6th Grade Graduation

The end of May ShiAnne graduated from 6th grade. This is just crazy to me. Time goes by so fast.
The school did a little ceremony for the 6th graders and honored the student council. Sabrina and I got to go watch.

Can you find ShiAnne?

She really enjoyed serving on the student council.

Cute sisters!

Susie and ShiAnne

Our really good friends.  Andrew, ShiAnne & Ashley

Jessi, Mindi, Sabrina & ShiAnne

 

Next Adventure, Jr. High 

Happy Easter!

Sabrina 

 

Big Brother

 

Gideon

 

Lizzy

 

ShiAnne 

 

Bunny Ears 

 

Girls

 

 

Boys

 

Daddiy's Girls

 

Momma's Boy

 

So grateful for the Atonement and Our Savior Jesus Christ.

 

Happy Birthday ShiAnne...

I can't believe you're 12!

She has a fun group of friends.

They ate dinner with their hands tied together, it was noisy,

and did a picture scavenger hunt around the neighborhood.

Her birthday cake heavy on the chocolate

A Beautiful Birthday Girl

and someone being adorable.

Happy Birthday to my silly, enthusiastic, smart and beautiful first daughter!

Little Preformers

The night before, the night I went into labor with Sabrina, ShiAnne was a narrator in the play a Mid-Summer Nights Dream. She had worked very hard on this playing. They had spent a couple months practicing twice a week after school. The play ended up being the night before my due date and there was some concern of weather or not I would make it but Sabrina waited and we sure enjoyed watching ShiAnne preform. She did a great job and had lots of fun.

 

 

Then a few days after Sabrina was born Gideon had his first grade program. We were able to make it to that too. He preformed the German Clapping Dance and did a great job.

Just getting into the music.

 

It seams with the fourth kid and having big kids that are involved in more stuff we didn't slow down much to have Little Miss Sabrina. We did our activities of one week. Had her on the weekend and jumped into our activities of the next week. Thankfully I have great recoveries and she is a good sleeper. She has just had to learn how to tag along.

Back to Books equals Back to the Blog??

Well we are going to try.

So today was the first day of school and here are the pictures.


ShiAnne's first day of 4th grade.

Lizzy's first day of 2nd grade.

When did they get so big? It makes me want to cry.

So this is our best first day of school story. To say that ShiAnne loves school and was soooo excited for the first day of school would be an understatement. She made a count down chain at the beginning of August and has been counting down ever sense. Lizzy just feeds off of her excitement. Last night the clothes were laid out and they were ready to go to bed. At 4 o'clock this morning I woke up to use to the bathroom and was pretty sure I could hear the girls talking down stairs. I decided to go and investigate. I was surprised when I saw that the light in their bedroom was on but them I was shocked when I opened the door and they were sitting in the middle of their room playing cards! WHAT IN THE WORLD! They told me they were to excited to sleep. Silly girls! I made them get back in bed and turn off the lights and guess what? They fell back to sleep. When I went up stairs I told Shiloh about this and we lay in our beds laughing. What kind of nerds are we raising? You would think it was Christmas or something.

Okay that was our funny story and this is our not funny story.

Yesterday afternoon Gideon was jumping off the couch like he does all the time. I didn't even think to tell him to stop this is a normal thing at our house but then he landed on his foot wrong and started crying. I could tell from his cry that it was a real hurt. He wouldn't walk on it at first but then last night he started hobbling around on it so I was hopping it would be alright in the morning. When morning came he wouldn't walk in it at all, so while the girls headed off to the first day of school we headed to the doctors office. The foot was swollen and the doctor was surprised when the ex-rays came back and there was no brake. He told us that usually in little kids the bone will give before the ligaments and tendons do but there was no brake to be seen so he wrapped it in an ace bandage, told us to how to take care of it and sent us home. Gideon wouldn't walk on it at all today. I am hopping he will do better tomorrow because that kid is heavy!

The girls had a great first day of school and I think we are going to have a great year!

ShiAnne!

Love this girl but she is getting way to big.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

It is suppose to get warm next week, so I got to work. I have been turning holey pant into shorts. I liked the results of this so much last year I have been saving their pants all winter.

We figure Lizzy has a pant life of about 4 1/2 months. In her defence, three of these pant actually got to short instead of ripping out in the knee. Not in her defense 7 pairs are for Lizzy only 3 for ShiAnne. I guess if you don't count the ones that got to short that is only 4 to 3 ratio between the girls. I have at least one more pair for each girl that is just starting to rip out.

Have a Fun Weekend!

Story Telling Festival

So this happened a while ago and I really wanted to blog about it but I don't know what happened to the last month and a half. The Girls Grade school decided to have a story telling festival. It was there first one and each grade approached it a little differently. In Kindergarten if you wanted to do it you could but if you didn't you didn't have to. Lizzy said she didn't want to and I didn't push it but after ShiAnne's experience, if they do it again next year I am sure she will want to do it. Any way back to the point ShiAnne's teacher first turned it into a writing assignment, to write a true story about themselves, rough and final drafts. After they finished with the writing part of the assignment any one in the class who wanted to could stand up and tell there story. They had to tell there story from memory. Of course, ShiAnne got up and told her story. The story was about when she was little and fell in the pond in Grandpa's back yard (she is not the first and probably won't be the last). After everyone got done telling their stories her classmates vote one boy and one girl to go on to the second grade competition. ShiAnne was voted to go on. Parents were invited to the second grade competition, so of course I went and listened. One boy and one girl from each class told there stories in front of all the second graders and a panel of judges. This time the judges critiqued them and decided who got to move on. Out of all the girls ShiAnne was picked and about a week latter got to tell her story in front of whole school along with one boy and one girl from each grade. This time it wasn't a competition just a performance. It was really exciting for her and she did awesome. I just love to watch this girl shine.

Baptism

Had a pretty Great Saturday!

On Saturday May 1, 2010 ShiAnne was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

She was the only one from our ward this month so the program and the crowd was all ours.

Before the baptism she told her Dad she just couldn't stop smiling.

She was baptized and confirmed by her Father.

All in White

Our Family

mom and daughter (and a not so happy gideon who only wanted mom)

some of our guest

After the baptism at the church we all headed back to our house for Hamburgers, hot dogs, and salads. The only thing we didn't get done on our list of a million things this week was to make sure we had enough propane for the barbecue, so of course the it went out right after starting it. A quick run to the gas station fixed that and we had an awesome time eating and visiting with everyone.

The only picture I have from the after party was actually taken before. I was to busy hosting to take pictures. So here is the cake I made for the occasion.

Thanks also to the J* side for sticking around and playing Apples to Apples. ShiAnne has been wanting to play it forever.

It was just a great day!

Thanks to everyone for coming, supporting ShiAnne and bringing food.

Guest: ShiAnne, Shiloh, Ina, Lizzy, Gideon, Grandma Ina, Grandpa Tom, Tom, Traci, Spencer, Brandon, Derick, Carson, Caleb, Daxton, Karl, Jocelyn, Kalli, Meri, Kiah, Ahnika, Maylia, Kade, Grandma Debbie, Grandpa Blair, Micah, Amber, Tage, Phylicia, OrLynne, and Nyle