Saturday, September 17, 2011

First day of School!

Okay- so I know I'm a month late on this, but things have been a bit insane around here with school and all the after school activities staring!!

Here's Katelyn. She's a middle schooler now! I know! Crazy!!














Avery's first day of 3rd grade. She was SO excited because she's in the big kids hall now, PLUS she gets a locker!

















Yup. My baby has gone off to kindergarten. She was so excited to go to school with her big sister! She's loving every minute of it!

Friday, July 15, 2011

Jihyun's new dress

Jihyun wanted me to post a picture of her in this dress for her mom. She looks so pretty!! Do you like it, mom?

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Landscaping

This has been our project this spring/summer. We got tired of the back 20 feet of our yard being a weed garden, so we decided to landscape back there. In the back corner is a stone patio with a firepit. I think the rest is self explanatory! Now we just need everyone to come over for a party!!







We had this put up to provide late afternoon shade to our patio area. You can't see it on this picture, but there is a vine on there that should be pretty quick growing. So hopefully in a couple years it will give some good shade! We also planted a ton of trees back there. (12 to be exact) That should shade our yard nicely for our GRANDCHILDREN!! lol!

Jihyun at Gymnastics

Here are a few pictures of Jihyun at gymnastics class. She is really catching on very quickly!


Swimming lessons

I'm trying to post a bunch of pictures of Jihyun so her mom can see that we are actually doing something with her! Here she is at swimming lessons, with Katelyn and Avery.









Floating with her teacher.












Getting ready to go off the high dive.












1..2..3..JUMP!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Jihyun

First off, I've added about a bazillion posts today, so make sure that you click on "older posts" or whatever it says on the very bottom and go back a few pages. I have dance recital, disneyland, and Lilly's b-day pictures. When you get to Avery's baptism, you've reached the end of the new photos! :)






Now onto the point of this post! We have a cute Korean girl staying with us this summer. Her name is Jihyun, and she gets to stay with us for 8 weeks. We are all having a ton of fun! In this picture, they are "helping" the landscaper unload the sand.







Jihyun really likes playing croquet as long as it's not too hot outside. Here she is with Katelyn and Denali playing a game.










She and Katelyn made this lincoln log village.












Katelyn, Kate, Jihyun, and Beth running through sprinklers.

Spring Dance Recital

The girls all did a great job at their dance recital. It was hard to get a good picture of Katelyn, because she was in a big group... She is in the back.









Avery in her ballet piece. (She was in several pieces. One for Ballet, one for Jazz, and 2 for performing group.)

















This is the dance Dave has been dreading for years. The 4 year old group does a darling dance with their daddies. It was soooo cute!!
















Avery doing her Hawaiian dance. (She is on the far end.)











My only regret with this photo is that I wasn't using video instead. This is the start of Lilly's cartwheel. I wish I could explain how she finished this cartwheel, but words would not do it justice. The only thing I can say is that she had the whole audience cracking up. She kindof just dropped to the floor after this and rolled. Funny kid!!

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