First Week Finished

My littlest beauty has finished her first week of pre-school!!!  She is going to the same place R, T and A went.  I can't believe all my kids were able to have Ms. LaDawn as their teacher.

L was excited but a little nervous and when I picked her up after her first day, she happily exclaimed, "And I didn't cry!"  She was so proud of herself.  And I was so proud of her!  She goes 2 days a week for a couple of hours.

Little sister, can't believe how much you have grown!

First Day of School (for 2 of them)

Last Thursday the 25th of July was the first day of school for T and A.  Not sure exactly why they started on a Thursday, but they did.  Sometimes life is a little silly and in my own opinion that was one of those times. Anyway..... here they are starting 4th grade and 2nd grade.


A- 2nd grade

T- 4th grade

Although we would have loved another month of summer, here we go into another great year!

Teenager!

A crazy thing happened the other day, the 23rd to be exact....... We got a teenager! 13 years before we were blessed with this:

13 years later:

I would say, "I can't believe I'm old enough to have a teenager" but since I will be 40 years old next year, I guess I am old enough to have one, I just can't believe I really do!  

After opening some gifts we went to lunch and a movie with a couple of friends.

Later that night we invited Grandma, Grandpa and Grandpa B over for cake, ice cream and fireworks.

We LOVE our baby boy so much!  We are so proud of who he is and who he is becoming.  Happy Birthday R!  We are grateful for everything you bring to our lives.

A Little Bit.....

.....of what we've been doing.  Summer is almost over for T and A since they start school again next week, so I thought I should FINALLY post the end of the school year activities.  Here's the end of 3rd grade for T and 1st for A.

 End of year program and awards for A.  I didn't get a picture with her teacher, but she was great. A loved her and had a wonderful year!

 End of year awards for T. His teacher this year was fabulous!  She was perfect for him and he loved her.  He will be the first to say he didn't love school (he never does - would rather be playing with friends of course) but he really did like Mrs. Mino.  She challenged him when he needed to be challenged and loved him when he needed some extra love.  She will always have a special place in my heart for the respect and love she showed him and the responsibility she tried to teach him.

Dance festival for both.

R had a kind of uneventful end of the year, but he proudly finished his first year of Jr. High with a 4.0 GPA! He really did have a great year.  I'm so proud of him for everything he is and does!

A couple days after school ended for R, T and A we got to meet Grandma and Grandpa at the airport when they came home from spending 18 months serving the people of Sweden.  We were soooooo excited to see them.

That was a great start to our summer.  We have had lots of fun and still have lots to post about.  Hopefully I can get us up to date quick.

Very Belated Birthday and Recital

Almost 2 months ago, this beautiful girl celebrated her 7th birthday!

Lucky for her she was "off track" on her birthday so she didn't have to worry about school.  So in the morning she opened some presents from the family.

She invited some friends to join us at Airborne- a trampoline place, for a couple hours of fun.

Everyone had lots of fun! They could have stayed there for several more hours.  I think she had a great day and we were so happy to celebrate with her.  She is the best big sister, best friend, and most wonderful oldest daughter I could ask for.  We are so grateful she is part of our family!  LOVE YOU beautiful girl!


RECITAL:
More recently she also danced in her final recital for this school year.  She of course did fabulous dancing 2 dances and had lots of fun.  This is the first year I didn't sit down with her class to help out and make sure they got back stage when it was their turn.  Her cousin came to watch and T brought a friend "so he wasn't bored" (he says). Good thing for friends and cousins!

She's done for a couple months but can't wait to start again.

OUCH!

This weekend (Thursday-Saturday) R played in the Slugfest tournament.  The boys had a tough time to say the least but I think many lessons were learned.  They always have fun together because of their love for baseball but it still hurts to loose by 6+ runs (more than once).  We'll just leave it at that!

During the last game R was pitching and got a couple of "come-back-ers."  The first was right to his face but thankfully he got his glove up and caught it for the out. The next one was in the upper thigh.  He was able to grab the ball and toss it to first for the out again.  Go R!!!  I tried to get a picture of his leg after we got home.

If you touch it it's a big bump and very hot.  Even when I don't touch his leg just put my hand close over it I can feel the heat coming off his skin. Started out with pink circle where the ball probably hit and now a purple circle is forming around it. He limps around and has trouble on the stairs.

Trying to get team picture after last game.

**Still need to post pictures of A's birthday that was a couple of weeks ago :)**

Spring Break

This spring break we stayed close to home, but had some fun times.  Here's a recap of the long weekend.

First, at the end of March we celebrated a birthday.  Can you tell how old Larry is now?  Happy Birthday! We LOVE you!

On Friday we decided to go up to Ensign Peak.
This is what we saw when we first got there.

 Then we started walking up.

In the left picture I was timing R  ^ here^    as he ran up and back down the hill.  He did it in under 1 min.

We ended up at the Church History Museum downtown.

 On Saturday we saw the Blue and White football game/scrimmage (looked more like a practice to me -which I guess it kind of was) in Provo and then went to the baseball game.

Girls weren't totally into the football "practice" so we ended up hanging out under the stadium.

Cougars vs Pepperdine

 Cougars lost, but the girls were excited to have Cosmo come over and say Hi.  When he first walked into the stadium L saw him and yelled, "HI Cosmo, it's me!!!"  I laughed out loud :)  The boys lasted an inning in the stadium and then went out the gates to watch from the grass at the very end of right field and run after foul balls.  They came home with 5 foul balls!

On Sunday we decorated some eggs.

Monday we decided we hadn't had enough of Provo so we went back down.  The boys have always wanted to go into the Legends Museum on campus, so we thought we'd give it a try.

R measured his foot against the largest shoe believed to be worn by an athlete at BYU - size 18.  Just a side note: R's new cleats are size 12 (in men's).

Of course needed a picture by the first perfect game ball at BYU.

 I really liked this quote!

Somehow I didn't get any pictures of Easter Sunday or any of the egg hunts.  But it was a really good weekend as Larry had taken off Friday and Monday to do these fun things with us.

HAPPY SPRING!