"Schools out for the Summer!"

This is the latest our kids have had school since we moved here 8 years ago. They built a new High School last year and so we didn't start school until September which pushed getting out of school later this spring. I like this schedule because the weather is finally nice for the kids to play outside. I wish we could have this schedule every year, but this fall we start school the end of August.

Our neighbor had a water party after school. The kids thought it was so cool that they have a sprinkler system hooked up to the top of their trampoline! They had a blast!

The boys got invited to a slip-n-slide party at another neighbors house. So, all the kids had FUN with their friends!

I thought this was cute of the boys walking home when it was over carrying their water guns! Thanks for a fun day!

Caterpillars on the 9th day!

Almost all the caterpillars are hanging upside down in a "J" shape except for one. It's still crawling around the top of the jar. The jar on the right has one cocoon and the jar on the left has two. They are at an angle.

Right Jar

Left Jar

3 Cocoons

Last night there was a total of 3 cocoons and the rest were getting ready to hang upside down in the "J" shape. You can see the cocoon at an angle in the jar on the right. It has been so hot that we moved the caterpillars downstairs to Mckinley's room. I think they like it better! (I am spending way too much time watching these caterpillars!) HaHa!

We have our 1st Cacoon!

The caterpillars are moving their way to the top of their jars. We noticed this afternoon that we have our 1st Cocoon! At the end of the day 3 of the caterpillars were in cocoons. It's so fascinating to watch them change.

Caterpillars on the 6th day!

There are 5 caterpillars in each jar. They just keep getting bigger and kind of freaky looking! The paper said when they hang upside down in a "J" shape they are getting ready to turn into a cacoon. We are just suppose to leave them alone and they will do their thing.

Some of the gray caterpillars are still making their way to the top of the jar.

The 3rd day we had our Caterpillars

The caterpillars didn't look very different on the 2nd day so I didn't take a picture, but this morning when I woke up they were SO much bigger!

We don't have to feed the caterpillars, they just eat the stuff off the bottom of the jar!

Our CATERPILLARS are here!

We got a butterfly kit at Costco and we sent out for our caterpillars to come and they have arrived! The kids are so excited to watch them change into butterflies...actually I don't know who is more excited the kids or me! We want to take a picture every day so we can see how they change.

Happy Birthday Blake!

Happy 3rd Birthday Blake! For the past few weeks whenever we asked Blake what he wanted for his birthday he would say, "A Chuck-E-Cheese ball." So, Blake got his wish and we went to Chuck-E-Cheese the night before his birthday.

We went Camping on Blake's Birthday!

We were going to go camping and rent an RV on the 28th. The guy didn't have it ready to go and it was SO Dirty. So we went to Chuck-E-Cheese and came home to sleep in our beds. On the 29th Blake got to open some presents.
Even though things didn't fall into place like we had hoped, it worked out even better. EJ's brother let us use his cabin to go camping which was GREAT for the kids. We went on a hike, played catch, took a nap in the hammock, had s'mores and watched movies. It was nice to get away!

EJ made HUGE pancakes for Breakfast! Then we had spaghetti for lunch and Blake's favorite STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE!

Our friends the Hamptons came with us! Blake loves their little girl! We had a great time!

Blake is lucky that his birthday will always be on a 3-day weekend for Memorial Day! Happy Birthday Blake! We love you!

Kacie's Last day in Portland

Kacie found out that she gets to go home TOMORROW! So, they decided to go site seeing and went to the Portland Temple. They also did a little shopping! We are so excited that she gets to go home so fast! It's awesome to hear that she is feeling so well!