Visiters and some fun time

So one I got to go pick up my little sister and her boys from the airport super early Wednesday morning.  It was barely Wednesday morning, like a little after midnight.

 

That wasn't the plan to begin with, my mom was going to pick her up and me and some of our friends were going to meet her there to welcome her back to Idaho.  Her plans changed when she missed one of her connecting flights and had to find some other ones.  So I volunteered to pick them up so my mom wouldn't have to be in Boise that late and then be up in the morning to do summer reading at her library.

So I was excited to pick her and her boys up.  We really do miss them and we don't like that they live far away.

When we got home my girls were still up and Melyni's boys didn't show any sign of being tired.  So we got to sit up and talk and the kids played for a while.  I think we stayed up till 3 am, not sure though.  It was good to talk to her and find out what's going on in their lives.

 

So on Wednesday, Katie and her kids came into Boise to come pick up Melyni and her boys to take them to my parents house.

I told them while they were here we should go to the park that has water and the kids could play for a while, it was a pretty hot day.  I think the kids had a lot of fun (Tracy we will go here when you come and visit, I think Winston will love it).

I think Ross really loved the water and of course the bigger kids did too.  The other little ones didn't play to much in the water, they wanted to go play on the play ground, which is also fun.

 

I got some pictures of the kids and a video of Ross, Tyra and Kamille playing in the water (I don't know if I will be able to get it to upload though, but I will try).

It was a lot of fun watching them all play.

 

Playing in the water...

Victoria reading a book

 Playing at the park...

 

After the park we went and got milk shakes and ice cream at Artic Circle

They are half off 3pm to 5pm.

 

After the ice cream Katie went and bought pizza for dinner, Thank you Katie.

We met back at my house and had dinner and us girls talked while the kids played.  After dinner we went to the mall for a little bit.  All I can say about taking all those kids to the mall is WOW, they were crazy.

 

It was good to hang out with my sisters and their kids.  I always love hanging out with them, I will hopefully get to do that a lot this summer.



End of the Year Teacher gifts.

I wanted to share these ideas cause I think they turned out great.

I do have to thank Pinterest for such cute ideas.

 

I usually make or get the teachers something at the end of the year, but this year I thought it would be fun to send something home with the kids.

I have been helping out at the school this year and got to know the kids in my girls class fairly well, so I thought I would be nice and give them something too.

 

For the teachers I got the idea from this website

Orange You Glad It's Summer

 

I just put my ideas into it.

 

I put in a lot of goodies.

There is a orange cup with some orange crystal light, gum and Reese's Peanut Butter cups in it.

I got one of my most favorite lotion from Bath and Body Works, Mango Butter in there.

One of my favorite Scentsy scents, Peach a la Mode (which they no longer sell).

Cheetos, Orange Chocolate and a Lei and a cute little sign.

I printed out the sign but my printer was almost out of ink so it didn't turn out so well with the color so I colored over it with an orange marker and I think it turned out great.

The Teacher loved it, I guess they probably wouldn't tell me if they didn't.

 

As for the kids...

 

For Tyra's class I had to be a little careful, she has a kid with diabetes, so I knew I could do anything with candy.  I hope what I did would be ok.  The kid said he would have to take it home and check with his mom.

 

I got this idea from Pinterest, there was no website for it, just a picture.

 

I got the Crush singles and a bag of popcorn.  I wanted to put a straw in there but I couldn't find the ones I wanted, so they had to go without straws.

 

I hope the kids liked them, I thought it was a cute idea.

 

For Shelby's class I did something really fun.

I came up with this idea all on my own, aren't I a smarty.

 

 

I made play Kool-Aid play dough and came up with this cheesy cute saying.

I got the recipe for this play dough from this website,

Kool-aid play dough

If you use grape Kool-Aid it really smells good.

 

Shelby's class loved it, they were so excited to get play dough.

 

So that is what I did this year, now I will have to try to top it next year.  We'll see, I may just be lazy and do nothing.

I had a lot of fun helping in the girls classes this year.  It was good to see who their friends where and really get to know their teachers.

 

 

MOVIE NIGHTS

We haven't done movie night the past two Fridays, we have just been busy and just didn't get it done.

Movie in the park starts on Friday though, we will be enjoying that as long as the weather is good and no kids are sick.

Tyra's Hershey's Track & Field Event

So this year we put Tyra in the Hershey's track & field event.

At first she wasn't excited about it, but she started to get more excited and tell everyone about it.

She use to run all the time, but since we have moved, she hasn't done to much running.

We thought it would be fun to put her in this event, her dad use to run in the Hershey's events when he was little so we thought Tyra might like to also.

 

I wasn't sure on the time so we got there really early.  Yesterday wasn't very warm either so the girls complained about being cold and hungry the whole time.

 

We killed time by stretching and getting ready for the run.

Tyra was to run the 400 meters (which is 1 lap around the track for those who don't know what that is)

stretching with her dad

Tyra getting in the zone

Tyra and her dad

Jeremy and Tyra's shoes

Shelby being silly

 

They did the field events which took forever.

 

Finally they started the track events.  They started with the 1600 meters, 50 meters and then finally the 400 meters.

Tyra at the starting line.  I didn't get a picture of her when she finished cause I video taped it.

 

She was pumped and ready to go.

