How much fun can we cram into one Friday?

Last Friday was Water Fun Day for the first Grade.  I have decided that their grade is the best because they do SO many fun things.  There was a pirate theme and it was a GREAT day!  I had volunteered to be in the pool with the kids-which I was looking forward because I had never been in the Brent pool.  Ryan told me the water was always cold but we thought it felt great!  A little cool and refreshing-unlike our nearly 90 degree pool water at our house.  The 3 classes rotated through 2 game stations out on the field in the middle of the track, came to the pool, and then they got to eat pirate snacks!  It was great-see the pictures below!  The only downside to being in the pool was not being able to take pictures, but it was SO HOT that day that all the parents who weren't in the pool envied those of us who were!

 Ashley and her buddy Hannah eating snacks

 This is my friend Melissa in her pirate hat!  She lives up the street from us and has a son in 1st Grade.  She and her husband and son were having dinner in the same restaurant where we were eating back in August and she came over and introduced herself and gave me her card-she was the president of ALIG last year and being the president of our international ladies group and seeing Americans that she didn't know assumed that we were new and she was right!  Her husband is still teasing her about doing this-I told her it was ok, that I was excited to meet her, but my husband would have teased me about doing something like that too.  She and her family are from Texas.

 Ryan's class having their snacks

 Ryan's teacher having some pizza!

 The adorable pirate cupcakes that my friend Sheila (Hannah's mom) made-they were delicious!  and even had a treasure hidden inside-a reese's peanut butter cup!

 Ryan REALLY enjoyed his!

 Ashley got a pirate tatoo!

Couldn't get Ryan to smile for a picture-maybe he was sad because he had eaten all of his cupcake!


Proud of her pirate tatoo!

Then we went home and more fun was planned for when the boys got home!  When I asked Scott what he wanted to do to celebrate his birthday he said trade pokemon cards, play wii, and swim-so here we are doing those things with Scott's friends Jude-immediately below and another friend named Emilio from his class at school.

 The slide was tired by the time these 4 boys and Ashley were finished.

 We had a cannonball contest!

 And for some reason the kids find sliding on our wet tile very fun-I'm still trying NOT to have that happen to me again!

 Yes-Ashley is making a snow angel!

 A lizard joined the party!  not surprising at all!  There were probably 30 more that we just didn't see!

 I took this beautiful picture of the sky out our bedroom door as we were going in from swimming-to the left is a house that is being built-we wake to construction noise every day except Sunday and the house probably won't be finished by the time we move home from Manila!

 Enjoying pizza for dinner

 Here is Scott blowing out his candle on his brownie and ice cream!  I cannot believe that he is almost 9!

 Ryan did a lego show-whose script was highly stolen from Star Wars-good guys and bad guys in speeders in the desert

 The audience!

 Then we did boardgame island and mario cart on the wii!

 Here they are-Jude, Emilio, and Scott-Emilio will also be 9 on May 29th and Jude's birthday is in mid-June so Scott will celebrate birthdays with these friends before we leave also!  Our last days here before home leave are busy!