Gradutions and Author's party's....

May came quickly with our family being busy with baseball, getting yards ready for mother's day and for Niel and Carolee's farewell, enjoying my mother's gift from Ryan with a weekend in Park City with my friends, having to say goodbye to my Grandpa Averett who passed away unexpectly two days after mother's day and just a year from when my Grandma Averett had passed on, getting to see the Averett and Colton's cousin for a day when they all came in for the funeral, Tyler expericing his first car crash when someone totaled our van, and basically running from one thing to the next. Halle was the first to have her Kindergarten Graduation day along with her Author's party and showing me all the stuff she has learned this year and done. Emery couldn't leave the store without getting Halle some balloons and her one too! We loved Mrs. V and she was a wonderful teacher and just loved Halle. Everytime I was mother helper she would always tell me how much she just loved having Halle in her class and how wonderful she was.

I missed Treven's Authors party due to getting Tyler ready to go backpacking with the scouts at a last minutes notice. But Treven forgave me when he got to leave school early and pick any treat he wanted at Reams. First it was a Red Bull and I did have to say no, but then he picked a Dr. Pepper and was happy!

With Grandma and Grandpa Strong leaving soon for their mission they have been trying to catch some of the kids games before they leave. It is nice having Dylan and Treven on the same team and Tyler and Easton so they are always killing two birds with one stone.

The next graduation on the list was Halle's and Emery's gymnastics graduation showcase. I have more pictures of Emery since they let us come in the room with her while Halle's you had to watch from a balcony and couldn't get that good of pictures. But the girls loved doing it this year and you can always get a kid to feel special when you get a trophy at the end of the year. Halle took the class with her friend Eliie and Emery got to hang with her little brother Swayer who is quickly becoming a sidekick in mayhem when those two are together!