Kindergarden

Ryan and Mrs. Jones.



Ryan has finished his first year in school.

Day Camp

Kyle was able to go to day camp this year. He loved it. Camp was held at Camp Pueblo. The boys went to day camp for 3 days from 2pm to 10pm. There were 4 boys from our pack that went. I was albe to go to camp with Kyle on Friday evening. The weather was a little warm that day, the high was 105. But it does cool down once the sun sets... just a little...

Things we see out our back door...

A falcon, or small hawk or other bird of prey doing what they do with a pidgin...


A hot air balloon...

Last Day of School

Kyle and Ryan deceided that they wanted Yearbook. So I called the school to see if they had any left. And it turns out that you needed to bring in cash to buy them. So luckly, Tylor had some cash onhand from his birthday that we were able to use to buy the yearbooks with. So this made our morning a little bit busier than normal. So I got to the school with the younger two boys and bought their yearbooks. As I was putting Ryan's yearbook in his backpack, I noticed that I had not cleaned out his backpack from yesterday or even looked at his backpack. I did feel bad that I had not checked his backpack. Then about 11:15 that morning I remembered that I had not made a lunch for him. But he had already had lunch time at school and I had run his lunch account down to 0 the week before... needless to say but it was not a stellar moment for me... So I called the school and found out that apparently this type of thing happens every now and again around the end of the school year, so they'd given him lunch like normal... phew, I didn't want to ruin his day too...

Kyle's Baptism

Kyle's Baptism was today. We really appreciate that both sets of grandparents could come down for this, and loved having them here for the few days they were... we'll have to come up with more excuses to have them come visit us.

So our stake does child of record baptisms once a month for the whole stake, everyone meets in the chapel for the opening song, prayer and a talk on baptism, then they dismiss each ward in turn to go to the relief society room where the font is for the baptism, after that you may or may not move to another room for the confirmation (depending on if you're in the last ward to go to the font or not). The primary presidency did a fireside for all the kids in Kyle's class back in January, titled "it's great to be eight" they talked to them about baptism, showed them the font, talked to the boys about cub scouts and the girls about activity days. Then they gave each of the kids a white "baptism" monogrammed with their name towel.

So we showed up to the stake center this morning, and yes we forgot to take a family photo... or one with Kyle and his grandparents... we really needed a check list.


Kyle and James got changed.


And then we went and sat down, as there were only 3 other kids getting baptized it didn't take long (even though we were the last ward to go) before we were in the Relief Society room. James and I are so very proud of Kyle and his decision to be baptized. We love him and his brothers so much.

Riding my bike to school uphill both ways

So the other morning Ryan got about half a block from the house and told Carmen that he couldn't make his bike go, that it was stuck. She rode back to him and found that for whatever reason the front wheel was totally seized up. I took the wheel apart and discovered that all the grease had gone out of the bearings and that the cage that holds the individual balls of the bearing in had shifted and was binding between the race (the part of the bearing that the balls ride one) and the bearing ball. So as the cages are only there to facilitate manufacturing, I took it out and FILLED the wheel with grease. Put it all back together and it spun fast and free... now Ryan is no longer falling behind on the ride to and from school, in fact he passes Carmen and Kyle now... I guess that's what happens when you ride uphill EVERYWHERE you go for weeks, months maybe...

Tylor's last soccer season on NYS... maybe

Ty decided after watching his brothers play soccer for two of the three winter seasons (it's the best time of year to play outdoor sports here) that he wanted to play one more season. So we signed him up on coach Steve's team -the team he'd been on last year and we really like coach Steve. Ty's ball handling and awareness of the game have really improved. We found out after the season started, thinking it was Ty's last as NYS only goes up to 12 years old (you can turn 13 during the season but you cannot be 13 before the season starts and still play for NYS). Anyway we found out that NYS is thinking about doing a 13 to 15 year old league. So this might not be Ty's last season... maybe...