Day of Splashing Fun!

These pictures speak for themselves!

Isaac's Last Day of 1st Grade!

And then Isaac had his last day. Another award ceremony for getting all As again - they don't start letter grading until 2nd grade, so his certificate says all Es.

He also got his first perfect attendance!

Keltsy's Preschool - Last Day of School Program!

Last day of school, last day of school! Keltsy, my big girl, had her last day of preschool with a bang. They had a cute little program, with singing and poems and lots of fun.

Thank you Miss Kim and Miss Jesika!

Easter!

Easter egg decorating is one of our favorite Easter activities. We just use water, food coloring, and a tablespoon of vinegar, instead of buying the kits.

The kids got a little fancy this year, layering, mixing, and striping their colors.

Gosh, he sure is getting big!

Oooo - stripey!

Sorry Spencer, you can watch this time, maybe next year you'll be big enough!

She sure looks more grown up with bangs!

Viola! Here's the eggs in all their glory!

Amazing April!

I always love April! Here's another award ceremony for Isaac's school. He's a smarty pants, he got all As again. He's also extremely social, the kid two spaces to the right is one of his best friends, Carson. He lives around the corner from us, so they have a lot of time to spend together.

This is one of the pictures from our back yard. As you can see, it is all dirt. We've done a lot since this picture was taken last April, so keep this in mind when I post pictures later of the "After".

Keltsy has been given the same fine texture of hair that I have. We curled it for church, but knew we had to grab a picture right away - as the curls don't (and didn't) stay.

When going through our pictures for April there were a lot of Spencer. I VT a sister that teaches the baby sign language classes, I was trying to grab pictures with the intention of making a sign language book for him...but never did get it made. Maybe for Christmas???

The above picture he was doing bird. Below was "all done"!

This one he's signing baby...

And here are the kids comparing belly buttons...on top of mom...

March - the rest of the story

Once we flew back to Utah, we had another day long drive home to Arizona, but we had a great trip and the kids did really well (except for Spencer, but we kind of expected that!)!

We got home, got settled back into life and our daily routine and busy schedule that comes with kids and life and all that...

Keltsy had a field trip with her preschool - the best part was getting to knock a cone over with the fire hose!

She enjoyed climbing on the trucks with her friends and little brother.

She listened intently to the firemen explain what they had to do for their job.

Overall a really great day!

One of the perks of where we live is that we're close to an airforce base and daily see fighter jets flying overhead. We were able to attend a free airshow that the airforce put on, saw a lot of really cool military aircraft and some really amazing and awesome stunts performed.

And here's one of our cute kids getting ready to help mom cook some dinner! I know it turned out a little blurry, but I love it anyway.

There's this thing called blogging...

Sorry, guess life has gotten in the way of blogging for the last few months. I'll be playing catch up for awhile!

As promised, here are some pictures from the everglades:

My sister Kathy, her husband James, my brother Mark and his wife Debbie, myself didn't have plane tickets home until the day after the cruise ended, so we spent that last day of our trip together seeing the sights around Florida. Mainly the Everglades and an aligator farm. This gentleman pictured above drove a fan boat tour that we went on through the everglades.

One of the gators cooling himself at the gator farm we went to.

My sister Kathy pretending to get eaten by a gator statue...

The farm also had some pretty exotic creatures. These geese were beautiful, made me want to put on a frilly white dress and go eat some crumpettes.

These are some baby gators. They were just all over each other in their habitats enjoying the sunshine.

This gator was going back into the water for a swim!

Here we are at the Everglade National Park. It was an amazing place, recommend if you ever get the chance to go see what's there. It was beautiful and exotic!

Here's a pretty cool bird we saw at the everglades.

This was the coolest thing ever. We were sitting there enjoying the view and someone in our group noticed this bird sitting there with a fish it had speared. It sat there for awhile making sure we all had noticed and were paying attention to it, then it shook the fish down it's beak and then with a quick flick and jerk of it's head grabbed it in it's mouth without dropping it. It was very cool!