On a roll!

I went almost a whole school year without posts and now I've done three in a row - yahoo!  May is off to a great start, well already more than half way over...All the end of the school year events are rolling by.   Zelle and Abby finished their soccer seasons, and Zelle's team won their whole league, which was exciting and fun for her.   She played great and was an awesome defender.  Abby's team finished fourth, which she wasn't too happy about.  She does NOT like to lose...She gives it her all on the field, which is what's fun to watch about her, but then it takes her a little while to shift gears back down to regular speed :).  Cute Abs.  They also had their piano recital this past week, where they both played pieces they've been working on for the past few weeks/months.  They both did really well and I was proud of their hard work!  Claire also played beautifully, and we got to see her there with Bec.   To celebrate our hard-working musicians, we went to frozen yogurt after the recital.  So fun.  Last weekend, these two musicians also had a strings concert, which is always fun.  

One morning I woke up to find these cute readers upstairs...Susie is in the other chair, but you can't see her.  Lishey

Goose hydrating at her game

Number one, oh yeah! Loves her new cleats in a big way

Abby and Zelle after their strings concert

Eating lunch en route to drop Suse back off at school after piano.  This girl logs some serious miles in the car (the "ban" as she says, can't quite say van)

Frozen yogurt with Claire after Zelle, Abby and Claire's piano recital.

Goose feeding Geese at Wheeler Farm

Goose getting lots of "kisses" from baby lambs at the Country Fair.  I think they were licking the cotton candy off her face...

Pony ride!

Loving the train ride...

Playing vet upstairs 

Finally, after two years, Amelia's marker is installed

Zelle and her soccer team after winning the championship!

Lu with her completed castle made out of pizza boxes and Pringles cans

Goosie in her dance costume

Lu and her friend with their creation "Gummybear Mania" that took their whole play date

In other news, Lu turned in her castle for the beloved 4th grade castle project.  She worked hard on this over the past few weeks, and it was completely her project.  I just took her to buy a few supplies at the craft store and did the spray painting.  Other than that, she planned it all and built it all.  I love the way she puts things together and has such attention to detail.  It's fun to know that anything she makes will be great.  She also got to play soccer with Abby's team today right after her game, since Abby's team was low on players.  She loved that and hung really well, except that she got stepped on by a girl twice her size...ouch!  

Susie and Goose absolutely loved the Waterford Country Fair carnival yesterday after school.  They played games, rode the train, pet animals at the petting zoo, ate tons of junk, and had a great time.   They were in heaven.  I also got to go on Goosie's field trip to Wheeler Farm yesterday morning.  What a cute age!  She has a darling preschool class, and I love her teachers.  It's been a great year for her, and she loves school.  

Suse scored a goal in her freezing cold, wet soccer game today.  I had a moment today where I thought back to Susie as an infant when I had just been assigned a case worker from the "Blind Babies Foundation," and thought if I could have seen her chasing a ball around today, and doing all the things she loves to do, I wouldn't have believed it - lots to be grateful for!  Goose was all "suited up" and ready for her soccer game today when it got cancelled due to rain.  She was SO disappointed and let us know about it for about 20 minutes.  Tonight, Zelle and Abby both have separate babysitting jobs.  They like but don't love babysitting, which I totally remember feeling that way :).  

As for me, I'm pooped this week.  5 of 7 of us came down with the stomach flu this past week.  So between being sick myself (on the same day as Mark, that's never good...) and cleaning up after other sick people, I'm tired.  Then Mark had a two day golf tournament with his brother down in Provo, so above-mentioned games and carnivals were Mom going solo.  I remember a distant conversation about moving to Utah where I said something about him playing golf with his family a lot if we moved here....naaah, that'd never happen.  

I love the beautiful spring rain we've been having.  I have so much to be grateful for.  xoxo!