Quinton Finishes Preschool

Quinton finished preschool at Little Sunbeams Academy in May. He learned so much the past year. It was a lot of fun to see him at his end of the year party singing the songs he learned. It's hard to believe he'll be starting Kindergarten so soon!

Here he is with his teacher Saskia Baxter - aka "Miss Sas." Quinton sure loved having her as her teacher and luckily still gets to see her on Sundays since she's his primary teacher too. And next year it's Clara's turn to come here. She's very excited!

Suprise!

Barry turned 30 this year and I decided to throw him a party. I think he was pretty surprised!

Here he is after the big reveal. We invited our friends and Barry's parents and his brother Joe were even there. We had "gourmet" hot dogs and some yummy cake. It was at Legacy Park near the duck pond and the kids had fun running around while the adults talked.

It was a lot of fun having so many people there who care about him.

We went back the next day (Barry's actual birthday) with Joe and did a little fishing at the pond.

Warren showing his dissatisfaction at being stuck in the stroller.

Clara has a fascination with climbing rocks lately. I think she just likes to make her mother nervous.

Metamorphosis

Barry went on a hike one day in May near Mountain Home and found hundreds of little caterpillars. The kids were really excited when he took them to go find some to bring back home. The kids couldn't catch the caterpillars because they were on stinging nettle, but they still thought it was pretty cool. They each had quite a few in their jars.

This is a picture of Quinton throwing a tantrum when it was time to leave. I had the camera handy and just couldn't resist. 

A few days later, the caterpillars made their cocoons all over the jar.

Here they are as butterflies!