The beginning of summer

Nelson became a teenager on June 18th!

We celebrated Father's Day with lots of homemade cards from the kids.

Even Grandpa got some homemade gifts.

Grandma's birthday was the day before Nelson's so she got presents too!

My attempt at a Mavericks logo cake. (please do not look too closely!)

We went to a puppet show and foam party place. Can you find Kambree in all these bubbles?

Annie made her way out!!

Luke

We planted a garden this year and it did really well! We enjoyed zucchini, squash, tomatoes, beets, and cucumbers.

May Flowers

The month of May started out with a visit from my sister, Rebecca, and her family. I did take some pictures, but unfortunately the month of May also had computer problems which included having all the pictures on my computer wiped out. We did have a lot of fun even if there are no pictures to prove it! We celebrated Mother's Day, ate BBQ, visited the zoo, saw Nelson join the National Junior Honor Society (lost those pictures too), ate at Jason's Deli, and did lots of visiting. Thank you Rebecca, Glenn, Harrison, and Sully for coming all the way here to see us!

Luke did Joy School this year. There were 3 kids in his group and they had a great and fun year! In the middle of May we did a graduation for them. They did a graduation march and performed a few songs that they had learned. Then we had some fun graduation treats.

Nelson had an end of the year band concert. They sounded great!

Kambree did great this year. She got some awards at her 3rd grade ceremony including citizenship and AB honor roll.

Macey graduated from Elementary school this year. We all went out to Jason's Deli for dinner before her ceremony.

Her fifth grade class.

Getting her certificate from the principle.

Beautiful girl!

Annie getting her awards.

Annie's teacher had a baby two weeks before school ended. They had a sub that was wonderful and helped the kids make the cutest poster with all the kids holding letters that spelled out the baby's name.

Annie and her teacher, Mrs. Pope.

Macey and Mrs. Jones

Kambree and Mrs. Hopson.

Luke's graduation

The Month of April

This month was fun with dancing and Easter parties. Annie had a dance rehearsal in the middle of the month. She loved that she got a purple costume! She really enjoyed her class this year especially with a great friend to dance with in class.

Brad came to watch her for the rehearsal since he wasn't going to be there for the performance (special church meeting)

Easter was so late this year that you would think I would have been really prepared, but of course the opposite was true. We did have a fun celebration with egg dying, hunts, eating, and a Sunday family devotional.

Dying eggs

Lots of bright colored eggs

On the hunt

There were a few extra visitors at our party!

My nephew, Jacob

Luke finally was brave enough to hold one. None of my other kids got brave enough!

He even smiled!

Easter outfits

I told him to pose..ha ha

Annie at her recital all ready to dance

On stage, they dance to "colors of the wind"

After the performance

Grandma and Grandpa came to watch too and gave her flowers.

Mrs. Pope and Annie. Annie's teacher came to watch her and another girl in their class. We ended up leaving early, so Mrs. Pope came to our house to let Annie know she had seen her dance and give her some flowers. What an awesome teacher! Annie was just beaming, she felt so loved!