Hershey's Trackmeet

Regan participated in the Hershey's trackmeet held at Thunder Stadium on May 30th. She chose to run both the 100 and 200 meter races. She placed 2nd in the 200 meter and 3rd in the 100 meter so she gets to move on to State which is held in Rexburg next Saturday. She was beyond excited and couldn't wait to call her grandparents to share the news. She's a fast little thing and seems to really enjoy track. I'm crossing my fingers that the love continues because it was my favorite in High School and I love going to meets even if it means sitting for hours on end in the hot sun. Good luck Regan!

piano recital

Once again, I'm behind. Regan and Morgan participated in their piano recital on May 31st. Both played beautifully despite their nerves. They are great little pianists and it's fun to see the improvement they've both made over the past year.

This is their sweet teacher, Rosemarie Petersen. She really is a great teacher and genuinely loves each student, and they know it! She does fun rewards for passing off books, gives the kids a big gift at the end of each year, and often brings treats for the other kids. (Kaleb LOVES her) hopefully not just for the treats. I had to laugh because she always makes the yummiest variety of goodies for refreshments at the recital. As soon as I mentioned that the girls would be having their piano recital, Kaleb got the biggest grin on his face and said, "are we going to get goodies." So, during the whole recital he was drueling and kept asking about the refreshments. This picture shows his love of sweets which he definetly inherited from his mother!

We're almost 1!

Holy cow, I can't believe my little babies will be 1 year next Thursday. Their little personalities are so different but yet they can almost always be found playing together. I've been trying to get Kamryn to clap her hands for the longest time but she didn't want to have anything to do with it. So, one day they were eating in their high chairs and Porter started clapping his hands so all the sudden Kamryn starts grinning and starts clapping her hands along with him. What a little stink! She continues to be the little live wire while Porter is more content and easy going. Kamryn has had only volume this week and that has been LOUD, whether she's screaming at the top of her lungs or squealing for delight, she's just plain loud. Porter loves to follow her around with a big grin on his face and often tries to use her as his wall to help him stand up. She doesn't find that amusing at all!! Porter doesn't act like he's in too big of a hurry to walk but he crawls so fast and can get away from me if he really wants to. Kamryn practically runs now and church is all the sudden a big nightmare. Yesterday was a joke, the second we set foot in the chapel she made up her mind she wasn't going to be there. I spent the entire sacrament meeting in the mothers room wrestling her. I just refuse to let her run wild for fear she'll never sit still for me so I made her sit on my lap for a solid hour. Thank goodness I have so many willing to help me with the other kids when I have to make a mad dash out of a meeting. This is when I miss DJ sitting with me the most!

Growing up!

Jordyn & Makenna were instant friends in preschool. They play so good together...aren't they both adorable?

Jordy officially finished with preschool last Wednesday. I think she has enjoyed it and is more than ready to venture out to Kindergarten. Her face lights up whenever I mention that school starts in just 3 more months. I can only imagine what her teacher will think about her VERY talkative personality. I love it (most of the time) since she makes friends very easily and can talk to anyone young or old. Her favorite thing to do is to go over to our neighbors across the street and strike up some random conversation. They've told me she is their best form of entertainment! I think Kaleb will be lost without her when she heads off to school but I'm sure he'll figure out that it's nice not to be bossed around for once! Anyway, I'm ashamed of myself for not really taking pictures of preschool this year so I snapped one picture on Wednesday wearing her cute little apron they made for the last day. What a pretty little girl! I love you Jordyn!

This picture was taken in August of last year! Although she hasn't grown much heighth wise, she's grown so much in other ways.

Memorial Day with Grandma & Grandpa Rose

We got together with mom, dad, and Grandma Johnson on Memorial Day for a fun picnic at Tauphus Park. We had great food, fun visits, and lots of playing. The kids love this new park that was added a couple of years ago and the weather couldn't have been more beautiful. Kamryn & Porter loved getting fed bits of food from every direction and Kamryn spent her time cruising around trying to escape to the playground. She practically runs around now which makes me extra grateful that Porter is still just crawling. Anyway, Grandpa brought his horse along with him so after our picnic we headed home for horse rides down the street. Kaleb was so completely excited about this, in fact, the 2 days prior were spent talking my ear off about how he was going to ride Smoky all by himself with his cowboy hat and boots on. It cracked me up to see him in his shorts, tee shirt, cowboy boots, and hat, sporting a gigantic brave smile. I think he would've ridden him all day long. This past week he kept telling me that we've got to go pick up "his" horse from Grandpa. Apparently Smoky is his horse now. What do you think of that, Grandpa???

On a side not, DJ decided to play basketball early Monday morning with a few guys and ended up hurting his back pretty bad. He was in so much pain but was a good sport and hobbled along for the picnic. Getting old is tough (as DJ would say)

I love the proud look on Kaleb's face in this picture. Grandpa handed him the reigns and walked away for this picture. Kaleb was please as pie!

Morg's lost another tooth Saturday evening. DJ was so sick of seeing her with her hands in her mouth that he told her the tooth fairy paid better on weekends so she pulled it out herself. Good thing the tooth fairy happened to make a trip to the bank the day before!

The joys of summer!

We planted the rest of our garden a week ago Saturday with help from the kids. I was amazed at how willing they were to help with this project because our garden gets bigger every year. I guess because we keep adding more mouths to feed so what do I expect. The kids also did their rock painting project that they do every year--painting/decorating big rocks the colors of the vegies so we know what rows we've planted what vegies in. It really helps and they have a ball doing it. We have a few things coming up but the weeds always seem to grow better....why is that?? So, I'm quite sure my kids will be whining soon about all the weeding they have to do!

Soccer is coming to a close

The girls both have their last soccer practices and games this week. I'm secretly excited, not because I don't love to watch them play, but because I'm sick of loading kids in and out of the car to and from practices and games. The babies do pretty well with it but I am just burned out. I think Regan and Morgan enjoyed playing this year and both made a lot of improvement over last season. I'm proud of them for their efforts this season!