Kindergarten Celebration

The time has finally come! My baby is graduating kindergarten, I cannot believe it. It is going to be so different not having a kid tagging along with me on my errands. I am definitely not complaining, just contemplating how life is going to be a bit different for me. hmmmm

So on the last day of school I went over to the elementary school for Rylee's Kindergarten graduation. I was manning the video camera and had Kenedy take all of the pictures. She took some random ones but overall did a pretty good job.

The kids marched into the library to the beat of the "pomp and circumstance", so cute, they were wearing adorable, paper, graduation caps and looked a little nervous. After a little speech given by her teacher, Mrs. Leach, the kids sang some really cute songs which I am happy that I got on video. Adorable!

I spent most of the year driving a little boy in her class home, his name is Tevin and Kenedy always thought he was adorable. She took a couple pictures of him.

After all f the singing The "diplomas" were handed out and my baby was now officially a first grader!

I love this picture of Rylee, a typical expression of hers that just thrills me!

One of Rylee's favorite friends, Makenna.

Her teacher Mrs. Leach who was a fabulous Kindergarten teacher.

Rylee's other favorite friend, Maryn.

As always, on the last day of school is a school wide picnic. I brought lunches for the three kids, Kenedy was with her Grandma, and only managed to get pictures of the two girls. Ryker was too busy running around with friends and enjoying his freedom from school.

Crazy to believe that I now have kids in 8th, 5th, 3rd and 1st grades. Where does the time go? The other day Kefford and I were talking about the kids and vacations and things we wanted to do with them and Kefford mentioned that Rylee will most likely be out of the house in 12 years. That just completely stopped me, written down it seems so long but hearing it spoken made me realize how short that time is and it will go quick. The kids are growing up fast!

Painting Fun

I found cute unfinished wood kits for the kids to paint and give to their teachers for the end of the year. All I did was tape the wood and the kids painted them themselves.

We found out that Avynleas teacher already had this particular sign on her desk so we decided it would be fun for Avynlea to make it for her Aunt Erin and I went and got a different thing for her to paint for her teacher.

They turned out really cute and the kids loved making them and the teachers all loved receiving them. Success!

Awards and Piano Recital

Ryker and Avynlea had their end of year piano recital recently. This was a tough one because it is the end of year and the kids are so done with practicing, especially Ryker. It really started to get to be a fight every day to get the kid to practice his song. Needless to say all of the half practicing and fighting paid off and Ryker did not do the best job. It was obvious that he hadn't practiced as much as he could have. Hopefully lesson learned and he can use the summer off to recuperate and get ready for the fall. 

Ryker played "Ode to Joy"

Avynlea did a really good job with her song and it showed that she practiced more then her brother.

Avynlea played "The Rainbow Connection"

Happy 37th Birthday Kefford!

Funnies

I was in the bathroom Sunday morning getting ready for church when Avynlea and Rylee popped in after their bath. They were so proud of themselves for wrapping their hair in a towel and they both did a funny tada type of pose. I laughed and laughed and then made them recreate it downstairs so that I could get a picture.

Then here is a picture I took of me and Kefford right before I went on a morning run. If I would have done an after shot of me after I ran I would have looked like death because that is pretty much how I felt. Trying to get back into running after taking a nine month hiatus is not the funnest thing ever.

Hairspray!

Kenedy had her last Choir Concert of the year and it was a good one. This was the Pops concert and the girls all sang songs from the musical Hairspray. Mrs. Star told the girls to come dressed the part of the era and so Kenedy really wanted to try. She told me that I needed to get her a new dress but I did not want to spend the money on a new dress, plus the headache of trying to find the perfect dress without spending a lot of money... no thank you. I told her she could make do with what she already had. Turns out the day before the concert we went to DI to find a shirt for her for trek and she found a really cute dress. Happy days for Kenedy? It was a tad big in the bust area but not really noticeable, she loved it and it looked really cute. The day of the concert Kenedy had her friend come home with her to get ready for the concert. They both wanted me to tease their hair and give them the best 60"s do. I was stressed while doing it because I am not much of a teaser, but thanks to lots of bobby pins and hairspray their hair turned out how they wanted it. Phew.

Grandma Alison came to support Kenedy.

Side shot of her hair.

It was a fun concert, Kenedy looked amazingly beautiful and all the kids sounded great. Kenedy has really loved choir and I am glad she has had a fun experience with it. Now on to 8th grade choir. :O)

Pioneer Sewing

This year instead of doing Girls Camp for the Young Women and High Adventure for the boys our Ward decided that the youth are going to do a Trek. Part of the preparation for Trek was making pioneer clothing. I am going on this pioneer Trek as a photographer and so I needed clothing in addition to Kenedy so off we went to JoAnn's. I felt it was important for Kenedy to do some of her own sewing so she made her Bonnets and so far I sewed one of her skirts. I did her skirt because of course the Bonnets were done way in advance but I put off the skirts because I did not want to deal with them. So the day that we had to have at least one outfit due I was busy sewing Kenedys skirt. My skirt and bonnet were done way in advance I might add. :o) But I got her skirt done and we both looked pretty cute. We were supposed to have aprons done but I didn't care enough to get those done, I will do it later.