Free Child Labor

Well summer is upon us and we are trying to stay busy. The boys left Sunday for Scout Camp, and as much as I was ready for them to go, I miss them terribly. Carissa is very busy working at the Karate Club in the kids daycare and taking Karate lessons, so that pretty much leaves Hannah and I to entertain each other. We have been spending time at the pool. We actually got to the library today to set Hannah up with their reading program. She is excited that she can earn prizes for reading and they do fun weekly activities, like tomorrow she gets to go to the driving range to hit golf balls. She is excited because her friends will be there also. The other night Hannah decided to help Daddy vacum his car. I walked out there and I think Hannah might have vacumed all of Daddy's car. She was so proud of herself and was very excited about the headphones that Daddy fixed so they fit Hannah pretty good. She loves helping out around the house and I find it funny that she describes each and every little detail of what she did and how she did it, sometimes the description can last a good while. One last note to share with everyone. As I read back thru my previous post I have to apologize to everyone and the never ending I am so proud of my children. I think I said that in almost everything I posted. I need to start finding better words to describe how I feel! By the way I should explain the picture of Hannah playing Guitar Hero. Matt and I had gone on a "date" and we got home about 10pm and there was Hannah sitting on the futon, playing Guitar Hero with a very glazed over look, it was a pretty funny sight!

End of the School Year!

Well the end of the school year is upon us, and with that comes, class parties and award ceremonies. Bryan had his award ceremony yesterday and was given an award by his geography teacher for being an excellent student. She said some wonderful things about Bryan. He also received the "Diamond" award for having straight A's and B's for the entire year. We could not be any prouder of his accomplishments. Hannah had her party also yesterday. She got her Kindergarten Certificate and then her teacher handed out cute awards for all the kids. Hannah got the "Princess award, for always being such a jewel in Class" She thought that was great. They sang songs to us and had ice cream sundaes and played outside. Christopher had his 8th grade award ceremony today. Christopher was awarded the excellent student award by his algebra teacher, she had wonderful things to say about him. He also received the Diamond award, the Presidential award for having an A average for 6, 7, 8th grade. He also received the top 25 in the class award. Christopher was ranked number 6 in his class. He received a really nice medal for that. We are very proud of him and all his accomplishments. All the kids are excited that the school year is coming to an end, and they are really looking forward to summer and all the activities they have planned. I am very proud of all of our kids, I really could not have asked for 4 better kids!

Carissa's Choir Performance

Carissa had her final choir performance of her junior year. She did a great job! I thought I would share a little of it with you. Sorry for the shaking of the camera. Don't forget to turn on your speakers!

The youngest foreman

Just another Hannah moment to share. The other day the boys were mowing the lawn. Matt had asked Hannah if she wanted to go outside with him and check on the progress of how the lawn mowing was going. Hannah responded with "you want me to check on the lawn all by myself, OK I will go check". And with that she bounded out of our room leaving Matt and I laughing hysterical. That is when Matt said she will make a great boss one day. About 2 minutes later she came back in to report that all was going well with the lawn mowing. She just cracks me up and it is obvious that she is the boss around here. Today we went down to the beach to have dinner as a family. It was wonderful and relaxing. It was one of those really nice nights that just felt so great to sit on the beach and watch the kids enjoying themselves and being a family. I think we will have to do it more often. The more time I spend at the beach the more and more I love it.

Hannah Field Day

Hannah had her field day today, finally as it was rained out twice! She was so excited. I have to say I was a proud mom today she did such a great job. She really put her heart into it. She is quite the fast runner. I really had no idea, they were doing a torch relay and she took off at the speed of light and left the other 2 kids in the dust. I have posted a few pictures because she is so darn cute, and I am so very proud of her. Also on the I am a bad mother side, Carissa had her High School Musical this past weekend. It was actually High School Musical. I could not a get a good picture, because it was in the gym, and anyways no good pictures of that. She did a great job. I am so very proud of my two girls!

O.K. So I am so excited. I found this great website, that I am sure everyone know's about ( I am sure I am the last to know). It is www.ldsjournal.com. It is a online journal website, that is secure and they also back up the info, you can also have it put into a hard bound book and the very best part of the whole thing is you can set it up to email you reminders every couple of days to journal. I am so excited, I have been horrible about keeping journals, they have always been sporatic. But I have made several journal enteries allready. Oh and they also have an area with specific questions about your life that you can answer. It is great. I type so much faster and better then I write!

First Attempt

The other day Christopher was telling me a story. As he is telling this story, Hannah kept adding "No, that is not what she said, and would correct Christopher, this kept happening as he was telling me this story. So I look at Christopher and tell him he better get the story right or else Miss know it all is going to correct him. All we could do was keep laughing as she kept correcting him. This past week was very eventful for our family, Bryan was inducted into the the National Junior Honor Society, which was really great. Christopher who is an officer in The National Junior Honor Society got to read Bryan's name into NJHS. Also this week Carissa went to her first Prom. She looked gorgeous. It was fun to watch her get ready, It feels like just yesterday I was doing her hair for the first day of Kindergarten, I can even remember what she was wearing. They grow up to fast, It is hard to think a year from now she will be getting ready to graduate. I feel like there is so much more I need to teach her before she goes off into the real world, and I don't think there is enough time. Hopefully there will be!