Mason's first story

All through our school year Mom has tried to get Mason to write a story. He would only write 2 or 3 sentences and give up. Tonight Mom walked into Mason's room to find him writing a story, all on his own! I'm going to copy it just as he wrote it.

The bigist grape ever

bi Mason

One day it was evene (evening) and I was eating grapes and I fond (found) the bigist grape ever and I wantid to brin it to my camp it was so cool. and i have a dog to. and it is almost the same size as my thumb. 

We are so proud of him! He is doing really well with his writing and spelling! He is really excited to start first grade!

 



Solution for bored kids

Problem:  Bored kids.
Solution:  Stale Marshmellows and Toothpicks.

30 minutes of fun....

Minion

We had been talking about getting a dog for months now.  We went back and forth and could never reach a consensus.  On a fluke, we dropped by the pound and found a 10 month old golden retriever.  She was just found and they wouldn't let us interact with her for 3 days in case her owner called.  After the 3 days, we got to see her and we decided to adopt her.  We still had to wait for 2 more days for her to be fixed, but we finally brought her home on May 26th. 

Her name is Minion...or Minnie for short.

Tori Turns Three!

Our little Victoria turned three years old.  Last year we took her to Chuck-e-cheese and she loved it, so we decided to take her again.   Since she loves princesses, we made her a castle cake with hearts, and she LOVED it.  She went around the house singing "happy birthday to me" for 3 days before her birthday.  For her birthday, she got most of the Disney Princess dolls. 

 Tori's Cake

 All of our tickets at Chuck-e-Cheese!

 Tori with her new dolls and sunglasses!

 Mason helped Tori open most of her gifts.

 Mommy with her favorite doll, Mulan.

 Enjoying her cake...we started with plates and forks...and ended up diving in with our faces!

 Aryah loved the little rides and rode them over and over and over!

 Daddy and Tori

 Last year, Tori was scared of this horse, but she loved it this year!

 There was a large wheel (like Price is Right) that you could spin to get tickets.  The jackpot was 125 tickets.  Daddy got 3 tickets and Mason got 2, but Tori hit the jackpot!  This is her with all those tickets!

 Mason was earning tickets like crazy!

 Here is Aryah on the rides again....

Tori on her birthday.

Random

Everytime we go through our video cards, we  find random clips....  some taken by us, and some taken by Mason.  Here are a few....

Mason said, "Look, I have an idea!"

 Catching butterflies with their feet...

Daddy got REALLY dirty mowing the lawn one day...

Self-portrait

 Blanket surfing!

 I'm a fairy!

Our new pet Roomba

We have a new pet, named Roomba, a robot vacuum.  The kids love to follow it around and watch it clean.  It was Ashlee's birthday present and a pre-qualification for any potential pets.  Granted, it doesn't get every spot in the house clean, but when it's done, it has a full bin of trash and helps out a lot!  Plus, it keeps the kids entertained for a while each day!  

Welcome Roomba! 

GO DRAGONS!

Mason's second season of soccer went really well!  Jes, the coach, tried to encorporate a few more fun activities to encourage the kids to play and they seemed to work great.   Each kid go their "dragon stripes" (face paint).  The dragon stripes were so popular, the kids stopped the game once when we forget to put them on!  The kids earned badges and stickers too.   Mason even scored a couple of goals throughout the season which was great! 

 Making their dragon faces!   This was after the game and usually by the end, the dragon stripes had been smeared off.

 Tori wants to play soccer so bad.  She begs for dragon stripes and she sneaks onto the field now and then! 

   Mason guarding the goal!