The end of the school year always brings lots of activities and awards for the kids. This year wasn't an exception. A few weeks before we left for Boston I found out that Andrew was being awarded Scout of the Year from the Trapper Trails Council. I was so excited for him to receive this honor. I was disappointed when I found out the banquet they were holding to present the awards was being held while we were in Boston. One of his scout leaders went instead to accept the award for him. Here he is with his trophy after we got home.
Kaitlyn was really sad that we didn't ever dye Easter eggs with our trip to Boston. So I told her if they had any egg dye kits left at the store we could do them for family home evening the Monday after we got home. She was in luck. There were some on clearance. The kids were quite creative with their eggs this year. I also made some bunny rolls so we could have our traditional Eater breakfast the next day. Better late than never!
Andrew also earned several awards at school including student of the month for April and the high honor roll for another year with a perfect 4.0!
Andrew also missed the first track meet of the season while we were in Boston so the only meet he was able to participate in was the District Meet. He ran a new PR in mile at 5:27. Here he is with his team's first place trophy.
Kaitlyn had her end of year dance recital. She had a great time in dance class this year with her two friends, Ariana and Ruby. It was always interesting carpooling these three girls! (There were a lot of Frozen songs being sung and listened to every week! They were thrilled that their teacher Brynn chose Let it Go for one of their dances.)
In April Kaitlyn had a field trip to the Ogden Nature Center. It was on a Wednesday and I figured Jason would be home to watch Skyler so I would go with her. Kaitlyn had other plans though. As soon as she heard it was on a Wednesday she came home begging her dad to go with her. I asked her why I couldn't go and she said she really wanted Jason to go with her and I could wait and go to the Dinosaur Park with her class in May. So since neither of us could tell her no, that's what we did. I had to find a sitter for the Dinosaur Park field trip but it was fun to go with her. She was thrilled to be in the same group as her friend, Sage. Here they are digging for dinosaur bones.
The kids had their end of year piano recital. The theme for this recital was movie songs. The parents had to guess which movie the songs were from that the kids played. Kaitlyn played a song from The Lion King. Jared played a song from Pokemon, and Andrew played a song from Star Wars Phantom Menace. Their teacher also handed out the awards from federation. Andrew and Jared both earned their first cup from receiving superiors three years in a row!
One morning we saw in the newspaper that this Big Boy train had stopped for the day in Ogden. It was being towed somewhere to be restored. The train fan in Jason came out and he insisted we stop by Union Station on our way home from Kaitlyn's softball game that night to see the train. Skyler loved all the trains at Union Station.
Spring also means sports for our family. Almost every night is spent at the ballpark for baseball and softball games. This was Kaitlyn's first year with coach pitch. At first she struggled to hit the ball but by the end of the season she was hitting really well. Here she is with her trophy.
Most of Jared's friends aren't playing baseball anymore and he ended up on almost a completely new team with a lot of kids he didn't know. He has made some new friends though and his team has had a lot of success winning quite a few games. It's fun watching him getting so much better with his hitting and throwing. Here he is hitting the ball.
The weekend of the Ogden Marathon Andrew and I decided to run the 5K. I was still recovering from Boston and wasn't up to the longer races but I thought it would be fun to do something to participate and it's always fun to run races with Andrew. I knew the tougher competition would be in the longer races and wasn't planning on running too fast. It was my first time in my utahrunning.com elite racing team gear. There were a bunch of Bonneville High School cross country runners there and I started out the race keeping up with them. It was mostly boys but one girl tried to keep up with me. It felt like a comfortable pace but I looked down at my Garmin and it said I was running 5:35 pace. I didn't think it was really that fast. I figured the watch was still trying to find the satellites and it would find my real pace in a minute. About a half mile into the race the girl trying to keep up with me dropped back. It was just me and the boys from Bonneville. It was kind of fun to run with them because you could tell they really didn't want to get beat by a girl. I hit the first mile marker at 5:35. My Garmin had been right! I really was running that fast! I'm so used to running longer races that when I hit the first mile marker I thought, Oh good, I'm almost done! Only 2.1 miles to go! My second mile was almost as fast 5:45. By the time I got to the last mile I realized I had a chance of breaking 18:00 if I could keep my pace under a six minute mile. I have never broken 18 before so I really kicked it in that last mile. I won the women's race in 17:50. Andrew also ran a PR in 20:15.
Kaitlyn was so excited about her class play they were putting on the last week of school. She did a great jog singing a duet in the play in front of the whole school and a lot of parents. She didn't even look scared! Here she is dressed as a "wind sister."
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