Field Trip to the Zoo

I was lucky to go on the last field trip of the year to the zoo with the Mill Creek Elementary first grade.  We went to Liberty Park and ate lunch then the kids played on their awesome playground for a little bit.  

 Makayla and Savanna

 Then we headed to the zoo.  It was a beautiful day but very hot!

 The tigers were very sleepy

I was so glad I went.  The look on Makayla's face when she saw me was worth all the effort of getting kids to a babysitter and driving behind the bus.  I am glad she is not to the point where she is embarrassed by me and wants me around lol!  I love that girl so much.

Dancing

This year Makayla's school also got a grant to have a dance teacher come in.  Her name is Miss Joni.  She came once a week and taught them how to make and hold shapes with their bodies, fill space, balance and skipping.  She invited parents to the last class so we can see all the things they learned.  Most of the pictures are of Makayla and her friend Savanna.  They are best friends!

 With all of Makayla's low muscle tone issues skipping has been a challenge but she is doing great now.  Here she is skipping across the gym.

This is Makayla, Savanna, and Cassie

Cassie is a year younger than Makayla but they ride the van to and from school together and are buddies.

Makayla's Opera

If you did not know already Makayla spent her first grade year at the Utah School For The Deaf and Blind in the hearing impaired class.  They have helped her so much.  They got into a program where they wrote and produced an opera.  We got to go watch as they performed it during their annual end of year speech fair.  It is called the Lost Treasure.  Makayla played a whale.  Most of the pictures we got were of her "swimming"  She loved it, and remembered right where she needed to go.  She even go to be on the news!   Click Here to see it.

 At the end they said their name and what part they played.  She was not even nervous at all.  We are so proud of her!

Drive In

We went to the drive in and saw The Avengers!!

 On May 5th Clint and I went and saw the Avengers for his birthday date.  We LOVED it!  So a few weeks later we decided to take the kids and since the drive in was open we went there.  We have a tradition of going to the drive in at least once a summer.  The Avengers played twice.  Makayla and Micah enjoyed the movie, however, most of the time they kept asking when Hulk was going to come out.  Now a few weeks later they are still obsessed with the movie - which Clint loves of course!  They are pretending to be Iron Man and Hulk and they either fight or work together to beat the bad guy.  One of these days I will catch it on video.  I have not been sneaky enough and they stop when they see my camera.  It was a fairly cheap family date including Costco hot dogs for dinner!  The kids had fun even if they slept through the whole second movie in the Durango with Clint.  :)

Spring Soccer 2012

Our Cute Soccer kids!

 Micah played his first season of soccer.  He had fun most of the time ...  the other part I was out running with him because he would not go out on the field without me.  Makayla got to play with some kids from our ward.  She didn't get much action as far as kicking the ball because she is such a shy girl but had a blast anyway.  She did enjoy playing goalie.

 This was how Micah played most of one of his games.  Dropping to his knees then picking grass off his socks.  Little stinker!

 This was the last game when Makayla got her pictures and trophy.