Mikayla's Spring Concert, End of the Year Party, Last Day of School

This week was the last week of school for the girls and it was jammed packed with end of the year events.

Tuesday Mikayla had her Spring Concert, "How to be a Friend". She did a great job.

Mikayla and her friend Brooke

Brooke, Mikayla and Riley

Brooke, Mikayla, Allison and Riley

Wednesday, I with the help of a couple other parents, organized Ashlee's end of the year party. We started with a pizza picnic lunch.

Followed with ice cream sundaes.

A sponge water relay race

A watermelon eating contest. The winner ate 4 pieces in 3 minutes.

A garbage sack relay race

Autographing t-shirts with puff paints

Drawing on butcher paper and a scavenger hunt.

Mikayla getting her year book signed

Thursday was the last day of school. It started with an awards assembly. Ashlee got 4.0 Honor Roll and an award for reading 106 books. After the assembly the kids and their parents got to have hotdogs, watermelon, chips and a drink. After lunch the kids got to participate in various carnival like activities along with water games. There was also snowcones and popcorn for them to enjoy.

Mikayla and Allison getting their faces painted.

Ashlee and Heather eating popcorn and showing off their face painting's.

It's hard to believe the school year is already over. The girls both did great. Straight A's and O's all year long.

Field Trip

Today Ashlee's class had their fourth field trip of the year. They went to the Mc Henry Mansion and Funworks. I wasn't able to go to the mansion with them. But I got off work early enough to meet them at Funworks. They could ride go-carts, play miniture golf, do water gun bumper boats, and play arcade games. Needless to say the weather didn't cooperate. It was cold and towards the end of the day it started to rain. Ashlee didn't get to do the water gun bumper boats. But she did get to ride the go-carts 5 times and play miniture golf.

Spring Concert

Today was Ashlee's Spring Concert. It was called the Magic Jukebox. She did a great job. Needless to say, I was seated in a bad spot and all the pictures I took of the performance are barely visible. So I will leave you with some pictures I took after the performance.

Life

Haven't posted much lately so here is a bit of a summary of what has been going on with us. Mikayla is doing much better, after battling pnuemonia the last week and a half. She is still on breathing treatments and has been able to gradually start doing some activities again. Ashlee is starting to become quite the swimmer. She is enjoying it and getting better each day. Saturday she got to participate in a trial swim meet (see post below this). Once she gets her breathing down she should do pretty good. She wears herself out trying to breath properly. Thursday night the school had Open House, it was nice to see all the things the girls have done all year. Both girls are doing well in school and are counting the days till summer vacation. It's hard to believe the school year is almost over. Both of them will be participating in Spring Concerts in the coming weeks at school.
I have been pretty involved with running kids around, volunteering at the school, working and YW. Our stake has been working on a Dance Festival the last few months and the performance was this weekend. It turned out really well. This week I was nominated as Vice President of the Parent Booster Club at the kids school. I am hoping things go well. I have lots of work ahead of me. Soon we will be planning events for the upcoming school year. I tried to tell them that I work two jobs part of the year and that an obligation such as this may be difficult for me, but they seemed to think I could do it. We will see how it goes....
John has started raising rabbits with one of his co-workers/friends. It's almost like having another full time job. So far things are going well for them. Demand is higher than supply, so they are trying to build their numbers as quickly as their budgets will allow. They already have a few clients and have sold some product so hopefully things will work out for the best.
Life has been hectic, crazy, and non-stop around here. In the last week we have gotten to bed late everynight except one night. Needless to say, we are all feeling tired and sluggish today. If it wasn't daylight outside, we probably would've all been in bed at 5:00pm!

Swim Trials

Today Ashlee got to participate in a time trials event for swimming. Their swim team the Ceres Dolphins held an event that was very similar to a swim meet. They wanted first year swimmers and their parents to see what a swim meet will be like. They also wanted to time each kid in the events, so they can place them properly in the first swim meet they go to. Ashlee really surprised us. She participated in 3 events- 100 yard freestyle, 50 yard freestyle and back stroke. She was suppose to participate in another event but we had to leave to go to a church event so she didn't get to participate. Mikayla wasn't able to participate because she hasn't been able to get in the pool since she got pnuemonia. Hopefully this week Mikayla will be able to get back in the pool. Mikayla loved swimming in the beginning, but now she is having second thoughts and is thinking about quitting, so we will have to see how things go with her.

Dance Recital

Today Ashlee and Mikayla participated in their schools dance recital. They both did very well.
Here are some pictures. They are not that great, because they wouldn't allow flash photography and we were sitting a few rows back.