My Personal Favorite

Sue, the redneck

We're BAD

Parry, Dale, Lisa, Paul

Susan, Paul S and Justin

Warriors

Susan hurt her back so she just watched the 2nd battle

Took a few for the team

the paint went right through Paul's mask

On Monday at Aspen Grove we had the chance go paintballing! It was a BLAST! We were really lucky and got to do 3 rounds cuz no one was signed up after us. You had to be 18 so Justin was the only grandkid that got to do it. We all felt like kids again and would love to go again.

PS Thanks to Susan for the pictures.

Brooke's Belated Birthday

Brooke in one of her new dresses

Showing off her other new dress

Brooke's 17th birthday was a crazy busy Friday - she was at Lagoon with a friend and the boys had a soccer tournament in Brigham City. Then we left the very next day for our Aspen Grove family vacation so we just celebrated today. She said she just wanted to get a new summery dress. So she and I went shopping at the mall today and found these 2 great dresses - isn't she beautiful. We actually found several dresses that she looked so cute in and it was hard to choose. I wished we could have gotten all of them.

Brooke is a beautiful girl - inside and out! She is a treasure and we are very lucky to have her in our family. She is very mellow and not into typical girl dramas. She's very responsible and works hard at home, school and her job. We love listening to her play the piano, its like we have a professional pianist in our home all the time.

WE LOVE YOU BROOKE !!!

We're Converting

... 2 of them anyway.

Our family just spent an awesome week at Aspen Grove. There is so much to post about and over 600 pictures to go through that this is going to take a while to get more details on here.

Kindergarten Graduates

Kamryn and silly Jared

on the last day of Kindergarten

The graduates

(self portraits with graduations caps)

I can't believe kindergarten has come to an end for my babies. They've had a great year with the MOST AWESOME teacher EVER! I'm sad I won't have any other kids for her to teach. I told her I'm still going to volunteer for her next year.

Jared and Kamryn have learned so much and are excited for first grade and eating lunch at school. They have made a countdown calendar for how many days until first grade. They are working on learning their lunch number already.

My 1st Graduate

Justin, the morning of his graduation

he's a very casual graduate

he's a good sport too

letting his mom take lots of pictures

Justin with Kamryn and Jared

don't they look like great buddies

Congratulations!

Justin and Brooke

he makes her look so small

what great kids!

thanks to Justin for setting a great example

Justin decided he wanted to go to

The Cottonwood Cafe to celebrate his graduation

We went for lunch so that everyone could go

We also celebrated Brooke's 17th birthday

Justin opening cards from his grandparents

His Grandma and Grand-dad gave him $20-11 for graduation

(a $20 bill and 11 $1 bills)

Justin was pretty excited about our graduation present

that we gave him

a new camera!

Since this is our first graduate

we're newbies to the whole thing

justin was supposed to be there an hour early

so I was the only one there that early

we didn't realize that would be the only chance to do pictures

with him in his gown

Justin with his "wardy" friend, Mackenzie

good buddies

Justin walking in during the procession

all of the graduates

somewhere near 600

After graduation

Justin with his grandparents

add in his Dad

and his mom

Justin with his Honors Diploma

We are very proud of Justin and excited that he is done with high school and moving on to new adventures in his life. He is a great son and will do great things in his life!

Kindergarten Field Day

Kamryn in the sack race

Jared doing bubble burst painting

Kamryn with her friend Gracie

doing a 3 legged race

Kamryn getting ready to start another 3 legged race

Jared playing Red Light, Green Light

Kamryn doing the sponge relay game

Kamryn with her friend Ellie

waiting for the turn on the obstacle course

Jared racing on red light, green light

Jared doing parts of the obstacle course

jared playing hot potato with water balloons

The two afternoon kindergarten classes

at the end of field day

with their popsicles

I usually dread helping with field day at school and haven't done it for years. But since I'm the room mother for the kindergarten class I had to help. The great thing at their school is field day is just by grade and not the whole school out there on the same day. It was so much better this way. Luckily there were enough mom's helping that there were 2 at each station and I just got to do the timer and blow the whistle when it was time to rotate. That's my kind of job :)

It was fun to watch the kids all have a great time outside and luckily the weather cooperated.

Girl Quake

Kamryn

all dressed up

for her dance recital

Kamryn did a great job in her recital this year. She was in 2 dances and my favorite was to a song called "Girl Quake" I still need to take a picture of her in that costume and add it to this post. Her teachers, Miss Liz and Miss Chelsea, are the greatest teachers and make dance so much fun for Kamryn. It was so great to see Kamryn excited and smiling up on the stage. The best part was after the recital when she caming running out all happy and jumped up in her dad's arms.

Great Gardeners

Since my flower gardens were so successful

last year I was really anxious

to get flowers planted again this year

We've had so much rain this spring

that's it been almost impossible to even

work outside.

I had a 2 day window with no rain

where I was able to get the areas

ready to plant

get the plants

and get them in the ground.

Jared and Kamryn were very anxious to help me plant

all the flowers.

They were great helpers

and it was fun to work outside with them.

They love to plant

but they also love

the bugs and worms

they would pick them up bare handed

and inspect them.

hopefully they continue to be interested

and help out through the whole summer