Just Dance

Madalyn and Morgan have been doing Tap Dance since October and they had their dance recital on Saturday. They did a great job and looked very cute. The theme was "Dancing through the Year". They had three songs that they danced to: Stupid Cupid, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini and Thank you for being a friend.

This is their second costume the group wore bikini's but the girls wore black dance suits underneath so they were modest. I was very happy for their courage to be modest and stand out in the group. We had a lot of people come up to us after and say how good they looked.

They got flowers from us after they were done dancing.
Madalyn's friend Chloe in another dancing group.
Miss Morgan
Miss Madalyn
These two are so silly, they had to do a crazy face.
Madalyn is quite the poser.

Natalie was not old enough to do dance but she did wear an old costume we had to the recital.
Great Job Girls. It was fun watching you get better throughout the year.

last days of school

We are very excited about summer break being here. The last few days of school was filled with lots of fun events for the kids. The water slide was from play day. When Morgan got to the top she convinced one of the teachers to go down the slide with her.
Brooklyn loves ice cream, the kids all had ice cream cones and Brooklyn screamed at me until I gave her one. Then she was happy. Natalie and Brooklyn are going to enjoy having the kids home to play with them this summer.


The kids enjoyed all the fun events that happened during play day at the school. Madalyn loved the big water slide, Morgan not so much. She was all wet after the first time coming down and very cold. Morgan hates cold water just like her dad.

Competing in some games.

Pull hard Morgan!!!
BFF Corrigan and Madalyn
Morgan's Kindergarten class put on a play, she was a monkey.


Madalyn is done with 1st grade, I can't believe that she is that old. Time has really gone fast.

Summer here we come!!!

At Last...............

Garrett is done with his schooling. He finished his 4 year degree in Fire Science. What a great job Honey!!!

Today was Natalie's preschool graduation and play day. She has been looking forward to the play day for a few weeks now.




Natalie loved school and being able to go learn new things. She would come home and tell me all the fun things she learned. She loved learning about animals. The last few weeks they studied ladybugs, they even had some of their own. That was great for her. It seems like she always has some little animal in a container in the back yard. She has a frog and a moth right now.










I just love this little girl. She asked me the funniest questions. Today she was watching super readers and I was busy working in the house. Trying to get things cleaned up and done. She came up to me and asked.

N-"Mom, when do I have to be a mom"?
Me- "when you get bigger and then you can have babies"?
N- "I don't want to be a mom for a long time, cause I can't watch T.V. I have to do jobs like you."

So true Life is so easy when your little.

Memorial Day

As always we went to the Jenks Family Picnic at the park and to visit John, Kristy's Graves along with Cassidy's grave in Connell. I always look forward to going each year. My girls love spending time with their cousins.
What a fun group to spend time with. What a great legacy to leave behind. I only wish our kids had the chance to know their grandpa Jenks.
Grandpa Jenks' Grand Kids
It was really cute Madalyn and Natalie stood and just looked at the grave for a long time, they were holding each others hands and then walked off. Nothing was said. I really think they know what a special grandpa he was and that they will see him again.

Selia and Brooklyn have become good friends. She is our babysitter when we go to the temple each month with Justin and Heather.
We also had the chance to go visit on Sunday my Grandma LaVon McGary's grave with a lot of the McGary's. I forgot the camera so I don't have any pictures.

Garrett turns the big 30.....

That's right we are no longer in our 20's anymore. How sad is that!!! I can't believe that we are to this age in our lives. Garrett turned 30 last Friday. Nothing turns out the way you hope for with kids. I first tried to plan a surprised party and that didn't work so we were going to go to dinner on last Saturday but because of everyone being sick we couldn't go. Garrett was a great sport about everything that went wrong on his big day, he had to call in sick to work to stay home and take care of his really sick family.
I did surprise him with something he has wanted for a long time, surround sound Home Theater system for the living room. We will really enjoy that. We are going out with a small group this weekend to celebrate his birthday.
Happy Birthday Honey!!! Hope we have many more Birthdays together.

Morgan turns 6

Poor Morgan!!! Your not suppose to be sick on your birthday. We got the flu really bad the week of the kids and Garrett's birthdays. It hit us hard. Monday night Natalie started throwing up and then Wednesday I get a phone call from the bus driver to come and get Morgan cause she is throwing up, the same day Brooklyn gets it. Then Madalyn gets it Thursday and then me on Friday. I don't know if Garrett was lucky or not he didn't get it. But he had to call in sick on his Birthday to take care of us.
Morgan was so sad that she had to miss school on her BIG DAY.
Morgan found a picture of a turtle cake and just loved it. But of course she made some changes to the design. She wanted it purple and pink and not the green. It was sad she could not bring herself to eat her cake on her birthday, she was too sick.

Singing Happy Birthday to everyone on Sunday before her birthday.

Thursday Morning, she found enough energy to open her gifts from her sisters and Mom and Dad.
She got a make-up stand.
2 DS games, wii remote, tangled CD, flip flops and shorts outfit, poster
Happy Birthday Morgan we sure love you.