Annual Greenburg Tahoe Bike Ride

We did our family Tahoe bike ride the Saturday of Memorial Day for Nolan's birthday.  We rode the Camp Richardson trail this year.  Emily and Jim Jim were able to join us and that was a lot of fun.

We stopped at a beach and the kids got all wet.  

Then Emily randomly jumped in...

And Bret randomly jumped in.

And lost his glasses...

After giving up the search we rode back.  Dash zonked out.

We went to dinner for Nolan's birthday.  

All six grandkiddos.

May

Here are some random pictures of May.

Sue had some caterpillars turn to butterflies in her class.  It was way cool.

This is how Dash looked right before I had to wake him up to pick the girls up from school one day.  It was heartbreaking.

Sue got this question wrong, even though she did it right.

The kids and I ride our bikes to school on Friday, Dash didnt make it there to pick them up.  

Poor Cay...

 Cay and I had a date, she got bubblegum ice cream.

Braelyn's Field Trip

A couple weeks ago, I went with Braelyn and her 1st grade class to Andelin Farms for a field trip.  We were so excited to go.  We were going to see animals, make butter, go on a hay ride and plant seeds!  We even were going to have a picnic and play games.  The day came and the weather was not awesome.  It was cold.  It was rainy.  We went anyway and still had fun.  Mostly.  Many of the children (and myself) were not dressed well enough so there were a lot of cold munchkins around.   But despite the weather, we made some good memories.

Birthday Date

After Braelyn's party on her birthday, my Mom and I went out to get her the perfect cowgirl hat to go with her awesome new boots and fancy belt.

This is the hat she chose.

Goes perfect with the boots.

Then we got some ice cream.  What a special and fun day for my birthday girl.

Braelyn Sue Turns Seven

Miss Sue turned seven this year!  She is growing to be so much fun and full of energy.  She is loving and helpful and is very thoughtful.  We love our Sue Sue so much.

For her party this year her theme was none other than, HORSES!

The girl is obsessed.

I made this sign out of the old slats from our fence.  My Dad got the horse shoes to complete the look :)

The kids decorated their PVC and cardboard horses and then we lined up for horse races.

Then took a break to climb a tree.

We played some games.

Theres a snake in my boots!

Braelyn wanted to have her party at this particular park because there are horses across the street.  So we all walked over and said hi to them.

Then we played pin the tail on the horse.

 The best part was the three legged races.  So much hilariousness going on.

Teams: Elise and Caylee, Braelyn and Clara, Gramme and Dash then Rand and Muchael.

Please note: Braelyn and Clara are tied together with a rubber snake and Dash and my Mom arent tied together at all.

 GO!

(Sue immediately comes loose from Clara)

 And she's free!

(also notice Rand's three legged race technique.)

Cake time!

But we realized we forgot the matches...Papa Greenburg was off to save the day.

Dash was bummed we had to wait.

In the meantime, we opened presents.

 And played around :)

 Papa got matches and we sang Happy Birthday :)

After the friends went home we had a family lunch and then opened family gifts.

She got some perfectly awesome red cowgirl boots.

 And Gramme gave her a coupon for a cowboy hat.

And she read a letter that said Gramme and Papa are sending her to HORSE CAMP for a week this summer is Vegas.  Needless to say, she was a wee bit excited.

And Auntie Em got her a horse head.  It brought much joyful hysterical laughter.

 I gave her my last 1996 Olympic Cabbage Patch Doll.  She was happy to get her.

 And lastly, here is my Mom with the horse head on.  

I laughed for about 15 minutes when I saw this picture.

Happy Birthday Sue!  We sure love you :)