she/we wrote which started off with..."born in Canada, lived in England, moved to the USA". |
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| the head of Lower School |
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| the school Headmaster |
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| this is what Sienna and her friends LOVE to do |
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| the favorite teacher that is leaving for the east coast to take care of his elderly father...lots of tears |
Some photos from Field Day (the green team won)
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| brunch at the Biltmore |
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| outside the Biltmore with Nana |
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Ledbetter beach in the afternoon after school was dismissed
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| a sleepover at our house the day after school was finished |
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The school sets a reading challenge for the summer. The challenge for Jaeda and Sienna's classes were 750 pages. Both girls are already over that and it has only been 5 days. They are reading everywhere we go. They are on a mission to get to 10,000 pages, so that they can have lunch with the Principal in his office. Wonder how many more years they will be hoping for that :)
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| reading at the beach |
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| reading on the floor of the post office |
Here are some photos of the girls and I at the beach earlier this week with their brand new wet suits :)
This summer is a lovely balance of just being at home with the girls, the girls going to some different camps (surfing, horseback riding, golf/tennis, theatre arts), as well as some travel. We will be in the UK for 10 nights staying with various friends in Windsor in July and then the girls and I will be going to Canada for 2 weeks in August. It is still hard to believe that we have been here for a whole school year already!!! The girls are off to First Grade and Fourth Grade in September.
Our new address is:
122 Olive Mill Lane
Santa Barbara, California
93108
Home number and cell numbers stay the same. Also, just a gentle reminder that my email address is now:
erineberhardtspence@gmail.com
Here are some photos of our house. CAUTION.....there are a TON!!!! If I had the time, I would have created a Picasa album just for the blog, so there weren't so many. Anyways, I know some of you LOVE our remodelling photos and keep asking me to send photos, so for those of you who are in that boat, there are lots for you to go through. For others of you, you might just want to go to the most recent album :)
May 12th-18th
May 28th-June 16th
June 17th-20th
Wishing everyone a fabulous summer!!!!!
Lots of love, Erin and fam xo
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