Last of the school year bits!
Hello! We are off for our vacation today! I am very excited and really need some time to just be and hang out with my boys! This year has been incredibly busy and both T and I have been a pretty drained the last couple of months.
For J’s last day of school we on a field trip to the zoo! It was super fun, and I was very aware of how much I genuinely enjoy hanging out with him, he’s such a nice kid to be with!
This photo came out so amazing!!! I’m not a great photographer, the elephant was so great looking and stood very sweetly for me! She had the sweetest face, very humble and content looking, which sadly is not an look you get from zoo animals often, but she was really beautiful and we really enjoyed watching them.
Then there was this guy, also very sweet, but, without the contentment that the elephant had… he seemed lonely and a bit bored with the hundreds of kids running around staring at him… Actually, looking at the photo’s it would appear that the situation would be reversed, but in person it seemed to me that the elephant was happy and the orangoutang was a bit sad…
Here’s one more with J and the elephant and totally unrelated, J with his Illan (from Top Chef) inspired hair cut! We love it but for some reason, my MIL seemed almost horrified at it! 
Next is the goodie tin we put together for J’s teacher to thank her for a wonderful year! She’s a really amazing woman & teacher, and I felt so glad to have had the opportunity to get to know her and learn from her. She’s really really amazing so we tried to put together a really nice gift for her! The vintage inspired sugar tin is *so cute, and we filled it with See’s candy, stationery & a custom crystal paperweight made by yours truly! …And of course J and I both wrote her letters thanking her for all the love and care she poured into the kids over the corse of the last year! My letter was quite long and mushy, J’s was a little less so but still pretty darn sweet! We also got to meet his new teacher for next year and she was very very kind! 
And last but not least, we hit a few yard sales a couple of weekends ago and scored some really great stuff including a neat suitcase, a handmade chair from Spain and these little cuties!
They were only a dollar a piece and I absolutely adore them and cant wait to find the perfect place to hang them!!! Well, my husband just came in and let me know that the truck & boat are all packed up and ready to go so I’d better say goodbye! I hope everyone has a lovely week and I will be back all too soon with lots of pictures and a re-newed mind! Enjoy!
xoxo, Mariah