May

Here's the May miscellaneous!

During quarantine, I've been practicing some baking.  Apparently I'm pretty good at croissants!

We recruited Cambrie's help to design a fun adventure garden over in our very boring rocks.  While we won't be able to implement all of it right now, I love her ideas.  She really should be in design.

Daxton's self-portrait. I was very impressed.

Kelton just wrapping up remote learning.  He was a champ through this whole process and never complained when it was time for school work.  Honestly, all of my kids were total rock stars.  I didn't even have to remind the girls to get their work done.  They quietly took care of everything.  I was incredibly lucky to have these smart kids.

I took down the boys art projects from our craft room.  They have made some super cute stuff this year.

This is the glass of mystery lemonade.  I filled it up, left for a moment, came back and it was gone.  I filled it up again, was called off to answer the door, came back and it was gone again! Three times I filled my lemonade glass and never actually got to drink it.

This is one of our many home improvement projects.  We poured a cement pad for our garbage cans to make them a little more accessible.  I wish the boys had been there that day to watch the truck, because it was pretty cool.

The YW leaders in the ward dropped off a Mother's Day package for the YW and their mom.  Cambrie and I had a little spa night where we used the face masks.  It was so great to have an excuse to just relax in her bed, watching "The Great British Baking Show."  She's growing up to be a lot of fun to hang out with.

While we haven't played quite as many games during quarantine as I thought we might, every now and then one of Kelton's school projects helps with that.  He is a little math smartie pants.

How is it that even though I have nowhere to go, I'm still crazy busy?  I realized one day that it was 2:00 in the afternoon and I never even had a chance to shower for the day.

Looking for small beautiful things right now is important.  Look how cool these clouds were one afternoon.

It's only taken 70 days, but my kids are finally to the point where I'm hearing, "I'm bored."  I normally expect to see this kind of behavior in August, after a very long summer vacation.  This is bad news that it's hitting in May!  Wish us luck.

Escape to South Jordan

After chilling up in Smithfield, we worked out way south to visit Bruce and Leesa.  It came with a lot of King time, which didn't disappoint the kids at all.  The boys love getting together with Stockton, and the girls can't get enough of Pipsqueak.  We spent one afternoon playing at their house where Daxton worked on getting over his fear of Cash.

  The kids drove around the neighborhood in style.  

And Cambrie helped by "changing the oil."  

Tying four kids together with a rope, what could go wrong?

Alysha was generous enough to make dinner for us all, and that included zucchini noodles, which were pretty cool.  

At the Rogers, the girls got busy working on their fairy garden.  Leesa brought some of it back from England, and they were anxious to get it all reinstalled.  

Cambrie made a new home basically out of toothpicks and it took her ages.  But she's most proud of the fact that you can really grow succulents in the garden beds.

Aunt Lynette's ward did a chalk art walk, and we decided that Uncle Jan did the best job.

I ended up leaving the boys in Utah while the girls and I drove home.  They got to spend an entire extra week being spoiled by their grandparents and hanging out with their cousins.  

They did a lot of hoverboard riding.  

They visited Grandma Pearce up in Morgan.  

They posed for plenty of pictures.  

They were able to spent Mother's Day out there too, which was an extra treat for Leesa.

  Dantley and Cydney stopped by that day to play games.  Kelton was super excited that they brought Oregon Trail.

Eventually Bruce and Leesa had to return them, so they came out to Colorado for a couple of days.  More chaotic cousin time that the kids simply couldn't get enough of.

Restaurant

Forts

Pizza

School

Snack time (he takes after me!)

They are all extra safe here.

Bruce took the time to teach the boys how to play baseball.  Guess I need to find a league that's still playing this season huh?

Mother's Day

Mother's Day without the boys just felt quieter.  I was glad that the girls were still excited to help Jeremy with making a yummy breakfast in bed.  I could smell it all morning as I was relaxing and was just dying to know what they had whipped up.  It was delicious!  And I loved the sweet card from McKenzie.  

 

The rest of the day was spent going on a walk, and playing pinochle!  Yes, we finally taught the girls and I am so excited that we now have four of us to play!  I love Mother's Day.  And while I didn't get a pic with all my little munchkins, these two sure made it special this year. 

Kindergarten graduation

Leesa had a spectacular idea of having a kindergarten graduation party with Stockton and Kieran.  She ordered ice-cream cakes for all of them, picked up balloons, I made hats, and Cambrie whipped up some graduation certificates.  We hung up some graduation decorations in her living room, and ta-da!  Kindergarten graduation.  It was a cute little ceremony.  They boys all walked in to "Pomp and Circumstance," then they were interviewed about their favorite kindergarten moments.  

Afterwards they flipped their tassels, tossed their hats, and ate some ice-cream!  

Look at those goofballs in their grad glasses!

Even though we missed out on some of the traditional kindergarten activities from the end of the year, at least we were able to have this fun little ceremony for this cute kid and his cousins.  

Kelton made so much progress this year with his reading and he just loves school.  I'm so proud of my cute boy.