Strawberry picking

The kids were so excited about picking strawberries.
They looked really hard
Eva couldn't help eating, and eating, and eating.....
This is our haul. We should have strawberries for a long time!
Poor Jesse checked out and missed some of the hulling fun!

Jesse's birthday celebration

I can't believe he is four!!





Hunter and Jesse playing with his new trucks. They had a wonderful time.

The climbing wall

Elias and Eva preparing to climb the wall.

Elias making an attempt.

Eva working it!
Saul preparing to climb. This was the highlight of his day.
Chad climbing the wall. He really enjoyed this! Saul and Chad both climbed to the top. Way to go boys!

Water fun in the trampoline

Saul showing off!
Elias in the middle of a flip. We are thinking of gymnastics.....
They get pretty high.
Our strong woman!
That's my girl!
The water was very cold, but they had a great time.

Camping fun....

The last weekend of May was the Father/Son camp out with the Stake. Chad really didn't want to travel the 1 1/2 hours or so to get there, so we camped out as a family in the yard. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to sleep out in the tent two nights and I got to sleep, one night, in the house. Chad took the other night out with the kids. They cooked their foil dinners over the fire and made s'mores. It was a great time and the kids were very helpful when it came to cleaning up the camp site and putting up and taking down the tent. Here are some pictures of the fun times.

Eva
Saul
Elias
Jesse, for some reason, he thought it was cold! It really wasn't!
Wendy
Here is our lovely tent. We set it up on the ball court, the only level place around. The kids had a great time 'camping'.
Here is our campfire. We had a good time and I liked being able to go inside to use the bathroom and wash up. Oh, what would I do without that!
enjoying roasting marshmallows.
Saturday morning, Saul just had to play. He thought if he threw the ball hard enough, it just might hit the tent.

Jesse's sleeping bag seems to be missing here, but he slept on this side with Elias.
Saul and Eva slept on the other side. The tent sleeps 10, so with just the four of them, plus Chad or myself, it was rather roomy!

Here is the camp site all cleaned up!

Eva's graduation

Eva with some of her classmates singing their Kindergarten song.
Receiving her Kindergarten Diploma. How exciting!
Receiving her "Future" award. Ms. Lackey thinks she will make a great nurse because of her caring and nurturing nature.
Walking out after the ceremony, if you can call it that....

At home making faces at me for the camera.

Award day

Saul with Mrs. Ghassimi receiving his A's & B's Honor Roll award.
Elias with Ms. Sutterfield receiving the first of his many awards.
Elias one of the top Accelerated Readers in the 4-6 grades. We are really proud of him. He received a large duffel bag with the school insignia on it.
Saul sporting his face paint from the day before awards. Cute isn't he??

Cub scout fun

The outdoor oven fire. How exciting!

Saul cooking his egg.

Elias eating his cooked egg.

Odd ball out. Jesse with his participation ribbon from Field day at school. He was so proud!

Field Day pics

Jesse running with the Kindergarten on their Field Day event. He had a blast.

Three friends--Saul, Bryson, and Kaiden

Elias jumping rope at Field Day

Jesse hanging out on the bleachers.

Eva enjoying field day at school. It was a hot day, but all had a good time.

Elias preparing a good kick at kickball.

Saul attempting to kick it out of the park!