Spots, spots and more spots!!

Arcadia's teacher loves Dalmatians so one of the other students Mom decided we should surprise the teacher with a Dalmatian themed ice cream party.  It's not very often I'm able to help with much because I don't really have babysitters during the day so I jumped at the chance to help make some cookies.  I found these cute dog, dog bone, and paw print shaped cookie cutters and went to work.  They turned out ok, definitely not the best, but I'm pretty sure a 1st grader won't notice!

Goodbye to First Grade!

After 2 first days of First Grade (one in Utah and one in Colorado) Arcadia has officially finished!  She had a great year filled with lots of learning and lots of fun.  She was able to play the Mother in the Nutcracker play, go on field trips to the Nature Center in Utah and to the "We the People" play in Colorado, and have countless crazy hair and pajama days.  She made new friends at a new school and absolutely LOVED her teacher in Colorado.  She has had a big year with big changes and made it through it all as confident as ever. She is an amazing little (quite literally) girl and we love her so much!

 First Day of School 

 Colorado teacher 

 Last day of school!!  

We were late and couldn't find a good spot where she didn't have to squint...she gets that from her Dad!!

Park Fun

On the last day of school the First graders went to the park.  Parents were invited so Mekensy and Brooklyn joined in on the fun.  I love that they try to include the parents as much as possible!

 Brookie had LOTS of mommies at the park. It's hard to tell, but Arcadia and one of her friends are pushing Brooke on the swing.  She loved it!

Be the Teacher

Arcadia had an opportunity to "be the teacher" at school last week.  As you can imagine she LOVED it!  I'm sure you can't picture her telling people what to do and taking charge.  I'm still not sure who she gets that from.  ;)  She I decided that she would be making dirt and worm cups.  She had a great time helping me make the pudding and putting the Oreos and gummy worms into baggies.  The day she was teaching she came running into my room at about 6:30 am so excited.  She did a great job.  Here are a few pictures.  I didn't get many or really any that are great because I was helping the kids.  I should have at least taken a picture of the finished product, but of course did not!

She even insisted on using the projector.  She had someone turn off the lights and then held her hand up in the air until everyone quieted down and listened.  It was quite funny!!  We love this sweet girl and are so glad to see that she has so much confidence.  She had a bad day in front of the class the week before, but she didn't let it stop her.  I wish I had as much confidence as she does.

May Visitors- Round 2

The week after I got back from Disneyland my parents and sister came to visit for Memorial Day.  We had a fun time and did some fun things!  The girls love it when people come visit.  We saw Epic, went to the park, went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and ate lots of yummy food! Of course I was bad about taking pictures, but here's what I got...

SPLASH PAD AND PARK

We have so many parks and splash pads around us.  We have a ward playgroup we go to almost every week and we have yet to go to the same one twice.  It has been so fun for the kiddos.

 Brooklyn hates having her picture taken!

 She wasn't so sure about the water splashing on her, but after a little while she warmed up!

 Kensy is our little monkey.  

She made it to the top rather quickly and insisted on getting down on her own.

 Arcadia is a little unsure of the height.

THE ZOO

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs is awesome.  The girls were able to feed the giraffes.  They had a great time checking out all the animals.  All Mekensy wanted to do the ENTIRE time was ride the sky ride.  We did almost come home with one less child (Arcadia).  Richard got a little excited to see the hippos and took off ahead of us.  Arcadia wasn't with me so I assumed she was with him...oops, she wasn't. I am a little ashamed to admit that it took more than a few minutes to realize she was missing.  Luckily she knew what to do and stayed in the same area and found a lady with kids and told them she was lost.  Scary moment for me!!

4 little monkeys

Thanks to all of our visitors this month!  It is so fun to explore new things with them all.  If you haven't come to visit yet, you should!!  It's lots of fun!!

May Visitors- Round 1

We had two sets of visitors in May (lucky us!).  Richard's parents came for a weekend while I was off in Disneyland with my Mom and Sister.  They had lots of fun and packed a lot into only a couple of days.  Here are some highlights!

Visiting the Downtown Aquarium in Denver

 Riding the train at the Denver Zoo