Photo Shoot

My friend, Kathryn, offered to take some updated pictures of the girls. As you can see she did an amazing job, the pictures turned out really good. Soo good, that I had a hard time picking out my favorites. These are the ones that made the cut.

29.

29 Things about Greg Severts

1. I call him Babe. I know it’s nothing unique.
2. It is his 29th birthday today.
3. I have lived with him for almost 8 years now, ever since we got hitched. And I have loved every second of it.
4. He is soo handsome.
5. One of his defining features is his curly hair. I love it when he grows it out a little.
6. And his gorgeous BLUE eyes. I am soo glad that some of our daughters have them too.
7. He is very romantic. When we were dating and first married; he would leave little notes, with sweet things written on them, around for me to find. I loved it. (hint, hint)
8. He is HA-larious. That’s was what hooked me in; I was giggling the whole 2 month long courtship. And have continued giggly ever since.
9. He has an amazing family. I am soo lucky to have such great in-laws.
10. He has always slept with a pillow between his knees. If he is unable to find some sort of pillow, I am afraid that no one will sleep until an extra pillow can be found.
11. He loves Mt. Dew, but he will usually hold off until we are on a road trip.
12. He loves sports.
13. That is an understatement. Not only does he like to play sports, but he likes to watch sports and he likes to talk about sports and he likes to watch people talk about sports and… if it has to do with sports he loves it.
14. When Greg proposed to me he wanted to do it by playing tennis and he hid my ring in the tennis ball.
15. He plays pick-up basketball sometimes twice a week.
16. He also plays in an indoor hockey league, though he is taking this season off.
17. He is a 3rd grade school teacher. He loves his job and he LOVES the kids.
18. The love is mutual. When his students see him at Wal-Mart or at a restaurant, they get embarrassed, but always say, "Hi Mr. Severts."
19. He drives a Moped to school and I think he likes it.
20. He is an aggressive driver; he gets that from his mom.
21. He is always offering to help with anything and everything. At a party, you can find him in the kitchen scrubbing something.
22. He has a strong testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
23. And a strong desire to do the right thing.
24. He is the world’s best husband.
25. He is very sensitive to my needs, he is always helping out with the girls, he knows when to take the girls for a little outing so I can have a break.
26. He is an amazing father.
27. He changes diapers and helps out during potty-training.
28. The girls love it when he does Underdog to them on the swings.
29. And last but not least, he is my best friend.

Happy Birthday Babe! I love you!

Preschool, Graduation!

Avalyn has officially graduated from preschool today. The program was soo cute. The kids sang a few songs; the yellow song, the days of the week song, and the months song. There was also a really cute slide show of pictures taken through-out the school year.

Avalyn is pretty excited about starting AM Kindergarten next year, at Floyd Elementary School (with her daddy). Go Bobcats!

Exploration Park

So, does anyone else have the problem, when you take a million pictures of your kids, and they all turn out soo darn cute, that you can't decide which ones that you should post on the blog, and believe it or not you actually did weed some out, but you still end up posting a lot of pictures anyway? Anyone??

We found this super fun park in Las Vegas. It has a fun western theme and lots of grass and a water area for the kids to run through. Next time we'll be sure to bring the girls swimsuits along.

Ballet Recital (the movie)

Here's what all the fuss is about:

Avalyn is the one in the back with the spotlight on her.

(If you want to hear the video, you'll need to scroll down to our music playlist on the right-hand side and hit pause button, then scroll back up to the video and hit the play button.)

ballet recital

Okay, I know I went a little photo crazy. But, this is Avalyn's first ballet recital and I am a proud mommy! I love ballet and I am soo happy that she loves it too. This is why I have girls, right?!

The first 4 pictures are during the performance. The rest were taken backstage after the performance.

sweet sisters

Just a cute picture of our cute girls.

Preschool, Day 11

This week we are moving on to the letter X. I tried to do a pictorial preschool schedule today.

At 8:30 the kids start arriving at Miss Amie's house. We have free play with toys until all the kids arrive.

8:40 - The kids practice writing their names. We have laminated cards with their names written on them. They each have to trace
their name on the front, then free hand write it on the back.

8:50 - Circle time. We do the Pledge of Allegiance and sing songs.

9:10 - Letter time. The kids practice writing the current letter that we are working on.

9:20 - Math. Today we learned about spacial relationships (next to, on top of, under, in front of and behind.)

9:45 - Recess

10:00 - Snack. The snacks usually go with our letter or the color of the month. Today we had crackers with cheese whiz X's on them.

10:15 - Social Studies/Science Lesson. We discussed what was happening in our plant experiments.

10:30 - Craft time. The kids made colorful, paper xylophones.

10:40 - Story. We usually read stories the go along with what we are learning about that day.

10:55 - The kids straighten-up, get their shoes and backpacks on, and line-up at the door to go home.

Preschool, Day 10

We continued with the letter W today.

Miss Amie brought in real worms for the kids to see and touch. A few of the kids chose just to look at the worms, but surprisingly most of the kids actually picked up the worms.

For snack time we had "worms" (spaghetti noodles) and whale shaped chicken nuggets.

During craft time the kids got to paint with a "worm" (again just a spaghetti noodle). The masterpieces turned out really cool looking and the kids loved doing it.

Preschool, Day 9

So we're going to skip "Preschool, Day 8" because I forgot to take pictures. On to day 9.

This week we are learning the letter W.

Today was a perfect day to learn about wind. Miss Amie had the kids re-purpose plastic grocery bags into kid-friendly kites. Miss Amie tied 1 long piece of string onto both handles of each grocery bag, then the kids decorated their kites with lots of stickers. The kites easily catch the wind as the kids run around outside. The kids had sooo much fun!

game night...

We love playing games at Grammy and Granddad's house. Avalyn, our 4 year old, even likes to get in on the fun by playing some of the less complicated games. Some of our favorites games to play include:









The Train Game (also known as Ticket to Ride),


Wizards (a card game, it's a lot like hearts),


Dragonlords (aka Dragon Master, I didn't really like this game at first, but I won last time so now it's my favorite!),






9 High (a card game played with 3 regular decks of cards shuffled together... if you want to know how to play, leave us a comment asking), and

Hearts (you know... just like the one you can play on your computer, but with real people).

Preschool, Day 7

Preschool is at Miss Amie's house this month. That means that I am the helper mom (phew!)and Miss Amie is the teacher. We will be learning the letters V, W and X, the color purple, and other things that I don't have to plan.

Today we started working on the letter V. Miss Amie came up with this really cute game. The kids take turns driving their imaginary Van and they all make Vroom noises. Then Miss Amie holds up a picture of a V thing (volcano, violin, etc.) and asks one kid "What can you see out the window?", they shout out the name of the V thing and the game continues until everyone has had a turn. Here they are in the Van showing how to make a V with their fingers.

On a side note, isn't this the coolest backyard toy?! It is an airplane and a teeter-tooter. It fits all 8 kids on it at one time! All the kids love it! Miss Amie told me that she got it at COSTCO, I love Costco! I need it (hint, hint mom).




We also started a science experiment. The kids each planted 2 plants in separate pots. One to put in a sunny spot and one to put in a dark spot. Both plants are supposed to be watered the same. At the end of the month the kids are going to report back what happened to each of the plants. Don't worry I promise to post the results at the end of the month.