Spring Performances!

Emma started off the serious of concerts with her 1st- 3rd grade choir concert. They

sang all animal songs from Hamsters cannot play the piano, and All the Pretty Little Ponies, and

Never Polka with a Porcupine. She did great and has a beautiful voice. She is on the top left corner of the risers. Yeah Emma!

Alyssa and her joy school classmates peformed The Little Red Hen for their last school day at Scottie's house. They were so cute and we even had yummy banana bread after the show. This photo was during the performance of The Little Red Hen. Not I said all the animals when the little red hen

asked them to help make the banana bread.

Friends, and co cats, Alyssa and Chelsea.

Alyssa and her c0-stars. From left to right, Shayla( little red hen) , Alyssa (cat) ,

Ryan(dog) ,Scottie(dog) , Chelsea( cat), Maddie (duck).

Bryant was very patient watching his classmates perform their plays before his

big debut.

Bryan't Kindergarten Class performed several different plays

he was assigned to The Three Pigs. He played the part of the smart,

little pig that built his house out of bricks. Everyone else had to rely on his genius

to be safe from the big bad wolf.

Here is a quick video of Bryant's Performance they

sang a few songs as well as performed in their

fairy tale plays.

Kaelyn put on her own big show while "singing" to the Alivin and Chipmunks the Squeakquel the movie. She loves the music and we listen to it all the time.

Emma also had a piano recital where she played "Yankee Doodle" she has such a great musical talent and memorizes her music with no problems. Great job everyone, here's to another year of fun performances and shows.

Why oh why?

Why oh why can the house be clean in and in ten minutes flat it looks like a tornado has gone through the entire house?

Why oh why do dishes and laundry reproduce?

Why do kids have to get bigger and grow up? (Bryant is getting too big to sit on my lap to his and my disappointment.)

Why do boys ask why all the time?

Why do diets and excercise have to be so hard?

Why do they have the biggest break from school in summer? They should have it at different times depending on what state you live in.

Why am I so computer alliterate, after trying to change my blog background six times it is still Valentines Day.

Why, why, why. . .

Summertime!

We have had a great summer so far and I thought I might post a few of the things we have been doing. Each summer I say that I will take more pictures of how we spent our summer and then at the end I realize how little pictures I did take. Well there is still 3 more weeks left.

Emma and Doug found a really cool spot to hike to by Zaharis Elementarty. The rocks look like they are making a fist. The two of them got up really early one morning and hiked before it became too hot. Hopefully when it starts cooling off in 3 months we can all go as a family.

Bryant, Emma and Kaelyn have exhausted themselves playing video games. Only during the daytime, I don't let them play after 7:30 p.m. Kaelyn just always wants to join in the fun.

We of course celebrate Sara's birthday this summer as well. She just looks so adorable in this picture. I just wish she could stay this young forever.

Sara of course has followed in Alyssa's footsteps and requested My Little Pony items for her birthday. The two of them can play with all of those ponies for hours, and with Emma home it has been so fun to watch the three girls play together.

For Sara's birthday cake. Evan and Paula brought yummy cupcakes from Sprinkles Bakery. They were so delicious, just wish I could eat a whole box and not expand my waistline. I can't believe that Sara is already three.

I had that chance to go to Cub Scout Day Camp this June with the boys from our ward. It was a blast, who knew I could have so much fun. It probably helped that we had such beautiful weather. The high was only 88 degrees, and we had a lot of fun activities. I love my calling as a cub scout den mom.

Kaelyn has had fun with all of her siblings home this summer. Most of the time she enjoys all of the attention but sometimes she just wants to be herself and left alone. She just loves to ham it up for the camera.

Emma, Bryant and their dad on his 34th birthday!

Doug and his adorable five kids. Finally a picture all together!

Since Doug enjoys scrabble games so much we made him a scrabble cake. The kids had fun helping to decorate it and of course snacking on the "tiles".

Since we didn't have any birthday candles, Doug had the privilege of blowing out our lighter. We all had a hard time singing while we were laughing.

We have spent a lot of time swimming at Maren and Wayne's pool. Alyssa loves her freedom in floaties or a tube. Sara wears a vest, Bryant stays where he can touch, Emma is all over the pool, and Kaelyn thinks she is just as big as everyone else. We put floaties on her, and she just floats around and even jumps off the side. One funny thing is that she claps each time before she jumps. It is so cute.

Of course we have been finding a lot of cool drinks. Kaelyn prefers to use her cuteness to get her dad's pop from him and guzzle it down. One afternoon Doug came home from work and she was just as excited to see his QT cup as she was to see her daddy. Such a well trained child.