Summer Fun Has Just Begun

Here's some pictures of some stuff we've been doing!

We had a neighborhood BBQ in our back yard last week-fun and delicious!

Last Saturday we went to check out the Kennecott copper mine. Matt's favorite thing was the minerals you could look at under the microscope.

Anna had to fill out a worksheet about her visit to get a girl scout badge.

Big hole. Big trucks with big tires. Cool!

We have been noticing a lot of aphids on some of our trees lately, so Kent came home with a few thousand lady bugs in a bag. The lady bugs were going crazy crawling all over the trees. We will see if this solves our aphid problem.

2nd to last day of school. The 2nd graders had an "Author's Fair" where they got to show off all the stories they have been working on all year. This is Anna's best friend. They have been friends since they were two years old!

After the Author's fair, they had an egg drop. Each kid had to bring a raw egg encased in something to keep it from breaking when it was dropped off the school roof.

Anna's made it out un-cracked!

Last day of school they have a dance festival. All the grades preform a dance for the parents. It's really fun to watch everyone because the kids really get into it. I couldn't get a good shot of Matt's Dance, but here he is coming onto the field with his class.

Anna's class did a dance to the Jackson 5's "ABC" song.

She was awesome!

After the final school bell rang we had a neighborhood water party.

Matt's Birthday, La Fiesta and Soccer



Our Matt boy turned 6 this last week! He requested a ninja on his birthday cake (that's what that black blob is).

There are 4 ninjas in this picture. Can you find all of them?

The Spanish immersion students had their end of the year program called "La Fiesta" on Friday night. All the grades either sang or danced. It was really fun, and all the girls got twirly, fluffy skirts to wear.

Matt's soccer team is dominating the kindergarten league, they tied their first game and have won all the rest.

In Kid #3 news, I am 25 weeks along-15 more to go! This girl is a major kick-puncher! Kent and I are playing that fun game where I suggest a name and he says no. Apperantly he has something in mind, but is not even telling me...so mysterious!



At Our House

Watching The Empire Strikes Back on Sunday afternoon.

Pillow protection

Spring Break Road Trip Day 6

Breakfast at Coco's diner. They had really good hot chocolate. I should know because I ordered hot chocolate at almost every diner place we ate.

Disneyland! These pictures don't really show it, but Disneyland was very crowded that day. We still had tons of fun. I didn't get to go on many rides, but I had fun looking in all the shops!

Anna didn't want to go on Star Tours with everyone else, so we got to go on the horse drawn trolley and the carousel together.

Anna and Matt LOVE toon town!

This sword in the stone picture is actually the last shot I took on the trip! The last two days were driving home days. I can't believe we managed to get to all these places and back again in just seven days! Such a fun trip. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa McLean for coming with us to make all these memories, and torturing us with your video camera!

Spring Break Road Trip Day 5

This day at Sea World was one of our favorites.

The kids and I sat in the "soak zone" while Kent and Grandma and Grandpa stayed dry and took these pictures.

Anna and Matt got picked by one of the trainers to help with the show. They demonstrated the splash sign for everyone in the audience.

And then we all got splashed-a lot.

It was a really awesome experience for the kids!

We got so wet we had to go to the car and change into dry clothes.

The sea lion show was really funny!

We spent about an hour just watching these dolphins play. Anna and I even had one come up right in front of us so we were face to face with him!

The last thing we did was go on a few rides. After Sea world we drove down to Anaheim to get ready for a day at Disneyland.