Rylee at the Zoo

At the end of her PreSchool year Rylee got to go to the Zoo for a final fieldtrip. She was so excited about this trip and really dressed up for the occasion!

As Rylee and I were walking around I realized that this was the first fieldtrip I got to go on without any little kids in tow. It was a nice feeling and it really helped me enjoy my time with my little Rylee who is quickly getting not so little anymore.

rylee with two of her pre-scool friends Gus whom she calls Gus-Gus and Brylynn.

the pre-school gang...Rylee, Gus-Gus, Brylynn, Amber and Jeffrey. Missing is Logan

Rylee was very excited to see the penguins and they were really acive that day. Lots of swimming in the water and preening on the land. I had rylee pose with her favorite penguin outside their habitat.

And of course every time we come to the zoo we have to have the kids take a picture on the little tiger. Someday these pictures will make a really cool flip book!

After touring the Zoo was done everyone went home except for me and Rylee. I packed us a lunch so that we could have a little picnic in the rose gardens. I thought it was cute to have Rylee pose with this statue. She is accepting an apple from the Lady.

And here rylee is taking her apple!

We both thought the blue water fountain was cool and had fun imagining it to be blue slushee for us to drink..yum yum!

Rylee is so silly and I love her fun poses!

It was a fun day spent with my youngest and we both had a really good time!

6th Grade Awards

A week before the last day of Middle School I got a letter in the mail telling us that Kenedy was going to receive an award at the 6th grade awards assembly. I was excited for her but a little worried about how this was all going to go down. The awards assembly was from 7:45 till about 9. That meant we had to have all the kids up and ready for school so that we all could go to the assembly. Kefford would then have to take Ryker and Avynlea to school since school for them starts at 9:15ish and I would have to drop Rylee off at preschool which starts at 9 so that I could get to my 9:20 dance class which started at 9:20 and it usually takes me about 15 to 20 minutes to get there. What a rushed morning this was going to be.

The first award Kenedy received was for maintaining a GPA of 3.5 or higher all year. Way to go!!!!

The second award she got was a PRIDE award. This was a more exclusive award. The letters in PRIDE all stand for something different, P for Perseverence, R for responsibility, I for something, D for determination and E for something. Each teacher was respnsible to nominate one student from all of their classes for each of the different attributes. Kenedy got the PRIDE award for Respnsibility from her Music Teacher Mrs. Johnson. She was surprised and happy and I was really proud of her,

Kenedy has always impressed me with how hard she works at her school work and I am glad that she sets such a great example for her younger siblings.

Dance Cuties

This past year I was given the awesome privilage of teaching dance classes. A woman who moved out our ward a year ago owns a company called the dance connection and the gist of it is the dance teacher goes to the daycare and teaches a class once a week for those who sign up. Whith rylee being in pre-school and Cyndi needing more teaches I was given the opportunity to teach some classes. I didn't want to have to leave Rylee while I taught and so I taught while she was in school and then on Monday while she was not in school I traded with a friend some weeks but mostly Rylee just came with me. It was a lot of fun, sometimes frustrating, many times stressful but so worth it. I really fell in love with most of the girls :o) I got to teach and look forward to doing it again in the fall.

I wanted to tak pictures of htem all dressed up in their recital outfits but recital was so crazy and I was doing a lot of running around so that did not happen. I did teach for two more weeks after recital was over and so I took pictures of them in class. I taught seven different classes with three classes on Monday, two on Wednesday and two on thursday. My Monday and Thursday classes did their recital dances to Rapunzels "I See The Light" and "Kingdom Dance". My Wednesday classes did their dances to a Tinkerbell song and "Never Smile at a Crocodile". Because my classes were small we combined them for the recital and so I only had three dances performed at recital.

 Rylie, Bella, Kennedy, Mikayla, Perri and Taylor. Missing is Brylynn

 Abby, Abigail, Arika, Finley, Emma and Maddie
Maddie is wearing the purple costume that all of my dancers wore for recital.

Taryn,  Livia and Janie

Morgan, Audry and Amori

These are the crocodile hats that my amazing sister-in-law Brit made for my Crocodile dancers. They were so cute and looked awesome on stage!

Gabrielle, Olivia,  Kiera

Holly and Avery

I have a little story I want to remember about Holly. Holly was a sweet girl and a very dreamy flighty girl. In class during our dances she would get lost in the music and just do turns and sways before she would come back to reality and join the otherr dancers. She was really sweet and it was fun to watch her. At the recital she did an awesome job on her dance and after it was all over I went out to congratulate my dancers. I saw Holly and went to give her a huf and I told her how proud I was of her. She had a couple of bouquets of flowers that her family had given her and she wanted to give me one of her roses. I told her I appreciate it but it was bught for her and she should keep it. She said "No I want you to have it" and then she asked if it would make me happy. I finally accepted the flower and told her that everytime I looked at the rose I would think of her and that it would make me very happy. What a sweetheart little girl!

Callie, Alysha, Alyssa, Lucy, and Veva

I am very proud of all of my little dancers, I was super nervous about them being on stage not knowing how they were going to do but they all did amazing. I got comments from quite a few people that my dancers were the best ones. I will miss the ones who will not be there anymore but look forward to being back with the ones who will return!

14 Years!

Kefford actually gave cut roses for our 14 year anniversary this year. He has never given me roses before because he sees them as a waste of money since they die quick. I think he has learned that even giving me potted plants is a waste of money since they die quick from my neglect. I am not a plant person.

Happy Fourteen Kefford! I love you!!!

Those sneaky Leprechauns

Our Saint Patricks day was a pretty fun day this year. We woke up in the morning to find that the sneaky Leprechauns took it a step further with their tricks. Of course our house was messed up and of course they left some green tinkle in our toilet. But this year they left a box of Lucky Charms in addition to the chocolate gold coins and just look what was left on our toilet seat...

hehehe little green feet! What a cute and clever Leprechaun ;o)

We also found that our milk was dyed green

Kefford was not the most thrilled with green milk but he played along and didn't complain.

Rylee ate her yummy Lucky Charms in green milk!

For dinner we had green mashed potatoes, green juice, green rolls and corned beef. It was delicious and made out St. Pattys day extra fun!

Mothers Day 2012

Mothers Day was a good day for me. As usual I got pretty spoiled by my Husband and kids. I got brought breakfast in bed which was french toast, oranges, eggs and orange juice. Yummy!

I look pretty scary in these pictures since I just woke up so please no judging! ;O)

And who doesn't love a good orange smile?!

The kids could not wait to give me the gifts they made in school.

From Rylee

She also gave me a mason jar covered with red tissue paper glued onto it and filled with flowers. She was so excited when she brought that home all wrapped up. She wanted to hide it and made me promise not to look until mothers day. So cute. Kefford got me some flowers and so I cut those down and replaced the fake with the real and set it on the piano. It was so cute and such a fun gift from my Rylee.

This was perhaps the best thing ever written about me. Avy is adorable!

In addition to the homemade gifts Kefford took the kids shopping and Kenedy got me a wonder woman t-shirt, Ryker got me black pajama bottoms, Avynlea got me a pretty heart necklace that said love and a gift card to Sonic from Rylee.

For some reason the pajama bottoms embarrassed Ryker and would not carry them around the store. They are black jersey Capri length with an edging of lace around the top and I have no idea why he was so embarrassed other then he said they looked like underwear...ok?

Also Avynlea wanted to get me a different heart necklace one with bedazzles all over it but the rest of them said no to get me the one she did, she was put out about it and not happy but I loved it and wear it often!

Good Mothers Day and I really love my kids!!!!