Spring flew past this year with lots of activities like it always does. I keep waiting for life to slow down but I'm coming to the realization that it probably won't. Here's a few highlights.
Jared went to school early a couple mornings a week all spring to attend a STEM(science, technology, engineering, and math) program. They worked hard designing and building a robot. They tested the robot on a course that they had to program it to get through.
Kaitlyn had her last dance recital with her teacher Brynn before she moved. She sure has had fun taking dance from her the last five years. It's amazing to see how much she has grown and learned! She's a natural up on stage and doesn't have a problem performing in front of a crowd. And she's had so much fun with her friends in the class.
Kailtyn and I enjoyed a girls day at Gardener Village with Melanie, Nancy and Brooklyn. The girls had lots of fun making their own jewelry and going to lunch.
I volunteered to head up the elementary school 5k fundraiser this year. I made a lot of mistakes and learned a ton about being a race director and a lot of things to do It felt like a full time job for several weeks but it turned out to be a success with lots of people having fun and raising a lot of funds for the school.
When you live with a bunch of Star Wars fanatics Star Wars Day is a big day. "May the 4th be with you" was a hit with Tie fighters for dinner and R2D2 treats for dessert.
Andrew had a successful track season running as a 9th grader with the high school. We watched him get closer and closer to breaking the 5 minute mile in every race all season. He ended with his best race at the region meet running the mile in 4:57! Pretty impressive for a freshman! We are excited to see what he does the next three years!
For the spring piano recital we were excited to finally get in the same recital as our friends the Larsens and Andrus. It was an awesome group of piano players! They all received their awards for the year from federation. Here they all are with their teacher Sharyl Tucker.
Kaitlyn and her friend, Ruth Larsen, were both selected to represent their school at the district math Olympiad in Krypto. We found out just a couple days before that they could build an egg drop. Without much time to work on it they threw one together. First the group at their school tested all the egg drops. Out of all the ones that didn't break they voted on who would represent them at district and Kaitlyn and Ruth won! They were thrilled to try it out again at district but unfortunately thunderstorms kept them from being able to test them. They still had a great job competing at Krypto though.
I volunteered at field day and didn't I have the cutest little helper? He was pretty wet by the end of the day!
Jason has been struggling with some injuries so he decided to just run the half marathon this year at Ogden instead of the full marathon like he had been planning. Since Andrew had just finished track season they decided to run it together. It was the farthest Andrew has ever run. The weather was terrible with drenching rain and freezing cold temperatures but they finished in 1:36!
Spring also means baseball and softball season. Jared's team struggled but he enjoyed getting to pitch a lot more this year. Kaitlyn had fun playing on her coach pitch softball team and was really getting good at hitting the ball. I also coached the Ogden Track club again. Kaitlyn worked hard at practice and qualified for the district meet this year although we missed it when we went on vacation.
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