Birthday girl

Our baby girl is 5! She has been so excited, waiting for this birthday to come! She is so much fun to have in our family. She loves to cuddle with mom, but is less likely to let her sisters kiss and hug her. So when she falls asleep, they sneak up for a hug or kiss, because she's just too darn adorable when she's asleep. It's pretty funny.
Thanks to Netflix, she has watched probably every episode of Dora and Blues Clues now. She decided she wanted a Blues Clues party with the Blair side; we did that on Memorial Day.



On her real birthday, her sweet Aunt Crystal came down to host as "Cinderella" for her princess party to her little friends. We had a great turnout, so many kids! They had fun being treated royally, climbing the tower to Rapunzel, getting pedicures, dance freeze tag, making crowns and yummy pink cupcakes and lemonade. They had great manners, and were fun to have over!


For her family birthday dinner, we met up with our friends the Struhs' at Chuck E. Cheese. Mayzie loved it there, they earned plenty of tickets to pick out lots of awesome prizes ;) And we got really cute pictures of all of us in their sketch photo booth. I'm thinking of hanging them on the living room wall; but not really.



For her Johnstun party, we had to wait for them to get back in town from Hawai'i, so they got to come to Pony Express Days. The parade is just around the corner from our house, so we just walk out and lay our blanket down that morning. Pretty fun, and the kids got lots of fun stuff, candy, t-shirts, frisbees, etc. The girls also performed at the carnival, so after lunch we went and watched and shopped and then played water games later. A 9 hour party for some guests! It was pretty cool! Then we had some cousins sleep over. My kids sure love their cousins!

Out for Summer!

Wow, we survived the last 2 weeks of May, which were chuck full of ceremonies, graduations, parties, and had us running here and there, but they were worth it. Aubrie finished up her track season making it to district level in high jump and shot put.
Alyssa went to the Provo track meet with her running club and did well too, she got an award for the 100 meter dash. She was proud of herself for running faster than all the boys in her 4th grade class :) She and Beth both got the Presidential Fitness Award as well.





Bethany had her gymnastics expo, and got to feel what it's like to perform and be critiqued and scored at a meet. She did great.



They had lots of fun easy days for the last week of school. The elementary school's CRT scores were so high, beating past records, that the principal threw the kids a party and rented bounce houses and slides at a local park to reward them. They also got Field Day with dunk tank and store, splash pad day, kickball vs. teachers; Lyssa got to go bowling and the dinosaur museum too; lots of fun.





Aubrie's school gave them a fiesta, and movies, and Hawai'ian dancers, and she took lots of pictures at her yearbook day. Not to mention a carnival always comes to our neighborhood on the last week of school. Pretty spoiled!

The kids were all diligent and worked hard and got all A's, and so we get to spoil them this summer doing lots of fun stuff now. Way to go girls!

Little Graduate

Miss Mayzie has officially graduated from her Little Star Academy preschool. She had an awesome graduation ceremony, with songs and a microphone, cute homemade guitars, and cute interviews. She had been talking about it for weeks, and it was fun to see her so happy to perform and proud of herself. Daddy got to come and we even spoiled Alyssa, and checked her out of school to come watch. When all the other little girls were answering "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with "princess", they got to Mayzie, and she announced she would be "a police officer and a firefighter" :) They sang "Mr. Golden Sun", and "Zippidy Doo Da", and "Twinkle Star", and a cute pig/wolf song.

She had a great time with her sweet teacher Miss Mallory. She loved making nice new friends, and she has been reading her big "Dick and Jane" book, and is all set for kindergarten. I guess now that she turned five, I have to face that she is growing up and headed to school in the fall! I will just have to enjoy summer with my "baby girl" for now. We are so proud of you and love you, miss "Maymay!"






With her teacher


Celebrating with ice cream, with her preschool buddy :)