Dance Recital

Reagan had her end of the year dance recital.

Dance recitals are always so exciting!

 It's the night you get to wear makeup, a fancy costume, 

and most importantly...be in the spotlight!  

This year Reagan took dance with 2 of her friends, Olivia and Callie.  One thing that all us moms discovered this year is that GIRLS plus DANCE CLASS equals DRAMA!  I don't know if this is a "normal girl thing" but by the time the recital came around, us mom's were DONE WITH DANCE!

The girls on the other hand were adorable!

It was all super exciting and super fun!

They all got flowers after their performance 

and loved every moment of their special night!

After the recital we all met up at the Orange Leaf for frozen yogurt to celebrate the girls big night!  The girls had so much fun!  I kind of wonder what the girls are going to remember most, the recital or the after party!

Bradon graduated!

We are a couple of weeks into summer and I'm finally posting about Bradon's 6th grade graduation!  Yes it's true he has graduated from elementary school and after a brief summer vacation he will be entering JR. HIGH!

At the graduation each class took turns graduating.  When it became Mrs. Howard's turn, I totally wasn't ready!  I don't know why it took me by surprise that they called Bradon ADAIR's name off first!  Hello Stephanie!  Of course Bradon would be first!  It's alphabetical and us Adair's are ALWAYS FIRST!

Mrs. Howard called off his name, Principal Melville handed him his diploma, he was given a candy lei and then he shook each of the 6th grade teachers hands.  Meanwhile they showed his name and baby picture on the big screen.   

I'm proud of Bradon!  He's been through a lot this past year yet he hasn't let any of it get him down.  He even managed to get straight A's all year long! 

His teacher Mrs. Howard loved him!  She never had anything but raving remarks to say about him!  Now I must admit that the word on the street is that she's the easiest 6th grade teacher in the school and that could have possibly been a factor with his grades.  But straight A's!  We'll take it!

Grandma Adair was there for the big event and she couldn't be prouder either!

Way to go Bradon!

He's an artist!

At some point in every child's life their body gets decorated with markers.   This usually happens while hiding behind a chair or under the kitchen table because the child is old enough to know that writing all over his body is NAUGHTY!  But for some strange reason whenever mom discovers her tattooed little prince, she busts out the camera and takes pictures of his beautiful work of art, a masterpiece really!

Adorable!  

Don't you agree?

Everyday Talan is an absolute joy!

He keeps us all highly entertained!  He's a smart little cookie and quick witted!  Not to mention, HE'S also AN ARTIST!

Reagan's special day!

Last Saturday, May 5th was not only Reagan's 8th birthday but it was her baptism day too!  It was a busy day from sun up till sun down but worth every racing moment!  

Grandma and Grandpa Haws came from Arizona for the big day!  We started the morning off with Reagan's 8:30 soccer game, then we headed to Salt Lake for Carsten's 10:00 lacrosse game.  Bradon had baseball games at 10:00 and 12:00 in Lehi, so as soon as Carsten's lacrosse game was over we raced to get a little something to eat and then off to Bradon's 12:00 game.  The kids were thrilled to have their Grandparents there to watch them play!

Once all the games were done we raced back home to get ready for Reagan's 4:00 baptism!  

Reagan was so excited for all of it!  She had been dreaming about this day for a long time!  We got there a little early and David and Reagan got dressed in their baptism clothes.  I had told Reagan that she would wear a little jumpsuit, but much to our surprise they had cute little baptism dresses for the girls!  

The baptismal service was so good!

Reagan had asked each of her Grandma's to give talks.  Grandma Adair talked on baptism and Grandma Haws talked on the Holy Ghost.  They both did a fabulous job!  Aunt Vicky and Grandpa Haws gave the prayers and Grandpa Haws and Uncle Jay were the witnesses.  Reagan asked Sheri Iverson to play the piano and my cousin Emily to play her viola.  It was beautiful!

Just before the meeting started Reagan whispered in my ear, "I'm so nervous!"  I assured her that it was all going to be wonderful and that she was going to be okay.

After she was baptized she told me that the water was kinda cold but she felt warm inside.

David confirmed her and gave a beautiful blessing.

Reagan was absolutely beaming with joy and grinning from ear to ear!

The weather was windy and cold so Grandma Adair headed home right away.  I didn't get a picture with her but I got one with Grandma and Grandpa Haws.

We had an 'It's great to be 8!' birthday party 

at our house following the baptism.

We had lots of food and treats.

 

Reagan's turning EIGHT!

 

 Our little girl is turning eight this Saturday and she will be getting baptized ON her birthday!  She is so excited for her special day she can hardly stand it!

