Jarren's Birthday

My baby turned 10.  I know that sounds so silly, but I still consider him my baby.  Jarren gets so excited for his birthdays and is very good about making me and Jason and all his grandmas, grandpas, aunts, and uncles a list of about 20 things that he would like for his birthday.  This year his list included things like an ipad, ipod, sports equipment, Legos, even down to Flamin' Hot Cheetos.  As it got closer to his birthday I had to kindly ask him for things he realistically wanted the most, since the ipad was obviously out of the question.

Last Day of School

Seriously...where does the time go?  I feel like my kids just barely started kindergarten, 2nd and 4th grade.  Now they are done for the summer.  I feel like I just barely took their beginning of year pictures and now I'm posting their end of year ones.

Here is Preschool Graduation for Kate.  She still has one more year of preschool, so I guess she gets to graduate twice.  The little girl next to Kate is her best friend and neighbor Sydney.

Here is Jarren at his awards assembly for school.  Mohawk and all for crazy hair day.

I love this picture of  Jarren.  Isn't he a cutie?

Jarren and his teacher.

Maya thought her teacher was great this year!  Her little face is red from being out in the scorching heat for their school's end of year Dance Festival.

Karli is happy because school is over.  Now she's officially a 1st grader.

Dance Recital

Maya and Karli had their dance recital a few Saturday's ago.  The night started out pretty good, the girls got their hair curled without much drama (all of my girls, HATE curly hair, so this was actually quite an accomplishment), we got all of the seats saved that we needed to, and the girls made it to their assigned area.  But then the drama started.  Karli's class came out on the stage to dance and I was telling family that this was Karli's dance, but wait, where's Karli.  She wasn't on the stage.  I panicked and hurried out of the auditorium to find her.  I found her crying on the wings of the stage.  She was too scared to go out there and dance.  I was pretty surprised since she danced just fine at Christmas time.  After that she wouldn't let me leave her side.  Luckily, the girls had one more show that night.  I tried bribery and so did Karli's teacher to try and get her to dance in this second show.  Apparently the bribe for french fries and ice cream worked, she danced for the second show.

Maya acts like a natural on the stage.  She doesn't seem to get nervous at all.  She just dances and smiles the whole time.

Easter

Easter has come and gone.  And I'm finally getting around to posting about it.  We really looked forward to the Easter egg hunt at my brother, Tyler's house.  I have to remind my bigger kids every year that they need to remember that there are littler kids and not to hog the candy ( I know, what a rude mom).

                                    The line up. It's so hard to wait.

                                                 Cousins!

Decorating eggs was fun.  My sister, Jessica, was there to help and it really helped to have a few extra hands and eyes.  These aren't the best pictures, but they were all I took.

Halle has some Easter grass in her hair, nice!

New Easter clothes for church are always fun.  I couldn't find a dress for Maya, so I told her I owe her.  She hasn't let me forget yet.

                                            I love these kids!

Pinewood Derby

Jarren was so excited about his Pinewood Derby car.  He really wanted it to be a U of U car.  We had a hard time finding Utah stickers, but luckily my Cricket did the trick with some vinyl lettering.  Jarren and my dad worked hard again on his car this year, it was some time Jarren really looked forward to.  Jarren can probably tell you what place he took, but I can't remember.

Halle's News

For some of you Halle's shirt may say it all... for the rest of you... we are expecting another baby in September. We found out yesterday that it is a BOY! And we are all super excited, especially Jarren and Jason. I've been surprised how excited those 2 are about another boy.

Out of the Mouth of Karli

I was trying to get a few of my kids to help clean up yesterday and I told Karli that it wasn't fair that I had to clean it all up, since it wasn't my mess. She then proceeded to tell me that "Life isn't always fair." What do you say to that, at least she's been listening to some of the things we've been trying to teach. :)