Lexi's Kindergarten Graduation

Lexi and her teacher Mrs. Rich

Lexi had her Kindergarten program. She received her diploma, sang songs, and had refreshments. It was a fun day!

I'm excited for her to go to 1st grade because she loves learning and is soo excited to go back to school. But I'm also sad that she will be gone all day :( I will miss my little girl and worry about many things, such as: will she eat her lunch, will she be ok on the playground with the older kids around?...

I guess this is just all part of letting them grow up - and growing up is what she is doing! aahhh!

Lexi loved her teacher and so did I. She was great, I hope Lexi gets another good one in 1st grade. I had a fun spending time in Lexi's classroom and with her classmates. We are excited to see which friends will continue with her to her new class :)

Keller Family visit

They were both playing the piano with their backs to us and we ran to get the camara and of course we couldn't get them to do it again-

BATH TIME!!!

Usually it was Mckoy hugging Shelby and her resisting. :)

Amber, Kelly, and Mckoy came to visit us over Memorial Day/Lexi's Bday. We loved having them over. We always love when they come and stay, especially cute little Mckoy. The girls love him and he's so fun to have around. We had a busy weekend, here are some things we did:

-shopping at Target: twice

-shopping at Walmart: twice - don't ask why, I'm not sure myself :)

-The boys went out to the lake fishing

-Lexi's bday party

-Mike and I had a ward dinner, so Amber took the girls with her to our Aunt Cindy's.

-Mario Kart!!

-baked cupcakes for Lexi's class and helped in her classroom

-bbq and of course 7 layer bean dip - yum yum!!

Thanks for coming guys - it was lots of fun :) Can't wait to see you again.

Lexi's Birthday

Lexi wanted a BEACH themed party this year. She invited her friends from school. We gave all the girls flip-flops, a lieu, and a goody bag. The weather wasn't the best for a beach party - but we managed to still have some fun.
We had pizza and pop, cake and icecream, played with water balloons, and played musical towels. We listened to the beach boys - it was fun. Luckily my sister was here to help out because a bunch of 5&6 year olds running around was kinda crazy.

I can't believe our little girl is 6 already! The time has gone so quickly. She's going to 1st grade - when did she grow up? I love this girl, she's my little side-kick. She is a good little helper and loves her little sisters. She is so kind and caring for others. I'm excited to have her home with me this summer - she has finished soccer and now we're starting Tball and Swimming!
Happy Birthday Lexi - love you :)

Happy Birthday!!

Lexi's best friend Abby

fish in water :) - the girls actually ate the jello!

Party favors

CAKE!!!

Lexi gets her ears pierced!!!

8 - right after...she cried for a second then had a huge grin plus tears on the cheek. She loves them :)

7 - ouch

6 - here we go...

5 - getting ready...

4 - motherly chat trying to calm her down - and at this point trying to make her do it b/c we were already there and I knew she'd love it but was just scared.

3 - started getting nervous: lady brings out the suckers early

2 -takes a seat: still excited

1 - right when we get to the store: super excited



Lexi came up to me about a week before her birthday and says "I decided I'm gonna do it mom!" And I said "do what?" and she said "pierce my ears!"
We hadn't really been talking about it lately - but I said let's wait til the weekend and do in on your birthday. She said that would be fine - but it had to be BEFORE her birthday party so she could show everyone.

So my sister and I took her to WalMart to do them and her is our funny story
(in backwards order):

New calling...

I taught my last sharing time two weeks ago. Our Primary Presidency was released, two of them were moving. [I'm sad that my real good friend Lara is moving out of our ward :( ]

So last week I was excited to have a "Sunday off"...or so I thought. Instead I was asked to sub and teach for Relief Society. I had this calling 3 yrs ago and loved it, so I thought I might as well, I had nothing else to do :) But little did I know, I would be called to Laurel Advisor later that day - so I taught the Young Women this week. So...kinda crazy teaching all three age groups in three weeks, back to back.

I must say -I'm actually missing Primary. I think I miss being with my girls, but I also felt like we all belonged there together. It was fun while it lasted - but now I get to be in YW. I'm excited about this new calling. It will be fun to get to know the girls and other leaders. It will be time consuming...teaching every Sunday. But then again, so was the Primary Presidency :)

Catching up with photos!

Here we are at State Track to watch my cousin Dillan. The girls had fun hanging out with Bryson. Zeb and Bryson even stayed at our house last night. It was fun having them over!

Lexi had a school carnival. We had a lot of fun. Here the girls were suppose to be 'bowling' but obviously we've been doing too much soccer because here Kam is kicking the ball instead!! haha:)

at the carnival there was a firetruck to climb into - they thought it was pretty neat!

Shelby loves to get into my braclets and wear them around

The girls climbed in bed with Shelby one morning - what will life be like without a crib? :)

Lexi lost her 2nd tooth!! - this time we didn't loose it

look... 2 missing bottom teeth!

trying to take a picture of a picture - not so good :(

bathtime fun

A beautiful rainbow above our house. It was the biggest I've seen, you could see end to end!

other half-

A few other things we've been doing are:

1-enjoying our new van. we get to take it on our 1st real road trip next month for Mike's niece's wedding. We have been enjoying it tremendously!!! the space is wonderful again and the DVD player has been great for yard selling :) We've owned it I think almost 4 wks now and I've vacumed it out probably 4-5 times. I'm trying to keep it clean :)

2-We went and layed the hard wood at Mike's parents. It was alot of work, but all the family got together and worked on it. It was fun to work together and be a part of the 'house'. It looks beautiful and is almost finished! We can't wait :)

3-I bought myself a cruiser bike. I'm sooo excited to own a bike to go riding. Now we are on the hunt for a bike trailer and for Mike to get a bike. We are wanting to do family bike rides in the evenings and over to the greenbelt to see the ducks!

4-Lexi is finishing up Kindergarten. She has loved it so much. They are working on their songs for a program. She loves to read and do math. We went on a field trip to the zoo - it was fun to be with her and her class, but it was freezing the whole time.

5-Lexi is going to be 6 in a week - yikes! she has her whole party planned out and talks about it non stop. First thing every morning and Last thing at night she's asking when we are going to get it all done.

6-Kam is getting so big. She loves to tak care of Shelby and help in the kitchen. She loves to watch movies and eat candy still. Her big thing right now is picking out her own outifts - and then changing about 3 times a day. Also her hair has to be down, she hates when I pull it up and its a fight. I'm thinking of cutting it short.

7-Shelby is such a cutie. I just want to squeeze her all the time. She has the cutest personality and is hillarious. She is way more adventurous then my other girls were. She has hit the stage where she hates to get into her carseat. It is a struggle EVERY SINGLE TIME! But one day soon she'll learn Momma Always Wins - it's happened with all three. She has also hit the 'taking the diaper off' stage already. Every day for a week I had to change the bedding b/c she kept taking her diaper off and then peeing in the bed. I hate doing the duct tape so the panties over top are working for now, but I'm sure it will only last another week til we need to pull out the tape - ugh!!

8-Shelby sings Rock-a-bye and Twinkle Little Star. She can also sing to the tune of Word World. She loves to give kisses and hugs. One day Kam was crying and Shelby went up to her and covered her mouth trying to make her stop, then gave her a hug. real sweet!!!

9- also I did a yard sale with a Emily. It was nice to make some extra cash off my junk :)

now our busy summer can start!! full of boating, trips, family visits, tball, and swimming to name a few :)