May 2012 part 1

May 5th Fathers and Sons- this is how Jr's hands looked when he came home.

while the boys were away we had a girl party, with chick food, artichokes, hummus, and spinach dip we watched movies, sewed monsters, painted nails and went for a walk.

Gordon fell asleep quickly after the boys came back. His fingers are covering his very buggery nose.

May 5th was the night of a supermoon. We used our new fancy telescope and looked at the bright big moon

May 9th Susan wanted Troll hair so I gave the troll puffy pigtails and Susan matching hair style.

May 9th Mom at the sewing machine in the garage,

May 11th Reuben fit into his Easter outfit..I love the expression on his face!..."Mom I am way too grown up for dress up!"

May 11th "Mom take my picture!"

May 12th we made strawberry jam!

May 16th sweet sleeping boy

May 19th we started our trip to St George with the Wengers to Visit Nathan and Sarah Bunker . On the way we stopped to visit Brian's cousins in Bunkerville.

Leavitt Family

Brain and Reuben in the tent.

we went to Kolob Utah to see the eclipse. 

I did not have the right setting to photograph the sun but the sun flare in the camera shows the "ring of fire"

May 20th Jones, Wenger and Bunkers view the solar Eclipse near Zions Park in Utah.

May 23rd At the end of the school year the kids got some awards. Every quarter they have an award ceremony, Brian has gotten several awards for reading, math and top scores! He is a smart boy!

.Katie was awarded the Citizenship award, in which kids in her class vote on one boy and one girl to win. She has also gotten several awards for reading She got all around best reader award for her class. She reads 171 words a min and her class average is 68 words...(I think, I have misplaced her report card :) She is so lucky to be in the excelled class next year! we are very proud of both the kids! I love that they love to read and take pride in doing well and excelling!

May 25th first day of summer, the kids got their own library cards!

May 25th Susan asked to hold Reuben and she rocked herself to sleep while he was happily awake laying on her tummy.

Living By the Golf Course

I think the more we live in Kingman the more I like it. We just discovered the joy of playing in the grass after the gold course closes.

 For an hour or so the kids all get along and run and jump and play it is very peaceful to just watch and follow them around, usually at this time of day there is a breeze and feels great out.

these are my favorite photos of the kids!

 I also really love this one. When I first saw the kids running on this hill I did not have my camera so we had to go back and recreate the shot. Hopefully soon the whole family can get pictures here.

I love these kids and times like this!

School's Out For Summer

We celebrated the last day of school today. I made the a notebook full of crafts, science projects and things to bake for the kids and gave it to them when they got home from school. along with some other surprises.

The kids did their first science project. Brian especially liked the the catapult,

 and the paper boat.

As a tradition we got ice cream after dinner, Katie and Brian earned coupons from school they has earned 5 corn dogs 4 vanilla cones and 1 medium soda!

And this is the beginning of out summer vacation.

Reuben's Blessing Day

Reuben was blesses on April 29th. We went to Tempe so family could more easily attend the blessing.  Before church we has time to take some family pictures. Maybe I get a few where we all smiled. It never happens but they all look cute. I cant believe I have 5 kids! I am so thankful I am healthy and happy and am able to have 5. They really are usually good kids.

Reuben's blessing was very nice I especially like that he was blessing with a scene of humor, and that it would help him in missionary work. Also that he would be able to look to his family and extended family for a good example. as a mother it was nice to hear his older brother will be a good example!