Class of 2024!

Blake's Kindergarten Graduation was today.

Congratulations Blake!

They had a cute program where they told what each kid wants to be when they grew up, sang songs, and got their diploma and awards.

Nana with Gavin, Blake, Grandpa and Grandma Bingham with Caleb.  Shilo got to go to the program and then went back to work.

Afterwards in their class, we watched a slideshow of the kids throughout the year, and they made a copy for each of us to take home.  Gavin wanted to sit by Blake and gave him a hug.

It was a really cute program, and I can hardly believe the year is over.

Adventure Day was last week and I got to go and help for part of the day.  The kids got to ride a horse, go on a hayride, milk a cow and make butter, look for bugs, play games outside, etc.

Here is Keaton and Blake flying kites.

Here they are grinding wheat for their pancakes.

Here they are shooting bottle rockets.  

It was a cold day, but the kids had lots of fun.

Memorial Fun

What I love about having all boys.... They are highly entertained by ROCKS!
 For Memorial Day we took them to Craters of the Moon.  They just loved it.  They kept running from one spot to the other.  Shilo and I had a hard time keeping up!  Even Gavin would say, "Ooh Look at the Rocks" or "Did you see that," pointing to big holes in the rocks.  I'm glad they really liked going.

Shilo and Gavin

Caleb, Bryan, and Me. (I truly got wore out by the end)

The boys were the most excited about.... the CAVES!

They had so much fun climbing the rocks.  Blake and Bryan would be a little too adventurist, and go way before we could with Caleb and Gavin.  They just wanted to see it all.

This is the only cave Gavin and I went down, because the others were too hard to climb down into, and you had to hold Gavin the whole time.  He did not like being left behind, and I got to hear all about it. 

Caleb climbing a tree we told him not too.  (But I had to take a picture because he was so cute).

Just to illustrate a point about Caleb's personality.  We kept telling the boys to stay on the path, like the sign said (that way we could also keep track of them.)  So, Caleb walked with one foot on the trail like he was supposed too, and one foot off the trail to show what HE wanted to do!
We had a very fun trip.  The boys wanted to keep going to climb the big hill, but I was wore out and wanted to go home.

We also visited graves on Sat and Sun.  This is Shilo's Grandma Bingham

Shilo's Grandpa Hunsaker

My Grandma and Grandpa Tietjen.  It was so rainy we could only hop out, take a picture and hop back in.

After 5 years, we FINALLY have a ridding lawn mower!  We are so excited.  We have never bought anything this nice and brand new before.  At first I felt like it was so nice, we shouldn't use it or touch it.  We still have to use our push mower to get everywhere the ridding mower cant get.  But Shilo mowed the big section of our lawn in 30 min, and it use to take us an hour!

Love the Heat

We can't wait for school to be out for the SUMMER!

Caleb begged, and begged me to get the pool out, until I finally gave in.  He wants to live in his swim suit.  I can already picture summer: boys in and out of the house, constantly taking out my towels, wet grass all over the carpet, and wet clothes everywhere!

Gavin is constantly taking off his clothes.

This is part of our garden this year.  Shilo wanted to try a new method called "square foot gardening".   It requires expensive soil for the first  year, but there is no weeds, less water, and more food planted per square foot.  It is an experiment, and we are having fun.  We have more things planted now than what is in the picture.

Happy Mother's day.  I got the second book of the BEYONDERS and some flowers.  The boys made me cards at school.  My favorite is a conversation I had with Blake.  Bryan gathered some things in his room to give me.  Blake cries and complains, "I want to give you something too, but I want to keep all of my stuff."  He is a funny boy that is hard to please.

Waiting for church on Mother's Day.

Kim wanted me to post a picture of how big I am getting.  This is a couple of weeks ago.  I was 6 months along.  Now I only have 12 weeks left.  Getting excited.

There was this quote in our Relief Society Newsletter:

            "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; Now I have six children, and no theories!"