Jake's Graduation Pictures

Jakes class all lined up after they walked in. They sang a few songs and were sooooo cute. Jake was singing very well too. After the song, they all got up and gave there mom's a flower, it was so sweet, I almost cried. When they were done with that, the kids all drew a picture and showed and said what they wanted to do for the summer. Jake said, that for his summer vacation, he wanted to go camping. Some kids said that they wanted to go to Jamaica! It was cute. Then they all got there little diploma's, and shook the teachers hand. When they were done with that the teacher had made a wonderful slide show of all the kids pictures throughout the year. When she showed the kindergartners first day of school and one of the last days of school, I cried. It was so sweet, but really sad, all the little kids had changed sooo much in that year. It goes so fast. When she was done with that they sang another song and then the kids were all done. I was so proud of him and he did super well. Even though he has to take kindergarten again, he had a great experience in school and I am glad he went.

Jacob had a really good Teacher and Assistant Teacher. Mrs. Ekstrom and Mrs. Jeffery were always there to help him with what he needed. Next year Jake won't have this teacher, she moves on to 3rd grade. Maybe Josh will get her, and maybe even Jake might when he gets there.

The Kite Festival

We had sooo much fun at the kite festival!! The boys loved flying there kites and Alyssah loved looking at all the kites flying. We had a lot of fun. Josh ended up buying another kite, his wasn't working very well with the wind. It was really windy out. Alyssah would get nervous around the bigger ones, especially when they would start to bring them down. She would say scared!! I loved the big hugs I would get when she was nervous. I will try to upload some pics tonight of the kites and the kids.

Jake graduates today

But not really, since he will be repeating kindergarden next year. But, he will have a different teacher, so I for sure will be taking pics of his teacher today. I will also get one with Josh and his teacher too. I am so excited to go, it will be so special to see him with his class. I will post pictures later of him and how he does. I am so proud of my little man, he had some obsticles to go over when he first started school here and he has come so far and I am super proud of him!!

WOW

Poor Steph, this pic was printed ON THE FRONT PAGE of her newspaper. WOW!! I would be soooo embarassed!! LOL, just kidding Steph!!

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No more nukie!!

I forgot to say that Alyssah has been nukie free since Friday May 9th!!! I am so proud of my big girl! She has done so great and has only asked about it twice! I guess mommy needed it more than she did.

Alyssah is sick

She has the flu. She is better tonight, but she still isn't feeling that great. She was extreemly clingy earlier, and I was getting a big headache from just sitting around all day. I am not sure how mom's with really sick kids do it. I hope to never find out.

Anyways, she is better now, and hopefully she is over the flu, and doesn't puke anymore. It is really cute to hear her talk about it though. ;)

My Mothers Day

I loved all of my gifts for Mothers day. The pink piece of paper was made by my niece Viktoria. I just love it!!
Josh made this for me in school. It is so sweet and I plan on keeping it forever!!

This pic is so sweet!! They were so excited to see Grandma Carol!!

I love this pic of me and the kids. It was taken right before church.

I had a great mothers day. We got up to get ready for church and the boys and Mark made me some toast and milk. It was so sweet.

They had cards and a cute gift from Josh for me to read too. I just loved it all.

We went to Minot and ate at a Chinese resaurant. I just love Chinese food. The kids were pretty good there too. After that we went to Mark's parents house to spend some time with Marks Mom Carol. It was a really nice vistit. The kids were very excited to see there grandparents. I love the pic of Carol with the kids!! It is the best!!

I am so lucky to be my kid's mom! I love them so much and they are the best things in the world to me!!

We are planning a trip

To see The Presidents". That is what Jacob says. He is so excited to go to Mount Rushmoore this summer (end of June) He can't wait. Today he asked me if he could touch them, and I said they were to far up the hill to be able to touch them. He looked disappointed. But Josh was happy that it is only a month or so away.

