Swimming Lessons

I forgot the best picture from Rochesterfest! We went to Breakfast on the Farm (of course...) but forgot our camera (of course). It was kind of a rainy morning, but we had fun anyway! The kids got these fabulous cow hats! I thought they were soooo cute!

Moving on! The girls have been taking swimming lessons at the Byron Pool! It is so fun! They are really learning a lot and becoming little fishes! Here is Jessica during her lessons...she just finished finding rings.

Here is Savannah practicing her back crawl. Isn't she doing great?? We've been going to the pool lots so they can practice their new found skills!

Rochesterfest 2009

Rochesterfest was the last week of June! As I'm sure you've heard me mention in years past...we LOVE Rochesterfest! It is one of the summer things that we ALWAYS look forward to! It is a 10 day celebration of families and summer with all sorts of fun activities around town! Savannah (actually all the kids...) got to ride on the Kaptain Kirby's Express! She chose the pink car, Zach chose the red car, and Jessi rode in the pink car too!

Here are Jessi and Nan in a sack race! I love their fashionable do's! If you look towards the white awning in the back, you will see Aunt Brantly and Uncle Jabbar cheering them on!

These are some of the cute balloon animals that Jessi and Zach got! They got different ones each day, but this day Zach has an alligator, and Jessi is holding a pink poodle!

This is the way that Nathan participated in Rochesterfest! He sat and observed most of the activities from this perch! He also let us know when it was time to go home!

Zach got to help the fireman put out the fire in the house! He was so excited because after all he is going to be a firetruck man!

Jessica got to go swimming with one of her school friends and was captured by a local photographer while she was swimming. Her photo ended up making it on the front cover of the local paper. She said "It was because she was the cutest." For those that want to see the real photo here is the link. www.rochesterpostbulletin.com

Welcome Summer!

Ashley graduated from HS this year! Who can believe it? She is headed off to BYU-Utah in August! Boy are we going to miss her! I made these graduation hats for her graduation party! They turned out ok...but I learned some tricks that hopefully I'll remember the next time I make them!

We are ready for summer! We were sooo glad when the last day of school FINALLY came! Here is everyone on the first day of summer! We are going to swim and play our summer away! We can hardly wait!

Easter Photos

Nate's eggs...he wasn't a very good looker!

The kids Easter baskets. They were GREAT lookers!

Jessi finding eggs...that silly Easter bunny hid it in the light!

Dyeing eggs. Zach is actually sponge painting his egg here. We painted, dyed, colored, and sparkled the eggs this year!

The egg setup for dyeing the eggs...these pictures are in backwards chronological order...! Sorry!

Catching Up...Nan

Savannah has been a help in the kitchen! She is really starting to learn to follow recipes and make things on her own! For mother's day Savannah, Jess, Zach, and I made Cake Pops! It was a lot of fun dipping them and decorating them! Here is the finished product!

We also got the cutest aprons from our AWESOME Aunt Natalie! Thanks Nat! The aprons ROCK! We had a lot of fun cooking in them! Plus they are adorably cute!

Nan got a new a haircut! She got a bob...it is stacked in the back and longer in the front! It looks very cute on her!

Catching Up...Jessi

The end of the year is full of exciting activities! Jessi had a music concert at school! It was great! They sang songs...

Played songs on the xylophones...

Did rhythms with the rhythm sticks...

and she sang a solo for one of the songs! She even had to try out...she got the golden paper that said "You're going to Hollywood!" The song was called Small Part of the World. She signed it while she sang! It was really cute!

Afterwards, we got to go to her classroom for a reader's theater. Jessica has ALOT of expression when she reads and everyone kept telling her that she did a fantastic job! She has loved school, loved her teacher, Mrs. Walz, and is looking forward to summer!