First Day of School!

The last couple of weeks have been the first days of school for the kids. For a long time it has been a tradition for us to take a picture of the kids on their first day of school. 

     

This is Thaddeus and Abigail as they left the house

to go to Brookside Elementary. This year Thaddeus will be a kindergartner, with Ms. Harris and Abigail will be a fifth grader, with Ms. Nowak. (Abigail claims she is most wanted teacher of the fifth grade!) 

This is them getting on the bus at the bus stop down the road! 

Then we have Miss Eliza. She started her first day of high school as a freshmen at Shorecrest High school the year! 

Also going to Shorecrest, Trey is starting his senior year! 

This year Trevor has also returned to school. He entered the West Point Military Academy in June. The first six weeks were spent in a special boot camp training experience called Beast. Having completed that he has been in school for about a month now as a plebe. (Plebe is the affectionate nicknamed bestowed upon the freshman!)

Unfortunately the many pictures we have of our army man are not available to me at this moment, so I will publish a few pictures of his past adventure as soon as I can access some photos that will actually load onto this site! 

(post made by child number four: Eliza) 

Hi, Trey here. I got asked to put up photos of the recent trip to West Point in order to please my Grandmother on her birthday. So here they are. Unfortunately, I was not on this trip, so the details will be coming from a primary source shortly (Namely Mom or Dad). Happy Birthday Grammy Beth!!!!

Taft's Post

Hi, this is my first time writing on the blog, and I have a few things talk about from the last few months. First things, is that we car a new car. It is a Chrysler Town&Country, year 2005. It is white and very nice to drive in. Here are some pictures of our new van after I washed it.

NEW CAR

Also I ran track this year. I was pretty successful. My event that i focused on is the 800. 2 laps around a track. I placed 7th at our District Qualifying meet against some of the best runners in the state. Then I went on to get forth place at districts With a time of 2:06. Then i got to go to state as an alternate for the 4x4 team. It was a lot of fun to watch the state athletes. I do have a video of my fastest 800 race, here it is... I am wearing green and have yellow shoes.

Other things that i have done this year. I wrote and illustrated a children's book about a prince that goes on a journey to find a princess. It was for my senior project. I graduated from high school. The Knowles 4x4 team got ran another race I got my eagle scout award. For my Eagle project i planted trees at a park called green lake. Below are pictures from some of the events that i talked about above.

I Graduated at Comcast Arena

Waiting to get my " diploma"

Knowles 4x4 Team

Eagle Scout Award

Happy Mother's Day from Eliza!

     Hey there! Eliza here! For mother's day, I decided that there probably would not be a better present for Grammy Beth than to present her with an entry on the blog!!! :) yea! 

     Okay so on May 2 I was able to participate in an event called the Solo and Ensemble Contest. This event is for all the musicians in the Sno-King region. Kids from everywhere come and perform a piece for an adjudicator, who is a professional musician, and then receive a workshop of sorts on the piece that they  performed. I performed twice, both vocally and on the piano. Vocally was more just for fun. I sang in a quartet with three of my friends but it ended up being very successful. The piano performance however was a lot more heavily weighted. The song I played was called Waltz in C# minor by Frederick Chopin, and was probably the most difficult thing I have ever played. But it too was successful and I received the highest score possible. This event was very helpful to my musical career and I was able to have a fun time with it. 

    My piano teacher has a recording studio in his house and has a cool little website where he puts recorded songs performed by his students. I had the opportunity to record the song I played for the Solo Ensemble and he has placed it on there. If you copy the link at the bottom of the entry and place it in the URL thingy-ma-bob it will take you to where you can listen to me playing it. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and the last song on there is Waltz in C# minor by Frederick Chopin. Enjoy!!

                                                              

                                    

http://home.comcast.net/~pianos88/ElizaK.html

April fools

Abigail here, again On April fools day I decided to play some tricks on my family. Here's a list of some of the things my minion (Thaddeus) and I did:

• switched the cereals
• switched the granola bars
• put Vaseline on the doorknobs
• put the comics in the sports section
• put a rat in moms cup
• and put plastic creatures all over moms shower

I only got pictures of moms shower so here they are.

Sneetch

Abigail here!!
Last Saturday and Sunday I sat in front of the TV for 480 minutes in 2 days. We were watching General Conference. One of the things I played with during that time was clay. Snitch and Scout were down there, and they inspired me. I grabbed my big clump of yellow and started to make something.


I named my creation Sneetch!!!

Crazy Hair

Hi!Abigail here!!
On Friday, March 27, 2009 it was crazy hair day at school. Me having long hair knew I had to do something. So mom did my hair and this is how it turned out!!!!! Everybody loved my hair including me!!