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The school year ended for us on the 2nd of July. Lilly finished third grade and Lucy finished  kindergarten. Both passed with flying colors. Lilly was able to become a knight of the multiplication tables and Lucy's class had a fun end of year program.  The girls have already started the new school year. It will be an interesting one. A new track, no cousins at school with them and Lucy is there all day now. What a fun new adventure! Being knighted. Way to go Lilly! Grandma Egbert, Evelyn, Lucy, Karen and Daryl in front Silly Grandma missed the count. Grandpa Richins, Grandma Richins, Lucy and Aunt Janae hoping to avoid the picture. The Kindergarten classmate cousins. Janae and Topher Mrs. G and Lucy. We loved her and hope she is still at the school in a few years when Daryl starts. Lilly after her first day of 4th grade.         Lucy after meeting her teacher Mrs. P. Second day of 4th grade for Lilly. 1st...

When the kids are in bed for the night Glen likes to check his email for the last time for the day and then see if any of the youtube channels he follows have any new videos. It's turned in to something we like to do together, not the email checking but the video watching. We are sort of nerdy so he is subscribed to nerdy youtube channels.    TED is really good and we can't keep up on all of the new videos they post, about anything and every thing. This one is a fun one! But SmarterEveryDay is really our favorite.He captures amazing pictures with his high speed camera and then explains what is happening in them because he is really smart. These two videos are way cool but really most of what he does is great.

These are our kids ages. It is really crazy for me to think about Lilly being 9. I feel like I just got out of high school the other day but it was longer than I think because I have been married 10 years now and have a nine year old. I guess time flies when you are having fun! Here are a few fun things the kids are doing right now in life. The pictures aren't there best but are very current, like I just went around and took them. Lilly,9- loves reading, writing, jokes, comics, studio C, riding her bike, riding horses, swimming and lots of other things. She wants to try tumbling or gymnastics this fall. She has a few different stories she is working on writing but has just started trying to write comedy sketches. She really loves Studio C( this is what she wrote her sketch to be like ). She just got a short hair cut again. That kind of hair style just seems to work best for her. She would really like an ipod touch or some cool electronic gadget like that but her parents just...

 Back in May it was Paige's birthday and she loves yellow, so much so that in her family growing up she "owned" the color. Well, around that day and kept seeing pretty things in that color, so I took pictures.   Anyone else have a favorite color I can look for ?  I thought this rose bush above was amazing will all those blooms at the same time until the bottom one came out.  All I could think of was show off. It had so many I was almost embarrassed for it, I mean seriously.

The first few days of June we celebrated Roberta's 97th birthday and then got to visit with Nielson relatives. I took some pictures of those events as you can see below. Though I missed a really good one of Allen sitting on the grass with his babies. All three had  legs spread, were sitting up and  seemed to be enjoying each others company. It was really a fun thing to witness. I have this great picture of it in my mind that I hope I remember for a long time. Fast forward to these first few days of  July and we were celebrating again, this time the end of the school year (finally) and our country's birthday. This time I did not take pictures.  I helped with field day while Lilly participated in it, and Grandma Richins watched the other three kids. Lucy finished up kindergarten the day before with a water party. Our suburban is fixed and running again! We made it to the Riverton parade on the third, but only just barely. We had to have a reminder that when I ask th...