Kindergarten Baby.... not anymore....

Brinley graduated from Kindergarten this last Thursday. She was so excited. They did a little program with songs they had learned. Grandpa and Grandma were able to come down and see her! She wanted to be all dressed up and have her hair done pretty so we curled her all up.

Her teacher was Miss Mellor. She was such a fun teacher!! Brinley is already missing her



Cute Picture of her and Jentry



Afterwards Grandma and Grandpa took us out to Brinleys favorite restaraunt...SIZZLERS



I dont know how I feel about this. Kindergarten is such a fun age. They are so dang cute. Now shes a real school girl. Full days from here on out. Im going to miss her. Im going to miss just getting to have time with her in the morning to do homework. Now its going to have to be crammed in with Jentrys in the night. Theres not much time left before Ty will be in kindergarten and then BAM Chase will be the next year. And then what...

Memorial Day

We had a great day. Even tho it rained. Which, I guess, is fitting. So many people crying for their loved ones... the heavens should cry too. We went and visited the graves in the Provo Cemetary. We didnt make it to my cousins in American Fork. It did quit raining when we got there. So that was nice.

This is the kids by my Aunt Wanda's. I take a picture here every year and my have those kids grown. :-(



We stopped by Andrew Hunter Scott's grave. This is the ancestor that Jentry did the wax museum on. She wanted to see it.




Then we stopped by Scotts grandma and grandpa's grave. This is the first memorial day that we visited grandma. :-( Very sad. But we know she is so happy to be with grandpa again, to be able to walk and not to hurt anymore. So its alright. Tho I miss her terribly. I miss getting to go to Scotts parents and just sit there and talk to her. She had so many intresting stories. Im grateful that the last few months I was able to talk to her so much and get to learn so much about her. She was a pretty cool chick. I wish I would have gotten to know Grandpa Hendricksen. I hear he wasnt too shabby either!

Bethany's Graduation...

Bethany graduated from highschool this last Thursday (a few weeks AFTER she graduated from College). She is such a smarty pants. She went to an alternative (I dont know if thats what you would all it) We call it nerd-cas. Its really UCAS (Utah County Acadamy of Sciences) Its for all of those smart people. Something I will never be. And shes cute too. Brains and Beauty....lucky duck!!!

Chase was as loud as he could be there. So most of the service I spent walking around with him or walking outside. But it made for some good picture time. This is one that I got of him that I think is so cute. he is always making this face



Soon after I went outside...others followed....






Here is one Jentry took of us



I took one of me and Missy since no one was taking pictures of us. lol



Heres one with Scott and his sister




Ive already decided once Jentry gets into 5th grade she is going to be beyond me in academics...Im going to have to have Bethany come over and tutor both of us!!

Wax Museum

The 4th grade wax museum was today. They were supposed to pick someone who has influenced Utah in somehow. Jentry chose Andrew Hunter Scott. He is my (I think) 6th great grandpa. He came over here with the pioneers. He was Provo's 5th mayor.

She did suuuuuuuch a great job on it. There was a fake little button that you would push and then they had to do a 2 minute schpiel on who they were. Last night Jentry did not have hers memorized. But Mr. C. said it was ok for them to cheat off of their paper.

When I got there and pushed her button...she had the whole thing memorized. Dates and all. She did great. And it was so cute going around to all the little kids and getting to see what they said. One girl was Marie Osmond, lots were Jedediah Smith, alot of them were mormon pioneers. It was just funny to see who each kid picked. It was a very cute thing for them to put on!!!

Family Home Evening

Most of you know what this is...but for those that don't....

In our chruch they have asked that we set aside one night (preferbly Monday) for just families. To do some activity or to learn some lesson. It gives you time to just be with your family. At the ages the kids are now...thats not hard. They are ALWAYS here. But as they get older and schedules start to become more hectic then they already are...it will be nice that for one night...we are just us...just a family.

For FHE this week we went to Salem Ponds to feed the ducks. We got subway on the way there...had a little picnic. And TRIED to feed the ducks. Lesson one was learned:
~Never go to feed the ducks on a night that every other family has come to feed the ducks. They wont eat it. BUT THE FISH WILL. There were some giant carps in there that would jump up and eat the bread. So that was pretty cool.




The kids had a great time. They loved playing at the park and feeding the fish. Chase loved getting to roam free

I loved it cause I didnt have to make dinner ;-)


(dont mind the messy hair do)

Gone Fishin'

So we got a note home that the city was putting a fishing class on. It was like $10 to sign up...so why not??? It lasted 6 weeks. 3 of the weeks were at the pond by our house and 2 were up at the reservoir which is also just a hop skip and a jump away and then one back down at the pond for a fish fry! Jentry did NOT want to sign up. But tough, I signed her up anyway. It was every Thursday for two hours...and OF COURSE every dang Thursday has been COOOOOLD!!! The kiddos have had to bundle up to survive. But not last night...last night was beautiful!

Jentry "caught" on real quick and soon was catching way more fish then anyone in the class.


Brinley would fish for 5 minutes and then start running around and playing...come back to her pole if she had to and then leave to run around again.

Yesterday was their last class so it was the big fish fry. We got there at 6 and they all fished until 7:15. Brinley was catching fish left and right! Jentry caught a couple. Which was a big turn around from before. Brinley even caught a huge one. She was so proud. She took it everywhere with her until they came to pick it up for the fish fry. I was surprised she would even touch it. Let alone carry it with her everywhere. She was very proud of it.




Chase and Ty just played around the whole time. Ty loved being able to run up and down the hills.


Chase hated the grass!!



But I think they both had a fun time last night too.


One of the kids in their class even caught an Albino fish. Scott said hes seen them before, but I never remember seeing one. Weird...


Of course when it came to the fish fry, none of my kids would eat a fish...they had hot dogs instead.




Anyway, the kids ended up loving every minute of fishing class and on our way home last night Jentry said... "Can we do this again next year?"

I think that would be alright!