Happy Birthday Les!!!!!

Today Les turned the Big 31!!!!!!!! The kids didn't have school today, but unfortunately Les' school district did :( So, I made him some Cinnamon muffins last night for him to have for breakfast (I know, I went all out right:)) We probably should have gone and had lunch with him, but he doesn't have his plan period until 6th hour so, it would have been kind of pointless. Instead, we just waited until he got home to properly wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

His cake made with pure love!

Blowing out the candles....Good job :)

Daddy with his little fan club!

Happy Birthday Les!!!!! We Love You so much and couldn't be more grateful for all the hard work you do to support our family!

It is Official

I got my unofficial score for my teacher certification test on Friday, I passed! I received my official scores this week in the mail, and I still passed! A huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. All I have to do now is find a job.

Anna

It was fun for us to go visit Jocelyn, Ed and little Anna in the hospital. Here are my kids holding her. She sure is a cutie.

Newest family additons

We picked up a buck for our does last weekend. We are hoping to have babies for next year's 4-H projects. He certainly is doing his job. It's been an interesting learning experience for our kids to watch. This is what he looks like.


This is him standing next to our does. He is just so much bigger than they are. The guy we got him from called him "Willy." He offered to sell him to us and we are thinking we probably will buy him. He only wants $50 for him which is sooo cheap for such a goat. We could sell him for meat for more than $5o. So we have started to call him "Monster" because he's so big.


These are the four whethers we bought for the kids 4-H projects for this year. They aren't very big, but we're hoping they will put on lots of weight before August 16th, which is our show day (I think). We picked them up yesterday in Adrian, Mi. We'd like to not have to go that far again, which is why we are trying to have our own babies for next year.

Choir concerts

Last week we had two choir concert to attend. Makayla's was on Tuesday and Merrit's was on Thursday. Merrit was actually in a special choir that he volunteered for. It required extra, special practices before school and at lunch time. Both kids did really well, and were fairly animated and really got into the songs. It was fun to watch.

Cub Scouts!!!!!!!

Now that Bradyn is 8 years old he is able to go to Cub Scouts.....Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so excited and has been waiting for his chance to go. What is extra exciting is that his cousin is also going to be in his troop and his really good friend Nolan too.

Looking especially adorable in his uniform!!!!!!

His brothers and sister wanted to take a picture with him too!!!!

Its funny because I was telling Logan to put his hands behind his back because he would not stop flapping them around and so Audrey dropped her blanket and put her hand behind her back too. I was just going to take a picture with all the boys, but as soon as they lined up she went and took her spot in the line :)

More updates

This past Friday was a spur-of-the-moment party for Bradyn's birthday. He wanted Merrit to come so we brought the whole family. They went to see the movie Furry Revenge. It was pretty cheesy with little plot line, but the kids enjoyed it. Here they are after the movie was over.



This past Saturday we helped with a service project with our 4-H group. We are becoming more and more involved with 4-H and I think the kids really enjoy it. I think it's been good for them. Here is the group of us that went with the Gleaners group who invited us to come.


Makayla has a school performance tomorrow and Merrit has one on Thursday this week. I'm sure we'll have pictures of those to post too. This month is looking to be super busy for us. I'm so glad my classes have finished. I received an A in both. I was pretty happy about that. Charlie finished his super hard class last Wednesday and then began his next one the following day. The class he is in now is so much easier. He's pretty happy about that. The kids are all doing well. We signed the youngest three up for karate. They started last Thursday. They had fun. I'll have to get some pictures of them doing some moves. Their class is only 6 weeks long. We could sign them up for the next class, but we are playing it by ear. We also signed Merrit up for baseball. It's been his dream for years now. His first game is June 7th. The don't have a practice schedule yet. Merrit is so excited about it. We've been trying to help him practice here at home. I hope he has fun and does well. The season only goes until the middle of July, which is good since we leave for vacation then. I'm glad he won't miss any games because of vacation.

Anna

Here she is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anna Marie Stevenson. Born 5/2/10 At 7:10 pm 7lb 2oz 20 1/2 in long. Look at her hair.

Jaxson's Music Extravaganza!

Jaxson's class had a music day, April 22nd, that they invited parents to. I have some pictures and videos of them performing. This video was the most entertaining. All the kids did really good and were really cute.

Jaxson's fieldtrip

Jaxson's class went to Grandpa Tiny's farm in Frankenmuth. It was fun, even though it was little chilly. We were able to see some fun animals, Jaxson went on a horse pulled wagon ride and we lined up using their Boer buck to breed with our does. It was a very productive time. Now we just have to fix our fencing so it will be good enough to keep in a buck, then we will go get him. I'm hoping to get him this coming Saturday. Here are some pictures of the event.
This is Jaxson and his friend Max in the chicken coop.

These are the horses that pulled the wagon.

This is Jaxson petting one of the goslings. The woman who was showing us the animals explained that with this particular breed of goose, the male goslings have light bills and the females have dark bills. We were reading a farm story today and it had some baby swans in the story. Jaxson pointed at one of them and said that because of its dark bill it was a girl. I was so impressed that he had remembered.

Were haveing the baby

Jocelyn and I are up here at the hospital haveing the baby. Her water broke about 9:30 last night and we have been up here since midnight. Right now it is almost noon and she is only to 3cm so it will still be a while. I will try to post more latter after she is born with pics.