My lil graduate...

Porter graduated from kindergarten today. We are so proud of him. He has grown so much this last year. He loves his teacher Mrs. Smallwood. He is really going to miss her. She has brought him out of his shell and has taught him so many new and exciting things. Porter gave Mrs. Smallwood flowers and a card for being his teacher. He wrote the card all by himself! This is what he wrote, "dear mrs smallwood. I love you. I am sad for you. I don't want to leave your class. Love porter". (You have to imagine the writing of a kindergartener and the misspelled words...it was too cute)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

a conversation with a 4 year old...

Abbie: Mom, who's gonna die first?

me: who are you talking about?

Abbie: who's gonna die first? you, dad, me, sissy, bubba, or chloe

me: i hope none of us has to die first.

Abbie: we will all die together mom, don't worry

me: ok abbie.

Abbie: cuz if you died mom, we would cry for you like the dogs.

me: what abbie???

Abbie: we would cry for you, like we cried for tori, our chicken, meat, tiny, our turtle. we would be sad like that when you die.

me: thank you Abbie.

***I'm glad Abbie loves me as much as our deceased pets!

Chloe...

In just a few weeks Chloe will be a year old! Can you beleive it?! She is such a cutie! Here are a few recent pictures of her. She really enjoyed her first taste of watermellon the other day!

Field trip to the Tucson Zoo...

Porter's kindergarten class went to the Tucson Zoo. I wasn't able to go because I had finals that day. Ryan followed the bus over and took Abbie and Chloe so that they could be with Porter. They had so much fun. Abbie dropped her apple in the alligator pond...oops! And the monkeys were reaching their hands out of the cage trying to get Porter's apple, so Ryan fed the monkeys an apple! (aren't their signs saying "do not feed the animals"????)

How does stuff like this happen?

Lizzy is pregnant.....that's all I have to say about that!

Peter Pan...

The kids were in the Children's Theatre this year at Eastern Arizona College. They had a lot of fun. The play was Peter Pan. Here are their pictures...

Taylor the Fairy...

Taylor was a fairy in the Peter Pan play at EAC. She wants to try out for a speaking part for the next play. She had a blast!

Porter the pirate...Arrrrrr

Porter was a pirate in the Peter Pan play at EAC. He thought it was fun! He can't wait to do it again in the fall.

Abbie the skunk...

Abbie was a skunk in the Peter Pan play at EAC. She had so much fun!

Malt O' Meal Baby...

Chloe found the malt o' meal one day. She won't eat it cooked, but she loves sucking out the dry powder...YUCK!

Future EAC student...

Well, I got tired of going to school by myself everyday, so.....Abbie became my new classmate! She sat quieter than most of the college kids! I (or should I say "Abbie and I") officially finished my first semester back to school. It was rough...but I made it! YAY! Here are a few pics of Abbie on her first day of college!

Suns Game...

We went to the last Suns game of the season this year. Mackenzie danced at the game, so Brenda bought Ryan and I tickets to watch her! She did so good! It was so much fun. After the game, Ryan and I got stuck in the parking garage. So.....Ryan ramped over a couple of curbs and drove through some bushes in order to get out of there!

Happy Easter!

We had a good Easter. We stayed at home and spent time together as a family. We died easter eggs and ate a yummy bar-b-que! Chloe even got into the chocolate candy that the easter bunny left!