The great egg PURSE?

Once again we have come to one of the many highlights of kindergarten, the egg drop. Miss Brooke was very specific on how she wanted her egg contraption designed. "I am going to put my egg in a little baggie, because that is what Mrs. Fisher told us to do, then I am going to fold my pillow in half and you can tape it up." Well then! I guess she at least knows what she wants. After using almost a complete roll of black duck tape I realized how similar this "egg contraption" resembled a purse. Given the fact that Brooke is following her wonderful older sisters foot steps and is very much a girly girly I only found it fitting that her egg should be nestled nicely inside of a very fashionable duck tape purse. The only problem is we found out that sometimes fashion does NOT pay off. Although the purse was to "die for" and teachers from all over the school were lining up to put their order in for their very own black tape purse, as far as protecting the egg... well we will let the photos do the talking.

Brooke's response to the status of the egg, " it's all good mom because I only like scrambled eggs anyway! "

trampoline fun

So the other day I told the kids that I wanted to take some action shots with my new camera, did I mention that I love, love, love my new camera. They love jumping on the trampoline so when you put active kiddos together with a trampoline you get amazing action shots! After I was done taking photos of the kids I had Ash take some of me. Lets just say I will not be posting them for a very good reason. You never look quite as good as you do in your head when you are doing the old cheer moves and the camera was total proof of that!  But the kiddos look cool. : )

 I was rather impressed with Ash's split jump. This is what I looked like in my head, not so much on the camera!

                                            His tongue just cracks me up! He always has it out.

Just to let you all know he did not land on his head like this he was rolling over and I took the photo. Such a goof!

Butterflys

So when we asked Brooke what she wanted for her birthday the response that she gave us was, butterflys, worms, and rotten food so the butterflys and worms have something to eat.  Yep that's our daughter. Well after telling one of her friends mom what she said she wanted for her birthday she came up with the most perfect gift! A butterfly kit. You send off for the caterpillars and then let nature take its course. it was so cool watching the caterpillars turn into the cocoon and then into beautiful butterflys. It was bitter sweet letting them go after they turned into butterflys but the cool part is we can always order more.

                                If you look really close to the left you can see one of the cocoons.

Brenton is 8

So our mini Ryan has had another birthday. It just blows my mind that he is 8 already. Time sure does fly. I am so lucky to be his mama. Brenton is defiantly on track to be prom king and class clown. He is a great friend and wants nothing more then to make people laugh. He is so outgoing and never seems to have a care in the world. He LOVES to dance. This year he has really taken a liking to ZUMBA. It is so fun to see him out there totally rocking it! We love you so much Brenton and we are looking forward to the not so distant future when you will be baptized.

                                                          What are you looking at????

                                                        Dirt cake with fresh worms!

                                                                   Fun outside games

I got a new Camera!

So after many years of putting the bug in Ryan's ear.... He got me a new Camera. I am going to be honest I did freak out a little when he told me how much he spent. Ok I freaked out A LOT. It just blows my mind how much things cost! Any who after a few days of me realizing that I was not being very nice and I should just except  this wonderful gift, I have come to the conclusion that if you want really nice things, well, they cost a little more or a LOT. I am so in love with my camera and cant wait for our family trip this summer to really try it out. Thanks babe! Even though I may not show it all the time I am VERY grateful for all of the wonderful things that you do for me!

Seussical

Another play has made it to production. This is Ashlyn's third play that she has been in at Gallery. She is playing the part of Mini Gertrude. She loves being on the stage and she sure knows how to ham it up. I am so grateful to the Gallery family that she has gained. She has made some life long friendships and can't wait to participate in many more plays.