That fine looking Leopard is me making my debut at pick up time! Yes I pulled out a few dance moves to wow the parents, and persuade them to turn in their census forms.
For anyone that knows me, I am passionate about education (I did get my degree in teaching). I love my kids and want the best for them. I also love our school, obviously I will do anything for Lightfoot to make it the best school around. (and trust me...me in the leopard is definitely making a difference). On a serious note, I have spent the last two days preparing and handing out letters and addressed envelopes to parents to send into our elected leaders to ask them to please care about our kids and the future by investing in education. Our schools have suffered so many budget cuts that I actually cried at a SSC meeting (I really tried not to and trust me it was embarassing). Our schools can't handle much more before they will become sub-par, and right now I think my school is doing excellent even in the face of it all. If you live in the Etiwanda school district PLEASE go to
www.etiwanda.k12.ca.us and print out the two forms to mail into our elected leaders. The addresses are all provided, it is very simple and the only way to even hope to make a difference is to speak up and let them know we are serious and our schools need help. PLEASE go do it!
...Unless you want a very angry leopard following you around!
This makes ALL that screaming worth it...because isn't she cute!
I love these kids and they are growing up way too fast!
Happy mother's day to me and ALL the amazing mother's that I am lucky enough to HAVE or rub shoulders with. I am so blessed to be a mother to these sweet, screaming, serious, goofy kids!
I also LOVE being a mother when I have a day to do THIS!!!
Here is Rangi sipping on his birthday coconut
I didn't have any frosting so I decided to make some. While I was making it I said, why does anyone make frosting when you can buy it??? Ummm, because it tastes DELICIOUS!!! I may never BUY again and that is saying A LOT for me.
I love Rangi, I love him even more when he is not hurt. Just Kidding! I am so glad he is mine and cannot imagine my life without him...so if he is going to get hurt on one of his extreme outdoor sports just don't let him die! I will nurse him to health on the couch for eternity!!! Happy Birthday Babe! I love you and here's to a year of getting your knee back to 100%!
Here is Rigdon at the battle of the books competition. In order just to make it here you had to read eight pre-picked books and pass tests on them and have little study sessions. This picture was taken after the 6th battle (the last one). Needless to say Rigdon needs to work on his graciously losing skills. (notice none of the other kids on the team could care less). Oh yeah and one more thing, there were 24 teams and Rigdons team ended somewhere between 8-12 so they could have done A LOT worse.
We decided to head up to the mountain one more time because Livi really wanted to go skiing for her birthday too (it's in August). In order to save her from disappointment then, we went now! Not to mention 6 yr olds are free here! She also insisted on skiing because her friend at church told her it was way easier...who knew six year olds talked about that stuff! Thankfully they let us borrow their daughters skis and we had a blast! Livi did awesome, especially considering she was taught by two snowboarders. We had such a great day... but we won't mention the agonizing sunburns that spring skiing tortured us with for the next two weeks!
We were lucky enough to have some of Rangi's family come down for the weekend. We had so much fun...
...and loved getting to know my cute little niece, who is adorable in a bathing suit AND loves the beach (just like her aunt. j/k).
My favorite thing was rivaled only by the garage sale... I LOVE the magic castle (at least every five years or so). Thanks for coming guys, come back soon...and that goes for anyone in the Smart family!
