Vada turning 6

Anna Leigh and girls came up Friday to spend the weekend in Des Moines. We all hit the Farmers Market yesterday and Arts Festival. It was fun yet muggy day. AL and girls spend the night with us last night. Today we celebrated Vada's 6th Birthday.  She is BIG into the movie Frozen. Her cake was Frozen and she received a lot of Frozen birthday gifts. 

 

 

this was taken this morning after they woke up

 birthday girl with her crown

 cousin picture

 

Feeding Ducks

Ever since the girls have been small we head to Jordan Creek's pond and feed ducks our stale bread.  Today we got to see some smaller ducks and even feed some huge fish. 

 

Hannah's signature pose

 here come the bigger ducks

 one of the smaller ducks

 this picture makes me laugh

 

Saylorville Dam

I have never been to the dam nor have the girls and with all this rain we have had and seeing and hearing about it on the news I decided to go check it out. It was pretty cool to see. We weren't able to see the beach, it is closed due to high waters. 

 

 

 

 

NC cousins invade IA

Pat, Anna Leigh, Vada and Isla arrived in Mt Ayr on the 10th. They came back for a family friends wedding. AL and girls are staying here for 5 weeks. YAY!!  We will all road trip back to NC for our beach trip in July.  While mom, dad and AL were at rehearsal I took the 4 girls to the park to play. 

 

 

 

all 4 swinging

 IJ

 Vada

 

Tea Party

Haydn and Kylie (neighbor) attending a tea party today at Urbandale Historical Society.  They were to dress up in a fancy (nice) dress, bring a doll or stuffed animal. They made paper dolls, learned good table manners, danced to music from "Frozen", and served a speical lunch.  Lunch was PB/jelly sandwich, carrots/dip, fruit kabobs, ice cream, cupcake and drink. 

 

 



Last Day of school 2014

Hannah is finishing 4th grade and Haydn 2nd Grade. Both girls will go to new school next fall. Hannah will ride the bus to Dallas Center and Haydn will head to North Ridge. They both have had a great year of school and really excelled in a lot of subjects.  Let summer begin...

 

1st day of school 2013-14

 Hannah's signature pose

 

 last day of school 2013-14

 school is out

 

Hannah's field day

4th and 5th graders had field day today. Hannah did the long jump, 100 meter dash and 400 meter.  It was a warm day and she did awesome.

 

 

this is the 100 meter. she got 1st

this is the 400. she got 2nd! She loves to run! YAY Hannah!