The Nolan Family

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Vacation Bible School!

Last week Cora, Josh, Madelyn, and Ellie went to Vacation Bible School at St. Marys Catholic Church! This was Josh's first year going to VBS and he did not know anyone in his class. I was a little nervous he would not want to go but he LOVED it! His teacher said he was the first one to answer all of the questions! So proud of my little guy! The girls had a great week too and loved all of the activities they did! It was a great and busy week for everyone!

One day Holden will be going to VBS!

Love this pic!

Everyone in the Mine Shaft!

Sweet, sweet cousins!

Summer Fun!

Here are a few pictures of some summer fun!

Constant playing in the driveway

They now like to pull each other with a rope on the scooter..never a dull moment!

My loves!

Josh and Taylor at their last day of speech at Echo Lake!

Josh is becoming such a strong swimmer!

On our way to the movies with the McGuire girls and Lauren!

Having a quiet moment and blowing kisses on the deck!

Games after the movies!

They loved Finding Dory!

Josh loved Maddox's bowling birthday party!

They loved Lewis Ginter last Friday!

Ice cream!

Climbing trees!

Bowling fun!

My sweet boy:)

Maddox and Josh!

Arby's lunch date!

Brotherly, sisterly love!

Happy 65th Birthday Pop!

Last week Pop celebrated his 65th Birthday! We had a little birthday party for him at our house last week! Cora and Josh wanted to decorate for the party and were so excited to have everyone over. We had a great dinner and were so excited to celebrate with our Pop! Happy Birthday to the best Pop ever...we love you!!!

Decorating!

Picnic on the floor!

Helping Pop open cards and gifts!

They sure do love their Pop!

Cake time!

Dressing up and putting on plays for us!

Swimming and Soccer!

Cora finished up soccer a few weeks ago and had a great last game (Josh finished around Memorial Day). After their last game Coach Frank and Coach Peyton took the girls out for ice cream at Dairy Queen! Cora had such a great season with Coach Frank and Coach Peyton and we will miss them next year since Peyton is going to college! Swim team is also in full gear and we are busy practicing every day with swim meets every Wednesday! Never a dull moment!

Dairy Queen!

First meet with Madelyn!

Church Run Rockets!

Ready to swim!

What a fun team!

Waiting in clerk of the course with Madelyn and Cora

Happy girl!

Serious competition!

Beautiful dive!

Cora's Last Day of School!

Summer is in full swing and we have been so busy with swim team! It seems that the last day of school was forever ago! Here are some pics from Cora's last day of 1st grade. However, she actually did not have an official last day this year. There was a crazy storm the night before the last day and there were lots of trees down and power outages. School was closed! Cora was so sad because she wanted to say goodbye to her friends. However, Echo Lake is such an awesome school they did an an unofficial "Moving on up" ceremony at Castle Point Park. The ceremony is a tradition at Echo Lake so the PTA moms put together the special event. Cora loved going and got to say bye to alot of her friends. Since we moved, she will be going to Glen Allen Elementary School next year. We are so sad to leave Echo Lake but we are excited for new adventures at GAES!

First day of first grade!

She got Ms. Congeniality in her class...no surprise!

Last day of school (at our new house!)

Her first grade end of the year party!

She loved her ice cream!

Mrs. Bouton was her Kindergarten teacher.
She is absolutely amazing!

Lillian and Cora dressed in their Cowgirl attire for the ceremony!

It was a good turn out!

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Cora's Dance Recital!

Central Virginia Dance Academy always puts on an impressive dance recital. It is held at the Carpenter Center and literally takes up the whole weekend. There is spacing and dress rehearsal on Saturday, then there are two shows on Sunday (each show is 3 hours long!) It is exhausting but such a fun and exciting experience for the dancers. This year Cora took Jazz/Tap 1 with Madelyn and Lillian. They did a Jazz routine to Peter Pan with the song The Great Divide. The girls loved being in class together and had such a great time! It's been a great dance year and next year Cora will take Jazz/Tap 2! Everyone did such a great job and it was such a great show!