First week of Summer

The last day of school finally came! Adam is so funny. They played games and watched movies at school for the last week and he said it was sooo boring! He just hates when things change...

In the middle of all that school fun...I had a birthday! Yeah--this is the only picture I have of Erica eating my cake (I didn't care just as long as she was eating something!) I felt really spoiled on my bday...lots of time with friends, family and a sillouette machine that I was not expecting!

 Adam lost his 2nd tooth...and he almost really lost it in the kitchen...blended right in. But we found it and it is safely with the tooth fairy now

 And...I broke my foot. Darn darn darn. Just stepped wrong in my exercise class I have gone to a hundred times. I was in a splint and crutches for three days which was the worst part. Then I was in this boot for a month which was doable except showering/bathing was awful and not ever taking it off was awful. Now I am just supposed to wear good sneakers and go back if it hurts. Which it does. Almost all the time. But not enough to get me out of anything...just enough to make me mad I can't do the activities I want to do.
I have learned to be patient with myself though and it's been interesting to spend some time as a "handicapped person." I'm thankful to friends who brought meals, babysat and changed diapers, and for the strangers at stores who helped me with groceries and heavy lifting.

So even though it started off kinda rocky, we are so happy to be in summer and have done lots of fun and happy things...more to come! :)

Kindergarten "Graduation"

The kids had a kindergarten celebration. It's because they're not allowed to call it a graduation. But it doesn't really matter cause I teared up and was sad and took a million pictures and videos of the thing anyway. Even though I realize it's really dumb that they are having a program even though they stay in the same school and are just moving to first grade. But I only get two of these first kindergarten years and man we accomplished a lot!

 

Owen Wenger

Owen Ben Benjamin

 With Mrs. Rhynes. She was an awesome teacher and took good care of my kiddos. Even though they missed 21 days of school. Oops. Some of it was due to illness :)

With Savannah

 We were grateful for Gpa Fitz for driving up and back in one day to be there. And for the nice gifts from him and Grammy Tammy...we are sorry she couldn't come too :)

24 Hours

I can't really blog about this one since I wasn't there, but Ryan went to Disneyland with Royce and Heather since it was open for 24 hours. And they stayed the entire 24 hours. The first thing they did was stand in line to meet Anna and Elsa...this cracks me up for some reason. And Ryan says he blew it...waited two hours and didn't even talk to Elsa...oh well!

So after what looks like a really exciting time, (and a nap), Ryan headed home. His expected arrival was 7pm. But...then he called and said that his transmission was out and he was stranded near Baker, CA. *Well...this was not good news. So I scrambled to get a babysitter and prepared to make the 2 hour drive to go get him and determine how to get our car home. But...thank goodness we know good people. Our mechanic was nice enough to come out and determine that it was toast, but filled it with enough transmission fluid to make sure he got home. So at 2 am, Ryan was home and the car was dead in the street. We really thought we were going to bury it and looked for a "new" car for about 5 days, but again the mechanic world came through and we got a new transmission for cheaper than we thought. So this car is on its 4th life...

would Ryan say that his 24 trip was worth it? Yes, yes he would. Am I extra extra glad that I refused to go? Yes, Yes I am.

We had some fun of our own...

 May 23 the kids celebrated summer birthdays at school...I was especially excited about this because I have a summer birthday and always felt forgotten at school...so I'm glad they got a chance :)

 Adam conquered these monkey bars...he was so proud of himself.

*Heather--you are not allowed to have ANY guilt about this trip :)

Disney Days

So have you been keeping track?
May 1-2 BYU
May 3-Ryan takes the SAT and gets a perfect score :)
May 6-9 Disney
May 10-Anniversary
May 11-Mother's Day
May 14-18 Utah
May 20-29 Sick days and catch up
May 23- Ryan spends 24 hours at DL with Royce and Heather; car breaks down on way home; without car for almost two weeks
May 30 Kindergarten celebration and end of school wrap up
May 31-51's baseball game
June 2-Break my foot
June 4-Last Day of School
June 8-Birthday
June 9-14 Disney/Birthday party at Chuck E Cheese
June 15-Kid's Birthday and Father's Day
June 16- Scheduled mental breakdown
You don't even want to read about the rest of the summer...

So you can see why we did not celebrate May the Fourth be with you or Cinco de Mayo? Although we did talk about it :)  I didn't mention any of the tumbling or dance classes either.
But it is my goal this week to blog and catch up on all of these happenings. Good luck to me!

First, our May 6-9 Disney trip:

The one in which we did Toon Town twice because Roger Rabbits cartoon spin kept breaking down (we literally got in line and left three times in a row). But that meant that we had it all to ourselves at closing one night. The kids ran wild and free and we sat and ate churros and watched them play. We felt like we were the only ones there. Ryan said, "other families go on walks. We do this."
The one in which we convinced Rachel to go on the Matterhorn and she put up a huge stink and cried and said no no no the whole line and then when we rode it she declared it her new favorite ride! (this she gets from me, right Gpa J?)
The one in which we let the kids buy Mickey ears for the first time and Adam really wanted to get matching ones, but Rachel opted for the fancier feather one. It cracks me up every time I look at her.
But...we still did our classics too:
Eating breakfast at the Barstow Train station
Eating at Blue Bayou and sharing the Monte Cristo sandwich (our whole family can eat for $30-that's a bargain for Disney :)
Going to the Up play place next to Grizzly River Run that I can't remember the name of right now--most likely our favorite place in the park...we get to relax while the kids can play safely
Convincing Rachel to go on Splash Mountain and her hating us for it.
Etc Etc

This was a nice trip because it was just us. We LOVE going with friends/family, but it is special to just be there with the six of us. Gooooo team!

We tried to get Rachel to take a pic of us for our anniversary. They were all blurry and we looked dumpy and tired in all of them. But after 11 years, we are dumpy and tired and blurry. And we still love each other. Imagine that :)

Pre Matterhorn face

Post Matterhorn face