Paisley's last day of 3/4 Spanish preschool with Miss Marni's class. She did so well in school and sings her Spanish songs every day. Learned how to write her name and trace and color in the lines. She knows a few sounds and recognizes letters. She will be in the 4/5 Spanish class 2 days a week next school year.

Sid the Science Kid show on PBS works! Paisley trying out her pulley system she made herself- to get her pull ups upstairs at night time.

 We spent the weekend at the cabin in Priest Lake with the Joey and Sabrina Vail Family. Joey helped us become fishermen, even if we didn't catch anything!

 Beck and Ryker Vail.

 Joey's Aunt owns a small restaurant that is built over a falls that we went to for lunch one day.

 The Vails brought up a little 90 and we tried to teach Beck how to rode. He did pretty good for his first time, even if Stephen only let go once.

 Ryker was awesome and had only ridden once before!

 A short little "hike" for the family down the road.

 Beck (6), Penny (almost 5 months), Korbi (29) and Paisley (4)

 The Vail family Ryker, Rydge, and Kayla in front and Sabrina, Kayzha, and Joey in back.

 all the kids at a different water fall

 Stephen and Joey freaking me out by taking Beck and Kayla to the slippery part... :(

 Kids again and below what they did a lot of the time; fish.

Paisley and Beck sang in the Little Red Hen play at AIM assisted by the Kimber Academy Drama class. "I will do it by myself, I'm not King Kong, but my body is strong, I will do it by myself!" I think I may be singing this song for a very long time because it's always stuck in my head! Beck stole Hanna's fox costume afterwards and won't give it back. He wants to act in a play so bad!

 He hits and he runs to first!

 Beck and his buddies on his team- Adam Wiseman and Roman Jenks.

Beck's Tball game.

Beck went to show his dad his loose tooth and instead ended up pulling it out on his own. He just grabbed it and there it was. He was pretty excited! Not so excited when he "Only got a dollar" from the tooth fairy considering his cousin Piper got $10!

We are up enjoying a weekend at the cabin in Priest Lake with the Vail family and we had a memorable/scary experience. We all went on a short walk down to the little water fall
at the end of the road. Took
some pictures, picked dandelions.... On the way back Sabrina Vail
and I were bringing up the rear with Penny in the hiking pack and Kayla Vail
holding hands with Sabrina. Beck and Ryker Vail ran up ahead and I assumed Paisley was up ahead until we made it all the way back and met Bob and Ann who has just arrived at the cabin and some boys from down the road came running up and told Stephen there was a little girl in red down the road who was crying.... We had left Paisley!!! My heart dropped. I was so sad for her. She said that she turned around and went back to the bridge because "mommy had left the flowers I had picked for her." I had set down the bunch of dandelions she had picked for me on the way there so that I could take pictures. I decided to leave them there because I already had bunches of them back at the cabin she had picked and I didn't think she would notice. Well, she did! So after she retrieved the flowers she headed back in the right direction but was about a whole 5 min behind us. I felt likely her of the year.... I'm so blessed that nothing happened to her and that she made it back safely to us. And she even held into the bouquet of dandelions.

Sweet baby Penny, growing so fast! She now sits in he Kangaroo bouncer toy, but it doesn't keep her entertained for long! She likes to be held and smiled at. Baby Penelope is so patient and loving. We just love having her with us!

 Beck and I at the Art Garden for a Kinder field trip. It was a Mother's Day outing for the class. I am excited for my dolphin figurine that he painted for me!

Beck's first loose tooth! He's had plenty of teeth pulled by the dentist, but this is the first absolute all on his own loose tooth! He is so excited! They just got back from a two day trip with Stephen super late last night from a trip to the sanddunes in St Anthony in Idaho. Beck cant wait to show Dad when he wakes up!

I drove by our old apartment that we lived in when Beck was born the other day and had to take a picture. I remember not wanting to bring Beck home to this tiny little apartment that was over run with boxes in our loving room, boxes in our bedroom. Boxes everywhere! We also had several "domestic disturbance" issues with the couple across the hall and I would cower behind our deadbolted door talking to the police as the man threw his girlfriend down the stairs and I cuddled 2 week old Beck to my chest. That poor girl, but I didn't dare enter the hallway til the cops got there. There were also incidences where the police banged down our door and a startled Stephen answered with a cop screaming "what are u burning?!?!" and Stephen answers, "a candle??" and pregnant me comes waddling around the corner- "the marijuana party is the next door..." We always wondered why Beck was such a mellow baby- ;) Memories in this place galore!

The top picture is my twin sister, Jakobis, Sunday laundry pile. The bottom picture is my Sunday laundry pile. Jakobi and I both have the same habit of doing laundry all week and then trying to get it folded all in one day. Jakobi watches her Sunday night shows and I pick at it all day, a little folded before church and a little after and then a lot late at night before bed. Stephen is not too enthused about this habit of mine, but I haven't been able to find time during the week to get the folding done, so Sunday it is!

Beck had his very first tball practice yesterday and he LOVED it! He actually cried when it was over! He wanted to have practice again today. I'm excited that he may actually enjoy the season instead of fighting to drag him to practice. That will be a nice change. I actually really enjoyed playing baseball so maybe this will be fun! It was super windy and kind of cold to have Penelope out there but Stephen was able to show up for half of it and take her to the van. Wish us luck!