Busy Kids

I feel like our life has been thrown into hyper-drive recently. We are running in 10 different directions and it is not uncommon to have 2 or 3 events going on in one afternoon or evening. It is exhausting...but I guess it is just the next phase in life. A new kind of exhaustion. There is the exhausting newborn phase where you never sleep, then there is the exhausting toddler phase when you never have peace and quiet, and this is the exhausting teen/late childhood phase when you are constantly on the move.

So here are just a few of the things that the kids have been up to:

SADIE:

 Sadie dressing up like a "100 year old" for some school spirit day...

maybe celebrating something about Dr. Seuss. 

Not sure. But I thought she did a pretty good job of it.

 Sadie's first piano recital

She took part in the Piano Lab at BYU-Idaho. 10 weeks of piano instruction by a Music Major.

She really enjoyed it and did quite well.

COLBY:

Blue & Gold Banquet 

Every boy had to make a dessert for the theme: Resourcefulness

Ours was the "Compost Pile" -- chocolate cake with gummy worms in it

 Pinewood Derby -- Colby's car wasn't the fastest...but it was definitely the coolest

This fish skeleton car designed by Colby and Eric was very impressive

RENAE:

 

Renae was Snow White in her 7th grade Drama play

She was an obnoxious, bratty version of Snow White

She played the part very well!

Renae went out for track this year. 

She hasn't really found "her event" yet, but she has tried the 100, 200, 400, and the long jump.

MASON:

Mason's band did a Star Wars themed show. It was actually very impressive.

It was a cross between Marching Band and Concert Band. In the show Mason got to have a Light Saber battle with this guy here (the one pointing the blaster at him). Mason was in heaven.

And looky what we have here...a DRIVER!!!

After 3 weeks of daily Driver's Ed classes 

and 12 weeks of Behind the Wheel Drives with an instructor, 

Mason is the proud owner of a Learners Permit. Yep, he is still 14 and legal to drive. 

Isn't Idaho crazy! And boy do I feel old.