Sunday, June 10, 2018

Ready or Not

 I didn't have pictures from Senior Ball for the last entry so here are a few of Britton and his date Eliza.



On Memorial Day Adam took Korinne and a friend and the boys to Lagoon for a few hours.  I thought it would be crazy busy, but it ended up not being so bad.  In the afternoon I ran a few errands with Jenna and Britton and then we stopped for a little froyo.



The 6th Grade awards assembly. 

Korinne received an award for getting one of the highest AR point totals in her grade and for reading over a million words during the school year.  She is excited to move on from elementary school and start middle school in the fall.


AJ's last day of preschool.

When I went to pick up AJ from his last day of school the teacher told me that I needed to sign yet another incident report.  AJ is a little bit of a wild card and when he gets in trouble at school they have me sign incident reports to confirm that I am aware of the situation.  This time he threw his shoes over the tall fence into private property so they weren't able to recover them. Darn. They were summer shoes and I had just gotten them.  I must say there is never a dull moment with AJ around.  He does some pretty random things.


Jameson and AJ on their last day of school-- May 31st.

Lifetouch came to AJ's preschool to take school pictures and I love how they turned out.


AJ- 3 years old


On Friday morning we made our first ever call to poison control after AJ got into my bathroom and drank an entire bottle of liquid melatonin. They told us that he would most likely be fine and to just watch him. While he did have a tummy ache and a headache he never actually slept.  It had the opposite affect on him and he had a rough weekend.

The last day of school for my older kids was Friday, June 1st.  Just a few days before school got out Britton was asked to run on one of Ridgeline's 2 Ragnar teams to cover for one of his friends that was injured.  He was in reasonably good shape having just finished soccer so he jumped right in and with only 3 days notice ran his first Ragnar Relay which conveniently started on the last day of school.


Britton leaving to meet his team for a 2:00 p.m. start time.


Both Ridgeline teams at the starting line.


Team Riverhawk Flock.
They finished in 23 hrs 3 min. Placed 11th overall and 3rd in the high school co-ed division. 

While Britton was out running Ragnar the rest of us went to the Conference Center for the Be One Celebration commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Priesthood Revelation.



Jameson, Adam and AJ at the Conference Center

 The program was absolutely amazing, but we did have a few hiccups because AJ was completely out of control (same day as the melatonin overdose) and had to be taken out of the building. Adam ended up taking him to the car and missed about 75% of it, but fortunately was able to watch it online after the fact. For those of us inside the Conference Center it was definitely an experience to remember.  The spirit was strong and the music was incredible.


AJ isn't very good at letting Jenna practice the piano.  Whenever she is practicing he will run in and sit on the bench with her.

Sunday night while the older kids went to hear President Nelson speak Adam and I took the boys down to the Genesis meeting.  With the Be One celebration happening only 2 days before the church was absolutely packed (think Stake Conference size crowd) and the Bonner Family did the program.  If you haven't heard of the Bonner Family look them up on Youtube.  They are like a black version of the Osmonds. 😁They have 2 parents and  8 kids and every one of them can sing! The church invited them to perform in the Be One Celebration (the kids live all over the country so they only come together to sing at special events) and they stuck around for a few extra days so they could sing for the Genesis Group. The parents joined the church when they were a young married couple with 2 small kids and now they are a large multi-generational family who are rock solid in the gospel.  I was amazed at their talent and testimonies and really enjoyed the meeting.  Definitely check out their performance at the Be One Celebration!

AJ was in the nursery and Adam went with Jameson to primary where they made African masks and learned more about Juneteenth, which is an African American holiday commemorating the day (June 19, 1865) that word finally reached the last of the slaves in Texas that slavery had been abolished and they were free.  



Adam kept telling the boys to smile.  "But we are smiling!!" he he

The girls and Adam left for girls camp on Wednesday morning.  It was Korinne's first time going to camp and she was excited.

Jenna and Korinne in their camp shirts


Korinne discovered a hidden talent--archery. She had great form and nailed the targets. Adam said that a lot of people commented on how good she was for having never done it before. Hey, she's got skillz, bow hunting skillz, etc. . .😉)


Adam spent the first 2 1/2 days with them at camp and then came home a day early to attend a wedding.  The girls had a fabulous time.


On one of the nights they were gone I took the boys to get happy meals and play at the park. They were in heaven.




Ready or not summer is here. Let the chaos begin. 




2 comments:

Heather said...

I love the Bonner family! So cool you were able to hear them - twice!

Kristen said...

Yes. The Bonner family is very impressive. That is great that you got to see them live. Congrats to the kids on their accomplishments these past few months. Way to go, Korinne!