Judson's Recent Art

Judson has been taking Art from Mrs. Julie for about 3 months. His talent has improved quite a bit in that short time. Well worth the money! Here are his semester projects:

I don't know what this technique is called. It is where you take a pin and scratch off the surface to "draw". It looks pretty cool!

This one looks even better in person. I love all of the detail in the feathers.

AMAZING is all I have to say about this one. I think we are going to enter this one in the Strawberry Days art competition.

Random pictures of May

Carma at her first Pioneer day.

Carma's School had Pioneer day and they encouraged them to dress like a pioneer. The day before I decided to make her a bonnet and skirt. Thank you Ronna for saving me.. I would have still been working on that bonnet.Here is a link to the bonnet tutorial I used. http://givenmoments.blogspot.com/2008/01/bonnet-tutorial.html

Do y'all like the traditional "Pioneer Fabric" that Carma chose. She is adorable if I do say so myself.. and I DO!

Wyatt's Twin

Trish's son Clayton and Wyatt could be twins.  The first time I saw him I was shocked at how much they looked alike. I had always said that her girls could be mine b/c they looked like my baby pictures. 

They are so cute together! Trish said that Clayton asked if he could live with us. She said "Well, I am your mommy and I would miss you." He said "I will tell her that you are still my mommy but I still want to live there."  Pretty funny. It is probably b/c I let them eat popcorn and make a mess in my living room.

Judson's Shoshone Indian Presentation

(Caption on page reads) Judson gave a presentation on the Shoshone Indians in for his forth grade, end of the year project. Judson chose to do a bean mosaic for his project. He also had to give an oral report.
 Can I tell you how miserable he is when he is asked to talk in front of people?  However, he did a fantastic job.

If you notice, Wyatt joined Judson during the middle of the presentation to help him out a bit.  He was jabbering about the Lego magazine and distracting the other kids (not to mention Judson)  and caused a little bit of giggling. I tried to get Wyatt to come sit down, but the screaming it caused was even more of a distraction.

Carma

Wyatt and Carma

Our Arizona Trip

This was the coolest natural landscape I have seen. It looked like aliens dropped them off.  Jesus must have had fun creating this part of the country with all of its colors and rocks. 

Can Wyatt make any more of a mess with a marshmallow? You can't even see how messy it is. It was ALL over. Marshmallows now banned from road trips. 

Last month we went to visit Nonnie... we started out our 14 1/2 hour drive. It was actually a beautiful and scenic drive. Some of it bordered the Grand Canyon. We stopped at Cliff Dwellers ...(not the cool place that Michael remembered as a child, but these cool rocks. We did stop at the acutal cliff dwellers, but it looked too steep for Wyatt to hike and I was dumb and only brought my flip flops. Maybe next time.) Anyway, it was such a nice drive and we had fun even just driving. I couldn't believe how cold Arizona was in April! I packed for summer thinking it would be super hot, I was freezing half the time.

The rocks in this picture are some of the coolest natural landscape I have seen. It was such a great photo backdrop and the kids loved it, but it was so windy and cold we couldn't stay as long as they would have liked.

Can I just tell you how much my kids LOOOOVVVEE Aunt Nonnie? And here is just one of the reasons why... She plays with them. She is a kid herself and loves video games (something I don't). I love how special Nonnie makes my kids feel, I am so grateful to have her as a sister and an aunt to my kiddies.

Ok, so this picture of the girls was taken at their house, but obviously not on big pea pod or cabbage. It looks kind of funny, but they are too cute in it. I have fun doing this page.

We got to Nonnies on a Sunday and stayed until Wed afternoon. Too short of a visit, but Michael was getting too stir crazy. The babies are too sweet and getting so fun. I was shocked at how much they have grown in just 2 short months. Makenna is even getting rolls on her thigh. The funniest thing about them, especally Makenna is that she will continue to stare at you when you look away and when you look at her again she smiles SO big, like she got what she wanted. It is THE CUTEST! My heart just melts thinking about those cuties.

Carma and Juddy were in HEAVEN being with Nonnie, the spare minutes she could pay undivided attention is now limited, but they don't care and treasure whatever they can get. It is so cute. We played Rock Band and Cooties. The babies make it limited of what we can do now.