Re-cap of last little while

The end of the school year was a pretty busy time for us. Ashlee and Aleks both had a lot of "end of year" school activities. Ashlee did a Math Fair, earned a trip to see a special showing of the movie "Up", recieved awards and trophies at two separate awards ceremonies for both of her schools, and paticipated in a Civil War re-enactment on the last day of school. Aleks had parties, math celebrations, etc... I was also recruited to do face painting at "Super Kids Day". I made the mistake of letting one of the boys choose what he wanted me to do, instead of choosing a stamp. He asked for a fire breathing dragon. I did my best and then spent the next couple of hours with a huge line of kids all wanting the same thing. Oh well, it was still fun. After school got out we took a breather and had some fun going to the Providence 150 year celebration. We went to a movie at Zollingers Park, complete with free popcorn and glow necklaces from Stadium 8 Theater. It was great laying out under the stars having a night out with the kids. The next day we went to a little carnival with blow up slides, a climbing wall, a man who did balloon animals, a magic show, and jumping houses. After all our fun, we started in on our summer schedule of reading and math, chores, and play, play, play....... The kids aren't exactly thrilled that we are making them keep up on their studies, but they'll thank us later:) All the kids started swimming lessons last night. They start at 5:20pm, so our schedule will a little messed up for the next two weeks. Eating dinner at 4:00 is pretty interesting. But what do you do? With free-swim right after lessons we don't get home until 8:30. Ashlee and Aleks are in the same group and they both did quite well. After Caydee got water up her nose, sticking her face in the water wasn't happening. The teacher finally coaxed her back into the water, but she wouldn't put her face in. We'll see how it goes, tonight.

First Open House

Today was the first open house for our new company, Scrap Builders. I am pretty upset that I was unable to go. It was in Herriman, and to make a long story short, schedules got mixed up and I couldn't travel down there. Julie and Jennifer both told me that it went okay considering that it was our first one. It sounds like people really liked Julie's signs with the vinyl lettering. I hope that as we get our name out there and keep doing our parties, we will start getting more stuff sold. Our next open house is going to be in Logan and I am going to start advertising for it, just as soon as we decide where to hold it:).

Spring!!!!!............?????????????????????????

Yeah, we had some sunshine for a while! I can't wait until that sunshine stays. It's April 25th and it's snowing! As I type this, Caydee is putting on her coat because she is "FREEZING!" Thankfully the snow isn't sticking. We had some nice weather for Spring vacation and had a lot of fun with our Spring Celebrations. We don't do Easter baskets. Instead we celebrate Spring and new beginnings. This year we recieved gifts, went to the movies, had a "candy bag hunt" (as Caydee called it), decorated eggs, and got kites from daddy. We had a blast.

We had some problems with Aleks' class at Thomas Edison so we have changed schools. The kids now go to Providence Elementary. I hope I did the right thing. So far I am pleased with the decision.
The girls in our family are venturing to put together a business. We are starting up at the end of February. I am so excited!!! We are going to be holding scrap parties and selling scrapbook supplies. Our first vendor is CosmoCricket. We are putting a link to their site on our company blog (scrapbuilders.blogspot.com)
Okay got to go do homework with the kiddos. More later......