Lacey Fun Fair dances

sorry, but I'm going to post all of the kids performances on here so we can share them w/ family. Well actually I'm not sorry - they did a great job! But they are a lot to watch.. if you have time enjoy! :)

Cowboy up. Something a little different Melissa's dance teacher is doing this year is combining the younger/older classes to have a bigger group dancing.



Soul man w/ Keagan... it was kind of sad, one boy broke his foot and the other 2 boys had a family situation come up, so Keagan and Justin were the only ones performing! Keagan has a hard time performing, he told me he can't look up, it makes him nervous! He does better in this one w/ the sunglasses on. :)



The boys are back w/ Keagan and Justin



Melissa in the jr/sr class - Push it to the limit



Melissa in the more advanced class w/ move along - this one is my favorite so far, they are getting really good! They performed another one, but just barely learned it and she asked me not to blog it .. yet, I'll wait until their end of the year performance.

Talent show

Keagan signed up to perform at his school talent show. This is something that he really wanted to do, Melissa had always done it and he never has. Well he has been taking dance lessons, too, off/ and on (more off than on because his dance is at 4:15 -5:00 and it seems like we always 2 or 3 things that is happening at that time and he ends up not going...) So.. he signed up to dance with a friend, well that friend ended up braking his foot last week so he couldn't help Keagan at the talent show, so Melissa agreed to do it with him. She learned the dance tonight at 4:00 and the performance was at 6:00!

preschool kids say the funniest things

This just cracked me up and I had to share it...
We were doing file folder games in preschool and one of the kids was putting together fruits/veggies and mixing them up being silly. He would put them together and say things like cauliflower/corn - caulicorn, - pear and corn - Porn. LOL! Marie and I had a good laugh over that one!

Lattin's Cider Mill

This week for preschool we went on a field trip to Lattin's Apple Cider mill. Any of you who have little kids and haven't been should go! I've been going there for years! It is something I did a lot when my kids were younger. On Saturdays they have the most amazing warm apple fritters! They have really good apple cider, too! (of course I had to take Keagan on Saturday to test it out for the preschool kids...)

Right now there are lots of animals to look at and feed, some of them are - a turkey, a pig, a bunny, sheep, peacocks, chickens, ducks, and lots and lots of goats!

We were pretty lucky! It didn't rain on us, we re-scheduled our field trip from last week and were wondering if Tuesday would work. It was windy, and only once did we get a few drops for not very long! All in all a fun time!

Mother's Day

Our family in 2006

I don't think I could of had a better Mother's Day! I always tell my kids it is all about the little things that matter to me. I'm not really a gifts kind of person. If I want something I would rather go pick it out for myself...

This year I woke to Keagan and Ray making me breakfast in bed! I could tell Keagan helped- he put his signature color in the waffles. Whenever we make pancakes or waffles he like to add food coloring to it. They even did the dishes afterwards! :)

One of the best parts was at church, before we got chocolate, Melissa gave an amazing talk on mothers to me. It was one of those times that I needed a box of tissues and if I was by myself I would of cried even harder. She is amazing! I'm loving the person she is becoming!

Then we went out to my mom's for dinner and because we get out of church later, I had given my sister the portion of my dinner to cook so it would be ready when we got there, so I didn't have to cook, either!

All in all a pretty good day! I'm soo blessed to have wonderful kids and a great husband!

One of these things is not like the other.. and my first car

Melissa & I have fun together talking and teasing. She loves newer sports cars and says when she sees one she really likes, that could be my first car... I point out all of the practical cars.. um ugly and affordable?! The other day we were driving and she saw several sports cars that she liked, we were surrounded by them on the freeway. We were in our white practical mini-van and I started singing the Sesame street song, One of these things is not like the other... (Do they still do that on Sesame street?) We both laughed and laughed... which made me think of my first car.

Below is a picture of my first car, bright orange '76 Subaru station wagon. (Now remember I went to High school in the late 80s, so it was only 12+ yrs old) I actually loved it!

Growing up we ended up w/ 3 Subaru station wagons, '76, '77 era. Mine, an off white stick and a white one, each w/ their share of problems that we all laugh about now. One of them didn't reverse, when I drove that one I either took my brother w/ me to push me out and be my reverse or made sure I found a parking spot that I could pull forward into. One of the subaru's didn't have an ignition, you could start it w/ a screw driver! Now that is classy! :) One of them had a spot you could see the ground.. but I thought I was pretty lucky to have a car! :)
What was your first car?

What have we been doing?

I can't believe it has been soo long since I have posted... I can't even tell you what I've been doing.. but I know I like to post w/ pictures and since I havne't taken many pictures lately I haven't posted. So now to some random things we've been doing the last few weeks.