May is a busy month. I spend most of it getting preschool scrapbooks done and other preparations for preschool graduation.
Lily wanted to run an 8 minute mile for her gym class, so Tom would take her out running some nights to help her get better. One night, our whole family went around the block. Tom, Lily and Jeff ran, Cedric started out running, but switched to his bike, and I rode my bike and pulled Sophie in the bike trailer. It was a fun activity! (and definitely reminded me I need to exercise more often.)
On May the 4th we celebrated Star Wars Day! I did Sophie's hair like Ray from "The Force Awakens" and bought her a new Star Wars shirt.
All of us wore our Star Wars shirts that day.
"May the 4th be with you!"
Cedric also lost another tooth and looks like a jack-o-lantern.
One day, Tom and Jeff were cleaning the turtle tank and left Tank, the turtle in the plastic bin (shown at the top of this photo) while they cleaned it. Well, the tank we'd been using was starting to fall apart, so they ran to the store to buy a new one. I decided to go check on the turtle after they'd be gone a while, and was startled when I walked in and saw the bin empty and a turtle crawling right next to my feet!
For Mother's Day I wanted real flowers to put in our front flower bed. So on Saturday, we went together as a family to pick out flowers and then we all hurried and planted them before the storm came that day (well, most of us helped).
We had a fun date night/ surprise birthday party for Tom's good friend, Jeremy. We all wore shirts that talked about turning 40 that night. We went to dinner and then to go see Captain America: Civil War. It was a fun night!
Our ice machine stopped working and started leaking water down the back of our freezer. We didn't realize how bad it was until we tried to clean it out! Tom was so great to help get all the frozen stuff out of the freezer and defrost the glaciers that had formed in there.
Tom's bees are thriving nicely and he was able to spot the queen bee. So far, only Tom, Cedric and Sophie have been stung. Tom got stung when he was changing out the bees sugar water and didn't smoke them first, Cedric got stung while playing with a dead bee, and Sophie got stung because she was walking around by the bees in bare feet.
It finally got warm enough to turn on the sprinklers and run/jump through them in swim suits.
The kids have fun spending time with their cousins when we get together each month for Sunday dinners. We get together with Tom's side on the second Sunday and my side on the third Sunday. Here they are with their cousins from my side.
One day, Sophie learned that none of her friends wore Pull-ups to bed. She asked why she had to wear them and I told her it was because she didn't know how to stay dry while sleeping. Well, she decided she wanted to be like her friends and started staying dry at night, all on her own! When she went about three weeks, with only one accident, I decided to switch her to underwear. She did great for the first five days, but then was having more accidents than wasn't. So Tom and I decided to put her back in Pull-ups and we'd try again later. Unfortunately, this has caused her to relapse and wakes up wet almost every night.
May always includes preschool graduation. Although Sophie has another year of preschool, she did get a completion award and the award for being the best friend in class. Everybody would fight over Sophie.
We had fun going to Wheeler Farm one night for our mortgage lenders work party. The kids got their faces painted.
Maren and Charlotte came too. Tom and Lily left early to go help paint the dairy pool, while Maren and the little kids walked around the farm. The weather was perfect and the kids were asking to go back again.
Jeff has been trying to grow his hair long. It got long enough to put a pony tail in it.
Sophie, Charlotte and I went and helped with the fun run at the boys' school one day.
It was a hot day and the boys did great! My friend, Kristi and her daughter, Alyse were there too. The girls were good to play, eat Popsicles and play in the sprinkler hose while we were working.
Jeff wanted to put his hair in a front pony tail so it wouldn't be in his eyes while he ran. He came in fifth place for his grade!
After having a special Sunday class at church on doing family history, Lily and I decided to try out Familysearch.org and see what it was about. Our neighbor, Linda came over and helped us and we were able to find two family names that need sealing work done in the temple.
On Memorial Day, we had fun going to the Bee's game with Jeremy and Cheri's family (and Jeff's friend, Steven). The kids were more interested in climbing around, eating cotton candy and popcorn, than in actually watching the game, but it was still fun.
Later that night we went to Bryce and Sara's house for a barbecue and got a big game of softball going.
Sophie and Charlotte had fun just playing in the yard and Nana enjoyed watching from the sidelines.
On one of the days the kids were still in school, but I was done with preschool, Sophie and I went up to our family cabin with Candalyn and Adair. We had a good lunch and the girls played while we cleaned the windows to get them ready for summer. It was a fun outing.
Lily had another choir concert for the end of the year. They sang some fun songs again and she loved performing.
May is probably my busiest, but favorite months of the year. I'm sad it's over.
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