Logan has been busy...

At the end of the school year, Logan had some fun activities. He ran in the Wellsville Mile along with all of the 5th graders from numerous schools in Cache Valley. (He's in the gray shirt behind the boy in the middle in red.) There were 3 heats for each of the 4th grade girls & boys and 5th grade girls & boys. They had all been practicing and timing their miles for a month or so to divide them into the right group. Logan was in the 5th grade boys 3rd heat (the fastest and the very last race of the day)...he did very well and placed 39th overall. It was quite the event and a tradition throughout the valley. They even had the high school track team running with them for encouragement and support, started with a racing gun, and cooled off after in a misting tent as they weaved back and forth to receive their time, drink, and treat.

The 5th grade at our school also participates in a Civil War reenactment with water balloons as ammunition. It was amazing. They had students and the principal introducing each battle and telling a bit of history before they would line up and fire. They all had to sign a contract and get a parent signature commiting not to ruin the war with crazy behavior or put anything but water in their balloons. They spent days practicing to get everything just right. I volunteered to help with props and was assigned to make the general's uniforms from two button down shirts. Logan is modeling them here.

Logan was also chosen to speak at his 5th grade graduation and awards ceremony. A boy and girl from each class were asked to tell about their experiences during the year. He did a great job! We found out after he spoke that those who spoke also received the "Hope of America Award" from the Kiwanis Club recognizing students for their academic achievement, leadership qualities, and overall good work and potential as future leaders of society.

The medal has his name engraved on it and is the "Great American Award." He had to do a whole list of things (memorize the Preamble of the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address, take the US Citizen's Test, Identify the States and the Capitals, Name all 43 Presidents of the US in order, write the Pledge of Allegience with perfect spelling, punctuation and grammar, and sing the Star Spangled Banner.) He was the first one in the whole grade to accomplish everything and he didn't even start until the 2nd trimester. He also got a few other awards for reading and core testing etc. He had a great year, teacher, etc. Logan is now in the middle of baseball season and the star pitcher and catcher on the team. Jay is coaching and enjoying the ups and downs that come with that!

Rice Cereal

This was Matthew's first reaction, but he really took to it and gobbled it all down.

Spencer & Matthew

I know we are posting a lot of pictures of these two, but they are the ones home with me all day. Matthew went to his 4 month well check and we are growing a giant! The nurse measured his length twice because she couldn't believe it could be right - he was almost 27" long (95+% for his age). He also weighed in at 16 lbs. 6 oz. (80%). He is very "talkative" now, loves it when his brothers and sister interact with him, and tries to pull away from your support when sitting on your lap. He likes to look around and hold his toys, too. Matthew was sleeping through the nights most of the time, but has reverted back to getting up once or twice again, usually just when I have fallen asleep...we're hoping it's just a phase.

Easter March 23, 2008

For those of you who don't know, I come from a very large family. Three years ago, Jay and I were the only couple of the 7 married children not to have a baby that year and my oldest brother and wife had twins. This year is ending up being similar with Josie, Jonny, Noah, Matthew, Alleyah, Chloe, and two baby girls yet to come (so far).

Above pics: Our Family (not a great pic, but we take what we can get these days), Spencer and his cousin Molly who is just one month younger, Matthew and Katelyn, and Matthew sandwiched between Jonny and Noah. It was fun to be together...all of my siblings were there except Rich and Shauna & family (Rich is in law school in Omaha and Shauna is expecting their 3rd April 14th.)

Egg Hunt

We carried on the Warnick egg hunt tradition at home since we were going to Kamas for my brother's twins baby blessings on Easter Sunday. Everyone had to find two dyed eggs with their name on it. Jay helped Matthew find his. Katelyn and Spencer found their eggs easy enough, but Logan had to look and look. He even enlisted our neighbor's help. We finally told him when he was getting hot or cold.

St. George

We decided to get out of the snow for a few days and go with Jay to the Parks and Rec show in St. George March 17-18. Monday it was only about 50 degrees, but we were at the park in our short sleeves, shorts/capris, and sandals freezing in the wind (except Spencer - as you can see he still had his coat on!). I found it humorous that just because we were in southern Utah we felt we had to pull out our summer clothes even though with the same temps a week or so before at home in Logan we were still wearing long pants and jackets. Tuesday was beautiful...it was in the 70's...unfortunately it was the day we had to go home and we watched the temperature fall more than 30 degrees in the car on the way home. It was a quick trip, but we were able to run around outside, go to two parks, go swimming (we thought the kids were nuts!) and play minature golf at the fun park. It was just what we needed to get us through until spring decides to come to northern Utah.

Ready for Church - March 16, 2008

I never realized how much harder it would be to take pictures of four children instead of 3. When I did finally get Matthew looking the other kids were looking at him, or moving (so they were blurry), or laughing. This was the best we could do (of about 20 pictures).

These pictures were just too funny...I had to post them! What a face!