Willy Wonka

Sierra joined the drama club again this year. The play was Willy Wonka Kids and was performed just before spring break. Sierra played the part of Ms. Teavee. She did a great job. She has come out of her shell quite a bit in the last couple of years (though she still tends to be a little timid in front of large groups of people). We are very please with her love of the cultural arts and look forward to more performances--both on the piano and in future drama clubs. Here is a picture of Sierra in her costume (we were going for 50s housewife look).

Spring Break

It's springtime and that means it's time to start planting. Don and the children are out of school for a 2 week spring break (Yeah!) and our focus is to get the garden ready and planted. We planted tomatoes, tomatillos, jalepenos, and squash. We'll be adding green beans and maybe some watermelon. We've spent the last 2 days cleaning up the blackberry and boysenberry plants. We were a bit neglectful last year and the weeds were horrible. We weeded and pruned all the dead branches off and wove them around the fence. It looks really good and hopefully we will have a good crop of berries this year. The strawberry plants are doing really well and already have flowers on them. We will also be cleaning up the asparagus bed (we are already getting asparagus-YUM!) and the rose bed this week. Our hope is to get most of the work done this first week so that we can play next week. We are very excited about the garden this year and we are having fun doing it together.

Morgan's Sick Day

Two weeks ago Morgan stayed home from school sick. In those moments that she felt okay enough to do something, but not too much, we decided it was a good time for her to put together her Hannah Montana messenger bag. She got the craft kit for her birthday, but finding a time when I could help her was a little tricky. Staying home from school gave us a perfect time to put it together and have some bonding time. She is very pleased with her bag and uses it frequently.

Award Winners

Earlier this month Caden and Sierra both received the top reader awards for their respective grade levels. Each of them were the second highest AR pts. acquired for this last trimester. Sierra entered the science fair and was one of the grand prize winners at her school. She went to the district science fair and received one of the 3rd place medals. Both of them enjoy school and do very well. We are so very proud of them.

Caden's Baptism

The most recent "big" event in our family is that Caden was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Feb. 28, 2009. He was very happy and on his best behavior that day. Don baptized and confirmed him. Caden was given a blessing that was so suited for him that we know it came from heaven. We are very proud of Caden's decision to be baptized. After his baptismal service we went to Red Lobster for dinner. Caden ate more crab than anyone else! He sure has expensive taste!
On a side note: we walked over to Barnes and Noble while we were waiting for our table at the restaurant. On the way over I noticed a very rare site that I may never see again. So rare I even took several pictures. Here is one of them:

Sierra and Caden are holding hands!

Caden's Birthday Party

Smashing the homemade pinata and collecting the goodies--Yippee!

Transformer cake!
Designer transformer masks!
Presents!
Silly kids and a Slumber Party!
Loads of Fun!!!

Feb. 6, 2009

Morgan turned 6 on the 23rd of January. She was so excited for her birthday! We gave her a Mommy-Daddy-Daughter date for her birthday. She got to choose whatever she wanted to do for her date. We went shopping so she could spend her birthday money, went out for Chinese food and saw the movie Bolt in the theater. She said it was "the best day!" It sure was a lot of fun for us too.