Most likely to...

Trey's last day of 7th grade they gave all the kids certificates of some random "most likely to"...

Can't believe he is going into 8th grade! He will be able to show Avery the ropes her first year in middle school since he is an old pro and all. Proud of you for working hard this year Trey! All that hard work paid off and we are excited to see you do well in 8th grade!

Farewell to fifth grade

This past week Avery finished her last year of being an elementary student. On Tuesday there was a farewell breakfast for the 5th grade and their family's. She was lined up ready to go up on stage and get her certificate...

 Mr Hughes, her teacher giving her the certificate. 

 They showed a dvd of the whole year and then pictures of the kids as babies and then their 5th grade school picture...yes, i got a little teary!

 Avery and some of her good friends...they love to have fun!

 Then on Wednesday there was an awards assembly. Avery got a couple of certificates for things that she was involved in through the year.

 Then at the end of their half day the fifth graders walk the halls while the rest of the kids lined the halls to say goodbye.

 Avery and her fifth grade teacher. She had a great fifth grade year. Now it is off to middle school. We are proud of you Avery. You worked so hard and accomplished your goal of good grades this year and you will do great next!

Kindergarten comes to a close

Today was Ethan's last day as a kindergartner! He smiles as big as can be when i call him my big first grader! He had a fantastic first year of school, loved every bit of it! His teacher was amazing! You can tell when a teacher truly loves the kids and that is exactly what she did! She gave them each a special notebook yesterday filled with all of their special artwork throughout the year, first picture they drew in kindergarten and had pictures throughout the book as well...so awesome!! Here is Ethan checking out his book yesterday. He is so proud to show everyone his book

 Ethan and his teacher Mrs. Stegeman

 They had an ice cream party yesterday

 Then today was their last day! All the parents took the kids to a super fun park after school let out for a picnic lunch and lot's of playtime! So, here is our official FIRST GRADER!

We are super proud of you buddy! You are reading like a champ and it's fun to see you crave to learn! You are going to do Awesome in first grade!

Education Celebration

We enjoyed an evening at the school a little while back. I can't believe this school year is two weeks from being over! This year has flown!

This is the 4th and 5th grade special chorus group. They have one more field trip where they visit several places to sing before school is out.

 I snapped a few pictures of pictures while we were there. Ethan and his bud Will when they got student of the week the same week, Way to go boys!

 Avery's last elementary desk...next year she moves on up to lockers!

 Their reading program this year was "reading rocks"

 so here they are rocking it

 Ethan has done a whole lot of reading this year. He has three booklets to do in the next two weeks so i don't think he will have a problem getting them finished. He is always so happy to get in the van and tell me how m,any stickers he got to put on his chart. He is really doing great with his reading. We are very proud of him!

 Ethan's kindergarten desk

 The 5th grade strings also had a little concert for us to start the evening. Avery has been loving playing the violin and has signed up to continue on with orchestra and choir in 6th grade next year.

It was a fun night to see all that the kids have been up to. They love school and we are thankful for the great school that they go to and all the great teachers that they have!

Amazing Race

Our Sunday school class puts on an "Amazing Race" each year in the spring. We have participated the last three years. The first year we won. The second year we came in second and this year we came in 9th or 10th so we are really going down hill! :) Physical tasks you can give to us all day long we are up for that...make us memorize Shakespeare and quote...well we pretty much suck at that! I will give John credit, he is the one who finally got it down and said it. We caught back up with everyone and actually arrived towards the front at one of the legs only to leave last after coming to grips with the fact that we know nothing much about playing cards. 

In spite of those frustrating moments we had a total blast!

And now, to explain our team shirts...a few years back our class got together for a "newlywed game". One of the questions was what your song was. John has yet to live down his answer that matched my answer, which we always listened to or maybe more like kissed to when we were dating...The Power of Love by Celine Dion. It has been a running joke and when they showed the video last year of the Amazing Race there was lot's of peppy music but each time we were shown it went to Celine Dion...so we went with it...and i'm pretty sure he won't ever live down wearing that t-shirt. Fun times for sure! I love our class, we have so much fun!

