May Fun

May has been an interesting and eventful month.  With getting ready for the end of the school year and making plans for the summer and everything else we are doing, I have gotten so far behind in blogging.  I am trying to catch up now.  To tell you the truth, it is actually October 1st when I am writing this post and the future posts...  I will try to remember everything.

May started out with the return of old man winter... 

As you can see, we "thought" April meant Spring.  Apparently the tulips thought it should too because they were growing beautifully.  Then Utah weather decided to say "Ha Ha just kidding, its still winter!"  and it snowed another 2 inches.  Yeah I was not happy...

Thankfully though, Spring punched Winter in the face and said, "I don't think so!"  and the snow melted by the next day.  I seems like we always have those fluke storms late in the year just to freeze off all of the fruit blossoms.  Hopefully we will still get fruit this year.

After that the weather warmed up a lot and we have had a blast playing outside in the warmth finally!

Logan was invited to his friend's, Lincoln, birthday this month.  He had a great time.

Logan said Lincoln's party was so fun because there was a bounce house and cars to drive and all of his friends from school were there.

One crazy thing we did this month (that we said we would never do) was get a kitten!

Our neighbors, the Wood's, found out that a stray cat had her kittens in their window well.  They are both allergic to cats so they were wanting to get rid of all of the kittens pretty quickly.  I decided to take the kids over there just to play with the kittens.  They were instantly smitten with the kittens and begged to take one home.  Well look at Charlotte's face and tell me if you could say no to that!

We named the kitten Chester.  The kids love him so much and are so good about feeding him and cleaning up after him.  Russell was the one most against getting a cat and look at him now!  He cuddles with that thing more than anyone.  Chester likes to climb on his shoulders and just sit there and look at everything.

Chester will eventually be an outdoor cat but right now he is too small to leave outside so he lives in this box by the back door.  He is usually fine in the box but he is starting to learn how to jump and scale the side of the box and get out.  Because of this, we put a blanket over the top of the box so that he can't get out.  On morning however, I got up to check on him and what I found is the picture above.  Somehow, (I still don't know how he did it,) Chester got out of the box and was sleeping on top of the blanket like a hammock.  The blanket was not moved at all and was still draped over the box on all edges.  It was like the cat teleport-ed from inside the box to the outside of the box through the blanket.  It was so weird!  Finally we decided he needed a taller box and we moved him out to the garage.  Then, he did it again!  I found him on top of the blanket on top of the box!  The only thing I can think he did was shimmy under the blanket to get out of the box and then try to just back in the box from the outside and got stuck on the blanket on top.  I don't know but we called him the Houdini Cat.  He is a crazy feline!

During the school year, Emily was involved in the Photography Club at school.  She learned how to use a DSLR camera and took pictures of all of the school activities and class parties for the yearbook.  She was also on the Yearbook Team.  At the end of the year, the Photography team had a gallery night to show off some of the pictures the kids had taken over the year.

These are some of the ones Emily took.  She did a great job.  Now she keeps asking me if she can use my nice camera.  I probably should let her because she does take good shots but I am kind of possessive about that thing...

Finally the last day of school came and of course it was Super Kids Day!  This is one school activity Russell and I love to help out on.  The PTA told us that they had us down for the water fight every year from now on!  

Super Kids Day is a fun water day for the kids.  They get to get wet, have water fights, play water games like volleyball and kickball, and just have a good time.  It is the school and PTA's way of saying good job this year.  Like I said, we were in charge of the water fight and the kids had a blast shooting each other with water blasters.  

Charlotte also loved being a part of the fun of Super Kids Day.  She played in every event and then came back to us to sunbathe on her towel.  We look forward to this every year.

So May was quite fun but we are definitely ready to be out of school and moving on to SUMMER!!