This one is just funny. I know, I know, this is considered bad family time, but they were actually all interacting with each other about what was on their screens. I promise.
Christopher and I went racing for a date!
Loved this Valentine I found on my bed!
Jasmine's preschool went on a field trip to see the Fire Station. Arson, the dog, was a real sweetie.
Tyler LOVED the class pet lizard this year. He talked about her all the time. His teacher was actually amazing as using that for motivation. Do your math, and then you can draw a picture of the lizard. Read this story, and then you can hold the lizard on your shoulder.
Mr. Josh was most excited to show me the Valentine that Tyler wrote for Mr. Lizard. Tyler was sure that the Lizard loved "his" card, too.
Kaitlyn had her final piano recital, and then asked us to quit taking piano. Since Christopher and I both begged our parents to quit lessons and only took a year each, we felt like we would be hypocrites if we refused. I'm hoping to find ways for her to keep her skills, without feeling bogged down by lessons.
And speaking of endings, Tyler received his Arrow of Light and finished Cub Scouts. He loved Cubs, but he loves 11 year old scouts just as much.
St. Patrick's Day! Tyler loves green, and hence loves St. Patrick's day.
This is a silly picture, but a funny memory. We spent an entire day cleaning out our garage together for the first time. I had done surface cleans many times, but couldn't do much without him telling me what tools were broken or not needed and what they even did. So we cleaned it all out and made a pile on our lawn to give away to neighbors.
And then we came home from Moab a week later to find out our basement had flooded while we were gone. We piled everything out of the basement into the garage, and now my garage is a mess. Again. It was clean for like 3 days that we were home. And it still has an old oven in the middle, so I haven't parked in there since we started the kitchen reno.
Jasmine loved her music class this year! She loved learning all the little songs and instruments.
A trailer upgrade! We loved a lot of things about the older trailer. We loved the 4 bunks, and we loved how light it was to pull. But the dinette wobbled so much that we never used it. Eating outside is fine, but if the weather didn't cooperate, the kids were eating cereal on the floor (because they were not allowed on a bed, and the dinette would have spilled it everywhere). This new one is a little heavier, but it still has the 4 bunks. And the slide out in the back is our bed, which makes enough room for a dinette and couch.
Move up day! John Hancock has a Move Up Day where the students go to their classroom for the next year for an hour or two to meet their next teacher and get excited before they head home for the summer. That meant that Jasmine got to go to Kindergarten for one morning. As you can tell from the picture, she felt rather big and important about that.
We found time to have a cabin trip or two! Just quick ones. And thank heavens, because the lawn and propane needed some attention.
The creek has been dry for a few years, which made us wonder if someone had diverted it upstream. But after snow that came up to the second story windows this year, the huge snowpack has come down in full force. I love the roaring creek!
The school year wrapped up with the usual performances. Kaitlyn had her spring gymnastics show.
She fell off of the beam a few times, but did a really excellent job on the bars. I was really impressed with how much she improved there.
And then her teacher had a forgetful moment and awarded her the best beam routine, and a different girl (who did great on the beam) the best bar routing award. We weren't sure how to tell her, so we just mentally knew she did best at bar.
She has learned quite a few new songs this year, and I was the most impressed by how much poise and posture she had at her concert. I'm so glad she liked learning the violin.
Jasmine performed in a Harry Potter themed dance show. Her class were Professor Umbridge, and they held little stuffed kittens to dance with.
They were supposed to walk around the DA (the good guys) with menacing faces and wag their fingers at them (as the bad guys), but this was so funny that they all were usually grinning from ear to ear as they waved their fingers.
And finally, we watched Kaitlyn's class in the school dance show. They danced to a song from Moana.
After all of the time I was spending keeping Jasmine busy while watching a performance of some kind, having one in the park that our dog could come to was a huge relief. Much more fun. And her class did a great job. Her teacher is really so much fun, and I know Kaitlyn is going to miss her.
