Dance!

Ali and Shadrach had their first dance recital. They were great. The recital was wonderful but soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long. I think it was 4 hours long. I say I think because we just had to leave after 3 hours ( mostly because of Enoch) and they were not even close to being done. We have them go to a very prestigious dance company. The dance company just got named National Champions for 2011. We love the place. Most of the dancers are older. They have classes for the younger kids almost as an after thought. There is only 4 kids in the class and their teacher has a degree in Dance from Butler. Their teacher, Miss Jamie, loves Shadrach too. She made his outfit for him.

Ali loves to dance. I think it might just be something she is naturally good at. I would love her to play the piano or violin or sing and she still might do some of those things BUT I think dancing is in her blood. We will have to wait and see. Shadrach likes to dance but I think he might move on to something else in a few years.

STRAWBERRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shadrach is mighty proud of all of our strawberries. We just got done washing them and we are letting them dry. I think we are going to be eating strawberries for awhile. YUMMM Daddy picking the strawberries

The kids watching daddy pick them. ( They picked too but I think they got wore out after a while)

Our strawberries are all along the side of our house.

Here is Greg's Garden.

Memorial Day

Things I love about Lebanon. It has to be one of the most patriotic cities in America. They love America. They LOVE America. Our church always has a flag ceremony on Memorial day followed by a breakfast. So we have gone every year but once. You can't help have the patriotic feelings rub off on you in this town. My kids our with a friend of ours who is in the Navy. ( things I don't like about Lebanon several of my neighbors really believe Obama is a Muslim) Got to love small town America.

Ali reading the program.



Enoch. What else can I say.

Family Home Evening- April 30 2011

My camera was on the wrong setting for awhile so all my pictures looked like these. I couldn't figure it out until later though with Greg's help. We are playing Super Hero Squad Matching Game.

Ali is really enjoying the lesson here. (hehe) I taught it for once!! Greg didn't say much. He didn't feel well. It was all about summer break and what to expect. Things like they have to still work on their IXL (math), read a book a day, do their chores, and have rest time. I will talk more a about our summer schedule later. I didn't want my kids to think that summer meant no rules or no schedule.

Enoch helped me make the cookies. Early in the day. This was a mix from Greg's mom's house. Yummy.

Lesson: Summer Goals and Schedule

Song: Don't remember

Activity: Memory Game

Dessert: Peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss on top

matching outfits

If you don't know, I love matching outfits. I think they are really fun. My sister bought these for me. Aren't they cute? I think we are going to get a family picture taken with them if I can get my stuff together and e organized enough to do that.

King's Island

So Ali and Shadrach worked really hard this year and did extra math homework called IXL.com . We told them if they finished their level they could go to King's Island. All along it was going to be daddy, Ali, and Shad. Then at the last min. some how I got talked into going and bringing all of the kids! I know. We are crazy.

Shadrach, Greg, and Ali going up!


Getting ready to go up! This was Shad' favorite ride. The kids loved all of the rides! Even the roller coasters. I couldn't believe it. Shad was really brave. None of the rides even scared him a little bit. This was Shadrach's favorite one. Enoch's favorite was the hunted house. I don't know what Ali's favorite was.

Liam spent half of the day in the baby Bojourn (sp) back pack thingy. He loves it. It was hot and sweaty but he didn't seem to mind. The other half of the time he was in the stroller.

Don't let him fool you. I think this is one of the few smiles he had this day. He was a grump. He misses out on so much fun sometimes because he is so stubborn. Even though he was grumpy, I think he still had fun. Or at least I am telling myself that.

Can you see them waiting in line? We went memorial weekend so it was busy! But it wasn't that bad. There was a lot of line waiting. The weather was perfect so I just enjoyed being outside the whole day.

Greg trying to convince Enoch to be happy. Greg had a great time and was super positive the whole day. I had a great time too, but not as positive as Greg. Somehow it got my goat that Enoch was complaining a lot.

Here is a picture of Shad on the Swings.

Ali before we left. It was a 2 and 1/2 hour to 3 hour car ride. It went well. We had to stop to feed Liam on the way there. And then we had to stop on the way home for an EMERGENCY potty break for Enoch.

Family Home Evening- April 23 2011

We had strawberry shortcake for dessert. Enoch finally got to have some!!! YEAH!! however he only ate the whip cream of the top and left the rest.

The boys singing Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam.



Daddy teaching the lesson on how to be a good host. We have had problems when Ali and Shad have friends over. They beg to have friends over but then after 30 min. they say that want some alone time, or sit on the couch and stare blankly at the T.V. and don't talk to their friend or hid somewhere in the house and not tell their friend so their friend has no idea where they are or what they are doing. So we talked about playing with the friend the whole time and doing what they want to do.

Song: Jesus Want Me for a Sunbeam

Lesson: Being a good host

Dessert: strawberry short cake

Activity: I don't remember but I know we did one