First Day of School

C first day of school outfit! He had it ready for days!!!

Cousin SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to start 4th grade!!!

D shouting and excited that his bus driver was the same!!!

D and best cousin and aunt waiting for the bus to come on the first day! It was sunny!


The kids have started school. D is full time now and LOVES it! C went the first day to meet his teacher and actually doesn't really start until the 18th...which is weird, but anyway. I asked D what his favorite part of the day was and he said LUNCH! Then he explained to me how he got two cookies and Jacob got two cookies so they each kept one of their and then traded the other so they could each have one of each cookie. He said, "it was so cool mom!" Very funny and made me laugh...they are already learning the trading game!

Poor quality Piano Recital Pics...

So, the only camera we have is our video/still shot camera that is 7 years old, so the megapixel is i think a 1!!! So, bear with it, but at least we have something! ;(


I do a boardgame with the students. They get points for being ontime, bringing all of their books, excellent ratins and so on...but they also get moved back for tardiness, not bringing all materials, and just not showing up etc. So, it was a Tie. Maggie and Jesse tied for first place and are being awarded their "prize" baskets at the recital. Now the race is on again for the december recital!


I did a few duets with students, mostly on the same piano...but my niece and I tried one with two pianos and decided it was a lot of fun. She did great and she is so fun to play duets with!


I don't look too happy here, but the recital really did go well. Me just announcing the next students. ;)

C playing in his first recital!!! He was so nervous but did well! He loved the attention!

And this is D's 2nd recital. They are both doing well and could do alot better if mom spent more time with them. But I just get tired by the end of all my lessons. I am going to do better so they can progress, they both really want to, so i need to get on it!

update May to Present...2010

Okay, so i have tried uploading photos for almost a week now and it just freezes up!!! Anyone else having this problem???

Anyway, our ongoings...

My brother Eric left on his mission the end of may to the England, London South Mission. He is loving is and said it is a very diverse country. Lots of cultures!!!

We had family pictures done with everyone before eric left on his mission. Those are the pics i keep trying to upload, but it just won't let me...

Then i had girls camp the beginning of june. It was windy, windy and windy. My face felt sandblasted, seriously like i had rubbed it with sandpaper, when i got home. It was that awy for a few days. WE had to clean off our bedding each night because the dust got in our tents so bad. The wind broke my tent and another leaders. Anyone know where i could get a replacement tent pole??? Having a hard time finding where.

I just had my recital last week. 20 piano students, only 18 came, but it was a lot of fun. The recital turned out really well, people showed up on time and all looked so good. They performed well and loved the awards at the end. It was a lot of work, but so fun to see the kids perform there songs.

And sorry, i DO NOT have photos of any of the above as our camera died at easter time and i have not yet been able to replace it. Ugh. I have it video taped etc, but no still shots.

Our fourth of July was fun. Brad got the day off which was a treat since those are few and far between. We could have gone out of town, but we were responsible and stayed home to work on yard and new chicken coop. The baby chickens are too big for the cage in brad's shed, so we had to build a bigger one to fit our old 5 chickens and the new 5 baby chickens. So we got a lot done. We took the kids to home depot for the kids workshop and they made there periscopes which they LOVE!!! They loved that there dad was actually able to go and build with them. Then we did water games at the park, then napped and workd on coop etc. Then we went to dinner at the park, they had a dance from like 8-10 like line dancing, then they did fireworks. So the kids slept very well from playing so hard and being out in the sun so much.

Now i am trying to get class reunion finished up. that will be done on the 31st...HOORAY...and i will never take on such a task again. i just stress way too much. Then a week and half after that school starts up again down here. Coleman is more than OVERLY excited to start going and dalton is so excited to eat lunch there and have more recess. Jeric and I will just be buddies for the first half of the day. It will be fun.

So, there's our update. We have a reunion coming up in a couple of weeks a brad got two days off for that, so we are WAY excited to be with him that long, and at the cabin too! Our favorite place to be. ;)