Mara's new room

We moved Mara downstairs a few months ago- okay it was during last school year.

We decided that she was in need of her own space, along with her brother :)

She decided that she wanted her room to be totally different than her old little girl room, so she picked RED!

I painted the room and got new bedding and she was officially moved to her own big girl room

-to bad it took me a quite few months to actually finish her room- I know I am a slacker :)

well here is her room, for now.........

her red- flower room

I painted flowers and the birds on her walls to match the images from her bedding

Mara likes all of the flowers and birds she says that they make her happy :)

***Audy- I have included this picture to show you the bear hooks from me and Annie's old room :)***

Princess Festival 2010

Mara was sooo excited for this years Princess Festival.

she had been talking about going since we lefts the festival last year.

This year we had Jonah and Jackson with us, I think the boys thought it was pretty dumb.

Mara loved it and that is all that matters.

here are some pictures from the day.........

down on the farm

the beginning of June Annie and the girls came to Utah on their way to California ( new home state)

well while they were here, We decided that wse should go to Wheeler Farm. Shanny, Dawson, Logan-his friend, Oliver, Annie, Melia, and Sophie and me and my two little kiddos headed to teh farm for a nice relaxing day. I love spending time with my sisters, I wish I could spend time with ALL of my sisters all of the time.

Dawson running after some poor ducks

all of the kiddos after we all had a nice cold treat at the little General Store

( expect Oliver, :( )

Sophie

Mara and Melia

Jackson's new room

I decided that I wanted to redo Jackson's Bedroom, change out the bedding, change the colors, the entire motif.......

well I figured that I loved the fabric(s) from Jackson's birthday party so I reused all of the flags I made for the party and hung them in his room.

It changed the paint color ( it was yellow, now it is a marigold orange

I changed the changing pad

I made pillowsI recovered this little chair, Mara got the original chair from my mom for her 2nd birthday, it was a kitty cat- it was the last present my mom gave Mara.I changed the toy boxes with new fabric a new hamperAltered bedding ( I bought the duvet cover from Ikea, then modified it) I painted cute animals on the walls ( they are from the fabric, so I just copied the image) I really love it!!!

and the new and improved room looks like this...........

this is what the room looked like before ( well, it was what it looked like when I changed it before Jackson was born) it was the only pictures I had of the complete room.

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day, I got Golf Clubs- I wasn't to sure of them at first but I LOVE them now!!!!

the whole family has gone out a bunch of times now.

I love that we can all go and do something together.

Jonah of course has clubs- and the coolest golf bag ever ( I gave him the bag last year for Father's day)
I have clubs now,
Mara has clubs,
and Jackson even has clubs of his own- they were $5 and are plastic- he doesn't care

Jackson LOVES golf -see previous post here

thanks Hunny for the great Mother's day gift!!!! this was on Mother's Day weekend, Mara and Jackson drove the cart
Mara loves to pick flowers while golfing.

I accidentally ran over mara's finger, she was still hitting her ball so Jackson and I drove up closer to the hole, well mara decided that she wanted to run up and catch us, she grabbed on to teh cart and then tripped, and her hand just happened to have been there to get ran over- I felt horrible :(
After golfing we were able to go up to the cemetary to visit my mom, and to bring flowers. I hate that the I can't see and visit my mom for real, it is NOT fair. I miss her terribly.

Happy Belated Mother's Day Momma!! I Love you

Mara's big teeth :0(

May 19th
My baby lost her first tooth, as you can see her big adult tooth was already coming in. (its sister was right next to it too.)

I have been so worried about her big teeth coming in, because baby teeth are so cute and adult teeth are so BIG and Awkward, but she looks cute :)
Mara was fine until she saw that there was a small amount of blood from where the tooth was, then she cried and told me that it hurt soooooo bad.

then I took her to school and all was forgiven, she told each and every person in her class about her missing tooth. Parents included (we were going on a field trip that day so parents were there)

UPDATE

Mara has now lost her second tooth, on June 18th- Jonah pulled it.

sorry I forgot to add the picture:(

Park Lane Elementary's 30 year celebration

On April 26th, I was able to attend the Park Lane Elementary 30 year year celebration with Audrey and my kiddos. I thought that Mara would think it was cool to see where I went to school when I was her age- she did!!

All of the Elkington girls attended Park Lane, it is by far the GREATEST school Ever!!!

When Heather was about to go to Kindergarten the school was not completed yet, so the kindergarten students were bussed to Midvale Elementary, and the rest of the school students were sent to Granite Elementary.

here is the history.....

To my surprise, Mr. Thacker, the first principle of Park Lane was there, he is still so cute ;-)

Mr. Thacker was not only our principle but also he served in the Utah National Guard with My Grandpa Elwin- we all thought that was so cool.

not the best picture, I know but my phone was the only camera I had

Here is the school song, which I believe Shannon's grade ( I think it was 2nd grade but I can't remember) came up with it. *****I still remember it!*****

The school was remodeled the summer before 6th grade- funny story I will have to share it sometime, Annie I hope you remember what it is :-)

It seemed so weird to be in that school, it all looked so different and yet so very much the same. It felt like I had only been out of that school for a few years not 18 or 19 years ago.

this was the only brown/orange wall carpet that is still up in the school, befor ethe remodel it was on all of the walls throughout the school, and I think yellow too

out in front of the school, next to the drinking fountains- those darn fountains were NEVER on during recess, and there was always nasty garbage and dirt in them :-(

well if anyone else that attended Park Lane has some good memories of this place, I want to hear your story :) and also if you remembered the school song (and if you sang it out loud as you looked at this post )