She was in lane 1 and she did good to catch up, but she still was the 4th girl to get to the finish line.

 

She ran the 400 meter in 1min 36sec.  Pretty good for her first time to compete.  We'll practice so she will be ready for next year.

 

After the race she got to enjoy a huge Hershey bar (I told her I would get her one).

 

 

 

All of this reminded me of my track years and waiting at all those meets.  I wish I was more into running when I was younger, my be my health would be a lot better and I would have a love for running.  Oh well, maybe I can get my children into it, since there dad was and is still a runner, maybe it's in their blood.

Movie Night May 17th

So our last Friday movie night was kind of crazy.

They had a school carnival that night so we started out hanging out at the school with a ton of other people.

It was a fun carnival, and I think the girls had a lot of fun but there was just a lot of people.

I didn't get to hang out the whole time with my girls.  I helped in Tyra's class with the donut eating contest (that was super sticky).

 

They had a ton of games there and food.  We got to eat hot dogs, nachos, popcorn and cotton candy.  The girls ate a ton of candy.  They also won some soda so they were all sugared up.

They did the donut hang with Garrett (there friend).  It was pretty funny to watch them try to eat the donuts.

 

Shelby, Garrett and Tyra eating donuts

The girls made these cakes for the cake walk

They also made these pop bottles for the pop walk

They had a good time and we rode our bikes home.

 

We watched the movie pretty late so not everyone was to into it.  I think Shelby watched most of it, she might have fallen asleep close to the end.

Any ways, this is what we watched...

 

I love this movie, maybe we will have to watch it again sometime when we aren't as busy.

 

Race for the Cure

We did Race for the Cure again this year.  It was on Saturday the 11th.

It was a really nice day.

We got to go with my sister Katie and her two girls Victoria and Kamille, My dad, My best friend Shannon (who had no kids with her, she was excited) and of course my husband.

 

It was a lot of fun, busy though, always busy.  We didn't get to much swag (stuff we all get) though.

 

Jeremy didn't walk with us, he's a runner so he got to the front of the line and took off.  We seen him sometime during the walk and it looked like he was hurting.  I think he came in in the top 20 though.

 

When the race started it took us forever to get on the track.  We finally had to go around and find a different way, and once we got on it was slow moving.  Katie took off and left us in the dust, later she told us "it's a race".  I am glad she can walk like that, I can't my legs would fall off, plus someone had to stay behind and keep dad company (that's why I'm his favorite :) ok, just kidding I don't know if that's true, probably though)

 

SO me, my dad and Shannon had a nice slow walk, I think we were all ok with that.  Nice walk, good company, funny jokes (by me of course), who can ask for more.

We were almost to the turn around point when we found a bathroom my dad could use.  There were like 5 toilets, but a long line of people so I think it took us about 10 minutes till we took off again.  That's ok though, Shannon and I just sat and chatted while we were waiting for my dad.  It was a nice break.

We finally took off and got to the turn around.  There were some kids there playing interments, one was playing a keytar (I have no idea how you spell that).

There were also a lot of boy scouts too, my dad high fived them all I think.

So after the turn around it was smooth sailing, it seemed to go by really fast.

We met up with everyone at the end and headed home.

We walked by the radio station 103.3, not sure what it's called ( I don't really listen to that station) and Keeky Love (not sure on the name, you can correct me if you want Katie) was by the tent and we tried to get Katie to go say hi to him.  Katie really likes him.  She wouldn't go say hi and get a picture though, she's going to regret that for the rest of her life.  Maybe someday she'll meet him.

 

So we headed home and the craziness began.  We had 2 hours to get ready for Mariko's bridal shower.

We pulled it off though, I will post about that later.

 

Thanks for walking with me everyone!  Maybe next year I will walk faster Katie.

 

Here are some pictures...

 

The beginning of the race (Shannon was taking our picture)

Shannon and I waiting for my dad, he took a picture of us

Our group after the race, a nice lady took our picture

Katie and her beautiful girls

 

Movie Night May 10th

For Movie night we watched...

 

 

 

We got to enjoy this movie with my sister Katie and her kids.

We watched the movie really late (well the kids did anyways Katie and I chatted and got ready for the Mariko's bridal shower)

They seem to enjoy the movie, they were all watching it.  There were a lot of game systems lingering around though.

 

Katie brought a whole bunch of snacks (thank you Katie, we are still snacking on them).

 

I didn't take to many pictures, just of the kids watching the movie.

 

It was fun and I was glad that my sister and her kids came to hang out and spend the night, it was a lot of fun.  We'll have to do it again.

 

I'm not sure we will make the next movie night, the girls have a school carnival tomorrow.  But we will watch the movie, cause it's one I want to watch with my kids.

 



Movie Night May 3rd

We didn't do anything exciting for this movie night, we had a pretty busy week and I was pretty tired.

But we did watch our movie, it was...

The girls have never seen this movie so I thought we would watch it.

Like I said we didn't do anything exciting, for dinner we just had...

BBQ Chicken

and

Tater tots

(I didn't even take any pictures of anything)

The girls said the movie was ok, I think there were a lot of parts that were boring to them.

They did quote a lot of things though and thought a lot was funny, so I think they did enjoy the movie.

Well maybe next week will be more exciting, but I don't know I have another busy week ahead of me.