Memorial Day 2008 Photos

Finally, I got the card reader and now my photos are downloaded to the computer. Here is a slide show of the Memorial Day photos and fun.

The Recital

Gunnar, Qatar, and Ezekiel had a piano recital last night and it was very nice. Our piano teacher, Mrs Muzik(Not kidding, and her husband was the band teacher for years at the high school), serves dinner between the two shows. She has over 30 students and so she splits them according to ability, the new players play first and then after dinner the students who have been playing longer. Qatar and Ezekiel played in the first half and then Gunnar in the second group. Gunnar played in the best spot of the night, the spot after dinner but before the first group leaves. Gunnar played " Theme to the Apartment" Qatar played "The Purple Cow" and a fun tune. Ezekiel played "Cannon in D", and a jazzy piece. Ezekiel also played during dinner, but with a few draw backs, Gunnar played after dinner and the piano was greasy. Both Qatar and Ezekiel got three dollars for memorizing their pieces. During the night I was looking around the room and realized that eight other students were there from referrals from us, yet no referral bonus, HUM.
It was a nice night of fun music. Connett, and Benjamin also played in the recital and did very well. The camera is still not downloading.

Memorial Day

The day started with a parade downtown and a program. Gunnar played in the marching band and the Registers walked in the parade handing out flags, both in uniform. I had photos of both, but the camera is not allowing me to download right now. These photos are from Ashley.
We then went to a picnic at the Anderson's. The ward was there and so was lots of water for the kids to play in. The weather was beautiful, not to warm, not to cold. The picnic was fun, the kids played with water guns and got Bonnie really wet. JT dunked himself in a large tub of water and then ran around with blue lips from being so cold. He finally took of his soaked shirt to get warm. Vanessa made cookies and I made myself ill from having too many, again, I may never learn.
After the picnic we went home and realized we forgot the camera, so David and I rode our bikes back to get it. a bit over 5 miles round trip and I was really tired when we got back home. We cleaned out some of our bookshelves and now have lots of books and items to get rid of. I think the books are procreating on the shelf, how else do we have so many?

Graduation Time.

We are now full swing into graduation party time. High school seniors are having huge parties in their yards to celebrate their achievements. We have several invitations in the next few weeks.
Yesterday the party was for Mark White JR. He graduated from Southland High School and is almost done with his associate degree from Riverland Community College.
Here is Minnesota a Junior in high school can attend college, payed for by the state education council. I really hope my kids take advantage of this great opportunity and graduate from high school with an associated degree also. What a huge savings of money and time for these kids who take advantage of this fantastic offer.

I am tired! I know why they call it work!

I subbed four times this week. I am TIRED!! It has been a good sub week, I got to play in preschool on Wednesday. Monday and Friday were fun days at two schools, so fun time, no teaching, just supervision. Tuesday I floated to three different rooms to fill in for meetings. It was a great week to sub.
I love subbing preschool, six hours of play and fun. Painting, reading, singing. gym games and snacks. I am becoming pretty good at Fishes and Whales. I did have to pitch the kick-ball at Sumner on Monday, and well since I have not played kick-ball since fifth grade, I did have to take a few practice pitches.
Subbing has its great days and its not so great, want to cry, days. This week was great and I am putting the money into my Iceland Vacation Fund. The one place I never thought of as a vacation destination. I hope my parents learn the language well enough to take us around and impress us.
Just a shot of some kids, mine and Vanessa's. I have so many pictures I have to use them somewhere.

Qatar fought the law and the law won!

Qatar was involved in vandalism on Tuesday at the fair grounds. The story goes, there was a sign on the ground under some items and Qatar pointed it out and two of the other boys in the group then destroyed the sign. The police called all the parents and the kids involved, about 10, and interviewed everyone. They took Qatar's name, address, birth date, etc. We are now waiting to hear what else is going to happen.
While we wait Qatar is grounded to work. He will be pulling weeds,(that should take most of the summer) cleaning cars, cleaning bathrooms, picking up trash, etc, if you have anything that needs done let me know and I will send him over. He is cleaning out Bonnie's car Saturday.
I hope he works enough to never want to be involved in anything like this again. He is never going to the fair grounds without an adult again, at least until he is an adult. He will also be finding some new friends.

Concert Season

Last night was the High School Choir concert and Gunnar sings in the Freshmen Choir. We listened to him and then sat through all the other choirs and the senior tribute(baby and senior photos, roses, lots of hugs and tears) to see Gunnar sing with all the choirs together. Well, tonight at the High School band concert, the band is not all playing together at the end so we can sneak out after the Freshmen. YEA!!!!!! Black on black is the concert uniform for the night. Yes Mom, he needs a hair cut.
Bike Fun!! Oh, I forgot about the bugs in my eyes. I was riding my new bike on the paths by the river and sure enough bugs in my eyes. I need to remember my sunglasses and to keep my mouth closed. I also need to get in better shape. I am tired and I only rode about 3 miles. But to be fair, I did sub today at Southgate and I am tired from two days of subbing in a row. Kids are lots of work, even when they are not your own.