She has had very specific requests in regards to her baptism.  Here are just a few...

It was VERY important that we have a special photo shoot of her in her new baptism dress.  Due to our hectic schedule around here I couldn't seem to find a day that would work.  So last Monday I let her stay home from school for a special photo shoot with mom.  She knew exactly how she wanted her hair done, it had to be up in a messy bun!  She knew exactly where she wanted her photo shoot to take place, Thanksgiving Point at the Tulip Festival!  And when we got there she knew exactly how she wanted to pose and where she wanted to pose!  It was all very cute and very fun!  And she got lots and lots of attention from everyone at the Tulip Festival!  Reagan (needless to say) was in heaven!  

We had to have an invitation.  So we took the pictures from our photo shoot to Heidi and created this cute little invitation that we sent out to family members and friends.

Reagan informed me that she expects a baptism scrapbook like her friends Callie and Taylor's mom made for them.  When I explained to her that I didn't do baptism scrapbooks for any of the boys she replied, "But I'm special!  I'm the only GIRL!" followed with a laugh that only Reagan can give!  So I've put together a scrapbook!

I need to decorate a baptism cake.  She wants a picture of a dad baptizing his little girl on it.  So the cake has been ordered, a picture has been chosen and soon a baptism cake we will have!

I need to have a collage of pictures put together like a poster.  You know, so that we can hang it up at the after baptism party!  YEAH, Sorry Sister that's where I draw the line, I aint doing a collage!

Reagan has obviously been dreaming about her baptism day for quite some time now!  Without hesitation she even knew exactly what songs she wanted on her program.

I just hope that her special day turns out to be just as special as she has imagined it!

Grandma LOVE!

Oh the excitement of having Grandma live with us!
Her bedroom is like a little slice of heaven!
It's all new, fun and exciting!
It has a T.V. in it and a glide rocker too!

Grandma is super inviting, always welcoming the kids in to watch whatever they want. I told her that she didn't have to do that and that she could kick them out whenever she wants. But no, she says she loves the company and that they are always welcome. I imagine that after awhile she'll want some space and they will be kicked out from time to time but for right now it's like I said, a little slice of heaven!

I couldn't help but to take this picture the other day. So priceless! Grandma rocked both Reagan and Talan at the same time as they all watched T.V. together. So dang cute!

14, 12, 10, 8, 4

I once heard long ago that EVEN years are harder than ODD years when it comes to raising children. And I'm beginning to be a full fledged believer in this theory! I've got a 14, 12, 10, an almost 8 and 4 year old. And this year more than any other I swear they are testing me. Don't get me wrong, they are lovely, I'm just feeling a little more stretched than ever before. The demands for my personal attention is just a little more than I think I'm capable of giving! I'm feeling a serious need for my children to be more self reliant. Or at least a little less clingy to me and perhaps a little more clingy to their dad!  I do enjoy watching my kids grow up! They are all in their own stage of life learning different things and BECOMING!  Every day brings something new and I never know what they are going to say or think up next.  Just to give a little example of this, here are a few of the latest things the little ones have said.

Reagan... She has always loved journal writing at school. She's always looking for things she could write about. Something will happen and she'll say, "I know what I'm going to write about in my journal tomorrow!" Well the other morning while she was getting ready for school she asked me, "Are you and dad ever going to get divorced?" I told her "NO!" And then I asked her why she would ask such a question. She got a little smile on her face and said that if we got divorced then she could write it in her journal. And then if Talan and her were the only ones to live with me then we would be just like her teacher at school because Ms. Cox is divorced and she just has a little girl and a little boy. And then she went on to say that after I got divorced then I could get remarried to someone with lots of kids and then she would have lots of brothers and sisters and her family would be really big! This absolutely floored me! I talked to her about how that would NOT be good and I then walked away thinking, "WHAT IN THE HECK?"

Talan... He seriously says some of the funniest things. Last night he was being really mean to Reagan. He was pouncing on her in a more hurtful than fun kind of way! You know, kind of like brothers do. She started to cry and came to tell me that Talan was being REALLY mean! I told Talan that he needed to STOP being mean! He looked at me and said, "But I said I'm sorry!" I told him that I would like for him to be nice so that he wouldn't have to say sorry. He than said, "My brain wants to say YES, but my heart says NO!" WHAT? What is that suppose to mean? Who teaches this kid this stuff?

Easter 2012

This is a cute little EASTER sign that I made this year.
I wanted a little something for my mantle so I looked around the house and found everything I needed to make this little thing!

I thought it turned out pretty cute!
Here's a close up so you can see it a little better.

