{"id":11545,"date":"2018-06-13T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T00:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11545"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T00:34:27","slug":"emma-and-eli-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11545","title":{"rendered":"Emma and Eli: May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May comes in fast and furious and is pretty crazy for all 31 days. \u00a0I think that happens in order to make us enjoy the slow pace of summertime! \u00a0May was super fun for the Strange crew! \u00a0The preschool at NCCS had a bike rodeo an Eli loved it\u2026lots of fun! \u00a0We continued with lots of baseball for Eli and softball for Emma. \u00a0Clint took Eli to a classic Corvette car show because our boy is all about cool cars these days! \u00a0My Mom came down for a visit and we had a great time visiting with her and just enjoying the time together! \u00a0We wrapped up another golf season at school and celebrated that everyone made good progress this year.<\/div>\n
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We had dinners out with friends and then began all of the end of the year celebrations\u2026Concert Choir concert for Emma, \u00a0Mother\u2019s Day tea with Eli, Powder Puff football with the faculty, Mother\u2019s Day with Clint\u2019s mom, a sweet Mother\u2019s Day for me\u2026and then Clint headed out of town for work for a week. \u00a0It\u2019s always a busy week when he is gone, further reminding me what a team we make! \u00a0Clint is so sweet to bring the kids to school in the mornings so I can head in early while it\u2019s still quiet and get some things done. \u00a0When he is out of town, their days tend to be a little longer, but the kids were AWESOME about it. \u00a0I can really tell how much they are growing up! \u00a0While Clint was out of town, Eli\u2019s team made a remarkable comeback in the playoffs and went all the way to the championship game before losing in the finals. \u00a0We had the end of the year parties for both Emma and Eli and then Clint came home late Friday evening.<\/div>\n
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We woke up early Saturday, May 19 to head over to Birmingham for the National Math Competition for Emma. \u00a0This started back in February when she was a state winner in Jonesboro. \u00a0Then\u2026winners from 11 states competed in the Region Math Competition in Atlanta at the end of March. \u00a0Region winners went on to compete in the National Math Competition in Birmingham and Emma finished 7th over all in the 3rd grade category. \u00a0She was the only girl in the top 10. \u00a0It has been super cool to see her discover this passion for math! \u00a0Even cooler\u2026our family has had the best time cheering her on in this. \u00a0My Mom and Dan even drove in from Birmingham to surprise her and Dan took us all out to eat afterwards to celebrate. \u00a0What a special time! \u00a0The next day Emma had a piano recital. \u00a0Because of her chorus competition Friday (gold medal for the group!), math competition on Saturday, and piano recital on Sunday\u2026we called it the Weekend of Emma. \u00a0And sweet Eli was always cheering the loudest for his favorite sister!<\/div>\n
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From there it was a downhill slide as we headed into the last week of school. \u00a0We enjoyed the awards days for both kids, played outside late into the evening, had end of the year parties with lots of smiles, snow cones, and friends. \u00a0Clint even took the day off to take Emma to Six Flags on the last day of school since all the schoolwork had wrapped up. \u00a0We had graduation on Friday night of Memorial Day weekend and then we celebrated the official start of summer by heading over to Alpharetta for two days of some of our favorite restaurants, shopping, hotel swimming, hotel tv, and just catching some much needed family time. \u00a0We are looking forward to a GREAT summer! \u00a0Clint and I are so blessed to have a front seat to what God is doing in and through Emma and Eli and we are so grateful for the amazing family and friends that are investing in our family in so many ways!<\/div>\n
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May comes in fast and furious and is pretty crazy for all 31 days. \u00a0I think that happens in order to make us enjoy the slow pace of summertime! \u00a0May was super fun for the Strange crew! \u00a0The preschool at NCCS had a bike rodeo an Eli loved it\u2026lots of fun! \u00a0We continued with lots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22,37,12,16,32,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-cedarcrest-church","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}