the garden

Well, our Garden is doing pretty good. The kids have had fun picking and eating the peas and we've gotten quite a few from the plants. It's actually been kind of fun to watch the garden grow and see the fruit and vegetables growing and getting bigger. It's pretty exciting to see something that started as a little tiny seed get really big and and produce food for you to eat. I'm really happy that we decided to plant a garden this year.

The peas are a little crazy. After I planted them, I was told that when you plant peas you're suppose to use strings. Oops!

Afton and Dax sitting by the garden

McDonald's fun

As most of you probably already know, kids just love McDonald's and my kids extremely love it. Whenever we ask them where they want to go eat for dinner, it's always McDonald's. Or Logan would say "BigDonalds". Lucky us! So we headed to MCD's for some ice cream. I snapped a few cute pictures of the kids so I thought I'd share them.

Afton and Dax making silly faces with ice cream in their mouths.

Jason and Logan. I love this picture. Logan loves his daddy and he looks so much like him. Just kidding. I thought I'd say that because everyone always says that Logan looks nothing like Jason.

I love it! He's saying cheese.

Backyard Campout

Since we didn't really have any plans for Memorial Day Weekend, we decided to have a campout in our backyard. So Jason set up our mini house (our very large tent), made some popcorn and got out the UNO cards and we had ourselves a campout. It was lots of fun and the kids had a great time. They love sleeping in our tent and of course they love UNO. I love Daxon's wink in the big picture. I don't know if he does it on purpose or not.

DaNcE!

On May 24th, Afton and I were very lucky and got to see some very awesome dancers in their dance recital. I really wanted to go last year but wasn't able to get tickets, but this year I made it. My friend Amber and Jason's cousin Misty were both in the same dance class so I had the opportunity to watch both of them perform together. You girls rocked it! They are both in hip-hop and did a dance number to "It's Tricky" and it was so awesome. I'm way jealous of both of your dance skills. I have no talent when it comes to the dancing department. I'd prefer to watch and that's what I did. You both did an amazing job! Afton and I also got to see Amber's girls, Paris and Sophia perform and we also got to see miss Dylen perform too (Misty's daughter). And they all did an amazing job! They definitely have their moms mad dance skills. Afton and I had a great time. It was a fun mother-daughter outing.

Dylen showing off some of her ballet moves. Isn't she so cute?

Dylen and Afton

My friend, Amber, with her daughters, Sophia and Paris. I loved the costumes they had to wear for their performance. Definitely 80's comeback material. The red shoes are hot!

Afton with Paris and Sohpia

These girls are such great friends. They love being together and they are all so cute!

last day of school

Only about a month late that is. Back on the 21st of May was Afton's last day of Kindergarten and instead of doing a graduation they had a little assembly for the parents. The kids had been practicing throughout the year a few different patriotic songs and so they sang their hearts out for us parents. It was so cute and really fun to watch. They were all dressed in red, white and blue and wore visors that they had previously made and designed themselves. It really was cute and they did such a good job singing. Afton was so excited to be on stage and have her family watching her. That girl loves to perform. And she said that she had a great last day of school. They played some really fun games and she got to play with all of her friends and have some yummy snacks. Although the day was lots of fun I think she was a little sad to be done with Kindergarten. She just loved her class and teacher so much. But she is very excited to be moving on to 1st grade and getting her very own desk. We are so proud of our kindergarten grad.

The kids getting ready to show of their mad skills at singing. They were actually all pretty good. There was one little boy that wasn't really singing. It was more like shouting the songs. He was definitely the loudest one there.

Afton with her class. There were actually two classes that were part of the assembly. She was very lucky and got to be in the front row. I guess that's what happens when you have short parents. The kid in the blue shirt was the very loud singer.

They all look so cute in their red, white and blue attire.

class picnic

On May 20th, a few days before the last day of school, Afton's kindergarten class had a picnic. Jason and I were both able to go and help out. It turned out to be lots of fun and Afton was so excited to have both her parents there. They all got to bring a lunch and sat outside on a big blanket together. Then we played some fun relay games. First we played a dress up game. They had to put on some of Jason's big clothes and run to a cone and back and then we did sack races. After the relay games, Mrs. Nightengale had this huge beach ball that the kids got to chase around and try to throw to one another. What a fun day!

