The Bartlett Bunch

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Mother's Day

I had a really nice mother's day this year.

The kids all brought home these notes from Primary. This one is Isaac's:
I think that last one is supposed to say, "beautiful."

This is Joseph's: he says I look, sound and smell like a "Huoman."

and Kate's: she says I sound and smell like "nothing," I'm not sure which one is better.

The Primary gave the kids this M&M game to play with their mothers. It was fun.

in Kate's class they made a flower out of their traced hand print. It was so cute and even smelled like a flower. She chose purple because she knows I like purple.

I tried to get a close-up

These are the beautiful flowers that Nate gave me. He also gave me an automatic Ice cream maker. We have already used it 3 times!

I love getting flowers!

Nate also made dinner. I bought I turkey way back in November and it has been downstairs in the freezer all this time. He cooked it and it was delicious!

I hope all of you mothers had a nice mother's day too.

Graduation from "friendly preschool"

This year Kate attended two preschools. One with her cousins where my sisters and I take turns teaching and one with some friends in the ward and neighborhood. To not get the two preschools confused she named the one with friends, "friendly preschool."

The last week of April we had our graduation. Kate was feeling shy that day so this is all the kids minus Kate, singing one of the songs they learned.

Ruel, Ellie, Jacob, Bryson, Willis, Mom, Eli and Kate. (She would only be in the picture if I stood with her.) Jacob and Eli were the younger siblings, the class had 5 kids. I think this preschool was a good experience for Kate because she had to go to class by herself. It will be good practice for Kindergarten next year.

the kids being silly.

Kate with Miss Donna and her graduation diploma.

Donna, Alicia, NiCole, and Shelley, thanks for the fun time!

Friday, April 30, 2010

MS Walk 2010

On Saturday, April 24th we went to the Gateway for the MS Walk. The weather could not have been better!

We all got to wear matching t-shirts for our team KrysKross. Eli refused to put his on.

the MS color is orange so I asked Isaac if he wanted to wear this hat. I'm glad he did, it keep the sun off his face and made everyone smile.

Kate rode all the way in the stroller.

Here we are getting ready to start.

Our team was the largest, so we were supposed to start the race at the front. For some reason they didn't announce that it was time to start until it was too late for ALL of us to get up there. Oh well.

The boys brought their scooters but soon got tired of them and decided to just walk.

Handsome Nate! (can you see what the lower left side of the t-shirt says?)
P.S. MS can *kiss* my---

The two younger ones getting a nice ride!

Mom and the boys.

We made it back alive!

It was a very nice walk and felt good to support my cousin Krystie who has MS.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Joseph's big day

My birthday was two days after Nate, but we didn't get any pictures of it. Silly me. Three days after that Joseph turned 7!

We threw a "How to Train your Dragon" party.
This was the viking tablecloth we used.

The dragons were breathing fire down on us from the sky!
We ate "dragon meat" (dinosaur chicken nuggets) "dragon scales" (chips) and drank "Hero punch."