Kids Activities through May

So what has kept me so busy in the last month? (Besides the normal activities)

11 baseball games (Boston's team got 3rd place)

5 baseball practices

4 Football games

5 Football practices

1 Belt Testing (Ethan got his purple belt! Yeah)

2 Dance Competitions (Recital next week)

2 Activity Days

2 Birthdays

1 Anniversary

4 dentist appts

1 music recital

1 Easter Dinner and Egg Hunt with the neighbors

1 Wedding

2 Well Child Check Dr. Appts (Shots included)

1 Poetry Reading

1 Mothers Day Tea (that I made a DVD for)

1 preschool Graduation

1 Pack Meeting

1 Science Fair

2 Testings for Aubrie's new school (many tears involved for one of them)

1 Mothers Day trip to Montezuma well

2 end of the Year parties

1 CLASS DVD put together, and copied for class

1 trip organized to visit bother

and a partridge in a pear tree! Whew! That's just the stuff on my calendar. Who knows what didn't make it! So here are some pictures....the fun part!

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

Held at the Park by our house, and sponsored by a local church. Was on a Saturday, and Aubrie had a dance competition, so it was just Ben and the other 3.

Turning in the Golden Egg

Cha Ching!

Easter Morning

Can I get one good picture without silly faces?

I guess a far shot is my only shot!

Man, I look tired! Sunday mornings are exhausting!

Easter Dinner with the Hawkins!

Uncle "Kag"

Silly Girl!

Coming out the shoot for the Egg Hunt! A tad bit windy, but it made for nice cool weather. No melting chocolates this time!

Ethan's Purple Belt Testing

Ethan's picture, out of the portraits I took of his classmates. Just love his smile here! ....................... and His First Grade Crush- Hannah!

Ethan's Poetry Reading

Boston's Wolf Badge

Well we weren't sure if it was ever going to happen, but he finally got his Wolf badge. He earned it, along with about 12 arrows last November, but there was a new pack leader called who didn't know how to go about getting new badges. Month after month we received apologies when we left pack meeting empty handed. His leaders started to joke that he would be getting his Bear and Wolf on the same day! Boston worked hard and we are proud of him!

Ethans Music Recital

Mothers Tea!

The Spread!

(I chose the lemon cakes and strawberries!)

Can you guess what one is me?

Sophia's Preschool Graduation!

Sophia LOVED school! She did well, and made lots of friends. She now knows her letter sounds, can write her name, and learned a lot of nursery rymes!

Mothers Day at Montezuma's Well!

It was another nice relaxing Mother's Day. This time all the kids were well, so we made it to Sacrament before we left for "the Well"! It was fun watching Sophia sing to me for the first time:) Tree Climbing! Lunch Time Relaxing Crochet Double tasking! Football, Baseball, etc.

No pictures for stream exploring!:)

Aubrie beat Ben at this game every time. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of them playing!

The "Branch Hat" the kids found for me!

The Science Fair

All the kids participated in the Science Fair. Boston and Ethan's did a "class" project. Both Ethan and Boston did most of the work. Boston said his teacher wasn't going to do one, so himn and a few buddies did it the day it was due. Boston typed it up and his buddies fed him the info.

Ethan's did about 50 percent of his. I asked his teacher about it and she said he was one of the only ones who wanted anything to do with it.

Aubrie coupled up with her best friend, Olivia. They did it on how soda has an effect on tooth erosion. They started way in advance, and put some good effort into it. They got 100 on their science project. Only two projects in her class recieved that grade. Aubrie and Olivia were a little upset, because a friend of theirs changed their project to the same idea, once they caught wind of theirs. Their Mom helped them with the poster board, and used all these special lights and crafty type things. It placed in the science fair. I tried to remind them that they did their own work and came up with their own idea and that was something to be proud of. And also, that it was their idea that placed!:)