Scandinavian Days 2011

Scandinavian Days were definately different this year. It just wasn't the same without Grandpa there. I kept looking for him to be sitting in his car to keep out of the cold while saving us places along the trade route or picturing him sitting on one of the rockers on his patio back at the house. We had a great time, despite the unseasonably cold weather (again) but missed his presence.

The picture above reminded me of being with grandpa and grandma as a kid. They hated that my hair was always hanging in my face. Every time we went somewhere with them I ended up having to wear my hair in a pony. Remind you of someone else?

The not-so-scary Vikings. This year, they were more friendly than frightening.

Happy Memorial Day!

Flag Football

Collin really wants to play football. We finally gave in to him playing flag football this spring. He loved it and really did well! We were happy to see that most of the kids weren't that much bigger than him even though a lot of them had experience playing real football together.

Here Collin is about to grab this kids flag. Go Collin!
This was one of his last games and his real coach wasn't there unfortunately. He loved his coach. He was very fair and treated the kids well.

This huge kid was trying to block Collin. It made me laugh that Collin didn't seem to mind. Had this been tackle football, that would have been a different story.

Sydney's 2nd Up With Kids! Play: Alice in Wonderland

Sydney has loved going to Up With Kids! the past two years. She loves to learn about music, different plays and musicals, how to perform, etc. and she especially loves to be on stage. This year her play/musical production was Alice in Wonderland.

At the beginning, all the kids in her group are random princes/princesses or dukes/duchesses. Here Sydney is the Princess "Jasmine".

Sydney as a guest at the tea party.

Sydney as a tweetle.
The finale, signing "Imagine".

Wow! Everybody got their very own Oscar statue!

Shannon, Logan, Nana and Papa were nice enough to come support Sydney in her play (and even bring her flowers).

One of my favorite scenes with the little kids: They were the toy characters in Andy's room (Toy Story).

Favorite Book Characters

Sydney and Collin insisted on dressing up like one of their favorite book characters for Spirit Day at school. In case you can't figure out who they are: Collin is Huck Finn and Sydney is Junie B. Jones.

Spring Break in Lake Havasu

I can't believe we finally made it to Spring Break! We headed south and spent a few days in Lake Havasu with Joan and Bob. The kids enjoyed celebrating Easter there, swimming in Grandma's pool and checking out all the birds and animals out at Grandpa's.

Decorating eggs with Grandma Jo.

We tried out some great restaurants while there, too.

Down by the London Bridge.

We went out to the lake and watched Bob fly his planes. The kids even got to try flying some of them. The kids loved collecting rocks and shells on the beach and playing on the trees by the lake.

Out at Site 6. There was a beautiful sunset the last day we were in town. The desert is so pretty in the evening.

The kids collecting again: Sydney picking flowers and Collin picking up every cool rock he could find. Our van was loaded down with their treasures on the way home.

We can't wait to go back to visit!