Walker-Party of 5

Monday, May 4, 2009

Maddy's 2009 New Year's Resolutions!

Maddy brought home a paper from school that had her New Year's Resolutions on it. They were classic Maddy. I love her!!!

List your resolutions for becoming a better...

Student: Get my work done quickly.

Daughter: Help Mom with jobs while Dad is in Iraq. (She has been very helpful.)

Sister: I can play with Macall more often.

Friend: Get my jobs done quickly so I can play with my friends sooner.

If you could make one New Year's resolution for our country or world, what would it be? I think everybody should clean their rooms. (Forget about world peace, or get out of debt, or improve our economy or even clean up our environment. If we would all just clean our rooms we would have a better world to live in!!! She can pretty much forget about winning the Miss America Pageant with that answer! As her Mom I appreciate that this is so important to her.)

Wagon's Ho

I dressed up to go spend some time & have lunch with her.

In this picture Madeline is shaking cream to make butter, it was a cold morning & the cream wasn't turning into butter so they were having to dip the bottle of cream in warm water every few minutes.

Madeline's 4th grade field trip was Wagon's Ho. It was at a park in town & the kids spent the day rotating between 12 stations that let them experience what life was like on the Oregon Trail (which goes right through this area.) She loved it & said it was "the BEST field trip ever!"

Ouch!

Macall fell off the "slippery swing" at school and landed on her face. Ouch! If that wasn't bad enough; later that evening we went to an Activity Days Mother & Daughter picnic that I was in charge of. While I was setting up Madeline & her friend were playing Frisbee with her. It was nice of them to try to keep her entertained, but instead of catching the Frisbee with her hands she caught it in the cheek. She ran over crying as it was already turning into a bruise. She spent the rest of the picnic crying for her Daddy! We went home & took this picture so she could send it to Dad. It sure will be nice when he comes home!!! We miss you Daddy!

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Easter

Madeline is not too impressed with our white eggs the Easter bunny hid. We didn't get a chance to dye them before Easter so we had the Easter bunny hide them white & we dyed them that night! Oh well, you do the best you can & that isn't what Easter is about anyway!!

Spring!

March 26th was our 15th Anniversary. Derrick sent these gifts from Iraq. Flowers (similar to the flowers in my wedding bouquet) and chocolate covered strawberries (we had them at our reception.) It was fun to reminisce & share the memories with the kids.