Graduation & Birthday

Wednesday was Karen's kindergarten graduation. It also happened to be Neils' birthday. He was able to take off the morning and come to Karen's graduation program. It was really cute. They had all the kids dress up in their favorite outfit (dress up, costume or other) and then they had a cute little fashion show featuring each child. It was amazing the variety of outfits as you can see.

Then they sang a few cute songs, had a slide show of activities throughout the year and got their "diploma". It was a lot of fun and Karen sure loves to be in the spot light.

She had a wonderful teacher this year and she is going to miss her. Though she may have her again in a couple of years since she will be teaching 2nd grade from now on.

We also had a fun little celebration for Neils birthday. I made an R2D2 cake for him since he loves his StarWars. I tried making homemade marshmallow fondant. It did taste a little better than regular fondant, though I really don't think regular fondant tastes too bad. But I don't think I will do it again cause it was a lot more trouble to work with. I'm glad I tried it though. Neils thought it was great.

He can't tease me about me being older anymore since he is now my same age! Ha!

Dad/Michael Day

Yesterday we celebrated Father's day and Michael's birthday. It was fun and busy. We started out with me actually getting up early so that I could make French toast for Neils' breakfast in bed. Church actually went better than usual. Then we had lunch and presents.


After naps we went to Neils' brother's house for dinner with his side of the family and had more presents and birthday cake. Michael was ecstatic and really enjoyed his Wall-E cake. Thanks to everyone who helped make this a wonderful day for both Neils and Michael.

Neils Birthday

On Tuesday we celebrated Neils' birthday. We had a few presents which the kids helped him open.

Then we went out to dinner. The kids always find interesting ways to entertain themselves in restaurants. This time it was with a cylindrical ad on the table.

At the end of the dinner as we were getting to go boxes, Michael decided he wanted to help. This is how he helped. I thought it was cute and very funny.

Miscellaneous

We had a lovely vacation last weekend to Denver and the Starfest Sci-fi convention. It was a lot of fun, especially since we left the kids with their grandparents. It was a nice weekend getaway, but definitely needed to be a couple days longer. Here's a few fun pics. Plus some other miscellaneous pics of the kids having fun.

Life size Doctor Who Tardis! Awesome!The only place you can find a Pirates vs Ninja's competition.Even babies get dressed up for these thingsShe looks so much like Luna Lovegood! and pretty good Lucius MalfoyDaddy is the horsey! yay!

Daddy asked them to say chocolate instead of cheese and they screamed it!

Michael helping mommy dry her hair

Always riding double

Formal Dance

In November we were able to go to a formal dance. It was a lot of fun. I love to play dress up. Here are a couple pictures. We were able to be there with my brother-in-law and his wife. It was fun.

Neils Blog Spot

By the way, we decided that Neils needed his own personal space to rant and ramble, so we created another blogspot for him to go on and on and on. See his new spot at:
http://neilsstarkrants.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!