Crafty.

Creative and crafty are not two words I would use to describe myself. However, I saw someone on TV wearing a "sparkly" bandana, and I fell in love with the look. This is my first attempt, and it's not quite done. I'm sad that these pictures don't show how sparkly they are. My mom helped by finding all sort of fun sequins, so I think I will make some more. Maybe some for the girls to wear to Stadium of Fire in red, white, and blue. What do you think?

ABC's

We are doing a mini Preschool program at home this summer. Hopefully it will help us be ready to take the school by storm this fall. I have planned all sorts of fun activities, field trips, and projects. We are technically starting Monday, but we made our foam letter flashcards today. The girls are already enjoying them, and I think the K and the S will see a lot of use!

Smore's

In addition to our standard Saturday "family pizza and movie night," we also have a special treat. Usually, it's homemade popcorn or ice cream, but tonight we made S'mores! We got these cool S'more makers from Keely and Joel for Christmas, but haven't had a chance to try them out until tonight. The girls had a ball stacking the ingredients, but they really loved eating them. I didn't realize quite how messy 2 kids, a melted chocolate bar, and gooey marshmellows could be. Sadly, there is no "after" photos - we were too busy trying to get them bathed!

Celebrate!

We gave Ky the option of doing almost anything she wanted to celebrate her graduation. She could have picked the movies, bowling, the arcade, or a whole list of other kid places. She picked feeding the ducks, so off we went to the historical farm. The girls love to chase those poor birds around and around and around. After bathing in hand sanitizer, we went to the toy store to pick a treat. After walking around the store for a good hour looking at all sorts of toys, she picked mini m&m's. She definately has a mind of her own. Then, she got to choose what to do for dinner and of course she said "fries!" I think she had a very fun night!

The Graduate!

Ky graduated Preschool today. I knew that it would be a fun day, but it was also emotional. It was so fun to see how much she has grown over the year. (3 1/2 inches and 2 1/2 pounds to be exact.) It was such an accomplishment for her to finish the entire year and she made such great progress.

She sang "Mr. Golden Sun" for her graduation. Luckily, by the time the video started she had her sunglasses on right side up.

Here she is with her teachers. Ms. Payne and Ms. Carter were incredible. The really knew how to handle a special little girl like Kyrie. I am thrilled that they are going to be Savvy's teachers next year.

The Car Show

Today was the UVU car show at Thanksgiving Point. My parents brought their cars down and we went to visit. It is always so fun to go and look at all the neat old cars. Especially when two of those cars belong to "Grandma and Grandpa!"

Here are the girls with Grandpa's cool truck. It is a '39 Chevy. Ky had more important things to do than take pictures, but we tried. When I told Ky that the truck was Grandpa's she told me "NO! Kyrie's!"

The girls got special permission to sit on Grandma's '55 Chevy to take a picture with her. They thought they were hot stuff! They especially loved all the treats that Grandpa and Grandma had waiting for them.

Thanks for a great day Mom and Dad!

Let it grow!

The garden is beginning to grow. I was thrilled when I went to water today and I saw beans, peas, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, green onions, onions, and garlic growing away. Hopefully, the rest of it starts to grow soon!

Here is my organic lettuce mix. It's getting bigger! Since it was my first attempt, it got it's own little bed.

Here is the main garden. You can't see the raspberry bushes, they are just off the bottom of the picture. Going from the bottom to the top of the picture is beans, regular cabbage, chinese cabbage, peas, sugar snap peas, carrots, onions, potatoes, tomatoes (hothouse, cherry, and pear), peppers (green bell, jalapeno, and sweet banana), summer squash, speghetti squash, watermelon, sugar pumpkin, jack-o-latern pumpkin, spinach, and iceberg lettuce. Our green onions and garlic are in a seperate bed, and our strawberries and blueberries will be going into yet another bed either tonight or tommorrow.


I can't wait for harvest time!