End of 2nd Grade!

I went to a "Writing Lunch" with Cameron yesterday to read
all the stuff he's been writing this year. He's had a great year.


Here are pictures of Cameron with his teacher, Mrs. Cantrell and a
picture with his Mom and sis, and a picture with all the kids in his class

that are LDS (except one boy who just really wanted to be in the picture :)
For being outside of Utah....6 LDS kids in his class is pretty awesome!!

Only 5 more days till summer break! We are ready for it!

Kelsey turns 6!

A bit behind in posting pics from Kelsey's 6th Birthday in April!
She is 6! Can't believe it...even though she acts like a 16 year old most of the time.
She is such a funny kid. It was a fun birthday for her. We went to her school to have lunch with her which is always fun. All the girls in her class were trying to be the one who got to sit next to her at the lunch table which was cute.That night I got to take her to the bookstore to pick out some books which is what she wanted for her present. A few days later, we had a "FLIP-FLOP" Party with her friends. All the girls came in their flip flops, we painted our toes, played games, hit a flip-flop pinata, and had flip-flop cake! It turned out to be a really fun party. She was happy with all the fun flip flop party favors we got for the party to give to her friends.

Kelsey is one special girl. I've been trying to "appreciate" her strong,funny,bold personality more lately and I've been writing down some of the things she says to us lately because she really does come up with some funny things with very creative words.
Here are some of my favorites:
"My cup is full of dainty milk and here is some ketchup for the dainty one herself."(at the dinner table)
"You scoundrel!" (to Cameron)
"Bornadash!" (a word she made up to mean darn it)
"I'm so cute I could knock down a building....of rocks!"
"You're wasting energy sire." (to Cameron when he left the fridge open)
"You're banished to the isle of Plomplo!" (again to Cameron)

"I wish I were a rabbit so then maybe I'd like to eat these carrots." (at dinner)

Here is a conversation between Cam and Kels:
Kelsey to Cameron (who is playing a Star Wars Game on the computer where you blast down spaceships or something): "Cameron, you're playing that game so much that you're going to marry it."
Cameron: "No I'm not."
Kelsey: "Yes you are. You're going to stand up to propose and say, "Will you marry me?" and then it will blast you in the face."

Not to mention when she boldly told our neighbor that he should stop smoking because it's gross and it will turn his lungs black and that he needs to keep his dog from pooping in our yard. She's right! I was actually kind of proud of her for saying it...we just need to work on her "tone" and thankfully our neighbor is really nice and loves her spunk.
Sure love that girl!


Eating flip-flop cake at her party!


Kelsey with her new pink scooter and shopping with Grandma for a new birthday outfit (the girl loves to shop!)

Lunch at the Elementary School

Kelsey in her "Derby Hat"---she made it at school during "Derby Week" here in Kentucky (it's kind of a big deal here--ok a huge deal)

"Thunder over Louisville"

Our first experience going to "Thunder!" For those of you who don't know what "Thunder" is...according to Cameron's World Record Book it's the Biggest Firework display in North America! First, they have an air show with huge planes, jets, etc. flying over the river and then they set off fireworks from two barges on the Ohio River and from one of the bridges that cross the river. It was awesome! The BEST part and they ONLY way to go for this event is that we got to watch everything from 34 stories up from Blaine's office which is right on the Ohio River so it was awesome to be inside and away from the HUGE crowds (I heard an estimate of 700,000 people attend this event). What's even better....the Millar's came from Lexington to watch it with us! Wahoo!

Blaine's firm had a nice catered dinner, and activities for the kids to do while we waited for the fireworks! The kids LOVED them! They kept sitting RIGHT next to the windows and it was giving Blaine major anxiety because he's afraid the windows will break and they will fall to their doom. (It did make me a little nervous too I admit.)We had a great time.

Spring Break 2010

Day One...
Trip to the Firestation. Cameron needed to go to pass off one of his requirements for his Wolf Badge for Cub Scouts, and my friend had planned a trip so we were excited to go! I love going to the firestation. The Firemen are always so nice and the kids are just fascinated by it all! The coolest part was at the end of the visit, the firemen got called on a emergency and all of them came running out, got dressed in their gear, jumped on the truck, and zoomed out in about 1 minute! It was pretty impressive! Then we went to the park nearby for a picnic lunch, and playing on the toys and swings. Budzo sure loves those swings! We dyed Easter Eggs when we got home. Easter was the day before, but we never got around to it so it gave us something to do!






DAY TWO...
The Zoo. My kids LOVE the zoo. We got a pass last summer so they've been to the Louisville Zoo a bunch of times but they never get tired of it. It was SUPER crowded this day, but we had fun. I didn't get many pictures because I was counting children the whole time and usually trying to track down one kid in all the crowds. Highlights from this trip was that we went with the Thiess Family, we saw the Bald Eagles this time which were really neat, and no geese came to attack us while we ate our lunch. My children are forever traumatized after one time the geese swarmed us while eating and were really agressive. They were really nervous to take food with us to eat, but happily no geese were there today.These pictures are at the END of the trip....they all are tired and grumpy as you can see from the pictures.




DAY THREE....
I made the kids do yard work all morning with me, and then we went to McDonalds for lunch. Cameron and Dad went to see "How to Train your Dragon" Monday night and Cameron was so excited to get one of the toys from McDonalds. Then we watched "Veggie Tales" movies the rest of the afternoon....which both the kids and I really love. They are so funny!

DAY FOUR...
The Science Center. We went with the Thiess Family again! They are so fun. Cameron and Liam are just great friends, and we're lucky to have them as neighbors and friends. The Science Center is way fun. Cameron especially LOVES this place. They had a special "Robots" exhibit that was fun. The kids got to learn about robots, and even build something with robot parts. It was a good time and we spent a long time there which was good! (Took up most of the day, and the kids were worn out when finished!) Cameron and Kelsey had soccer practice that night.






DAY FIVE...
I'm sitting here trying to think what we did today and I can't remember. I'm pretty sure we had a day playing at home. Nothing exciting this day.

So it was a fun week. It makes me excited for this summer, but also made me realize I'm gonna need a plan this summer for these kids (especially Kelsey) to keep them busy!

I heart Tulips....

My Mom and me planted these tulips and daffodils last Fall. I was so happy to see them come up this Spring, and they are soooo beautiful lining the walk up to our front door. They just make me happy! Thanks Mom for helping me...all that work was definitely worth it.

Easter cuties...

Easter always means cute new dresses for my girls, and handsome outfits for the boys. I had to bribe them with candy to let me take these pictures. Those are totally fake "I'm doing this for candy" smiles...except Isaac but the sun was in his eyes and it was hard to smile!

Easter fun...

Here's some pictures from the Easter Egg Hunt we had at our neighbor's house. It's amazing how fast those kids find eggs!
Cameron loved being one of the big kids who got to hide the eggs this year. Kelsey had all her candy eaten in about 5 minutes, and Ellie just loved the whole idea of putting eggs with candy in them in her treasured easter basket! Isaac just likes sucking on the eggs and crawling around. Fun times!