ridiculously busy!

May is just the busiest month! It wasn't a busy month until I had children in school. I remember people saying how busy they were during May and I didn't really understand it until this year. Anyway, here are some of the happenings from this past month.

A few weeks ago we got to watch my nieces Lucy and Isabel, my nephew William, and another nephew Sammy for the weekend (I listed them that way because they all come from different families; Renee's girls, Jen's youngest, and Michelle's youngest - Sammy was only with us for an evening). It was so fun. We had a pizza party, went to the park (image Scott and I with EIGHT children under the age of eight...it was quite a sight!), and had a movie party with brownies and popcorn. It was a super fun weekend!

Here are Davie and Lucy in the tub. They loved splashing together!

Here are Sammy, William, Adam, Gracie, Lily, and Isabel all watching the movie (Davie and Lucy were in bed)

Don't you love Gracie's one-woman puppet show. She uses ALL her limbs!

Adam's kindergarten program had a hoe down theme. It was the cutest program. Adam doesn't love to sing, so I was pretty proud of him for singing most of the songs.

Here we are after the program. They made those stick horses and rode into the gym shouting "yee-haw" while "Raw Hide" played. It was great!

The award assembly at school was help last week and Lily received two awards. One was the Bulldog award, which is an award that all the children are eligible for. Both Adam and Lily worked all year to earn this. They have to accomplish different things in several categories; they range from academic achievements to service to physical fitness. The other award she received was the Clove Award of Excellence. This is an award given to only few students. Each teacher picks one student in their class that has shown excellence in academics, citizenship, etc. Lily didn't realize what this was until she got home and I could explain it to her. It was a great honor to receive it and I was really proud of her (she was stoked because they gave each of the Clove Award recipients a $10 gift card to Barnes and Noble).

Both the kids after school displaying their awards. On Friday Lily and I went to Barnes and Noble and she bought two American Girl books.

The kids got out of the school on Friday. I am excited to have to home with me for a couple months. We have some fun plans...family reunion in Tahoe, seeing Grandma and Grandpa Hill (returning from their mission - they have been gone for three years!), swim lessons, and just playing in the sun as much as possible!