Spring Soccer Season 2013

Another Spring soccer season has come and gone. The kids played hard, improved and had fun! Many goals were scored this season. Brandon was once again the coach for Hyrum's soccer team and did a wonderful job.

Also, since I was helping Brandon, Hyrum didn't have as many soccer pictures taken of him this season.  Yes, the sound you hear in  the videos is the crazy wind we experience here in the valley.

 Of course, Lucy was the best cheerleader!  She thought her stroller was her jungle gym and the kids' treats from soccer were her's.

   I love for my kids to be involved and to participate in things. I think it has helped them make new friends quickly here.   I am proud of them for how hard they worked at their practices and at their games. It was a great season!

Mother's Day 2013

I had a wonderful Mother's Day filled with many wonderful delights from my cute family. Brandon let me sleep in while he and the kids busted out a delicious breakfast of German Pancakes.  After church, the kids helped Brandon prepare a delicious meal.  Followed by a one of a kind Brandon cake.  The boys waited all day to play Monopoly with me while Brandon made dinner (Yes, Lucy is on the table.  It is her new favorite perch!).   

 

 The kids were excited to draw me pictures and give them to me.  Hyrum's butterfly was amazing. I can tell that he worked very hard on it. 

 Emmy's was dying to paint my nails for me for Mother's Day.  She did a wonderful job.  Of course she painted my nails to match her's. 

I am so lucky to be a mama to these four crazy monkeys and a wife to an amazing man.  I consider myself very blessed. 

My Butterfly Ballerina

May 11th was the highly anticipated event of Emmy's ballet recital.  Both she and I had been looking forward to the recital all year. She had worked so hard during her dance class.  Emmy learned many things and was a great student that her teacher loved and Emmy loved her teacher.  It was a wonderful opportunity to have something just for Emmy.  Ballet was something for her to be herself and excel. 

Emmy was so excited on the dress rehearsal and the day of the ballet performance to have pink cheeks and red lips.  Emmy thought that she was  pretty fancy with make-up on.  Emmy was told she had to have her hair slicked back in a bun; we practiced many times.  Emmy made sure all her fingernail polish was off, had no gum, and  made sure to follow all the other rules that her teacher had drilled into the dancers' brains. 

Emmy was a butterfly during her dance recital.  I loved every minute of watching her dance. She took my breath away and made me tear up as I watched her proudly dance across the stage. 

Emmy was tickled pink to receive so many flowers from our neighbors, my parents, and Brandon. 

Emmy was lucky to have my parents come and watch her dance.  She was pretty proud to have some of her grandparents in the audience. 

Little Emmy is growing up too fast. I have told her many times that she is getting too big and that she can't have a birthday next year.  She laughs my comment away and tells me that I am being silly and that she will have a birthday much to my dismay and get older.

I am so proud of my lovely Emmy and who she is becoming which is a confident, strong, smart and beautiful inside and out little girl.

PS notice how awesome her bun is!  Those ballroom dancing days paid off! 

Family Program

On May 10th, Ben and Emmy's Kindergarten class had a family program.  The kids were so excited for us to come and watch them.  Luckily, my parents were able to make it for the kids' grand performance.  The kids sang some really cute songs and said some fun poems. 

 Emmy and her cute friends from her class.

After the performance, they each handed out cookies and punch.  The kids had talked about serving us the refreshments for days.  Ben told me that he would have to serve me first because he loved me.
As you can tell from the picture, the kids took their role of pass out refreshments to us very seriously!

We were so lucky to have such a wonderful teacher for Ben and Emmy.  She made Kindergarten fun for them while also challenging them into reaching their full potential. Mrs. McCarroll made it easy for the kids to transition from not only preschool to Kindergarten, but from Tennessee to Colorado.  We were very lucky to have such an amazing teacher. 

Headin West Ya'll

On May 8th was Ben, Emmy and Hyrum's Spring Fling.  The kids had worked for MONTHS on their dances for this night. They were all so excited to show us what they had been learning in PE and Music.  The theme for the night was Western. Hence the title for the show was Headin West Ya'll.  The kids each had to wear western clothes. The kids each wanted to wear cowboy boots, but I couldn't bring myself to bite the bullet of paying 75 dollars per kids for a pair of boots.  Anyways, poor Brandon made a commitment back in January to do a presentation at the local hospital and so he missed the awesome performance. 

The kids were so cute count down the minutes until we were supposed to leave to go to the school for the performance.  Before we left, the kids obliged me and let me take some pictures of them. 

I thought Ben looked so handsome.

I can't believe how old my Hyrum is looking. He is growing up too fast!

Doesn't Emmy look so cute in her new western shirt?

Lucy had to go and find our play camera and take pictures. 

The program started off with all the kids singing some songs that they learned in Music. The song Do, Do, Do, Do Remember Me I have heard for months!



 At the beginning of the night, there was a group number to the song Cotton Eyed Joe.  The kids have LOVED this dance and think they are pretty fancy doing it.

Each of the grades performed some cute songs and dances individually.

The kindergarten danced to You Are My Sunshine.

I loved how Ben in this video is loving the fact that he is the leader and can hardly keep his smile off his face.
 

 Hyrum did a couple of  western dances.  He was so embarrassed (but secretly loved it) when he had to shake his tail feather. Also, the girl that is his partner in the dance has sent him numerous love notes and invited Hyrum to her birthday party.

One of the best parts of the night was the fact that Lucy was copying the movements and so wanted to be out there dancing with the big kids.  It was so cute and funny!

To end the program, the kids sang Happy Trails to You.  You could tell that the kids and teachers put a lot of work and effort into their program.  Everything was very nice.

After the program we headed to a local diner for some tasty ice cream.  I was so proud of my kids of how hard they worked and how brave they were to get up in front of everyone. 

Hershey Track Meet

On May 1st Hyrum participate in a local Hershey Meet in Alamosa.

Hyrum was quite excited to participate. He begged me for days to sign him and finally I did.  Hyrum did the 100 M, 200 M, Softball throw, and 4 X100 relay. 

Hyrum did pretty well for being one of the youngest kids there (he barley made the deadline by six weeks). 

  It was a cold and windy day, but we were there to support our Hyrum and cheer him on. We were proud of him.