The End of Spring

I'm really behind in the blogging world. We have had so many fun events the last couple of weeks and I'm excited to tell about them, but I need to get caught up and post about our Spring activities.

Soccer

What a fun Spring soccer season we had! Baylee is awesome and so fun to watch. In the picture above she is calling Grandpa Jed and Aunt Krista letting them know that she scored a goal and that they owe her $100.00. They had a running joke that for every goal she got they owed her yes $100.00 (really it was only $1.00, but it was fun motivation for her). She had a great season and scored several times. She has been with the Green Sharks for the last 2 years, but sadly this is her last game with them. She is moving to an all girls team next year. The exciting part is that Daddy Dan will be her new coach. She's excited about the change, but sad to be leaving Coach Rob and the boys on the Green Sharks team.

Yes we did see some improvement with Brinley this Spring season. We have a deal with her, and that is every time she kicks the ball she gets $.05. Last fall she only got a quarter, but this season she totaled $1.15. Yippy, we're excited. My favorite thing she told me this season was at her first practice, she told me that she really needed to listen because she doesn't know how to play soccer. Just FYI, this is her 4th season playing soccer! She was on the Red Dragons team this time with her buddies Jane and Easton. Easton was our star player. He scored several times each game. I'm not sure, but I don't think we lost one game (who's keeping track at this age??). Brinley is moving to the same league as Baylee next year and will be on a team with kids from our neighborhood. We're excited for her and have our nickels ready for her kicks in the fall.Seriously, she would rather pose for the camera instead of playing!!!

Dance

Another fun year with dance is over again. Both girls are great dancers and I'm very proud of them for their hard work. Both of their dances were so cute to watch. My family told me it's like watching a "Minnie Me" up on the stage and that is stirs up old memories of my dance recitals years ago.

This is Brinley with her buddy Lillie (daughter of my buddy Mandi from dance many years ago). Brinley gets to move to the Mini Team next year. We're excited for this move for her. It's going to be more challenging for her but it will be a good move. She'll get to learn another dance to perform and be at dance an hour longer. Yeah Brin!!

This is Baylee with her dancing buddy Elsie (again daughter of Mandi, my dance buddy). We are super excited for Baylee. Her dance teacher wants her to move to Sr. Team and completely skip Jr. Team. Huge move for her! She'll get to compete next year in the Spring and her dancing will be more challenging also. She's been stretching everyday and preparing as much as she can for this exciting move next fall. Yeah Baylee!

Monte L. Bean Museum

Baylee completed the 2nd grade in the middle of June. She loved being in the 2nd grade and loved her teacher Mrs. Rouse! She also has a best friend named Madi (Brin's best friend is Maddi also). Baylee and Madi have been in the same class the last 2 years.

Mrs. Rouse is a great teacher. We are sad that she will be leaving our school this year and moving to another school. I was hoping Brin and Rylee might have her also. At Parent Teacher Conferences, Mrs. Rouse could not come up with anything Baylee needed improvement in. She gave Baylee a perfect report card every term and nothing but great things to say about our Baylee. Yes, I'm very proud!!

This is Baylee's 2nd grade class smiling big!

At the end of the school year, I volunteered to help with the 2nd grade field trip and go to the Monte L. Bean Museum in Provo. It was a fun day with Baylee. We had a scavenger hunt finding different animals around the museum. I had 4 kids to watch over and help with the hunt. This is Cooper, Baylee, Madi and Drew.

Cooper had to touch EVERY animal even though there are signs everywhere telling you NOT TO TOUCH THE ANIMALS!! If the Liger hadn't have been in a glass case, I'm pretty sure he would have climbed on it and pretend to ride it. He also asked me the entire time there if he could swing on the elephants tusks. I think if he could have reached them he would have!! As a group we all decided that we liked the elephant the best. It was huge!

Baylee really liked this butterfly. It was a big butterfly made up of a bunch of different little butterflies. It was pretty cool.

Well again, it's hard to believe another school year has come and gone. My B Rose is growing up way too fast. It's off to the 3rd grade. Sad, but I still remember the first day of the 3rd grade for me.

Brinley's Graduation

I can't believe that my little Brinley is all graduated from preschool and moving on to kindergarten. She has been attending Golden Start Preschool for the last two years. What a fun night for her. She loved getting all the attention!!
Miss Kathy is a great teacher! She's so creative with these little kids. Brinley just loves her. She kept asking me the day of her graduation what she was going to do without seeing Miss Kathy everyday. I told her luckily Miss Kathy lives down the street from us, so she could go visit her anytime. It really has been a fun two years watching Brinley grow and learn. We have all seen huge growth with this girl.

Their little program was so fun. They sang songs that they learned from the school year. Every song had some cute prop to go along with it. They even did a little play about the 3 Little Pigs. Notice Brin's piggy nose. These 10 little kids kept us laughing and definitely entertained the entire night. We had so much fun watching them having fun!!
These are 2 of Brin's best friends, Jane and Maddi. Maddi (the one in the middle) is like my 4th daughter. She lives next door and is here almost everyday. We love having her here, she just seems to fit right in with the fam.
Here are some of the little grads...

(Notice Brin's face looking at her tassel) She stood there most of the night like that. We kept telling her to move it to the side, but she didn't want to.
Hopefully by the time she graduates from High School she won't have this same look. This was the perfect way to end a perfect preschool graduation. Good job Brinley!! We're so proud.