BUSY

What a busy week.  Every night this week one of the kids have had something.  The kids are always sad at the end of the year to not get to be with that teacher any more, but excited for summer vacation.  Monday night Zack had his piano recital.  He is doing so good with the piano.  Earlier this year he dd the music festival that the arts put on.  There were 8 catgories and he got almost a perfect score.  He even got his picture in the paper.  At his recital he played a song he wrote and did a duet with his teacher.  I am so proud of him. 

Then on Tuesday night Brielle graduaed from preschool.  I can not believe how big she is getting and that she is goiing to kindergarten next year.  Where has the time gone.  She looked so cut e in her cap and gown.  Her class put on a little program for us and then she got her diploma.  She loved it.  She is going to Mrs. Terri.

Wed and Thursday Connor had his class program. He was a little baker. The night before his play he informed me that he needed a chef hat, so 9:00 at night I was trying to get him a hat. I think it turned out pretty good and he loved it and that is all that mattered.

Friday I went with Connors class on their 1st grade program.  We went to the Clark planitarim and childrens museum.  It was fun to get to spend the day with Connor and his class.  He thought it was cool that mom got to ride on the bus with him. 

What a fun and crazy week.  One more week to go and then they are out for the summer and then the summer craziness starts.  Thanks Mom and Dad for coming and supporting my kids.

Easter

The week end of easter the kids had so much fun.  First sat . morning they went to an easyer egg hunt at smith's grocery store, then Marc took them to the city park for the town hunt.  Then the next day was baskets and two more hunts.  On Easter the weather was not to bad so we did a easter egg hunt in our back yard. We all most lost an egg, because that bunny was so tricky, but we finally found it behind a log in a pile of wood. Marc's mom came up. It was nice to have her. Later that day we went to my parents and did a egg hunt there with all the cousins. Brielle found the biggest prize.  She found a $10 bill in an egg.  Which is really funny because my paents did not put money in an of the eggs.  We think it last left in there from last year.  It was a fun day. My kids all looked so grown up in their easter outfits.

 Mom and Dads easter egg hunt.

 Ready to go find those eggs

Spring Break

SO I haven't posted for ahile so I am going to play catch up. 

The weekend before the kids had spring break Jan and Kyler blessed my new niece. So went down to the blessing. Since the kids had spring break we stayed a couple of extra days. It was so nice to get away.My family all rented a condo together. IT was so nice. They had swimming pools, basketball courts, play ground, volleyball,tennis, and so much more. The kids had a ball and played and played.

 The view from our condo.

Connor and Brielle on the top of the volcano looking down

Connor on top of the Lava rocks

Big 5 yrs.

Brielle Just turned 5yr.  Where has the time gone? I feel like it was just yesterday she was born.  She loved the past week.  It started out on Sunday with a family party to celebrate.  Then on her birthday, St. Patricks Day,  we had to do a little celebrating and then on Saturday she got to have her first birthday party with friends.  She was loving it and I was going crazy.  But as long as she had fun it is all worth it.  We had 18 little girls over for a strawberry shortcake party.  They all came for lunch, cake and a pinata.  What a fun and crazy day.  Marc's mom and two brothers where able to come up too.  It was nice to have everyone there.  Happy Birthday Princess.

Family party

Her flower cake on her birthday

Her strawberry short cake cake that I made

Her pinata

The picnic on the floor with all the little girls

Dane Hansen Fuller

Congratulations Weston and Becky.  My brother and sister in law had a new baby boy on Friday.  We are so happy that he is here.  he is so cute.

Science Fair

His display

I am so proud of Zack. This past week he had to turn in his science fair project. His grade could do it for extra credit, but it wasn't required.  He wanted to do.  He cam up with the idea and did it asll himself.  He did citrus power.  He took different citrus fruits and found out which one would make the most electricity.  He found out that lemons make the most. 

Out with the old and in with the New

This week I decided to do something daring.  Our kitchen table set we inheritted fom my grandparents when Papa died 8 years ago has been need of a change..  I love this set.  But, over time the fabric on the chairs have gotten worn and the color didn't go with the house.  So this week I decided to recover them.  I have never done this before, but had seen it done and it didn't look that hard.  So I jumped in and started.  I wanted to have it done before Marc got home and surprise him, but I only had 1/2 done when he got home.  He was still surprised and then got to help me finish the other 1/2.  The new fabric is chocolate brown pleather.  They turned out so good, I think.  I wonder why I didn't do it sooner.  My mom saw them later this week and at first said, "You got new chairs", then she looked again and said, "You recovered them, They look good".  I was so happy that she liked them, because the set belonger to her parents and I was nervouse that she may not like them.  Take a look.  Here are the before and after photo's.

Before

After