Afton and her teacher, Mrs. Nightengale.

They got this cute cake for dessert.

Eating lunch with the class.

Afton's kindergarten class

Playing the relay games. We made them put socks on their hands. It was so funny!

Senior Dinner

Each year our ward has a dinner to recognize the graduating seniors and I usually tag along with Jason for the special event. This year it was at our friend's, the Fallentine's, house. The dinner was actually really good. Jason grilled some tri-tip and chicken and the families provided salads. I ate way too much! But it was really good. After dinner, the parents each said something special about their kids and then Jason shared some words for the seniors. I think he had like 8 or 9 graduating seniors this year. Jason was really happy for them, but kind of sad at the same time. He loves the boys that he works with.

The seniors.

Jason sharing his words of wisdom.

We don't need a dog

because we have Logan. We were having steak for dinner the other night and Logan grabbed one of the bones and started chewing on it. Jason and I thought it was pretty hilarious so I snapped a picture of it. Logan thought it was the greatest thing. This kid will eat anything. Maybe that's why he's weighing in at 31 pounds. One pound below his big brother.

Ward Talent Show

We had our annual ward talent show again and it was really nice this year because I wasn't in charge. Wha-hooo! It's so much more stressful when you're in charge. The talent show was back on the 8th of May and all of our kids shared a talent. I can't believe how brave they are just to get up on stage and perform in front of everyone. I guess it's a little different when you're a kid. Afton decided to sing this year. She sang "O Beautiful" and did an awesome job. I have some video of it that I'll post later. It was a song that they had been practicing in school so she was well prepared for it. The boys played basketball of course. We just set up their little hoops on stage and let them shoot some baskets. The audience loved it and the boys loved having people cheer for them. Daxon showed off his awesome slam dunks and Logan would shoot the ball and then turn and smile at the audience. It was so cute! After the basketball talent, I had Logan share some animal sounds that he's learned. And he was throwing the biggest fit because he still wanted to play basketball. He was crying and trying to get away from me and I kept asking him what a kitty says and he just wanted to get away and then he just leaned over to the microphone and said "Meow". It was so so so funny! Everyone started laughing and so from then on Logan had no problem saying his animal sounds into the microphone.

Afton singing her heart away.

The boys hooping it up.

Logan making his animal sounds. He loved hearing himself in the microphone.

This kid is seriously such a ham. He loves all of the attention.

Afton and Sophia. Sophia did a cute little ballet number for her talent.

Brenden and Dax. Brenden showed us some flexibility moves along with his mom. Amber was actually in charge this year of the talent show and did a wonderful job.

Afton and Kennedy. Kennedy really wanted to do something for the talent show, so last minute she and Afton just got on stage and danced to some High School Musical song. It was so cute! They did such a great job and weren't shy at all.

Max's "Rockin" Party

Also back in May (man, I'm behind), was Max's birthday party. He turned two years old. The theme of the party was "Rock-n-Roll" and it was such a fun party. The kids came dressed in their rock band attire, well Afton was the only one dressed up. She dressed up in her Hannah Montana clothes. They got to make a rock video and dance like crazy little rockers. The mom's even got in on the action. We sang and danced to a little bit of Tiffany. After the video shoot, we headed inside for some cake and ice cream. Once again, Jody out did herself with the birthday cake. It was a guitar and it turned out so cute! She did an awesome job. After the food, Max opened presents. The kids gave him some new pj's and an AC/DC shirt. I thought it was fitting for the birthday theme. Jason was very excited about the shirt so I ended up getting one for Dax and Logan too. Anyway, we all had a blast at the party. It was lots of fun!

The making of the rock video

Ms. Hannah Montana herself

Misty got in on the video making.

This is Misty's cousin, Christina and her Grandma Joy. They were good sports about dressing up.

Logan wasn't too interested in singing or being in the video. He just wanted to play basketball.

The mom's rocking out.

The awesome guitar cake.

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