Zoo

Walking through the Desert dome

Who isn't very happy about a picture? Maybe the 14 year old??
Near the end of a long day--everybody is still happy--except a couple!!

Brittney with a gorilla in the background

Courtney & Brittney posing with the elephant
The petting zoo

Since we have so many birthdays in April and May we decided to all celebrate together by going to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE. The weather was beautiful for the day and everybody else thought so too!! We didn't make it into the butterfly exhibit and aquarium because there were too many people. The kids all had a great time and are looking forward to going back because we bought a zoo pass, so hopefully we will be able to make it back there soon!!

Last Track Meet

Dylan & Brandon and their 4 X 800 M relay team

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On May 8 the boys had their last track meet of the season in Genoa. Bryan and I were able to go to the track meet and watch the boys run. They both ran the 4 X 800 M relay, 1600 M run, and the 800 M run. They did a great job in track this year and we were very proud of them.

Brittney's 8th birthday

Brittney turned 8 years old on May 6. We celebrated by getting pizza and going to a park. The kids all had fun playing there. We then went back home to have cake and ice cream.

Planting our garden

We planted our garden and had a big helper to do it. We planted beans, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, radishes, beets, and snow peas. I sure hope that our garden is as good as it was last year!!

Chelsey is 4

On May 3rd Chelsey turned Four years old. We celebrated by having our good friends, the Tweetens, over for a cookout as Chelsey wanted her friend Kendall over for a party. We had hot dogs and hamburgers and just hung out around the campfire. It started to rain and so we had to move indoors for cake. Chelsey wanted a ladybug cake like her sister did when she was little. I can't believe our little girl is 4--she is growing up fast.

8th Grade graduation

All the boys in the 8th grade classBrandon, Casey, & Caleb

Mr. Nickel, Brandon, & Mr. BoothBrandon receiving his graduation certificate

On May 1, Brandon had his 8th grade graduation. The evening started with pictures and then we ate pizza and had ice cream sundaes. The speaker was Mr. Ken Booth and then they had a slide show and Mr. Nickel then gave them their graduation certificates. We then went to York to go cosmic bowling which went from 9:00-11:30. It is hard to believe that Brandon will be in High School next year!!

Happy 13th Dylan!!

Dylan turned 13 on April 30. It was a very busy week and he had a track meet on his birthday but he got home about 7:30 and we surprised him with a dairy queen cake. He wanted money for his birthday this year so he could buy a Nintendo DSI and had fun playing that the rest of the night.

Awana Awards

Last night we had our Awana awards night. Brittney received the Sparky award for finishing all three sparks books and Courtney received the 3rd book award for T & T. They have spent a lot of time learning verses and we are very proud of them!!!