Remembering May

May Update

I feel like I should go backwards a little bit and talk about what happened in our home in the month of May, if anything just for posterity. It was the last month of school, and so the craziness began at the beginning of the month with class programs, and parties. Emma gave her animal report where Emily went instead of mom because she was more exciting. She chose the animal of Tiger Shark, and found out some really great information on it that a lot of us did not know about. According to Emily she did a great job, unfortunately we don't have any pictures from this event.

Also in the month of May we had Emma's Piano Recital. It is so wonderful that my mom is teaching Emma piano, we will always be greatful for that, considering how much piano lessons cost and all. I tried teaching her myself but it was just too hard with the whole mom daughter relationship thing. Emma played the song "I'm Late" from Alice and Wonderland. She did awesome, and luckily she is blessed with her dad's talent of memorization and had no trouble memorizing the entire piece in no time.

In May our garden began producing a lot of different things, we were lucky enough to get some tomatoes before the plants got some kind of disease, zucchinni, and summer squash, eggplant, okra, peppers, jalepeno peppers, carrots which the kids loved, and beautiful sunflowers. All of our neighbors loved driving into the neighborhood and seeing the sunflowers over the fence because they were so tall. We only have a photo of the sunflowers after they wilted and started producing seeds which a few parakeets enjoyed. If was kind of weird to see tame birds out in the wild.

Unfortunately we did have something really sad happen in May, on our anniversary we got the news that Doug's Grandma Nina passed away, she had been battling breast cancer. She was such a positive, loving and caring women, we were upset, but knew that she went to a better place with no pain, and is with Grandpa Ernie now. We were able to attend the funeral in Mesa and then drive up to Lakeside for the burial services. We stayed with my sister Karen for a night in Eagar before driving to Lakeside Cemetary. Below is the first pictures we have of our family of seven. Wow what a big number, but we love it!

Some of the few things that I will always remember about grandma Nina are how she always called the little kids Dolly, how uplifting and happy she was no matter how bad things were, and her service and love for all of us. We will really miss her. Whenever any of the grandkids would come and visit she would have them go and get a cookie out of the bread box in the kitchen. So at the funeral they put cookies in her bread box out in the foyer. Bryant loved that, and kept wanting to go get more cookies from the bread box.

While we were in Lakeside most of the cousins, and aunts and uncles were there. Emma just loves spending time with all of them and is sad to part when it is time to go. Here is a picture of her with her cousins Tara and Lori.

After the burial service Karen and Rand drove to Lakeside and we went to the McDonalds in Showlow. The kids had a great time burning off some energy before it was time for the long drive home.

A few funny things that happened in May were that Alyssa discovered that my little ponies can stick to the corners of the room, because of there magnets.



We discovered Sara loved wearing Bryant's pants, and made us all laugh by putting them on and off.



Emma and I bought a giant chocolate egg for 90% off at Hobby Lobby and all of us enjoyed it together. It was so funny because it was almost as big as their heads.

Lastly, our sweet Kaelyn discovered how to play with her feet. Which I love!!!

The best thing that happened in May was that Doug and I celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary. My mom and dad took the kids for Friday night all except the baby of course and we partied! We had a lot of fun going to dinner, playing games, shopping and scrabooking. Yes my sweet husband wanted to do something tha meant a lot to me so he sacrificed and made a scrapbook page. It was a great weekend of time spent together, and remembering the past 10 years. Here's a look back with a photo from our wedding.