Hart Family News

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

May 31- last week of school!

May 31, 2006

It’s the last day of May and the last week of school!! Whoo-hoo!! No more having to wake up at 6:30! No more homework. We have such a fun summer planned. Kayla and Alayna are doing gymnastics, Tyler is still doing Tae kwon do, we are doing the free summer movie series on Tuesdays, playgroup on Thursdays, Kayla has band camp, Marisa has girls camp, college for kids, trip to Illinois, etc. In July, we will be traveling out to Colorado for a family reunion and then to Utah for another one. We will get to camp in Yellowstone and go see the Grand Tetons. On the way home we will visit the black hills of South Dakota and Mount Rushmore. It will be such a fun, exciting, and busy summer. I am sure we will be back to school before we know it.

This past week, Marisa had her final choir concert. I know she was a bit sad since her choir teacher, her favorite, is retiring this year. Kayla had her band interview. She tried out the flute, the clarinet, and the saxophone. She chose the clarinet. So we signed her up for the summer band camp which will help her get a head start. She is so excited she can hardly stand it. We also found out this week that Tyler earned his orange belt!! He gets it in class tomorrow, so we will take a picture and post it.

Alayna had her preschool graduation this week. They decorated these adorable shirts for it. They had a special program where they sang all the cute songs they learned this year. I forgot the video camera, shame on me. Anyway, they had pizza and cake, etc. It was a fun outing. She will be doing 3 days of preschool next year.

We spent all Saturday working outside. We mowed the lawn, completed the garden, filled the bunny holes, etc. For family home evening, we planted some new seeds in cups and they have already started to grow. We hope to transplant those into our garden in a few weeks.

On Monday, we went to our ward Memorial Day outing. It was at Pleasant Creek about 30 minutes away from here. The weather was perfect and we had a huge BBQ. Then we spent several hours swimming down in the lake. We didn’t know to bring swimsuits, so the kids went in their clothes (someone had an extra bathing suit for Marisa) Bob and I just put our feet in. Until several men from our ward came and grabbed Bob and threw him in!! They wanted him to come play football in the water with them. They had such a great time. That evening 2 families in our ward asked us out to dinner at this awesome Mexican Restaurant. On Mondays, all kids eat for 99 cents!!! While we were there, we saw 3 more families from our ward. Must have been the place to be.

That’s about it for now. Enjoy the week....

Sunday, May 21, 2006

May 21

May 21, 2006

Well, it seems Tyler decided to share his illness with others. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect, yet we had to spend it indoors because of illness. Tyler actually missed 5 days of school this week! He was so sad as it was the culmination of their rain forest unit and he wasn’t able to attend the giant open house. I felt so bad for him. On Thursday afternoon, I started to feel bad and by the evening I was very sick. This is an awful stomach virus! I have been sick for almost 4 days now. Just when you start feeling better and start moving around, it hits you again. Even though I was still feeling horrible yesterday, I cleaned the house. There were 10 loads of laundry , tons of dishes, and I had to disinfect the bathrooms. A mom’s job never stops. I was impressed however with how Marisa jumped in to help with the kids and dishes! I am doing much better today. I am so grateful for my normal health!!! Bob and the kids spent the whole afternoon yesterday outside planting strawberries by the patio and corn out by the shed. We really hope this garden actually works.

Marisa was accepted into the gifted and talented program for 7th and 8th grade. That means she will be in an excelled reading class for 7th grade and social studies for 8th. She had her birthday on Friday so she moves into the YW program today. I know she is very excited to graduate from primary.

Well, I apologize this is short, but most of the stuff we planned this week was cancelled since either Tyler or I were sick. Here’s to hoping this week will be a better one and that we can actually enjoy the beautiful weather outside!