Leading the Way

In the last 2 weeks both Shayden and Tanner have been nominated by their teachers to receive the "Lead the Way" award from their school. As another school year is all to quickly coming to an end I am so proud of both of them for all their hard work.

Shay received her award the same week as her best friend.

I just love this picture of Tanner looking up at his principal with his hands in his pockets.

Tanner with his award giving me the typical "Tanner" smile. It is so hard to get a picture of him with his "real" smile. Maybe next time....

Piano Recital

Last week Shayden had her end of the year piano recital. She did a wonderful job.

Something that I love about her piano teacher is that she also takes time to teach them about different musicians, music periods, etc and tests them on it. Shayden passed her test and got some rice krispy treats shaped like music notes dipped in chocolate!

This is just before her recital. Just in case anyone is wondering.... half the time I take pictures of Shay she is not wearing her glasses. That is because she has transition lenses and I want to be able to see her eyes when I take her picture.

What happened to my little girl?!? She is growing up way too fast!

I love you princess!

Don't Hold Your Breath

There probably isn't anyone left who even checks this blog anymore since I haven't done anything with it in almost 3 months. But that's okay since I am not convinced that I will keep it up anyway. I want to get back in the habit of it because I feel like I can document the little things that happen in our lives that won't get written down in journals or even remembered unless I put then here, so for posterity's sake I am going to try my best, but like I said don't hold your breath!

Perfect example of something I want to remember~
Yesterday afternoon as I was outside reading and the boys were playing in the dirt.

Jackson: Look mom I see a yellow jacket
Me: I know. It's okay. If you leave it alone then it will leave you alone.
Jackson: There it goes.
Me: See. It didn't bother you. It must have had some work to do.
Tanner: I think it had to go make honey.
Me: I don't think yellow jackets make honey.
Tanner: Oh yea. Just bees make honey.
Jackson: I think yellow jackets make jam.

I love this kid!!!!!!!!