I finally emptied my camera and so here is a snapshot of life since February.
Kenna turned 3. Here she is changing her new baby's diaper. She didn't have a friend party because she refused (and still refuses) to use the potty.
Rhyan and Katie competed at the USA Cheerleading Junior Nationals at the California Adventure. We took a girls trip with Nana and spent a couple of days prior to the competition at the Disneyland parks.
The competition started out rough. Both parks were closed for a bomb threat and so the first session started over an hour behind schedule. The girls competed in session 3. It meant a lot of sitting around waiting because we no longer had a difinitive start time.
At the competition, Katie's team took first in their category.
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| Way to go Katie! |
Rhyan's team took first in their category and Grand National Champions which means they had the highest score for all the teams in all the sessions for the whole day!
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| Grand Champs! |
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| Look at my medal! |
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Katie and her coaches
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At the end of February, the youngest 4's birth mom had a new baby... Baby C. She was placed with another family. (see told you we were really done having kids)! We went to Baby C's baby shower and got to love on her.
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| Our sister from another mother! |
Here is Baby C with her awesome Momma A! (Baby C's older brother "B" looks so much like Seth that they look more related then Seth and Baby C do)!
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Katie turned 7. Her birthday falls at the end of March and in the middle of tax season so her friend party didn't acutally occur until April after the tax deadline.
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Finally she got to have her party. The weeks between her actual birthday and the party were full of a lot of "when can we go to Chuck E. Cheese!"
Levi turned 13. He didn't get to have a friend party either because he also chose not to do the things he had to do in order to have one.
The girls' team got recognized by the Las Vegas City Council. I think its because we are currently the only recreation team in the Las Vegas area but I'm not sure. The girls didn't care, they got to miss a half day of school.
Most of my kids were born without the shyness gene. I think that's why it was so shocking that at Isabelle's graduation from preschool she was so embarassed she wouldn't even look at us.
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| Maybe if I don't look at them they won't know its' me! |
Finally, after the ceremony she loosened up a little bit!
Isabelle turned 5. She had a massive super hero themed birthday party with all of her "best" friends, (all 20 or them)!
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| Baby C all superheroed out! |
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| One of Isabelle's presents. Does Momma A get her or what?! |
Rhyan graduated from elementary school and is now a middle-schooler! She was so excited because she got six certificates and she told me she never gets more that one. She got a promotion (graduation) certificate, one for Honor Choir, one for Student Council, one for citizenship, one for the GREAT (Gang Resisitance Education and Training) program, and the Awesome Gladiator award for all her hard work in becoming the most improved in her class. I am really proud that she got the Awesome Gladiator award. She has worked hard to overcome all her learning issues and has not let them hold her back!
Katie's 5th birthday was yesterday. She had a great one. She got a lemonade stand from mom & dad, curtains from Nana & Papa, $10 from Grandma Jean and a zsu zsu pet with a carrier from Grandma Kay. I have a friend who does a birthday interview for each of her children and so I stole her idea! Thanks Sherrie!
