Lauren graduates from Kindergarten!!

We are so proud of our beautiful Lauren.  She finished kindergarten on Friday.  She has grown  and learned so much during this past year.

Lauren:  always in pink and in a dress!!

Now on to first grade!!   Lauren was telling me she can't believe she starts first grade on Monday.   I had to tell her she has no school until August.  I think she was a little disappointed. 

easter 2011

Sorry I have taken way to long to put anything on the blog.  So here are some late Easter pictures.

Robert and I took the kids to a park to do our own Easter egg hunt this year.   Tooele has a good Easter egg hunt at Deseret Peak Complex but there is always a thousand people there and you have to push and shove other kids to get anything so we decided to do our own smaller version.    McKay thought getting the eggs was the coolest thing!!

 And we had spring break from school.  Only the whole week it rained.   On a what I thought was going to be a good morning, I decided to pack the kids up and go to Wheeler Farm.  And it did sprinkle on our "field trip"  but we did have a good time.

Wheeler farm as bags of duck food you can give them.  I thought "great!"   that was until some of the geese came around us and fought off the ducks.   This picture was before that happened.

This goose bit Lauren on her leg!!   I guess he thought she was going to take his food or she just got too close to him during his feeding time!!

McKay thought this cow was pretty cool.  He kept mooing at it and petting the cow through the fence.

And the baby pigs stole the show.    

Spouse Ride

Not very often now days,  Roberts work has a spouse flight where they invite spouses onto a refueling practice mission.   A couple weeks ago I was able to go with Robert and watch two B-52 bombers be refueled. Here is the first B-52 lining up to be refueled.

It was so fun watching this happen.   All of us wife's were in aah,  as most of the husbands were use to seeing this be done.

Here is the second plane waiting for its turn to refuel.   We were also able to go in to the flight deck ( cockpit of the plane)  and listen to the pilots of the other planes around us talking.  Until we got in to middle of Wyoming we could hear the radio tower at salt lake airport.

Here is the second B-52 refueling.   We flew over South Dakota where it finally cleared out and we could see land.   And one last picture of the McKay and Lauren to make the grandparents happy!!!    McKay has learned how to open his toy battery compartments with a screw driver and is showing us his tallent.  

Cruise'n January 2011

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• Robert and I enjoyed a cruise to the southern Caribbean in January.  We had a great time relaxing on the beach and eating good food on the ship.    This first picture was taken in on the small island of Catalina, Dominica Republic.  That is our ship behind us!    Robert and his brother were able to try their luck on the Flowrider in Grand Turk.  They body surfed and surfed standing up.

 Robert and I ate at this amazing Mexican restaurant  in Aruba. 

This was our last port.  The very industrilized country of Curacao.( pronounced Cur-a-sow)   This inland use to be owned by the Netherlands. It was a slave training place for the people to bring slaves here. the slaves would stay here for two years before they sold them to the people in the Netherlands.   They learned they could get more money for the slaves if they trained them how to work.

Our last sun set aboard the Carnival Miracle!!

On Sunday after we boarded off the ship we went to the Florida Everglades.  Here is our alligator friend that followed our fan boat for about 30 minutes.

 
This is a bad picture.  I thought I choose a different one.  ( sorry, I'm still learning)   if you look closely there is an alligator sunning himself.   After we went to this alligator rescue and saw 13 foot alligators.   kind of fun.  Well I hope I didn't bore you too much.   i'm just trying to get use to this and use it as my families journal.

One more picture the kids wanted me to put on.  At the alligator rescue I had the chance to hold a 5 month old alligator and i jumped at the opportunity!