May Life Get Less Crazy

 Claire

The kindergarten class gives each child a particular week, usually on their birthday if they can, to be the line leader and have a day where they get to feel special. Since Claire's birthday was in August, her teacher put her on this last week so we made a cute poster with baby and family pictures and things she likes. She had princesses, ponies, rainbows, and stickers all over her poster and told her classmates all about the things she likes, then they asked her questions and it was a really cute thing they did. Shay was distracted the whole time because she found a kitchen set and made food while Claire did her 'show and teach'. I had made the perfect amount of treats for the class and convinced the girls that theirs were at home because we had to go to the dentist after school. 

Shay

I officially believe it is spring because we had some flowers grow in front of our house that I never even knew were there until about a week ago when they started growing. Now they are bloomed and beautiful, and Shay likes to smell them every time we come inside from the car. She also spends as much time as possible outside playing her pretend games and drawing with chalk on my door. When I heard it from inside I was bewildered what was going on and opened the door to realize she was drawing beautifully all over our front porch. I told her I loved it of course and she continued playing as I went about my day. That is how our life has been since the weather became nice!

Zoo

Claire's school field trip to the zoo was on Thursday and Shay and I were able to come because I volunteered as a chaperone and paid a ticket for Shay. We had a little group of 5 kindergarteners and 2 preschoolers from me and the other mom that was in my group. They gave us the freedom to go wherever the kids decided they wanted to go and got to see at least 90% of the zoo in the 2 hours we had there before leaving to go to a park for lunch. Our sack lunches were fun because Claire and Shay love their lunch boxes and the idea of a picnic, then all the kids had plenty of fun at Liberty Park. Claire claimed her favorite animal was the lion, it was asleep but she liked the statues and water fountain, and Shay said she liked the monkeys, there were some fun ones jumping around for us! And yes, everyone asked if they were twins.

News

Chris got a promotion with his work and will be taking over a clinical director position next month in Eagle, ID. He was offered on Tuesday and we took the day to decide if this was right for our family and then started the process of making it happen in the time frame they are asking. We don't want to have to live apart again so we have rushed the process of starting to look for and buy our own home! Enough has fallen into place that we will be moving out the first weekend in June and are praying the Lord will have a situation ready for us by then. We currently have an offer on a house that is under construction in Star, ID, and get to relax a little because we have to wait for them to reply or counteroffer. It is slightly bittersweet because we had started to make plans for the summer and year here in Utah with our Lagoon season passes and signing up for a series of runs in Pocatello with family. We are too excited about the future to let that hold us back and will probably make plans to visit down here for Frightmares and such and I'll drive to Boise to visit family if Chris can't get off work early enough on Fridays.