Programs, Projects & Bryn Can Crawl!

Programs.

Katherine had her First Grade Awards Ceremony last Friday. She got A-B Honor Roll and her Book It! Certificate and medal. Here she is with her teacher, Ms. Smith:

After Katherine's awards, we saw Travis on the playground at his Field Day:

Katherine and Travis both had a Field Day last week. They had water slides and an enclosed jumping area. It was so fun!

Since it was the end of the school year, the kids and I wanted to do something for the teachers. I've also been wanting to make a variation of Marianne's Red Velvet Cake Balls, so we made it for the teachers. I made the Red Velvet ones before, except with semi-sweet chocolate, and we loved it! I also love coconut, so for the teachers we made Coconut Pecan Cake Balls. (I called Marianne to get her approval for this combination. lol) So here's what we did. I made the Duncan Hines Coconut Supreme cake- just like on the box. Then I mixed the baked cake with Coconut Pecan frosting. Next we rolled them into balls and I dipped them into melted German chocolate and finally covered them with coconut. DELICIOUS! I gave most to the elementary teachers/staff and kept about a dozen for us. (It made 63 cake balls.)(Enlarged to show detail.)

Travis graduated from kindergarten yesterday. He was great! He got A Honor Roll and a Book It! Award with his Certificate of Completion. I couldn't believe how many kids didn't even get A-B Honor Roll. We were proud of Travis for getting such good grades, I just don't think kindergarten should have B's or C's. Anyway, here he is getting his awards:

Projects.

Johnny and I made a trundle for the kids' room. We moved Travis to the top bunk and Katherine to the trundle. We made it with two drawers and a handle in the middle. In these pictures we still had wood putty on the handle to cover the nails. We're so glad we did this- it really saves a lot of room in there.

Bryn loves it too!

Don't you love this room?

We also painted/stained our master bedroom! Finally. I didn't really take any before pictures, but it was just like the other rooms before we painted them. Cream colored walls and oak/natural stain. The color we chose is called Wool Coat from Ace Hardware. It looks so much nicer and grown-up. We really like it.

Here's our icky bathroom floor before...

Mopped or not it always looked dirty. The floor along the tub never had a baseboard put down, so water has always dripped onto the wood subfloor. So we've replaced the floor and will be putting trim down soon...

SO much better! BUT, once we put the floor down we realized the red upper wall clashed. We repainted it Ten Gallon Hat from Ace Hardware, which is a shade darker than our master bedroom.

Of course, it's still missing the chair rail, but that will come in the next couple weeks. We love it!



During all of these projects, Bryn decided it was time to crawl. I remember that our other kids weren't crawling/sitting up this early. I think the others sat up comfortably at 7 - 7 1/2 months and then crawled.

She's been sitting up and crawling for the last couple of weeks and I'm finally blogging about it. Sorry. In this video she isn't showing off, but it counts. She hasn't started venturing from room to room yet, but she is comfortable playing on the floor. She prefers it actually.