Allie Turns 3!

My baby is 3. I have to say I am not sad. I am excited. I am enjoying my kids getting older. We can enjoy different activities that just are easier and more enjoyable with older kids. Allie has been making me laugh all week. I have had her presents sitting on the buffet since Monday afternoon. At least once a day Allie tells me. "Mom, I think I am 3 now so I can open my presents."

We had a fabulous birthday party for Allie.

 We enjoyed fabulous food! Allie wanted hot dogs and watermelon. We also had some great salads and hamburgers for those of us who don't truly appreciate a hot dog like Allie does. 

 We had some fabulous beverage options. Allie LOVES her chocolate milk. Honestly any milk will do. She also really wanted lemonade so we picked up Strawberry Lemonade as well.

 Ice Cream cones with Blue ice cream. Yes that is what she wanted. There was no cake to be had. She didn't even want cup cakes. Just ice cream cones with blue ice cream. Now if you lived anywhere outside of Cache Valley blue ice cream might be hard to find but here where the Aggies live and our blood runs blue you can find blue Aggie ice cream. It is mint with white chocolate chips and cookies and is YUMMY!  It is also expensive running almost $6 for a half gallon.

You can't have a birthday party without presents! Allie has been asking for a purple ipad for the last 6 weeks. Finally about a week ago I sat down with her and said she needed to come up with another idea because she wasn't getting an ipad. She decided she wanted a baby doll with cloths and a new shovel for the sand box. I kept teasing her that I had bought her things like socks and underwear or a banana or a monkey. She just kept telling me that wasn't what she asked for and was very confident that I had bought the right thing and yes I did. 

 What takes a birthday party from average to memorable? Unexpected guests. Our friends brought over three goats that were only a week old. They even came with ribbons and bows. The kids LOVED them. Allie picked the blue one and Kassie named the red one. They thought they were so fun and cute. Thankfully they went home and that isn't at our house.

All this fun and even the adorable baby goats are tired.

Allie had her well child check up and is:
weighs 33 pounds (80th percentile)
37 3/4" tall (60th percentile)
her head measurement is 18 3/4" (20th percentile)

So she is a healthy average height child with a little head.

End of School Celebration at the Splash Pad

 In honor of the end of school and start of summer I took the kids and two of their friends to the splash pad on the last day of school.  Jason brought pizza and met us at the park for a picnic and then the kids played in the water and on the playground. The kids had a blast. Mikele was by far the most water logged!
  I am so excited about summer. I love the lack of homework and having my kids around. Some activities this summer that we are looking forward to are:

1. Grandma Camp for the Mighties and Minnies (Brock, Mikele and Kassie are all going this year)
2. Summer Ballet class for Kassie
3. Zoo camp for Mikele
4. Guitar lessons for Brock
5. Allie's birthday
6. Week with Grammy
7. Finishing the back back yard
8. 11 year old scout camping trips
9. Playing with friends

Piano Recital Time

Brock and Mikele had their spring recital a few weeks ago.  They are both taking lessons from their Aunt AnnMarie. Both Brock and Mikele have been practicing hard to have their recital pieces ready. Mikele played 6 Ate Beats and Secret Agent. 

Brock played Hedwig Theme from Harry Potter and Trepak.

I have had this post ready for a couple of weeks but I was waiting to get the videos that Jason took. I gave up waiting. ;)

Memorial Day Weekend

We spent Memorial day weekend in Rexburg with the Norris family this year. Jon and Daryn were down from Boise and Andrew and Heather were in town for a few weeks. We had a fun time playing games including an exciting game of "Minute to Win it" Sadly the "Old Farts" (Dee and Jason) won. Yes, that was their team name. I am going to warn you now that there are a lot of pictures in this post but seriously they are pretty funny so how could I not share them. Oh and trust me I have more.

We also celebrated my birthday. (look I am in a picture!) 

It was rainy all weekend. On Monday the sun finally came out and so before we headed home we played a game of kickball. It was intense. ;) I am sure my team won!

Kassie - Preschool Graduation and End of Year Interview

Teacher Janice and Kassie

Kassie graduated from preschool this year. It is her last year of preschool. She is off to kindergarten in the fall and she is excited! I did this last year and loved it so I thought I would do it again. Here is Kassie's end of school year interview with some pictures from her last day of preschool.

receiving her graduation certificate

About school...
Who was your teacher? Teacher Janice 

What was she like? Nice and funny

What did you learn? 2,4,6,8,10

What was your favorite thing to do? play with my friends

What was your favorite snack? big marshmallows and pretzels

What are you looking forward to about next year? a better teacher like just as good as teacher Janice

picnic on the last day of school

About her...

What do you want to be when you grow up? a person who makes skirts and sales them.


What kind of car will you drive one day? a van


What do you like to do for fun? play with my friends


What are your hobbies? making stuff and inventing stuff


What are you going to do this summer? go to teacher Janice's house.

End of year performance

Jumping at the end of year party

Carrissa, Kassie and Bailey

About her friends...
Who are your friends? Lilly, Bailey, Abbey, Eva and Eric


Who is your best friend? Bailey


What do you like to do with your friends? jump on the tramp at Teacher Janice's

Lilly, Eva, Kassie and Abbey

Mikele's End of School Year Interview

Morgan, Mikele and Brock

Mr. Lopez and Mikele

About school...
Who was your teacher?  Mr Lopez

Counting coins for the class store on the last day of school

What was he like? Awesome! Cool. First boy teacher and it was Mr Lopez's first year teaching. 

What did you learn? multiplication

What was your favorite thing to do? learn math

What was your favorite lunch? pizza

What are you looking forward to about next year? awesome teacher but not as awesome as Mr. Lopez.

About her...

What do you want to be when you grow up? I don't know. A Mom.

What kind of car will you drive one day?  A jeep 

What do you like to do for fun? play with my friends.

What are your hobbies? making stuff

What are you going to do this summer?  playing.

Sabrina, Elizabeth, Ali, Jessica, Mikele and Katelyn

About her friends...

Who are your friends? Sabrina, Elizabeth, Ali, Jessica, Katelyn, Morgan

Who is your best friend? Morgan

What do you like to do with your friends? play.

Brock's End of School Year Interview

About school...
Who was your teacher?  Mrs Dean and Mrs Kimpson for the last 6 weeks while Mrs Dean was on maternity leave.

What was she like? Mrs Dean was nice and tried to make things fun. Mrs Kimpson was nice sometimes. She didn't like it when we talked in class so she would take 300 points away from earning a class party.

What did you learn? How to do double digit division.

What was your favorite thing to do? Have class parties

What was your favorite lunch? pizza and super nachos

What are you looking forward to about next year?  lockers, 6 different classes and new friends.

Mrs Dean and Brock

Mrs Kimpson and Brock

About him...

What do you want to be when you grow up? work at a computer with somebody I know

What kind of car will you drive one day? a jeep or a truck

What do you like to do for fun? play soccer, sometimes play with my sisters, read, play my ipod and be outside.

What are your hobbies? soccer, reading, guitar, piano, electronic devises and collecting erasers. 

What are you going to do this summer? play outside a lot, play with my friends, do fun things. 

Sean and Brock

Brody, Dixon, Trea, Dillon, Mason, Brock, Andrew and Blake

About his friends...

Who are your friends? Trea, Mason, Sean, Braxton, Andrew

Who is your best friend? Mason at school and Sean during the summer. 

What do you like to do with your friends? play soccer and play games.