risencrazy

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

BYE! BYE!

Bye mom and dad! Loved having you visit – next time stay longer and come at the same time. Smile We love you!

STAR Student

Lea: 3rd quarter Honor Roll assembly (3 for 3!!) Receiving her award from Principal Hardiesty, Dr. Levey and Mrs Zwick

Lea, Charity, Jaylyn, Arianna,

Mrs Zwick’s star student. Lea came home with this poster and we put together “All About LEA”. She wanted us to see her talk about the poster and her teacher was kind enough to have her tell about it right after class started – her teacher is AMAZING!!

FAVORITES:

colors: pink & purple

animal: puppy

food: Miss Erin’s fried rice

7 years old, family photo

Twin Lakes

wants to be a teacher

loves to ride her bike

Wishes for $1 BILLION – (don’t we all) It started as 1 mil, but she added a few more 0’s.

Good job, Lea! Love you girl!

Happy birthday Mom!

Happy birthday to my beautiful mom! Sorry you had to buy us all dinner (some buffet in Avondale)……your kids, in-laws and grandkids love you! Oh and dad too. Glad to have you home!!

'nuff said - (Taylee and Grandma)

A day at the lake

My parents went from this: Trondheim, Norway (Dad, Rustin, Kristin & Dallin going sledding)

To this in a matter of weeks: Lake Pleasant, AZ

My brother Steven has been wanting to buy a boat for a while now. My dad wanted to ski, thus the purchase of a boat, several water skis on craigslist (left Jeff and my dad in charge one night to put the kids to bed – they took all of them to North Scottsdale to buy a waterski……not exactly the bedtime routine I was thinking of, but all the kids were asleep when they got back…….) Off we went to try out the boat and enjoy the warmer weather – 80ish degrees. Up first, Dad. Sad we didn’t get one single photo of him, just the video I already posted – made up for that by getting still shots from the video. Smile

Shay and Steven skied – she wanted to go, that water was COLD!!! She got in, tested the water, then agreed to go. She had fun til he put her feet on the skis….not to fun anymore

Tanner skied (10)

Next: Steven. I have always been impressed with how well my brothers ski. I have never been much of a daredevil on skis (1 or 2), just the fact that I can go back and forth across the wake without hurting myself is a great accomplishment for me. But my brothers are amazing and fun to watch – so is my dad. Never seen my mom ski, but apparently she was pretty good in her day.

Brianna and Lea decided to jump in while I was debating whether I wanted in that freezing cold water. I love Lea’s face in the first picture – that’s how cold it was. Lucas wanted to ski, but put his feet in and said “No – that water’s as cold as ice cubes!!!”

I finally conceded, put on a cold, wet life jacket and got in. 3 tries later and numb (I always forget how much work it is to get up and my stomach muscle aren’t what they used to be), I made it up!! Who can pass up that water – it was perfect!!

A day well spent on the lake. (Brianna, Lea, Lucas, Tanner, Abbey, me, Steven, Dad, Shay) (mom took the photo)

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Kindergarten screening

I had to take Lucas in today (Saturday) for a kindergarten screening. I told the screener/teacher, he’s color blind so just be prepared if you ask about colors. She assured me they weren’t doing colors. Okay good he’ll be fine.

While he was in the gym with her, I took Abbey to the playground just outside. She ran with the big kids and held her own against 10-15 kids more than twice her size and 4 times her age (she’s only 2). We went back in to get Lucas and headed out to the car.

So………………………………………………………

What did she ask you?

We did numbers, letters. Big letters, small letters. Big and small numbers. And I had to write my name. (YES! He’s a pro at writing his name and has been for at least a year – during the parents meeting last Wednesday, he wrote his name perfectly on the hat he was currently wearing…….then why???)

I wrote two A’s in my name instead of a C. (WHAT?!)

Um, why?

Because I couldn’t remember how to make a C, so I made a small ‘a’ and a big A. A lowercase ‘a’ and an uppercase A.

*sigh* great. (moving on) what else did you talk about?

(conversation continued)……

good luck to you kindergarten teacher.