Choir Concert

Alyssa had her last choir concert of the year. She sang a solo (Wide Open Spaces - by Dixie Chicks). She did a great job and I was glad I actually made it out of work on time to go. They did a medley of Grease Lightning Songs that was very fun....too bad I never made that poodle skirt I was going to make so she could have used it. She was still cute though. Here's a picture of her and a friend after the concert.

And here's her performance. I told her after the last performance that she sounded good but needed to work on her confidence and really get out there and sing and look up. She worked so hard on improving on that and I think she did AWESOME!!!

Weekend Visit From Trevor & Bethany

We had a WONDERFUL weekend. After a "I don't even know how many hours I put in at work last week" last week Trev & Beth came to visit. They got there Friday night late, we sat up and talked for a while. Then up Saturday morning for a day at the soccer fields. It was the last day of soccer for the year and they do a really fun day at the park with lots of business with booths up...lots of spinning wheels and prizes.

We started the day at Cailah's soccer game. She is extremely fun to watch because she smiles ALL the time and she just looks like she is having tons of fun. Last time I took her to her game and watched she took it 3/4 of the way down the field and scored. She performed again today to Trev and Beth and scored a goal.

Here are a few cute pictures of some of the spectators

Cailah in action.

At the end of the game all the family members get together and make a tunnel for all the players to run through as we cheer. As you can see by Cailah's face they love it.


Right after Cailah's game the kids got there face painted. This was by far the best facepainting I have seen, they all looked so cute.

Then a little fun around with Trevor time. Does it get better than this...I submit that it does not.
Stop to see the firetruck.
We spent most of out time between Cailah and Abby's game at the blow up obstacle course. The kids all raced each other. Trev and I went down together and thought it would be a good idea to do a summersault down the slide at the end....you'll see how that worked out.

Abby and Cailah started it off. As you can guess Abby was a little faster but she waited up at the top of the slide for Cailah and they game down together.....so cute...what great sisters.

Then Braydon and Abby had a race.....well it started out as a race but as a crying child blocked Braydon's path it ended up just a fun run and they came down together.


And for Trevor and I.....ENJOY!!!


Bethany headed down with Cailah and just in case your wondering what Cailah was saying to Bethany as they were headed down the slide....it was something to the effect of, "I beat you" with again the big Caliah grin.
Saturday night we attempted to watch a movie...I think the only one that stayed awake was Bethany...I know I watched about 10 minutes at the beginning before crashing and maybe the credits at the end.

Sunday of course was church..I got a helper for my class. YEAH!!!!!! you may not have any idea just how enthusiastic that yeah was. Sunday night we played games....let's just say Trevor was not the winner and I'm not sure he enjoys playing Hand and Foot anymore but he was a lot of fun and we enjoyed laughing at him....or with him. Apparently our glasses are just not big enough for him around here. :O)


We will miss them but THANKS for visiting....it was TONS of fun....I think I can got to work tomorrow without too much pain now taht I had such a fun weekend.

Zoo

It was a beautiful day at the zoo today. Cailah, Delayna and I had a great time. Besides it being allergen heaven it was great. Here are a few little pictures from our day.

Not a bad self portrait for us. The first picture Cailah had her sunglasses on after looking at it she asked if we could take another one without her glasses on...and here we are.
Cailah took this picture all by herself.

Yes I am super fun...I took them on the Carousel ride even knowing it would make me sick..the sacrifices we make.

I think this was Delayna's favorite part. She would hide in the lava tube, you can see her and Cailah...she would wave at me then run out and boo me then do it all over again.

The slides were fun but we had a few incidents. The very first time up Delayna did a face plant on the gridded platform (yeah she had a gridline on her forehead). The first time down together I think Delayna got separated from Cailah as you see in the first slide picture below. Then I went up with them and I tried to take a inside the tube while going down picture.....we were all going down together so it's not he best picture but it turned out ok and is evidence that yes, they did have fun while coming down.

Cailah does not always take the best picture but look at this cute one. :O) I finally captured the real Cailah in a picture.

And this one is just because she is so stinking cute!!!!

Park

This weekend Alyson was sick so after taking Cailah to her soccer game where she scored two goals (excited does not even begin to describe her). I took the kids to park at the school. We had a picnic dinner. They have very fun equipment . Delayna's favorite....the slides. She went up and down and up and down I don't know how many time. Here's a couple of clips of her. I should give these to Al to post but it's what I did this weekend so I figure I can show off my nieces and nephews :O). One time she climbed up she accidentally went face first while trying to adjust her feet. Luckily she laughed and enjoyed it.



After much sliding we went over to the monkey bar playground area. I of course had to make sure I can still do a flip. Abby, Braydon, Alyssa and Cailah were twirling on the bars. I look over to see Delayna on the foot bar of the monkey bars doing flips with the rest of them. TOO CUTE And a girl after my own heart....got to keep up with the big kids. :O) I should apologize to the other kids. I thought I got a shot of each of them but I only had my phone with me and I clearly didn't get the shots. So it's the Delayna show today.

Easter - Better late then never

This Easter weekend we got the joy of having mom and Randy come and visit. The Saturday before Easter Randy and mom were going to leave. We of course packed it in. Randy took Abby to her soccer game while Alyson and I took Braydon and Cailah to the primary activity day. Al and I were in charge of a 15 minute station for the groups of kids. We came up, with help from the internet to egg the bishops door. So we cut out paper shaped like eggs and had each of the kids draw a picture or write a note to the bishop...he was a brand new bishop so it was even more fun. We took each group and snuck to the bishops office and quietly taped the eggs to his door. The best part was the bishop was there and he thought someone was knocking the first time we showed up and started to open up the door so we all ran and hid. The kids LOVED it. The bishop got the idea but a couple of times still started to open the door which was WAY fun. He loved it and talked about it at the pulpit on Sunday and then again thanked the kids during primary. He left them up that Sunday. It was really fun and SOOOO easy. I love easy things.

Anyhow because of all of this we were a little late getting eggs died and mom and Randy were going to leave Saturday afternoon. Mom and I ran to the store to get the eggs, we called Alyson to ask how many she wanted and she said well there are four kids so if we have 1/2 dozen for each kid that should be good. It was a good thing Randy was listening because he proceeded to speak up and say that wasn't going to work and that he WOULD be dyeing easter eggs. The kids, yes this includes Randy had a great time. When they were dry we wanted to get a picture of them on display with the kids. So Randy started picking out the eggs "he thought" were the best to put on display.....can you guess which ones he picked out. :O) LOL Yes your right...they were all his...the kids of course got a kick out of it. It was very much fun.

The BEST Easter eggs made. :O)

Cailah is there...she is just hiding behind the eggs next to Alyssa and in front of me.