More Catch-up

Well May was very eventful also. It usually always is with the end of school and all that comes with that but add a couple family weddings to the mix and it makes for a busy schedule. First Greg's nephew Wyatt got married. It didn't take very long after he got home from his mission to find a girl but we all sure like her. Her name is Heidi and she's sweet. Hope it's okay that I stole this picture from Neina :)
Well Heidi and Wyatt got married on Monday and had a luncheon afterward in Salt Lake. Then Tuesday was their wedding reception, also in Salt Lake. Then Thursday my sister Jamie got married in Salem. It was super nice. Salem is famous for it's pond and they had the ceremony and reception at a city building right across from the pond. I didn't get very many pictures in Salem. I tried to turn it on right as they were walking down the aisle and the batteries were dead. I was so bummed and I kept thinking I need to get a picture of that! Then I kept remembering that was why there were photographers there. On Saturday they had a reception in Cokeville, Wyoming. That is where Justin is from and where they are living now. Our whole family went up and stayed the night there in a motel and I think we doubled the population of the town for the night! I thought Kamas was small but Cokeville is tiny! I think it's going to be quite an adjustment for Jamie to move there but I'm sure she will love it.

This is our family at the Cokeville reception.
Jamie didn't have bridesmaids or a maid of honor. She had men of honor instead. This is her with our nephews Cooper and Jordan . Here are my girls. They all looked so cute in their matching flower girl dresses. I need to steal some more pictures because I didn't get that many.

May was also the end of school. Hayden "graduated" from kindergarten. We've been really lucky that our girls like to go to school and do really well. Hayden liked school a lot She was quite the social butterfly and had a lot of cute friends in her class.

This is her with her teacher Mrs. Ure. Gracie had her in Kindergarten too and we really liked her.

This is Hayden and her "best friend" Kamryn

We also had the spring dance show. As usual it was awesome and the girls did really well. I'm not sure what it's going to be like to get 4 girls ready for the dance performances but I think I'm going to have to send Greg to hair school so he can help me out a little.

Gracie did something really exciting this year. She is a pretty good speller. She hardly ever missed a spelling word on her class spelling tests but she hasn't done that well in the school spelling bee's mostly because her mom is a slacker and we don't study as much as we should. She decided, I think with a little prompting from her teacher, that she wanted to try for the Park Record Spelling Bee. It is a county wide spelling bee separate from the schools bee and the students had to go before school and take a test to qualify to participate. Well Gracie was one of around 200 kids who took the test and the only one from her school in the 2nd and 3rd grade category to make it. She was one of 20 kids who qualified and only 18 showed up to participate in the spelling bee at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City. She was so nervous and so was I but she did awesome. She finished 8th place. I was so proud of her for even trying something like that. I know I wouldn't have had the guts to do that in 3rd grade let alone the brains! I think it was such a good experience for her and I hope she'll do it again next year. If we weren't traveling all over for wedding stuff we definitely could have studied a little more and I think she could have won it!This is the whole group. One little girl even came down and told her mom she changed her mind and she wanted to go home. They all looked pretty nervous to me.

At the end of the school year they have an awards assembly where they give certificates for different awards and accomplishments. Gracie got a few awards. One for citizenship, one for reading, and one i didn't even know about. She won 3rd place for story she wrote about where bread and butter come from. It was sponsored by Farm Bureau and she even won $10. The one I was most proud of was one for the Iowa test of basic skills. It's a nationwide test and she got 90 percent in 6 areas.That means she did better than 90% of the nation! But the one she was most proud of was a medal for playing the recorder in music class and passing off a certain number of songs. I guess a medal is a lot better than a certificate!

This is her teacher Mrs. Tuttle

I guess that does it for May. It took me long enough to finish this post and now I'm going to have to catch up for June. A blogger's work is never done right?