Spring Choir Concert

Aubrey was in a group solo for her end of the year choir concert. I love watching and listening to her sing. She has such an amazing talent. Even though her solo wasn't that exciting it was still fun to watch.

Fire Station

A friend of ours put together a trip to the fire station for a bunch of Lucas' friends. At first Lucas was really excited, but I think the size of everything scared him. For some reason he kept talking about monsters being inside before we even went in. The firemen (two of which were women) gave us a tour of the fire truck and even turned on the lights (not the siren). One of them then got in full gear and everyone except Lucas took a picture with him. I couldn't even get Lucas to go any closer to the fire truck than he did in the first picture. He was also given a hat and hasn't stopped talking about it since. Maybe we will have to go again so we can get some better pictures.

Strawberry Picking

A few weekends ago we went to a strawberry patch to pick some strawberries. It was a little early in the season, but we were able to fill a basket full. They were some of the best strawberries I have ever had (it made me miss my strawberries from Utah). I went home and made 6 containers of freezer jam and as of today there is only 1 left. Guess we will have to go again.

Lucas didn't like walking through the tall grass and Nick can't tell which strawberries are ripe so they went to look at the horses.

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Art

Lucas has been working on his art so that one day it can be displayed on the wall of a museum. Right now I guess we will all just have to settle for the walls in our house.

Dragon Cake

Here is one of my latest cakes. If you want to see more you can head over to my cake blog amberscakes.blogspot.com.

Recorders

I would first like to start off by apologizing to my parents for making them listen to me when I played the recorder many years ago. I feel that as a parent I now understand their sacrifice. :) Isaac had his recorder concert a few weeks ago. They did a great job and it really wasn't as bad as I make it sound. He seemed to pick it up really quickly since he has been playing piano for a while now. It is always fun to go the the school and see my children perform.

You might not want to have the sound up too loud. Enjoy. :) (Sorry it is a little shaky. Lucas was in my lap.)

Maddie the Soccer Star

Maddie decided to take a break from gymnastics and play soccer. This time her Dad is not her coach. There are only 3 girls on the team and 7 boys (she doesn't mind though). Maddie is very aggressive and has scored several goals already this season. I keep expecting her to start doing cartwheels during games, but it hasn't happened yet.