And the Solheim Elem. Spelling Bee champion is......

BEN KINNEY!!!  Ben won the 4th grade Spelling Bee today!  We are soooo excited, I'm so happy something good happened for him :).  He wasn't overly excited about it, or at least didn't really show it.  The principal called and left him a message to say congratulations and that he'd been 'Cougar Caught'....they are the Solheim Cougars and you are 'caught' when you've done something good.  It was unsettling to hear the principal had called...the last (and only) time the principal called, Grace had slapped a boy on the playground.  Thank goodness it was for something good! 

Grace had her Girl Scout ceremony Monday and bridged from a Daisy to a Brownie.  She is so excited to be a Brownie!  They will start up again in the fall.  She got some patches and pins and a certificate, which she taped to her wall :).  Grace and her friend Lizzie....Lizzie's mom is the leader.

The lilacs are in full bloom here!!!  We're about a month behind Iowa :).  We have a huge bush behind our fence to the back, one over our side fence, and a gigantic one across the street.  I can smell them everywhere and it's heaven! 

Grace's soccer pics....it was in the upper 40's, windy, sprinkling and FREEZING the day they took them, as you can tell by the hat :).