We will be back next year with a fury ready to take down some competition! In the mean time i am going to go read some stinkin Shakespeare!

Track season is officially over. For his 7th grade year Trey ran the mile and the 800 meter distance. He wanted to stay away from the sprinting because that was harder on his knees.

He did a great job!

 His fastest mile time this season was 6:11 and his fastest 800m was 2:50. Fantastic job Trey! We are proud of you!

 His last 800m of the season he caught three of his buds and they all finished together. He has one more physical therapy session tomorrow for his knees and then we will go just on an as needed basis. He had a little more flexibility the last visit because of all the stretches so hopefully tomorrow will be some improvement as well.

Loved cheering him on on the sidelines and can't wait to do it many more times in the future!

Our "babies" playdate

My sister and i took advantage of some beautiful weather to take our "babies" to Deana Rose Farmstead. We are both sending off our youngest to kindergarten next year so our free days with them will soon come to an end. It seems like just yesterday we were doing these kinds of things with our oldest kids when they were little and if i looked back i would probably have very similar pictures of the older ones with their cousins.

Brooklyn and Raegan are pretty good buds and can't wait to hang out at the pool this summer but for now they were practicing up their driving skills...

 they each took a pony ride which might just have inspired Raegan to request a pony the next day!

 Number one on her want to do list was to feed the baby goats their bottles. They were in a different pen so they were able to feed them from outside the fence.

 We then moved on to the larger goats...not the largest but larger. I snapped this picture after yanking Raegan back up off the ground when the goats all jumped on her and knocked her to the ground. She was still wiping her hands off and it didn't even seem to phase her.She did not get that from her mother, i was ready to get out of the pen!

 love these two sweeties!

After picking out some candy from the General store we called it a day!

Blog much?

Blogging has very obviously taken a bit of a backseat lately for me. I just can't seem to get them done. So to update a little on what's been happening in our lives lately...

Trey has been going to physical therapy and seems to be doing a little better with the knee pain. Some days are worse than others. He is finishing up his track season with his two final meets this week and next. He runs the mile and the 800 meter. I will do his own post with pictures later.  He is also playing basketball again and they are doing really well. He recently just endured what he thought might be the worst punishment ever. We took him to the Christian book store and picked out a book that he had to read and then do a book report on. is attitude has been amazing the last couple of weeks :)

Avery is not a morning person to say the least! This is how everyone is at the table in the mornings!

 Avery was thrilled to find out that her transfer request was approved this past Friday! After calling and checking on it since we hadn't heard anything we found out it had disappeared somewhere along the line so we had to start the whole process over. They expedited the process and were so king to actually call me last Friday to let me know that it had been approved instead of us having to wait till this week for the letter in the mail. She is super excited to head on to middle school with her friends. We are thankful for this answer to prayer. We didn't know for sure how he would answer it but are pleased with the outcome!

John celebrated his 38th birthday on Friday. since i was running the next morning we celebrated on Saturday night gorging ourselves at The Outback and spending the night on a little getaway to a hotel for the night. That cheesecake by the way was the yummiest cheesecake i have had in a long time!

I am trying to keep up with my calendar! It seems the closer to the end of school we get, the more things are filling up the calendar! Summer break is just around the corner but first we have lot's of things to attend, accomplish, finish up, study for, sign...the list goes on and on! The pool is calling my name!!

Easter 2012

Working till at least 12:30 am Saturday nights makes for a pretty sleepy and sometimes grumpy mama on Sunday mornings. I quickly determined our normal pictures before church just were not a good idea and decided we would get them later!

After enjoying an amazing Sunday service we decided to stop by a park that is right by our church and snap some pictures...

the kids were mostly cooperative...they are learning to give in to mom's picture taking sessions and i think they know the more they cooperate the sooner it will be over!

these hanging from a tree pictures were totally the kids idea...i always knew they belonged in the zoo!

After church we went out to Grandpa and Grandma Seaba's for lunch and egg hunt

gave the little ones a 30 second head start

some of the eggs had money in them...the kids love candy but let me tell ya they were on the hunt for the eggs with money!

and then it was time to check out all the loot!

Hope you had a Happy Easter!