Brayden and Jason at the Nature Center

Jason took the day off a few weeks ago and decided to go to the Nature Center with Brayden and the two Kindergarten classes. There were 40 kids and a lot of parents too. They had a lot of fun exploring the turtle pond.

Digging and Drawing in the Sandstone
and climbing in trees

I've got a lot of this on my mind:)

The sunfish have moved into the shallows and we've been catching them off the dock. Yesterday I went fishing all by myself because Abby was sick. It was very peaceful! I pulled in the biggest sunfish I think I have ever caught, 9 inches!! Which is very big for our lake. Here is a picture but you can't really tell how big it is by the picture.

This all leads up to nine days from now when we leave to catch even bigger fish in Canada. We can't wait:)

A Very Special Day

Eight years ago Alexis was Baptised into our church. Here she is in our four generations picture, with great grandma Fran, my mom and I.

And here she is Eight years later all grown up and ready to celebrate her 1st Communion
She had been working hard all winter during her classes to celebrate this special day and she had such a great day. We love you lots and are so proud of you Alexis:)

A Day at the Lake

Mother's Day weekend we spent at the lake. It turned out to be a gorgeous Saturday and we got the docks, boats and boatlifts in. The kids spent most of their time playing with

a turtle that I found, while raking up some leaves.
After everything was in we went for a pontoon ride around the lake. The leaves are just starting to pop out on the trees.
Alexis brought on two books, you know just in case:)

But she ended up doing a lot more of this...(and yes we were moving)

The weather has brought out some antsy kids, I guess:)

Spring Music Concert and Art Show

Alright, So I probably shouldn't even post these pictures on here, they turned out pretty bad but they are the only ones I have. We got to the kids concert early and still had to sit quite a ways from the front. Both of my short kiddos are in the front rows.

-The 2 Kindergarten classes and the 1st grade class sang together.

Then the second grade and third grade sang together. Alexis was asked to introduce the song to the audience. She was very nervous but she did it and did an amazing job! She was really one of the only people you could hear clearly.
We were so proud of both of them. Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Kelly came to the Show with us.

Spring Flowers are popping up

Tulips

and Hyacinth
are being spotted around our home

Last Day of Spring Soccer

Brayden is now done with his Spring Soccer practice. He really enjoyed kicking the ball around. He still wants to play so we signed him up for a summer program also.

-Here he is kicking the ball into the goal

-and kicking the ball across the field

Easter

I've failed to write about Easter, I just sorted through the pictures. So heres a few tidbits.

-We celebrated a quiet Easter with my parents, brother and sister in law on Saturday night

-We celebrated with Jason's family on Sunday at his sister Kelly's with his sisters, brother, niece, nephews and friends.

-The kids had two Easter egg hunts

There were lots of good hiding spots

Brayden and Alexis found golden eggs, which earned them special prizes
and they both got a lot of candy and money
but they both had a great time on the easter egg hunts
Happy Easter a few weeks late:)

Random Sighting

Last weekend after picking up Alexis from gymnastics we looked over and saw these standing in the parking lot. Now theres something we don't see everyday! I guess the circus was in town. We stopped to look and take a picture because Brayden really likes elephants.

A Sunny Day

A few weeks ago the kids got home from school and decided to go exploring outside, because it was nice out. We all went down and collected some spinny minnows and went looking for frogs. The kids had a blast! Here's Alexis laughing at her brother...

Who went into the swamp a little too far:)
Can't wait to do a little bit more of this. It sounds like the weather is suppose to warm up and our spring flowers should be opening any day now. Jason and I put up the fence around the garden last weekend, because the pup was walking all over the strawberrys. So we are ready to get started working outside:) Yeah!

It's May

I guess this weather could be worse, this was in January... The top number was the temperature outside

Spring is suppose to be here but we haven't seen much of it. A few nice days here and there. A lot of rain and a lot of cold...I'm so over it and need some Vitamin D:)