More Pictures!

Here are a few pictures I have taken over the last month. The first one is a Relief Soceity Dinner. I am the one in the blue shorts I was wearing a tube top and bell bottoms. Bells on my bottom and a tube on my top. Another one was plunging neck line with a plunger around her neck and so on. It was a fashion show. Fun!!!!

Pictures!

Trouble!

I guess I am in trouble. I got after Bailey for not updating her blogg so I guess that I better update. Plus mom emailed me and said I needed to update. So here I am. You know when you don't update you forget all the many things that happen and the things your kids say. So I hope you are not bored with me trying to catch up.

Little League didn't have enough coaches this year they had enough for four more teams then last year. Pasco can't seem to keep up with all the grow. Whether it be the schools, little league, football, road 68. Anyway so I told them Ryan would coach. I didn't think he likes it. It is much easier to be the helper parent then to be in charge. The kids practice twice a week and have games twice a week. They have some kids on there team that are really to young to be on the team.

Last week we had parent teacher conference. All of Cole's conference since first grade have gone well. This last one was great though he is reading above level. We have really been working on that.

Next year we are going to home school. They have a great program over in Kennewick. So we will do home school and then one day a week he gets to take some fun classes with other home schoolers. He will be able to do some other extra activities with his extra free time which he is excited about. This program also reimburses you $350 dollars a year per child for book or piano lessons, karate, etc. We just found out they are changing the bounders for schools. All the elementary schools are over filled. They can't build a new school because they are building a high school which is long passed due. So the schools are not able to keep up with all the growth.

Last week Cole had a friend stay the night and he went to church with us. When we were on our way home from church he was singing the primary songs. He told Ryan he felt like he already knew the primary songs. It was so cute. He stayed with us for over 24 hours. He was really upset when we took him home.

Today Cole had pictures for baseball this is the third year in a row that it has rained on picture day. Cole has had is first game. He had a good time. There are three kids from his class at school on his team. I think that helps to make it a little more fun to go to practices.

Cole has a friend in his class that was just diagnosed this last week with stage 3 Lymphoma(sp) Cancer. He had been sick we all thought with strep throat but that had gone on for a month by be almost two months. He is a member of the church and he is a twin. It is very upsetting. There is a kid in the class one room over that was also diagnosed with cancer and there is a boy in our ward that had it at about this same age a few years ago. It make you wonder if there isn't something in the water?

Well Kamden is still doing tap/ballet and gymnastics. I am trying to talk her into t-ball and she doesn't want to have to give up what she is already doing. So I don't know if we will get her to do anything else. She has been doing really well in preschool. She has been spending time with a boy who she likes to copy. He uses a lot of bad language so we have been working on that with her. Oh, that has been fun. No really bad words just a lot of potty words. She is trying to read it is so cute. She is sound out all the letters but not quite putting them all together. We had to replace her glasses this week. This new pair from Costco has been a nightmare.

Carter is growing so fast. Last weekend when Cole had his friend over they had a gun that shot out balls and they were going around saying, " I killed you ha,ha." So this week I laid Carter on the ground to change his diaper and of course he said, "I kill you ha,ha.". Of course he doesn't talk to much but that came out plain as day. He also has learn how to say sorry. He is having to say that a lot after hitting his sister. Of course it is baseball season again so Carter pretty much has a bat, glove or ball in hand from the time he wakes up until he goes to bed. Oh, I guess I could say thing that looks like a bat, and any ball he will even hit a football like a baseball. The other day the kids were all sitting at the bar and Carter started to scream. We figured out he is scared of flies. He wouldn't let me put him down so when I was fill a water bottle and he spotted the fly he jumped off the counter. Let's say this kid has a lot of bumps. I don't know how he has stayed away from the hospital but I am so glad because with no insurance it wouldn't be good for us.

This week when I went into school with Cole we went on a field trip. So there field trip was walking from their school to Walmart and back. They had 6 2nd grade class with 30 kids in each class and then all the parent volunteers. Oh, lets just say that was very interesting we stopped traffic a lot.

So that isn't all but it least it is an update. I hope you weren't to board. We are going to try to get over to mom's tomorrow and upload some pictures.

Dance Competition

Cole had his last Basketball game on the 24th. They won all but one game he had his end of the year party on Tuesday the 27th. We did pizza and cake and all the kids got a trophy. It was a zoo at the pizza place there were 4 other teams having their end of the year parties too. Ryan was picking Cole up for panio on Tuesday and missed him Cole got on the bus and missed panio. At Cole's school they had Dr. Seuss hats on sale for all the kids so they could wear them on Dr. Seuss Day which was on the 2nd. Cole had his pinewood darby race on Thursday and he came in 2nd place to a kid that bought his off the internet. Cole and Ryan worked on it together well most of it. Cole had fun and was a little bummed he didn't win. I thought it was funny the two youngest kids in scouts took 1st and 2nd.

We have been really busy with getting ready for Kamden's tap/ballet competition. I don't know if I already told you Melanie and I made boots for the cowboy costume and ears for the mini mouse costume. I also made bows for the shoes and ears, check lists, phone list, and took in a couple of leotard for the mickey mouse costumes, and made a washington state flag. I looked and looked for a washington state flag for weeks and we couldn't find one isn't that sad. I finally had to make one. Kamden had tap/ballet practice on Mon and Tuesday. We were supouse to pick up the rest of her costumes on Thursday but the lady didn't have them done until Friday night so we just picked them up at the competition. We left at about 11 to head up to Idaho for the competition. We picked Ryan up in Moses Lake. We spent Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday morning in the indoor water park there at the motel. We spent all day Saturday at Kamden's competition. They did two numbers one was a tap Mickey Mouses birthday party. The other one was Buckaroo. They won gold for both numbers. They were the only 4 and under group though. Everyone loved them they thought they were so cute. But they were asked at the end of the show along with about 8 other numbers out of 98 numbers to dance again. It was for the over all entertainment award. They didn't win it, but they got another award from one of the judges. She had a great time. All the girls asked when do we get to do that again. There were two other of Mrs. Lisa's classes there. Two of the dance numbers also won gold and the other won a Sterling Silver 2nd place. All the groups qualified for Nationals in Las Vegas in July. The two younger groups aren't going but the older group will be going.

Over the weekend we told the kids we would go bowling. We didn't have time to so on Monday we took them. Cole got a 107 wow he did so good. I beat Ryan by two. I got 3 X's in the 10th frame. How lucky was that.