Ashlynn's Opera Performance

Ashlynn's 1st grade class performed an Opera song to a story about Pizza and how they wanted a bigger pizza.  There were Tiny Men, Mini Monsters, Pizza Workers, Captain and Miss Captain Donut.  Ashlynn was Miss Captain Donut.  Ashlynn's part was very important because her song part told the mini monsters that they could plant a magic seed and grow a big pizza tree.  She had a two person part where her and Captain Donut sang together so, Ashlynn held the microphone and we could hear them beautifully.  She was so confident and serious during the whole performance.  I was so shocked that she did not break character by being her silly self until after the show.  We all know that she can be silly.

Matt and Carter were at Baseball so Ashlynn invited her Aunt Tracy to come.  She was so excited that she could come watch her.  She felt very special! Thanks Tracy for your support! 

So Blessed...

What a great blessing it is to be a mother and to be a mother to these beautiful children.  I love that they are still young, still need me and most of all love me even when I fall short of meeting their expectations.  I love to experience life with them and learn new things everyday.  The kids each made me fun things for me at school and at church.  There were so proud of the creations.    

 

Ashlynn's paper purse with kisses inside and a pot of flowers.  Too cute!

Carter's card holder.  Loved it!

   I love that we were all coordinating the color pink.  I love the color pink!

Matt also gave me some beautiful tulips that just screamed Spring all over the kitchen. The colors were so amazing!   

 

The season has finally begun..

We love baseball season...well most of our family enjoys it.  Ashlynn probably has a different opinion.  We just finished the practice games and are now headed into the real games that count.  Carter is now back to machine pitch.  He did machine pitch in 1st grade when we lived in Bountiful, but since moving to Layton machine pitch starts in 3rd grade.  Carter is back to his confident self with the machine and his fielding has improved since last year.  Matt is coaching their team again and we have a fun group of boys this year.  It is also a plus that we have had some great weather to play in...lets keep the snow and rain away for now.  It just isn't baseball season if you have to wear a winter coat and bring blankets to keep yourself warm.  Here we go Mets..lets play ball!  
 

 

Butterflies

 

The kids got a butterfly habitat for Easter.  So, we ordered our caterpillars and received them with in a week.  We watched them move around in their cup for a few days and one by one they each crawled to the top of the cup to set up to become a cocoon.  That step took about 7 days for all 5 of them to become a cocoon.  Then we transferred the cocoons into the butterfly garden and watched them wiggle away in their cocoons.  Then it took another week for them to hatch from their cocoons.  Those silly little things hatched so quick and we never got to see one come out of its cocoon.  We would leave for a while and come back and see a butterfly in the garden and they all hatched one by one.  Then, soon we had a indoor garden of 5 butterflies that loved to drink sugar water. 

We then waited for a sunny warm day and let them free in our backyard.  This was a neat project for the kids.  They want to do it again.

Funny Girl!

We spent an afternoon in Bountiful at Brooke's baptism.  Ashlynn was so excited to see her friend that we moved away from 2 years ago.  She has had a few play dates with Brooke, but not enough according to Ashlynn.  On our way home we stopped for icee's.  They were so delish!

Ashlynn put her icee in the freezer and enjoyed it the next day too!
You just got to love this girl!  She keeps you smiling everyday!

Door Project

Matt and I have been contemplating on whether to get a storm door for the front.  We had one at our first house in Boise and loved it.  So, we finally convinced ourselves to go ahead with it.  We picked out a full view door that the screen can be changed out in the winter with a nice etched glass.  We have the screen in now and love it!  We have full view of our culdasac when the kids are out playing around and the best part is that we get air circulating through the main level of the house.  Handy Matt installed it himself during a toasty Saturday afternoon, but he did a great job. 

Hatching chicks

Carter's class had chicken eggs in a incubator to observe a for science learning experiment.  The school connected a web cam so that you could view them at home and other classes had them projected in their classrooms as well.   Technology is amazing!!  The eggs hatched at night so we took pictures of the little chicks coming out of their eggs off the school web cam website.

It is hard work for these little chicks to come out of their eggs.  Some of the chicks would get their eggs stuck to their back ends and walk around with their eggs still attached until they had enough energy to kick it off.  It was so fun and interesting to watch.

The baby chicks would come out wet looking and then would fluff up later.  Then they would walk around and bump the other eggs.  It was funny!

Then, we woke up early and saw that the other chicks were out of their eggs.  The kids were excited to get to school and hold the new baby chicks.  There was one egg left and the whole school got to watch it hatch in their classrooms.  I even recorded it at home just in case the kids didn't get to watch it, but it was old news by the time the kids got out of school.  What a neat experience for the school!