I am excited to go, it will be fun to get away and see some pretty sites. I love the black hills. I have been there 3 times and think it is so fun. They are almost as big as mountains and I love to see the huge hills. They are so beautiful. We are staying for 3 nights and 4 days. I plan on getting everything ready and reservations all lined up this week. I know we will have fun. I want to do a ton of sight seeing and picture taking. And even stay at a hotel with a cool pool and maybe a water slide. Who knows, maybe I will go down one of those slides too. ;)

Can't Sleep

I have so many thoughts running through my head right now. It is close to 4 in the morning and I had to right some stuff down to clear my mind. I am disappointed in how I am in general lately. I am selfish and not very nice lately. Everything is and has been about me. I so badly want to change that. Not quite sure how. I have spent some time praying over the last hour or so and I know that helps me. I have been feeling like I haven't been a very good mom lately. I feel bad for my kids, and my husband. They have been great and love me anyways, but I need to focus more time on them and less on me. I want a closer relationship with God and Jesus, I feel them pulling me closer to them. They want me to be less selfish and concentrate more on my family and friends then what I have been. I love them, but not like I should. I know that Jesus is there for me, I am always praying for things, but things to help me out, not in the right way. I am super lucky, I have so much in my life to be thankful for, and I still think that I should have more or better things. God doesn't see the material things in my life, He sees what is in my heart. He wants me to love my kids and not see what is wrong with them, but totally love them and be a great influence to them. I got a beautiful mothers day card from Carol the other day and she wrote in there to bring my kids to the Lord, it will bless me greatly. I want to learn how to do that, not just by going to church but reading to them about God and Jesus, and teaching them how to love them. I have 2 God children that I want to help bring to God too (and Alec too) I have been blessed to be there Godmother, I need to accept that and help them.

Well I feel better now, I am going to try to go back to bed, Jake woke me up by telling me that he felt he need to puke, I at first of course thought "How could he wake me up from my sleep" but I am so glad he did now. I feel so much better and I am going to work on this relationship I so want with God and Jesus.

Spring is here

I love spring, but I hate it. I love how everything grows new and turns a beautiful shade of green. But on the other hand I hate it. It means that Mark is more busy and isn't around as much. The kids love spring because they can be outside a lot and they love it. They have been begging dad to go out fishing, but he is too busy right now to go fishing. Maybe on Sunday, he has to work on Saturday this week again. We need rain so bad, our yard is a dirt mess right now. We are going to be doing a ton of landscaping this year. I am sooooo very excited to get it all done!! The kids are going to get very dirty this year and I have already warned all the parents that there outside time might be limited to the driveway and the garage. But that is what it has to be. Someday it will be very nice in our yard!!

Circus Pictures

The kids had a lot of fun at the circus. The only thing Alyssah didn't like was the motorcycle act with the scary lady on the bottom. Josh loved it all. Josh got a fan that lit up, and Alyssah got a wand that makes a bunch of noise. They loved the ball that was being thrown around, Josh even hit it!! I would have added these pics a while ago, but it wouldn't let me!!

The circus

We went to the circus yesterday. It wasn't very fun, for me anyways. I met up with Bethany and her kids, and we went to McDonalds to eat. That should have been our first clue. IT WAS SO BUSY THERE!!! The circus started at 7pm, so we left McDonalds at 6:30 and drove there, only a few blocks away. We were lucky enough to find a parking spot not to far away. Very lucky. So we grab our kids and walk to the doors, and there was a line, it was moving pretty fast though. After we paid for our tickets we went in, we stood in line again for our stupid $2 toy that is 100% over priced and ended up getting 2 things, Alyssah has to have something too, we walked around the whole place to find 3 or 4 spots to sit. (we only brought Josh, Alyssah and 2 of her kids, Jacob and her daughter saw the circus earlier in the day) So we heard someone else saying that there was seating downstairs. We walked as fast as we could holding on to the little ones and went down there and found some seats in the bleachers. We were so close!! It was fun to be close, but in a few cases we were to close. So we stayed until the intermission and decided to leave. It was already 9 and intermission is 40 minutes and then another 15 mins or so of the circus. I am glad we left, traffic would have been so awful, and plus our kids, not Josh, were getting very tired and cranky. Next year I plan on NOT going. I can't upload pics right now. I will later though.