What have we been up to?

End of the school year....means LOTS of coming and going! Sterling recently graduated from his preschool...he has been in an awesome program and the Children's Montessori School. He has LOVED it. We have loved it too. The above pictures are from his graduation night...he HAD to wear his suit since he said his "graduation clothes didn't come in the mail?" I guess he was waiting on a cap and gown?

As a fourth grader, Caroline had the opportunity to complete her first science fair project! She was pretty excited about it. She titled it "Biggie or Smallie". She compared the growth that plants would have in just water verses water and soil. She was one of the top ten projects in the 4th grade.

Julia has just about completed 2nd grade and by her picture you can tell that she is more than ready to be done! Summer here we come!

He doesn't even have a say!

The girls cannot help themselves...poor Andrew. They are always up to something...As you can see, he does not mind being their personal baby doll. Hard to believe Andrew is 8 months already!

Andrew has two teeth!

I found this video off of Caroline's camera....So glad that Andrew's big sis is documenting his life! I thought it was pretty cute. His bottom two teeth broke through about 3 weeks ago. I hate to see the teeth in his gumline....I love baby gums.

Caroine is a photographer!

Yes these are all random pictures....you might be wondering what they have to do with each other....they were all taken by the same photographer...aka Caroline. Caroline has been saving her money and finally had enough to purchase her own digital camera. She has LOVED having it and takes it just about everywhere. These are some of the random pictures she has taken. She is figuring out how it works and the different options. In fact the picture taken by Caroline of Sterling was per his request .... "Caroline, take my picture in Sepia".... nothing like being educated in the digital work of photography! I had to include the crazy self portrait picture that Caroline took of she and Julia...Classic isn't it? I am sure she will LOVE that I have posted that on our blog. And yes that is her little toy aka Andrew. She is always caring him around and is always playing with him. He is better than her baby dolls. He obviously isn't big enough yet to ride on this little walker but Caroline rigged it up to make it so he doesn't fall off. As you can see, he doesn't seem to mind! And the last picture was taken as we were leaving New Orleans...I thought it was a pretty nice sunset picture.

A Dip in the Water...New Orleans Style!!

We had the opportunity yesterday to make a quick trip over to New Orleans for Todd's baptism. What a wonderful day it was! The kids were able to spend time with their cousins and ALL of them were so sad to leave....

I found the above picture of Todd on Caroline's camera....The ward building that Cary and Katrina usually meet in is being rebuilt so they are meeting in an old building that use to belong to the RLDS church. My kids thought the font was pretty cool...it was up behind the podium. I was surprised with as much excitement there was between my kids and Cary and Katrina's that no one fell in!

Reading can be dangerous!

The other night the kids were misbehaving and I sent them to their rooms to sit on their beds. Prior to sitting on her bed, Julia came into the living room to grab a library book to read. As Julia was walking back to her room, this was the conversation that Sterling had with me:

Sterling: "Mom, do you know that reading can be dangerous?"
Me: laughing to myself, "Why is that Sterling?"
Sterling: "Because you can get a paper cut."

He said this very seriously and matter of factly....no joking. We got a pretty good laugh!

Who determines the first beach trip?

So I want to know who determines when it is actually warm enough to go to the beach? My kids think that ANYTIME is warm enough to head to the sandy shores. There were many spring breakers walking up and down in their swimsuits....I know they must have been FREEZING....As mentioned in another post, mom is here visiting after Julia's baptism. We wanted to make the most of her time with us so we headed to the beach today. The high was suppose to be 74.....capri weather right? That is what I told mom and I changed out of my jeans into some capris to be cool enough. However, as soon as we got on the beach...I knew that it was much too cool for me. If it was too cool for me, then I knew it would be for mom as well. So I headed back to the van to get a throw for mom and my sweater. As you can tell by the pictures, it doesn't matter to the kids what the temperature is! I am sure this is the first of many visits to the beach this summer! We are glad that Jani was able to go with us!