Movie Night!

We went over to the Palmer's house to play, eat and watch a movie while the grown ups talked.  The best part was that we got to watch the movie outside!  But we had to wait until it started getting dark to watch it...

First we played!

Clara and Elle had to relax for a minute after all the playing!

Clara became good friends with Landon!

Then we got settled into chairs to watch the movie.  I think we had a photo-bomber! 

Mr. Lee got the projector and speakers all set up for us!  We watched Trolls - it was a great movie!

Here are most of us - not sure where Clara or Dylan went to!  I can't wait to watch another movie outside again!

Bye Ayden!

I have 4 best friends at school - Ayden, Henry, Spencer and Elliott.  Last month, Ayden move with his family to Florida.  I miss him lots!  I first met Ayden when I started school as a tiny baby - I've known him just about my whole life!  

We had a going away party for him at school!  Of course I wanted the cupcake with the red frosting! 

Here we are - best buds!

When we said good bye to Ayden, we had to have a group hug! 

Before Ayden left, I gave him a card to thank him for being a good friend!  I told Mom what I wanted to say and she typed it up for me!  We plan to write letters to each other and maybe I'll go visit him in Florida!

Easter Fun!

We had a fun Easter!  The Easter Bunny came to visit us at our house so Clara and I had to find all of the Easter eggs he left for us!  Clara did good, but I got the most!

After we found all of the eggs, we had to find out what was inside of them!

Then we put on some nice clothes and went over to Grandma and Grandpa Young's house!

They made us special pancakes!

Mom and Grandma B wanted a picture with Clara in her pretty dress!

We had watermelon - our favorite!

Don't get in our way of eating watermelon!

We were able to find some entertainment on their trailer and sheets of plywood!  It made a good ramp!

We took some family pictures, of course! Clara and I cooperated for the most part!

Clara wore the same dress that she did last Easter (it was a little big last year)!  I'm not sure how many more years she's going to be able to sit on Grandpa's shoulders!

This is what happens when you give some guys a trailer, plywood and and a scooter!

And Clara didn't want to miss out on the action, even though she's not ready for riding down ramps just yet!

Football!

Since I've done soccer and baseball, I wanted to try out football next!  Don't worry - only flag football!  Watching me play at the beginning of the season probably wasn't too exciting, but by the end I really got into it.  I even got close to getting a flag several times!  So no touchdowns or flags for me during the season, but it was fun!

I'm wearing #5 on my jersey. Dad helped out coaching sometimes.

Here I am in action Week 2 of the season.  Keep an eye on #5.  This wasn't my best effort, but I was still figuring out what was going on!

And here I am the last game of the season - I had perfected the "ready" stance!

You can tell that I was paying attention in our practices!  This is one of the times I got close to getting a flag - a little different than at the beginning of the season!

And here I was as the running back on offense.  I actually gained a couple of yards!  At the beginning of the season, I didn't even want to be the running back...

After the game, we gave high fives to everyone on the other team.

Since it was the last game of the season, we had our awards ceremony and got trophies!

Time with Mom!

Dad and Owen went over to a friends house so Mom and I had a day together at the zoo!

Mom gave me one big ponytail because it was going to be hot at the zoo!  And I brought my giraffe with me because - well, because we were going to the zoo! 

And I got to see the giraffes! 

We saw the gorillas, too! 

And tigers (over my left shoulder) and panda bears!

Then we rode the train! 

And the carousel!  I picked one of the non-moving animals - it was my first time so I wasn't too sure about it at first.  But it ended up being fun!

Bye Mom and Dad!

Mom and Dad left us for a night away and Grandma B and Grandpa Mark came to stay with us!  We had a fun time!

To get ready for Easter, we dyed eggs with shaving cream!

Grandma B got us new pajamas so we modeled those - and dressed up as Bob the Builder!

Clara and Grandma B played beauty shop and styled their hair!

In the morning, we played outside.  The package man delivered a box for Clara - it made the perfect seat! 

Clara likes to dress up as Bob the Builder, too!  (To help translate, her teachers - and sometimes us - call her Clara Belle, so that's what she thinks her name is!)