Last Day of School

Summer break has officially started for the Swenson kids. Here are a few pics from the last day of school.


Braden and his 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Borowski


Kari and her Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Tuttle


Kari with her best friend, Meredith



While I was at Kari's classroom for the last few minutes of the day we made her name out of these blocks. Yea, everyone was pretty jealous. Actually most of the kids looked at it and couldn't figure out what it said. The teacher had to explain it a bit. Oh well, I tried.

Summer break has officially started for the Swenson kids. Here are a few shots of the last day of school.

DinoStars!

Each year the elementary schools do a music program. This year the theme was dinosaurs. Kari, being a kindergartner, only sang. Braden, a second grader, was able to say a part. His was actually a joke. Here are a few pictures and videos from the performance. The kids are VERY hard to find, but they are both wearing red shirts.......and we sat on the wrong side of the auditorium so we couldn't even see them that well.

Kari is right in the middle of this picture. She has her hair pulled up in a red hairband. Braden is at "2:00" from her, but you can only see his head. He's probably the only boy with glasses.

Here the kids are singing one of their songs. It's about raptors, so they are rapping.

Braden is saying his joke. Of course I couldn't get the camera on fast enough so I missed the first part. It goes something like this: "What do you get when you have a kangaroo and a triceratops? Tricerahops.

Braden's 8th Birthday

This year for Braden's birthday Steven was in Washington, D.C. at his annual AAO conference. My aunt Donna from North Dakota felt bad for the little guy and decided to go on a road trip with her hubby. What do you know, they ended up in Kearney, Nebraska! We had lots of fun with Mike and Donna and are grateful they made the trip. Here's a few pictures from the weekend.

Mike, Donna, and Braden at Applebees.

Me and the kiddos three.

Of course Braden wanted the servers to do a little song and dance, very amusing as usual.

And Braden's favorite.....a free dessert. Actually, the dessert is Braden's favorite part, the "free" is my favorite part. :)

While they were here we also went to the Archway Monument (a museum that looks like a bridge over the interstate), ate at Red Lobster, went swimming a few times, and had a little birthday party at home.

He apparantly doesn't really like cake, nor do Preston or Kari. I learned this in February after I made TWO birthday cakes for Kari and PReston. Anyways, instead of cake we had birthday doughnuts.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADEN!!