Congratulations Wildcat Class of 2021!

This WILD school year is wrapping up and we got to celebrate with the Naples Middle High School Class of 2021

Chris had the honor of giving the welcome address at Baccalaureate  

Emma as an honorary Sasse sister

Love this special friendship between Emma & Antonia!

Chris doing his thing at graduation rehearsal on Wednesday morning. 

The set up crew has arrived!

Commander Polk (who gave an AMAZING keynote speech) and Chris 

Camden served in the color guard 

CONGRATULATIONS! 

Lots of love for Antonia...

...and Roxanne, too!

Chris, Malia, and Savannah 

Melissa and I had a great time helping Darci & Shelley afterwards

Memorial Day Weekend 2021

Memorial Day Weekend marked our first overnight trip since August! 

Ron, Sherri, and Melissa joined us for the weekend in Formia. We rented a little beach house and had the BEST time!

Our go-to dinner place just down the street from the house.

Mr. Ron had Emma laughing a lot this weekend...

Saturday morning walk along the beach

Camden living his best life on the great patio at our beach house

 

Family photo op in the water

The kids played paddleball 

Ron and Emma had much better luck!

Playing Bocce 

Our afternoon set up at the beach

Ron and Chris enjoying a stogie 

Ready for dinner on Saturday night

Sunday morning brought unexpected rain and a temperature drop! We had a lot of fun playing poker.

When the skies cleared, Emma caught a few rays on the lower patio of our house

At dinner, a rainbow popped out for us

MAY the fun continue...

Emma went on a big day trip to Rome!

Gen, Lena, Rox, Emma, Vic, and Gabs in St. Peter's Square

Emma LOVES her "big sis" Gen!

These 4 have made so many memories together over the past few years! We are going to miss them like crazy!

Lunch at a cute café

Trevi Fountain 

Spanish Steps

Chris and I hit a big milestone: year #10 for team teaching CCD. We had a fantastic group of 5th and 6th graders who joined us on Google Meet each Sunday morning.

Camden, Jake, and Patrick after their last EVER CCD class!

Thursday afternoons with these sweet friends has been one of the highlights of my year!

Final game of after school basketball for 2/5 of this crew

Emma and Antonia enjoyed a sleepover with Mel

Early morning round of golf to kick off Memorial Day Weekend

Happy 14th Birthday, Camden!

Camden Lee Kasparek is 14!!! 

He wanted to celebrate with an afternoon of basketball and swimming at our house.  Saturday was the perfect early summer day for the festivities. 

This was the inaugural day in the pool for 2021.  It was a little chilly and all the boys agreed they need to work on their farmer's tans!  

Somehow hide and seek tag ended up with Dylan, Mason, and Camden on the guesthouse roof #boyswillbeboys

They gave him this AWESOME t-shirt!

Pizza dinner poolside

The birthday boy with his birthday donut 

Opening some gifts from Grandpa & Nana

Ending his special day doing one of the things he loves!