Super Fast Spring Recap:
For spring break we went to Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, WA. All the kids had fun at the water park and we all loved playing Magic Quest - a game where you go around the hotel with electronic wands collecting jewels and finding certain objects. It was pretty fun.
Here we are on a Magic Quest journey
We celebrated Grant's birthday - he turned 12!!
He and a couple friends had a little pizza video game night at a local arcade - fun!
We went to see a movie and had dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory
Happy Birthday Grant!
Emma drew this picture of Grant for his b-day.
We also celebrated my birthday which is the same week - I just didn't take any good pictures - but we had strawberry shortcake and a nice evening in - my favorite.
Also during spring break we dyed Easter eggs!
On Easter Sunday we got to hear our nephew, Jaron, give his mission farewell before he heads off to the MTC and Arizona! It was fun to see all the family and we had a nice Easter feast!!
Happy Easter!!
The Easter bunny even left us some treats when we got back!
We had our annual Easter Egg Derby tournament.
The kids had some funny eggs - lots of Mario themed this year
One of Emma's eggs, Robin Egg, won for the first time ever!
She was excited - congrats Emma!!
Scott had to be gone quite a bit after spring break - I think he was gone for 3 weeks in a row so it was pretty busy for me running around to activities. We did lots of fun baking.
The girls played soccer (that's Emma in blue #7)
Anna in blue #13
Anna staring at me while I try to take her picture
Grant and John coming helping with gear at the soccer game
Matthew dressed up as a BBQ Dad for a school spirit day.
I think you were supposed to be a BBQ Dad or a Soccer Mom.
They also had Adam Sandler day. I don't get it, but ok.
On a hike - I hurt my knee running just before spring break and it didn't get better. I got an MRI and found out I have a cartilage tear under the knee cap. And the prognosis is that I may never be able to run again because it could just continue to tear. I am devastated about this. I cried for a while after coming home from the doctor - I know it seems silly to be so sad about a knee injury. :( Running and sports have been a big part of my life since childhood and I am super sad about not being able to run in the future. I currently have trouble even walking a short distance, I can't even jog a few steps after a basketball or get up from sitting with out pain. Anna and I had big plans to go running and practice a lot of soccer drills over the summer and now I can't do any of that. My hurt knee is my left and I also shoot left footed in soccer so that is very much off the table right now too. I am resting, biking and taking all the cartilage supplements I can hoping that my knee situation can improve - there is also a surgery possibility but its unclear how much better that would be. So for right now I'm just trying to exercise without putting a lot of strain on it and hoping for good things. :(
When Scott got home from his journeys he rebuilt this planter box by our shed. The old one was rotted through from rain. Scott also hurt his knee this spring at a young men's activity, but luckily his knee got better!!
Having a fun play afternoon with cousins - Emma and our nephew Gideon have a lot of fun together
Making indoor s'mores
Going to a girl scout tea party!!
Elementary School carnival!!
John got his face painted at the carnival!
We got wristband passes from Pa2 to go to the Portland Rose Festival carnival!! That's Emma and John getting off the fun house. We had a great time!!
We went to the zoo - I haven't been since we moved here and we had a great time!!
More zoo fun!
We spent some time with Scott's brother and family over Memorial Day weekend. Here is Emma and Pa2
Scott and John
And cousins!!
Matthew got his driver's license - I am dealing with it better now, but it was giving me a lot of anxiety earlier. He is a pretty good driver now and drives himself to church activities and such
Anna had her final choir concert of the year
End of year girl scout hikes - I had John come with on this one. It was warm and he was a little grouchy
Tried to donate some books to the library at the end of the year. Emma had to go through the books and pull some out again - as if they haven't been on the shelf all the time for her to read. :). We still got rid of several.
We made a fairy garden! The wild bunnies that frequent our yard like to jump up in there and knock over all the fairy statues. Those jerks.
Soccer wrapped up for the summer.
Anna had a goal and an assist in their last game. Way to go Anna!!
Emma improved a lot this year - more soccer coming in the fall
End of year girl scout badges were passed out - all the activities are wrapping up!! Matthew also had tennis practice and John has swimming. Matthew can drive himself to tennis now (so no pics this time) and I never get good swimming pics. So here's a bad swimming picture for you...
This makes it seem like John is just floating haplessly in the water. He's actually a good swimmer - he's in level 5 out of 6 - level 6 is pre-competitive swimming (level just before swim team) so lots of good improvement this year. Just not lots of good picture taking by me. Good job John!!
Celebrating Scott on Father's Day!!
And we made it to the last day of school!!
Emma finished up 2nd grade and John finished up 4th grade!
Grant had a great first year of middle school - and he's onto 7th grade next year!!
And Anna and Matthew finished up 9th and 10th grade, respectively, both with straight As. Anna even got an A in her AP Environmental Science class!! This class gave her so much grief this year!! So its nice to be done. Whew!! So we made it through another school year with all the craziness and activities that involves!! These two wanted to get drinks at the boba tea place on their last day!
Aaaaaand, right after school got out (ok, the next day) we left on our epic summer road trip to St. Louis and back for Scott's Air Force retirement. More adventures to come!!
