Sunday, May 25, 2025

Rough Start to Summer

Our summer had a real rough start when Kallie got this majorly bad burn from her cousin. It happened the weekend school got out! Her cousin left a fire roaster on Kallie's chair and she didn't know and sat on it and got this terrible burn. Oh boy was it ever so frustrating!!! So so sad.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Graduation Central!

This was our busy year for graduations! 9th grade, 6th grade, and Kindergarten all in the same year.


Tyler and Kallie's class had a fun class party at Mrs. Riley's house.

I went alone with Mckinley to her 9th grade graduation because we had a conflict. And siblings weren't allowed. 



Very grateful for Mckinley's awesome group of friends.

Ava's class put on some cute plays. Brandon said it was his favorite event he's ever been to for the kids. Ava played a sassy little red riding hood.

Jackson got his flower from Mrs. Brown!!

Poor Jackson woke up looking like this the day of his Kindergarten graduation. We assumed he had pink eye and he was going to miss the graduation.

But when I went to Kallie and Tyler's 6th grade graduation I sat by my neighbor Kawehi who is a doctor and she looked at a picture of Jackson and told me he didn't have pink eye, that it was just a stye and he wasn't contagious. So we ended up bringing him to the 6th grade graduation.

So fun to watch Tyler and Kallie graduate. So grateful for their cute friends!


Jackson and I went and hung out at the park with the 6th graders for their graduation party. This is Tyler with Nixon and Merrick.

Mrs. Riley was their 6th grade teacher.

Had to get a picture of Foi with Jackson. He was so nice to Jackson all year!!

Jackson's eye was doing a little better after some warm compresses and time. So he ended up going to his graduation!

This kid loves singing, until he's supposed to perform. Ha ha. He didn't sing much.

Jackson and his cute Kindergarten crush, Nada.

I was so glad he was able to make it! I know it meant a lot to Mrs. Brown to have him there. And when we were watching the video Mrs. Brown put together, Jackson said "I'm crying in my brain". Then he said "My eyeballs are 100% full of tears." He was getting emotional looking back at all the pictures and memories from the year. It was so cute. As we were watching the movie he told Olivia in front of him that he had 100% tears and she reached back and squeezed his hand. 

Jackson totally blew me away with how well he did in Kindergarten and we are so grateful to have had Mrs. Brown teach all 5 of our kids in Kindergarten. She is a wonderful teacher!


The end of another school year.

Ava absolutely loved Mrs. Hill this year.

Last time for Tyler and Kallie at Elementary school.

Kallie had Maddie and Sienna walk home with her after school and then they proceeded to have a 12 hour play date ha ha. So fun! Love these girls so much.

Jackson and Ava got to go swimming with Claire and Cade at their house.


Then some fun at Airborne!! I thought it would be packed on a Friday night right after school got out but it was a ghost town! I just took these two while the big kids were all off with friends.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Spring Sports and Birthdays!

Tyler spent the last two years wanting to quit soccer and we wouldn't let him. We knew this was going to be his last season so I soaked up every minute watching him. He was so good! And my heart is broken that he's done.

This team was such a great team of boys, so much fun to watch!

I'm gonna miss watching these boys play!


Tyler and Kallie played on the same rec team together with Brandon as their coach and it was an absolute blast! So fun to see Tyler score goals and just dominate! Kallie is quite the good little defender too and so reliable as a player!


They had two cousins on their team as well, Sophie and Hadlee. Brandon is the best coach ever and this was just the funnest year coaching the 5th-6th graders.

Love love loved this experience! Daniel, Brandon's assistant coach was awesome too. Just love all these kids!

Ava is becoming quite the talented soccer player and is enjoying rec!


And we loved watching Mckinley run the mile and the 800 in track over the spring.

Jackson played soccer too and was lucky enough to have Brandon as his coach as well!


Mckinley turned 15!! 

She chose Outback for dinner. It was super yummy! 

We sure love these kids and helping them feel special on their birthday!

She invited all her friends over for a birthday hangout the next weekend and they had a blast! She has such a great group of friends!

Almost a week later she went and got her driver's permit. She passed the test on the first try!

Teaching her to drive has been so fun!!

Tyler and Kallie got braces on May 8th.




I was lucky enough to go on Ava's class fieldtrip to the Dinosaur Museum. We had such a fun day!


Gosh this kid is so cute! And growing up so fast!

Lip Sync time is the best time of the year! Thanks to Jammie for putting together the cutest dances for these girls every year!





Kallie and her friends created their own dance again all by themselves. Seriously super impressive and so fun to watch!!

Jackson turned 6!!

He was so excited to have his doorway decorated the morning of his birthday.

We celebrated at Nickel City, and if I remember right I think we got food at Costco's food court!