Reading Contest

Our district had a reading contest. Ken Garff and Wal-mart were sponsors and donated great prizes, like 4 new bikes and lots of books. Our school kids read over 2 million minutes!!!! My kids have been off track, so we went back for the assembly. For every hundred thousand minutes that were read the teachers and staff had to do some crazy stunt. The first grade teachers had to ride around the school on tricycles, the third grade teachers were duct taped to the wall, sixth grade teachers had to kiss a pig (but because of swine flu the kissed a goat instead, just as funny!), the Principal and the literacy teacher were dunked in a dunk tank. It was so much fun! I didn't have a camera so I had to use my cell phone, so forgive me for the poor quality of the pictures.


Sixth grade teachers kissing the goat. Most actually kissed it on the face!



Third grade teachers duct taped to the wall. They didn't stick very well.


Mr. Giles in the dunk tank.


Mrs. Fay in the dunk tank.


The kids having a good time watching their teachers acting crazy!

Silly things that kids say...

Today we went to visit Uncle Buzzy, and Jean of course was taking a million pictures. So Kyzleigh finally said "Grandma why do you take so many pictures?" "Well, you guys grow up so fast and I don't get to see you very often, I just want to take lots of pictures of you!" Kyzleigh's response "Grandma when are you going to die?" I guess she thought that if grandma was taking so many pictures that she was going to die soon. Silly girl!

Here is Easter Day. The kids got new church clothes, they look so cute! We went to Aunt Margaret and Uncle Wayne's house for Easter dinner. We then had a big Easter egg hunt, the kids had so much fun.

Coloring Easter Eggs

They had so much fun! They all colored 9 eggs. I have so many hard boiled eggs, and no one likes them except James and Brett.



They all had a great time! I was happy there wasn't any fighting, they all got along.



Jace picked out a new kind of dye. This one had sand and glue, so you could "sand blast" your eggs. The kids had fun with this, so did Dad!



I thought that I made all the pictures the right way, I guess I missed one. Have fun looking at it sideways.

Crystal Hot Springs

James took Friday off so we wanted to find something fun to do. I found this Crystal Hot Springs and we decided to go up and have a look. Its ok, they need to do a little better job at maintaining the pools. The pools were really warm, which was great. The kids wanted to go on the waterslide, but the water that fed that was the cold spring. Let me tell you it was COLD it was like standing in ice water! James and I chickened out, and since none of my kids can swim they couldn't go down the slide. James complained about the drive, but it was nice to get out of the Salt Lake Valley and do something.

Report Cards

I think that some parents dread this time of the school year, but luckily I have kids that love school and do very well.

Brett did outstanding! He got all 4's, which is like straight A's. The third grade took the Iowa Test and Brett got a certificate that states he is in the top 10 nationally in Reading, Mathematics, Social Studies, Language, and Science! I am so proud of him, he works so hard and loves being at school. Next year he will be in the ALPS class, which is an accelerated program. I hope that I can keep up, sometimes I think he is smarter than I am.

Kyzleigh had a great report also. She got all 3's and 4's. She is a good reader and is above grade level. The only thing she needs to work on, is not being so shy. Way to go Kyz!!!

Kyra's report card was almost identical to Kyzleighs. She also got all 3's and 4's. She too is a great reader, and she is above grade level too. The only difference is that Kyra is not shy at all. Those who know the real Kyra will agree.

Jace isn't in school yet, but he comes with me every Tuesday when I help in the girls class. He likes to do the puzzles that the teacher has. He is looking forward to Kindergarten starting next school year.

This year we decided that since we have 3 kids birthdays in March and my sister Shauntel has a little one in March too, we would combine the birthdays. It was a great idea! We had a carnival, with a bouncy obstacle course. The kids had so much fun! I don't know what I was thinking, but I decided to do everything in one day. Meaning, we had a family party and a friend party all in the same day. I'm not sure I would recommend doing that, I am so tired!