Sunshine

This is Sunshine the canary.  I just got her last week.  I have been wanting to get a canary for a while now, to put in the beautiful cage Dad made before he left on his mission.  It's a great reminder of Dad!  Sunshine is energetic and not shy at all.  She loves to sing, especially to Peter.  She really is a ray of sunshine in our house.

Spring Piano Recital

We just had our spring piano recital.  It is so nice to have the piano year finished up!  Joshua and Andrew both played two songs, and performed very well. They both worked very hard and improved their skills a ton.  What awesome little musicians!

Selfies

Finally getting on board with the selfie movement!

Spring Dance Recital

Caitlin just finished her first year of dance.  There was a spring recital last week and she did such a good job!  Andrew dances as well at the same studio and he is a rhythm master.  I love watching him do his routines because he has such awesome enthusiasm.  Now we take a summer break, and back for more next year!

Mayday

Every year at the close of the school year Gunnison Elementary puts on a May Day celebration.  Each class in the elementary does a dance and the whole school sings some songs.  the 4th graders always do the maypole.  This year Andrew did a square dance, and Joshua didi a futuristic dance to a funky spider song.  I always enjoy Mayday - the kids in this valley are exceptional and I am glad that our family gets to be a part of it.

Pinewood Derby

We love pinewood derby time at our house.  All of us have experience building winning cars, and this year it was Andrew's turn.  He is a wold scout this year and had a great time building a car for the derby.  He didn't win fastest car, but we were still so proud of how hard he worked, and what a good sportsman he was.  It was a lot of fun.  the rest of us took our old cars and raced them as well which made for an exciting evening!

 at the starting gate

 Andrew's awesome spider-man car -- he did the design all by himself.

 boys and cookies...need I say more?

Most original design - way to go Drew!

Some Pig

So we had a unique adventure this week.  Mike and I ran out to Mayfield to give a landscaping bid to a family out there.  They had a pig that had just had a litter of piglets.  One was a runt, and the owner explained that she thought it would die that day.  I asked if we could take the runt home and try to nurse it back to health.  she agreed, and before we knew it, the Barlow house had a pig!

 This is Andrew with the pig the day we brought it home.  He was so lethargic and weak.

 This was three days later...he had energy, was keeping food down, and enjoying the sunshine!

Unfortunately, he took a turn for the worse that night and by morning he was feverish and had the shakes.  I nursed him through the morning, but by 10 he was gone.  It was such a short and intense 4 days with this little runt in the house.  It just felt wrong not to try to save him, and even though we were unsuccessful, I am glad we tried.