May 2013

Carter finished another amazing season in soccer with his team the Frisco United.  His coach, Stuart Joy and his family are moving to West Texas so we will really miss them, but Ken will join the ranks and be the assistant coach.  Carter is really excited about that!

The night that the boys went camping with Ken for the Priesthood Commemoration, Bethany and I went and got pedicures.  She liked it OK (asked a few times when they were going to be done--she's still probably a little young), but our toes sure looked great!

Our sweet little ballerina!  All dressed up in her costume and ready for her recital!

Bethany with her two friends from church (Kenna and Peyton) that she also dances with.

She did so well at her recital (she even told me she did it perfectly) that she even got a dozen red roses from her brothers just back from camping and smelling like it as well. :) 

Mom helping out at the end of the year Staley carnival.  All of us PTA volunteers really enjoyed the trikes they rented maybe even more than the kids.

Wesley putting his muscle and body into the tug-of-war.  He got nice and wet and muddy too.  That's our Wes.

We went down and saw the Beams and the Putnams over Memorial Day weekend.  We couldn't step into the room were Nikolas was because he finally got a kidney transplant...yeah!!! and can't be around a lot a people.  We got to see Nanny too!  She was down helping the Beams.

Bethany and Carmendy always have a fun time together.  They are just cute friends!

Wesley (the oldest Walton grandchild) and Zachary (the second to youngest Walton grandchild by just a few days) having some bonding time. :)

Cameron is always so sweet and kind to all of his cousins.  He took care of Carmendy while we were eating at Chili's after the splash pad and park.

Having fun at the Putnam family's block party.  There was lots of food too!

Carter was loving this trike.  He was cruising around really fast all over the driveway and cul-de-sac at the Putnams house.  Maybe a great idea for his upcoming birthday?

It's always a great time playing at the Putnams pool.  The Beams and Nanny also came to join in the action.  Unfortunately, the boys got sunburned really bad :(

Bethany enjoying the chickens in one of our friends from the ward's back yard.  She even got to hold an egg which was the highlight for her.  I was just glad she didn't drop it.

Bethany got a hold of the camera and took several pictures of herself and other random things.  This is the only picture that actually looked kind of cute!

Cameron receiving his end of year award for Creative Writing.  He really does write great stories.  He also got 100% on the Reading portion of the STARR test this year and way over advanced on the other sections too.

Cameron with some of his best friends from school:  Logan, Nathan, Breanna and Alex.  His teacher below for 4th grade was Mrs. Miller.  Now, on to 5th grade (just one more year of Elementary)!

Carter also got an award, but my camera didn't have the battery in it when I went to take a picture.  He got the high integrity award for his class and we are so proud of him.  He had a great year with his friends and wonderful teacher, Mrs. Garis.

This is Bethany with all her preschool friends at their end of the year pool party.

Wesley at his first swim meet for the year.  He did well for just getting started back into swimming.  Ken is also doing swim team and maybe he'll go to State this year in Corpus Christie.

April 2013

Our sweet little ballerina in her recital costume!

The first time that Wesley got to go to the Priesthood session.  They were so excited and happy to go together.  I thought it was so cute!  Plus, they got Blizzards at Dairy Queen afterwards. 

We always seem to find anuls (these kind of lizards) at Gram's house around this time of year.  It keeps the kids entertained for hours. 

Ken planned a special weekend at a Bed and Breakfast in a German town about an hour outside of the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.  The home was on a farm and all the food they served was directly from their farm except for fruit.   This was a goat with her little kids.  They were really cute...looked almost like Beagle puppies. It was nice to get away and thanks to Gram for watching the kids.  It was a crazy Saturday for us to leave, but she did a great job getting them to all their activities.

This was gnome and frog tic-tac-toe!

Bethany on her way to swim at our friends, the Ferrari family.  They are straight from Italy and their son is on Carter' soccer team.  They are such great hosts in providing their pool and tons of authentic Italian food for us.

Ice cream cones at a swim party...what more could you ask for?

Bethany with three of her preschool/church friends using scissors (the kid kind) to trim our bushes.  They were cutting all the flowers until I redirected them to the bushes :) Aren't they adorable?

Our friends, the Fluckigers, were in Dallas for a concert and we were happy they took the time to visit with us, go out to dinner and we were especially excited to see there new baby girl. First girl for their family! 

Bethany went to Pump it Up for a "field trip" one day for preschool.  They all had a blast!

Sara and Lily came down to see Jon and Whitney while they were passing through from BYU to interships in NYC (mad I didn't get any pictures of them).  We went to Cheesecake Factory with them and did some shopping.  We especially enjoyed having some snuggles from sweet little Lily!

February 2013

Bethany had a princess b-day party.  Cameron had all the princesses and princes captivated by reading them a fairy tale.  He is really good with children. Here are a few pictures opening her presents with her friends.  She really got spoiled :)  I just posted the pictures that they were actually mostly looking at the camera.

For Bethany's birthday, we also went to a restaurant called "The Magic Time Machine."  We had Willy Wonka for our waiter, a magician came and did magic tricks for us and other characters like Wonder Woman and Zorro visited us.  Besides the fun "fizzy" drinks the kids got, the food was pretty marginal, but the atmosphere was fun!

 

They also took a picture of us and changed all our faces.  It is pretty freaky looking, but it always makes me laugh when I look at it!  We especially love Bethany's 70's look.