DARE Graduation

OakRidge Elementary had the 4th grade DARE graduation today. One student from each of the four classes was selected by vote of their peers to read their DARE essay during the graduation ceremony. Kimmy's classmates selected her essay as the best in the class. Here is a video of Kimmy reading her essay at graduation.

Lip Sync 2010

The Oak Ridge Elementary Lip Sync performance was last night. Click below to see a video of her performance. The video shakes a little (my first attempt with a new video camera).

Snow, Snow, and More Snow

Well, we finally dug out from our 14 inches of snow over the weekend without any school delays. However, we are now set to get another 12 - 18 inches Tuesday night. I'm running out of places to put the snow. At least we got in some good sledding on Sunday before the Superbowl.

Carrie (She really wasn't injured):


Kimmy:

Leah:

Our New Additions

After weeks of window shopping, the girls have adopted 2 kittens. Their names are Jodie and Pippi. Jodie is the black and gray tiger stripped tabby, and Pippi is the black and brown calico one. They are staying with their foster family until we get back from our Christmas trip, but everyone is quite excited about getting them home.

Christmas Piano Recital

Sorry for not posting in a while, but here is a video of Kimmy's performance at her Christmas Piano Recital yesterday.

Kimmy's Recital

Kimmy had her spring piano recital today. Her first song was a duet with her friend Makenna (Penguin Parade). Her second song was Fur Elise (hope I spelled that right). The video from her recital is below. Enjoy.

Spring Activities

Well, I haven't posted anything in quite some time so here are some pictures of our recent spring activities.

Everyone dressed up for church on Easter Sunday.

Good stuff from the Easter Bunny:

Grandma Brooks came to visit. She made bunny cake with the girls which is always a much anticipated Easter activity. She seemed not too frazzled with 7 girls around so we figure we'll see how she can handle 10 next time.

Softball season began. Kimmy tried her hand at catcher (aka the girl who gets hit a lot by the pitcher and doesn't really catch anything).

Leah preffered to catch some rays next to the field:

Kimmy and her friend Makena getting ready for the big day:

Kimmy also decided she was going to try a kids triathalon (75 yard swim, 1 mile bike ride and half mile swim). They wore timnig chips and everything so it was very serious. Kimmy was quite nervous. Here she is before the start at the pool. I think all 7-10 year olds have the same nervous finger biting habit before a big event.

She made it out of the pool and is getting on her bike. Still looking pretty good.

Rounding the final corner from the run. She was getting pretty tired at this point but she ran all the way through the finish and did a good job. We'll be in Hawaii next year for the ironman I'm sure.

One last funny picture. Kimmy felt the need to try curlers. Of course this lasted only until she put her head on the pillow and realized that it might not be entirely comfortable to sleep in.