Crazy May days!!!

May has been quit the crazy month at our house.  Besides Loren's neck surgery we have had many other things going on.
Zachary had his 12th Birthday on the 20th.  We took him out to eat at the Texas road house.  He said that he needed to eat STEAK!  He got a cockatiel  that can already whistle tunes.  He is trying to teach it how to talk.  He keeps the door to his room closed because of our dogs and cat.  He received the Priesthood last Sunday and was able to pass the sacrament today.  He did a great job.  I am so proud of him.

Zach's bird--Talon

Paige and Braden both had end of the year choir performances.  Of course they were great!! 

Braden was more like a musical about WW11 it was amazing, song, dance and speaking parts!!

Loren got video of both of them and thought that he got just photo's of Braden ( the video camera is new and is supposed to do both) but we didn't end up with photo's of Braden. I guess we will be reading the manual soon to figure the whole thing out.

Paige graduated from middle school,  Zach graduated from elementary school Parker graduated from Kindergarten.  My kids are all growing up way too fast.  However I still feel the same age.

For Paige's graduation they had a few speakers and a slide show of all of the 8th graders.  No walking across the stage.  The kids thought that was the best part.  After, they had punch and cookies.  I forgot to take my camera, so no pic's.  Zach's graduation the kids sang and also had a slide show. Loren took the video camera to this also, so we know there are no pic's of this either.

Kindergarten graduation is always a hoot.  They kids are so excited to graduate and show off what they have learned during the year.  Parker coached me for many days before on what was going to happen.  He was always telling me, "Now remember, mom.......".  I knew exactly what was going to happen and that after they were done in the gym that we were to follow them to their class for a treat and pictures.

I bought 2 trees from a nursery last week.  They brought much bigger trees than I paid for, which was nice.  However, digging the holes to plant them wasn't so nice.  Braden and I planted dug the hole for the smaller tree.  It took a few hours because of the hard clay.  Loren decided that we could pay some young men in the ward to help dig the second hole.  That would save me from more sore muscles and give the young men a chance to earn money for scout camp.  The second hole went very quick.  Six boys showed up and we had the tree planted in about 1 hour.  Thanks boys for all of your hard work.

This is the smaller Tree.   It is a Marshall Ash and is about 12 feet tall.

This is the larger tree.  It is a Spit leaf weeping birch.  The 3 men that brought it said that it weighed 700 pounds.  It took the 3 of them took get it off the truck and into the backyard.  I had them put it right by the place we were going to dig it so that we could just roll it in.  They say not to roll them but what else could we do??

Loren went to his 3 week check up for his neck.  He no longer has to wear a neck brace but is still very limited to what he can do.  No golf this summer!!!  He also can't swim ride a bike, lift heavy objects, dig big holes......the list goes on.  He has another check up in August and hopefully  all of the bans will be lifted. It is also his 43 Birthday today!!!  He got a NOOK(electronic reader) so he will be doing a lot of reading!!  He also bought himself an early Father's day gift.  An infra RED BBQ'r. It is huge. It can grill up to 42 patties at a time.  Can you guess what we will be doing this summer!

Hope learned to army crawl.  Is isn't very fast yet but I'm sure it will happen soon enough.  Lately she has fallen asleep in her high chair while eating.  It is so funny.  She is trying to do away with the morning nap but she really still needs one.  She gets so cranky until she finally gives in and falls asleep.

Ethan is glad that school is over because now he can play more.  He is crazy though, he still gets up early...6:30ish just to watch t.v..  What to do with him???hum.

Loren's parent arrived in town on Friday.  We had 2 high school graduations in our extended families and they came for that and Birthdays.  They will be here for 1 week.

I think that I have gotten everything in, but I may just come up with something that I didn't think of.

Our house seems to be settling down a little.  It even is cleaner that it has been for weeks.  I'm looking forward to June and some relaxation---maybe.