We were invited to my friends house for a egg hunt and pony ride the morning before Easter. As soon as Talan heard the word PONY he couldn't quit asking, "When are we going to ride the pony?"

Talan is at the perfect age to really enjoy an Easter Egg Hunt.
He gets it, he loved it, it couldn't have been better!

They started with the youngest and worked their way up in age.

Reagan loved it!

And believe it or not Carsten loved it too!
He was the oldest egg hunter of the bunch!

And then it was time to ride the pony!
And if you can't tell from the picture, Talan was HAPPY!

Reagan rode the bigger horse.

And Carsten was just about the same size as his little pony!

The next morning we woke up to a wonderful surprise
left by the Easter Bunny!

It was an egg hunt to find their baskets!

{I'm pretty sure that around 2:00 in the morning the Easter bunny was rethinking the tradition he(she) had started years and years ago of having an egg hunt to find their baskets! I'm pretty sure that years and years ago the Easter Bunny didn't think about doing a cute little egg hunt with rhyming clues in each and every egg for 5 children! I'm pretty sure that the Easter Bunny didn't even consider how hard it would be to find new hiding spots year after year. And I know that the Easter Bunny had NO IDEA how difficult it was going to be to make those clues age appropriate and harder and harder as the kids got older and wiser! I don't know, I'm just saying! I'm just saying that I'm pretty sure!}

Talan ended up finding his basket in his closet!
I was of course following him up to his room with my camera in hand. When he opened his closet door there was this light shinning in my eyes! I couldn't figure out what in the heck it was! Oh my gosh it was Bradon with David's iphone filming the FIND!
Wait a second... how did Bradon know where Talan's Basket was hidden? I tell you, this Easter Bunny needs to find a new gig!

Talan was pleasantly surprised and then posed
nicely for the camera as he has been trained to do!

BUBBLES!

Reagan found hers in Grandmas Armoire.

In the odd shaped cupboard under the desk
in the kitchen is where Carsten found his!

And Bradon... under the desk!

Unfortunately for the Bunny,
hunting for baskets just doesn't get old!

And last but not least it was finally Ethan's turn
finding his basket in the laundry basket!

YEAH!
Look mom I found it!

Grandma loved every minute of it!

She's in SOCCER heaven again!

Reagan loves to play soccer!
We signed her up to play with the Utah County League this year. It's a little more competitive than the Rec. League and Reagan could hardly wait for it to start!

Her registration fee paid for a complete (PURPLE) uniform and a soccer ball! She was thrilled to have her very own ball! Yet not even 2 days later her ball took a tragic staple gun shot to the head and died! One of the many perks to having 4 annoying brothers I presume! The guilty brother Bradon was sentenced to buying her a new ball with his own money. The new ball was bought and all was well again in the house of Adair!

At Reagan's first game it was pretty cold outside so Reagan wore her sweatshirt making it nice for me to spot her on the field. She's a pretty aggressive little girl! Another little learning perk of having 4 annoying brothers I presume!

This cute little team she's on is super giggly! They all smile and giggly the whole game through.
At the first practice they took a vote on a team name. It was between, The Flying Grandma's or the The Flying Squirrels! The Flying Squirrels won but they have since changed their name weekly.

Their coach promised the girls that after they scored their first goal of the season he would do a cartwheel. I didn't get a picture of the cartwheel but he paid up I'll tell you and the girls thought it was AWESOME!

One thing that's fun about watching Reagan play is that she just gets it. She catches on quickly and gets what they are trying to do. The coach would say, "when you throw it in, throw it down the line don't throw it to the middle of the field." Yet time and time again whoever it was throwing the ball in would throw it to the middle of the field. But not Reagan, she threw it down the line!

Reagan was given jersey number 1!
Carsten is always #1 and so Reagan was excited to be #1 too!

Toward the end of the game Reagan gave being the goalie a try. I think by then she was tired from running so much and enjoyed the break.

I love that she loves playing soccer! She's been taking dance lessons for the past year and she just doesn't seem to love dance like she loves soccer. I'm thinking she's going to be more of a sports girl like her mother!

Grandma lives here now!

Last weekend she arrived!
Charlie Kay and Teresa drove her up in her car and Kendall and Elaine pulled all her stuff up in a U-haul. They got here in the early evening and immediately got to work bringing in boxes, setting up her bed and arranging her room. Karl and Shannon came down from Idaho for the big event. It was a lot of fun to all be together!

The kids couldn't be more excited to have her here with us!

Talan told her, "You're in our family now!" And then he told her, "You're an ADAIR now!" We couldn't help but to chuckle. Grandma agreed, "You are right, I'm an Adair now!"