May '07

Kader's Kindergarten graduation!!!
Kader often is found sitting on the throne like this.....he doesn't like to smell his stinkies......quite a good idea actually.
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The boys picking up rock to get ready for seeding the grass.....

Some Spring Projects.....

These pics got in the wrong order.....here is the completed basketball court in the back yard.
Shawn and Cory working on the front porch
The frame is place...now the decking and railing and stairs will come next.

Vinnie and Shawn building a deck out the back (off of the kitchen)
Andrea, Hannah, and Megan are the first visitors to our partly completed deck.
It's done...now if the wind would go down we could enjoy it more!
The basketball court is getting ready.....
Pouring the cement in the hot very windy day!

I know it has been way too long since I updated our blog....even my kids (who also check blogs!) have been nagging me. I just don't always get time to do everything I want to do and so instead of putting in pictures of everything that's already happened since March I just put a few recent ones. Mareyn will be turning five in ten days so I will put some birthday pics on next.

Our neighbor and friend, Brooklyn Berge (and Mareyn)

Mareyn has a built in friend right next door to us, Brooklyn. They play a lot and one day as I was working on the computer they thought it would be fun to take pictures being silly.....there are quite a few more shots but here is three of them!!
They both have dark brown eyes and about the same hair color and same haircut. Such cuties!!

Kader's cooking day!!

Kader is "announcing" the news of the day!
Kader mixing the cream cheese and butter....
Kader and his good friend Ashwin (Kader likes to tease him and call him Ashley!)
Mareyn and Kader with their finished dirt cups....worms and all!

Erika and I get our hair done

Looking nice and foiled!
Noah with our very special stylist Sarah!!

Noah was so good....He sat in his stroller for two hours and just talked and looked around....he was full of smiles!!

Muffins for Moms

Kader eating his muffin at "Muffins for Moms"!

Singing some special songs for the moms!

A close up......Kader drew a picture of me and I had short purple hair. They had to put our age on the picture and there was a range of 15 to 99. I got to be 15!!
We played in the room after the program. Was a fun morning....there is Donuts for Dads in April so stay tuned!

Vinnie's class at Chapel

Vinnie's class "hosted" chapel on Tuesday and they did such a good job...they all picked their characters from the Bible and then they wrote about their characters and memorized their parts....We also found out at conferences last thursday that Vinnie was going to play his guitar for special music. Shawn and I looked at each other with surprise (we rarely know what is going on at school for Vinnie, as he is a boy of few words when it comes to letting us know what is happening) anyway we just smiled and said okay. Vinnie got a guitar for Christmas and has not had one lesson yet he just plays around on it and Shawn has taught him a few chords...so we didn't think he could even read music much less pull off a whole song. Much to our amazement he did wonderful...not missing one chord. My mom thinks he can just play by ear...so maybe we should look into getting him some lessons!!