preschool at the park

Olivia's preschool class walked to the park the other day and Austin and I got to join them.  They played on the big toy, played drip, drip, drop, and had snack.  It was fun to go spend time with Olivia and her class.

rotation in the clouds

 

 

We had another tornado warning yesterday.  It was Jason's birthday and since he got home late we just decided to ordered pizza, as I was getting in the car to go get the pizza around 7pm I noticed the clouds a little low and they looked really neat.  I got in the car and drove a block when the tornado siren started so I turned back around.  When I got home the kids where headed down to the basement.  But the clouds looked so cool I casually suggested (so I wouldn't scare the kids) to Jason to come outside.  We sat and watched the clouds start rotating right over our neighbors house...I know not really smart, but it was really neat.  At one point Jason came inside and on the news it said if you are between Ankeny Blvd and 18th Street seek cover...that's our neighborhood... but by that time it had past us and we didn't feel we were in danger.  It was really neat to watch though, if the wind would have been blowing as bad as it had the night before we would not had been standing there, we would had been with the kids in the basement.

Happy Birthday!

37 never looked so good. 

 

We love you dad!

tornado warnng

We just had a tornado warning a little over an hour ago.  We had just been talking about not having a warning in a long time when sure enough the sirens started going off.  When we turned on the TV and saw it was headed right for our town we sent the kids down in the basement.  I finished getting stuff and went down with them.  When I got down their they were crying and very scared.  I told them there was nothing to be afraid of and we started to clean the basement to keep their mind off of it.  I suggested a prayer to help them not be scared and to my surprise they all said "we already did...all four of us together." 
Needless to say a tornado didn't hit but there was a big storm, some of our neighbors lost shingles and trampolines moved into neighbors yards but not too much more.  But I did learn that my kids are learning about prayer and that made me very happy.

Olivia's Preschool Graduation!

 

 

Thursday, May 16th Olivia graduated from preschool.

They had a little precession

 did a little singing program

and then got their diplomas

and portfolios.

 The portfolios are really fun to look at, they have some of their best work in it and it shows how much they learned over the past year. 

 Olivia and her friend Rosie

Miss Julie, Olivia, and Miss Jenny

 

 

Olivia really had a great year in preschool, thanks to her wonderful teacher who made learning fun!

"O" for Old

 

 

It was "O" day at Olivia's preschool last week so they got to dress up like they were old.
Then yesterday their picture was in the newspaper.  Her teachers are great and always do fun stuff with the kids.
 

 

 

Jason's vacation...short but needed

Jason loses his vacation days every July and has certain months he can't take any days off.  He wasn't really supposed to take any days off in May but they let him take 3 days off plus he didn't have to work the weekend so he flew to Utah Saturday May 11th - Tuesday May 14th then took Wednesday May 15th off since he didn't fly in until midnight the day before.

He had a great time golfing with his dad and brothers, shopping, hanging out with family, and sleeping in and being with his mom on Mother's day.