The end of May

Ken took the day off work to plant the front flower bed.  So fun to have him home :-)!  We took a break to head over to the school for Abbie and Spencer’s dance festival.  Spencer learned a dance from another country and Abbie’s grade did square dancing. Spencer is smack in the middle of the first pic and Abbie in the the pink skirt on the left side of the other pic.

Emma in her cute hat being outside with us while we planted.  She wasn’t too sure about laying on the blanket on the grass.

Neil got a backpack for Christmas which he goes through spurts of wearing constantly.  And Isaac picked up on this “fun thing”  and loves to wear this backpack Becca gave to Jessie a long time ago. Randy spent a morning with us and so we went to the park before we had to take him to work. This was our front yard one beautiful evening in May…..one of those days you were wishing it was already summer so you didn’t have to call the kids in for bed. Neil’s new ‘Phil the Pill.”  That boys makes me laugh. Neil earned his second prize from the prize box for unloading the silverware from the dishwasher.  A new police car. Memorial Day started off with a program at the cemetery.  It was very nice and just the right length for children. Some work outside and some baseball in the backyard for the boys. Then a BBQ and FHE with Ken’s family.  Jennie and Scott did a talent for us - a song about cold cereal that they had written for Jennie’s guitar class. Scott sang and they both played. It was AWESOME! Grandma lead us on a bear hunt. Neil help Grandpa with “if you chance to meet a frown.”  We played bocce ball for activity boys against girls and Grandma made lemon bars for dessert.  Grandma also told a couple of family history stories for our lesson.  Trying to remember….I think about when her family brought a sewing table home for her mom after visiting her grandparents and how someone had to sit with legs scrunched up the whole ride home. We stopped by Brian’s grave on the way home. Mark and Jessie got awards at the ceremony at school.  Mark for 4.0 and Jessie for high honors (she only missed the 4.0 by one A- in band.) Jessie had a blast taking stop action photos of the kids playing in the sprinkler after school.  And don’t ask me how Isaac ended up in just his diaper, ‘cause I couldn’t give you an answer.

Neil loves to be with Emma.  I love it too!

Ok...how often do you knock you glass FULL of ice water to the floor and have it land perfectly upside down trapping the water inside? And how do you clean it up without making a bigger mess?  Well, Isaac grabbed it and picked it for me...and it made a big mess. Lucky for me it was just water.

May's sibling date. French fries with Isaac.

BYU picture scavenger hunt for mutual night.  The kids had a blast!  Ken went too and Jessie is still joking about how he was booking it across campus and she was in the back huffing and puffing to keep up.

On Lagoon Day Mark and Jessie went with the babies and me to the new museum of curiosity.  It is so cool.  More on this later since we’ll probably be going several times this summer and it’s way past my bedtime.  Mark and Jessie were so AWESOME!  Jessie took Neil and Mark took Isaac to explore.  I didn’t see much of Jessie and Neil, but Mark and Isaac dressed up as a pirate and a raccoon something, made a stop action video, checked out the vet center and the music room and then we all ended up in the weather place.   Here are the kids in the wind tunnel.

Like a boss!!!!! First day of spring break to last day of school to learn to solve his rubric's cube. Some cards I made.

Our friend brought over a last day of school treat for the kids- ladybugs made from strawberries dipped in chocolate.  SO CUTE!!! and stayed and played potato heads.

Love this pic of Abbie reading to Neil. Neil is really getting into bugs.  Here is the lady bug he found. Jessie had the great idea for Isaac to be an elephant. Jessie’s fun picture of our family for her autobiography for English. Isaac is becoming a pill.  He decided that he “needed” bag balm on his hands like Jessie does and so he helped himself to the bag balm and her socks to keep it from getting on her sheets.  Not so bad….but it cracked me up when he found this stuffed animal hat to wear too.  He has since covered himself in bag balm another day, covered his legs in bum cream ‘beacuse he had a “sunburn”,’gotten in to the Neosporin “to put on Spencer’s sores,”and covered himself in hand soap several times.  He has such a worthy cause behind each incident that it’s hard to be really mad but the mess is so frustrating.  Here’s to growing up!