Saturday, June 30, 2012

Later May


I said I would explain more about Luke's other broken arm but apparently I have no pictures of that fun time, so I'll fill you in now. Do you remember how last year Sadie broke her arm in the Spring, and then Luke broke his in the fall? And you know how when those things happen you at least can fulfill your insurance deductible? Can you also imagine how annoying it is to have your child break another arm, again, and owe all over, again?
Aside from that annoyance, I did have true mothering emotion when it happened. Really I did. But the thoughtless child was riding his bike down the community center stairs and tipped over (I learned later this was not his first time doing this!) and landed on his elbow. He only cracked it this time, unlike the fracture and surgery required previously, so we only needed a cast this time. Sheesh!

Now, back to the photos. The second grade classes put on a little Mothers Day play for us and I circled where they are. I filmed most of this on my video camera because my little point & shoot camera is about to fall apart. I'm amazed I can still get pics from it, though the days are numbered. It was a cute little performance. They are growing up too fast. These little innocent performances are almost over for me. Tiny, sentimental tear....
Anytime I go help in the kids classes, I love to see the collected artwork of kids on the walls. This was outside Sadie's room at the end of the year. They all made penguins. Sadie is small in her class. Which penguin do you think is hers? Hint: you know that saying where if something is big it's usually making up for a small insecurity? Just a hint.
(It's the heeeeuuuuuge one in the upper left corner)
She brought it home and it's in my office. It's taller than her and awesome. I love it.

Scott also turned the big FOUR-O this month. We had a small party for him and made Lemon Cake, his fave.
He's still so handsome and fantastic. Glad to celebrate over and over again with him. Hope I'm still able to make him an 80th cake when I'm weak and feeble. :)

Early May

 Well, please forgive my lack of posting.
AGAIN.
I will try to do better. I am a little anti-social when it comes to social networking so I'm not really posting anything anywhere except here (well, and Instagram but I don't 'blog' with it like many do so I'm still dropping the ball on memory keeping).
I'll catch you up on life thus far with us.
Big news in May was we finally got Sadie to ride her bike! Our family enjoyed lots of evening bike rides together and it was so nice to finally do it. But then Luke broke his other arm so those were on hold for a while (more on that fun later).
 The twins baptism was also the first weekend in May. It was nice to have family come in town for the weekend. We had a lot going on.
After the baptism that morning, everyone came over for lunch after and of course, snow cones with cousins must follow.

That same evening was our Ward Talent show. This year we decided to use the Saturday Night Live "I Wish It Was Christmas Today" jingle made famous with Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sanz. We changed the words up to fit the acts of the evening. It was really fun.
Luke & Sadie were on maracas, Dad on Guitar, me on Synth and Elliet was the 'Tracy Jordan' dancer. Good stuff.