The Donoghue Family: Stars and Stripes

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Stars and Stripes

We had a patriotic weekend for Memorial Day! The girls' school does "Red White and Blue Day" each year which was a nice event. The kids sing a lot of patriotic songs, and they honor all the veterans that were able to attend. Uncle John's name made it on Evie's class poster. Maggie has been practicing her memorized line for a month now, and did a great job speaking!

Evie got to sit in the front row for the assembly - cutie pie

Spotted Maggie in the parade beforehand

Maggie's speaking role:

Over the long weekend Jamie and I worked and worked and worked. The kitchen is 95% done and is now usable! So we were cleaning, moving everything back into place, getting rid of garbage, cleaning out the garage and basement, prepping the pool, doing yardwork - I'm tired just writing about it! The Donoghues took our kiddos on Sunday for the big parade in St. Clair Shores and then kept them for the day so we could keep working (thank you!).

On the lookout for candy!

Cuddles with baby Jane

America!

On Monday we finally enjoyed our house - pool time and yummy food with family!

Cousin takeover

Maggie and Luke kept busy in the pool all day

Ben did not have daycare on Friday, so he helped me clean the house and then we had a fun day with just the two of us. We had fun at the park across the street, looking for ants and rocks.

He really though he could reattach this branch
to the tree

Ben had his first visit to the dentist! He did so good, and I could tell he was a little anxious but followed all the directions. The office staff loved this guy.

I have 10,000 questions

We celebrated Grandma's birthday earlier this month! Dinner at the house, and then most of the family went to see the new Dr. Strange movie - Maggie was thrilled because Scarlet Witch was a main character.