Choir

Megan's school choir had a couple of events during May.  The first was her spring choir concert.  They sounded great like they always do. She will be in choir again next year at the high school. 

They also had the opportunity to sing the National Anthem at a Arkansas Naturals baseball game.

Anxiously awaiting the game

The choir sounded awesome!

It was a beautiful night, and we spent most of the night watching the game from the outfield while the kids played at the playground.  It was a fun family night.

Back to Volleyball

Megan tried out for and made the 9th grade volleyball team for next year.  She has worked so hard over the past year, and has really come a long way.  It's going to be a busy summer and fall, but we can't wait to be part of another season with her!

(Megan is on the top, far right)

Mother's Day Tea

In Sammy's school class this year, they had a Mother's Day tea for all of the kids and their moms.  All of the moms waited outside the classroom until our child came at to get us and escort us to our seats. Once inside they gave us a tissue paper corsage, brought us refreshments, and showed us a folder of things they made just for us.

Then they sang and signed for us the song "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You".

Sammy with some of her favorite school friends, Lili and Heidi.

It was so nice to be spoiled by Sammy and spend some special time just with her.

Next up...Track & Field

Eighth grade has been the year of trying new things for Megan.  First volleyball, then cross country, and finally track and field.  Her volleyball coach is also the track and field coach at her school.  She recruited Megan to try out the high jump since she is tall and has such long legs.  

She then decided to put her in a second event - the 3200m relay. 

She was running her relay leg fast enough that when the 9th grade team went to the conference meet, they put Megan on the 9th grade relay team.  They took first at conference.

So then she was able to go with the 9th grade team to compete in the Regional track meet.

And they took first place!  Megan ran her 800m leg in 2:43 - a personal best!!

Megan had an awesome first season - we're so proud of her!

Easter 2010

Easter weekend this year started with Noah's party and Easter egg hunt at preschool.  

He always looks so excited at these events

Waiting for the egg hunt to begin

And they're off

Noah and his buddy Chase

Easter morning the kids were anxious to wake up and find their baskets that the Easter Bunny had hidden.

In between General Conference sessions we had our own Easter egg hunt in the backyard.

Spring Break in Branson

After living in this area for 4 years, we decided that we were going to check out some of the things this place has to offer closer to home. Branson is about an hour and a half drive for us, but the two times that we have been there before we hadn't really enjoyed it that much. We had some friends talk us into buying season passes to Silver Dollar City, an amusement park in Branson.  We decided to take advantage of these passes by checking it out over Spring Break.  We spent 2 days in Branson - the first we spent shopping and swimming at the hotel. First thing the next morning we joined the masses of other people headed to the park for opening weekend.

Mike was reluctant about the whole thing, but was a good sport.

We weren't the only ones who decided to spend our day there, we had lots of friends were there too.  It made it so fun since we could split up and everyone could ride the things they wanted to.

We had a great time and are looking forward to many more visits to Branson in the future.

Sammy the Crocodile

At Sammy's school there is a teacher that every year puts together a ballet recital that any of the kids in the school can participate in.  They start practicing at the beginning of the school year, and perform the recital in the spring.  Sammy decided to participate this year.  The show that they put on was Peter Pan.  Sammy got to be one of the crocodiles.  The show was really cute, and Sammy had a great time!