Kieron turned twelve in May. At twelve, Kieron is still as sweet and sensitive as ever, and he still wants to be a chef or own a restaurant. For his birthday, he really wanted to make sushi for us. It turned out delicious! We love you so much, little chef!

This boy loves Aahar!

He helped make his mint oreo ice cream cake

More cooking classes!

For his birthday, Kieron took a few friends to a movie and then they came back to the house to celebrate. Here he is with Liam, Ethan, Alex and Seth.

Daddy’s birthday!     

Another tooth bites the dust!

Celebrating Grammy’s birthday

We got dressed up do go to a Trail Youth Benefit

Playing at Bellevue Park

Pool day

I subbed in music one day. Layla came to help me close up at the end of the day.

Kieron doing a relay at his track meet

Celebrating Dads birthday with Nana

Got his learner’s permit!

My friend, Darcy’s, 50th birthday party!   

Gabby, Wendy. Darcy, me & Ashley

Annie, Ashley, Gabby, Darcey, Tricia, Bobbi, me & Wendy

Skiing with friends at the end of April

Grammy and Papa came for Easter this year. The Lotts invited us to go to the Church on the Ridge service, so we attended that.

Look what Silas won in the kids service!

Easter baskets from Nana

Diving for eggs at the pool earlier in the week

Caroline and I made a big event our of getting Layla and Clare’s ears pierced. We took the girls to Bellevue to a place that does “simultaneous piercing”, meaning they do both ears at the same time. Then we went out to dinner, stayed the night at a hotel, watched movies and did a bubble bath, then went shopping at Bellevue Square the next day.

From this picture, it looks like Clare didn’t enjoy the ear piercing. What you can’t tell, and what we didn’t know at the time, is that Clare had an ear infection and that her eardrum was going to rupture an hour or so later! After that she felt much better, but poor girl!

Shopping for snacks! (See how much better Clare looks now?!)

One of the things I love about where we live is the diversity in our neighborhood. The boys celebrated Holi with their friends in early March

Silas and Layla after school

At one of Avery’s track meets

This bird flew into our window (hard) and was stunned. We made him a safe place to recover until he could fly away.

Subbing at the high school library is fun and has a great view too!

Layla and Clare

Watching Avery at another meet

Basketball practice for Silas and his team

We went to see music from Hamilton with friends

At Heather and Alison’s birthday bash

Took the kids to see Cirque de Soleil

Sleeping girls

Silas before a choir concert

At recess

Trapping leprechauns