School is Over

So the kids are done for the summer already and are into baseball now. Between Rachel and Jacob we have games almost everyday of the week. It is fun though. Jacob's last day of school was May 28th and Rachel's was May 29th.

A few days before Jacob's last day of school he went on picnic with all the kindergartners. They walked to some kids house by the school, played games and had a barbecue. They had a lot of fun. I loved going and watching Jacob play the games and have a fun day in the sun. It was a perfect day too.

(Outside of the school waiting to go back in his classroom)

Jacob's class outside of his classroom in the kindergartens private playground. Jacob is on the end right.

Jacob did really well this year. He had a good teacher who was so much fun. He made the kids laugh all the time and he really got down to their level and played with them. All the kids loved Mr. Judy. He did a lot of work for the kids and Jacob came home with some pretty amazing things to remember his school year with. Jacob got the highest grade you can get. No surprise their. I can't believe that Jacob is going to be in the 1st grade in a few months. Jacob seems excited though. He is happy to be done with school for the summer.

Jacob and Mr. Judy- Jacob gave Mr. Judy a movie ticket for Edwards and movie theater candy. Mr. Judy loves the movies.

Rachel's last week of school was fun. The week before she did a bunch of reports as well as a story about her teachers frog. It was a stuffed frog that they all had to write a story about. Rachel's was funny. I will put it after all the pictures. Rachel had crazy hair day one of the last days of school. Her hair was pretty crazy.



Rachel did fantastic this year in school. She got all A's and one B+. her B+ was in reading. I was not surprised there. She loves to read but for reading they have to read books that they can be tested on. Many of the books that she read there were no tests for them so she had to do book reports for them. She got half as many or less points doing it that way. She had a goal for points and didn't get it so she got a B+. I personally think that it is the dumbest thing that I have ever heard of but what ever. She was in the 4th grade and reading at a 7th grade level and got a B+. Makes no sense to me. Oh well. I was so proud of her anyways. I am not one to care what your grades are as long as you try your best.

Rachel had a great year at school with an amazing teacher. Mr. Jones was awesome. I could not have asked for a better teacher for Rachel. She learned tons and loved school. She also had a great group of friends. She was so sad when her best friend Rachael moved a way but became really great friends with three girls at school and a bunch of boys.

Rachel and her 4th grade teacher Mr. Jones. She gave Mr. Jones a box of Twinkies (his favorite) and a Barnes and Noble gift card because Mr. Jones is always reading.

Rachel and two of her good friends at school. Journee and Isly.

Here is Rachel's hilarious story that she wrote about her teachers frog.

Mr. Jones’ Frog

By Rachel Heileson

One day Mr. Frog and Mrs. Frog went on a walk. While on their walk they saw their neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Toad walking as well. So they all walked and talked together. While they were walking they were not paying watching where they were walking and they walked right into the dark, dark woods.

“I’m scared,” said Mrs. Frog.

“Me too,” said Mrs. Toad trembling.

“Where are we,” said Mr. Frog.

“We are in the dark, dark woods and were lost,” said Mr. Toad.

“I need to get home before dinner so I can’t be lost,” said Mrs. Frog.

“Ok, all right, fine. We’ll just walk in the direction we came from,” said Mr. Toad.

“Wait what direction did we come from,” said Mrs. Toad.

“How should I know, I am just a frog on a walk and I am lost,” said Mrs. Frog.

But one thing that they didn’t know was that they were being watched.

“Hi,” said a voice behind them.

So they turned around and there standing before them was a girl.

“Can I help you guys with something,” said that girl.

“Who are you,” said Mr. Toad.

“What’s your name,” said Mrs. Toad.

“My name is Karra, and I live here,” said the girl.

“But Karra how can you live here and why do you live here,” said Mrs. Frog.

“Well I really didn’t have a choice where I lived. My parents abandoned me here when I was little,” Karra said.

“Why did your parents abandon you,” said Mr. Frog.

“Well because I can communicate with animals. That is why I am talking to you,” said Karra.

“So you’re saying no other human can communicate with humans,” said Mr. Frog.

“Well I am just one of the few people that can,” said Karra.

“Um Karra,” said Mrs. Toad. “How do we get home?”

“What is your town called,” said Karra.

“It’s called Sunnyville,” said Mr. Frog.

“Hmm, Sunnyville, huh,” said Karra.

“Yup,” said Mrs. Toad.

“Ok, let’s see. Where is Sunnyville,” said Karra. “Does anybody have a map or a compass?”

“Nope,” “Nope,” “Nadda,” “Nu-uh,” they all said.

“Okay then we’ll just go to my house to get one,” said Karra.

“You’re house?” said Mr. Toad a little worried.

“Yes my house,” said Karra.

“Where is your house,” said Mrs. Toad.

“Well it is not far from here,” Karra said.

“Okay which direction do we go,” said Mrs. Frog.

“This direction,” Karra said pointing east.

After they went to Karra’s house and got the map and compass they moved on. But while they were walking night fell, and out of nowhere Karra turned into an Ogre and then she ate Mr. and Mrs. Toad and Frog. And that was the end of Mr. and Mrs. Toad and Frog.

“Wahahahahaha,” cackled the little girl in the dark, dark woods.

Kaelen Update

Kaelen is 14 months old today. He is so big and so cute. He loves to be outside. He has recently started to take the hose and drink from it when it is on. It is so cute. He seems to be always wet. It is so funny. He stands at the door all the time wanting to go outside. He is an escapee too. He loves to run a way.

Throwing chalk outside.

He recently got his 7th tooth. It is so cute. He is so big too it seems. He loves to stand at the top of the stairs and yell down at the kids after we do. In this video he is standing in the house yelling at the kids after I had told them to come in the house.

He is such a big helper. He also will give us something if you ask him too. If you tell him to give something to a certain person he will take it to them.

Kaelen loves the phone. He has learned to say hi the other day but only says it on the phone. In this video is he pretending to talk on the phone and is saying hi and then babbling like his is talking to somebody.

Kaelen eating a cookie. Yum. What a mess.

Kaelen loves to climb into the laundry baskets. When ever I do laundry he will lay on top of the clean clothes. One day he will be asleep in the laundry basket. Once the clothes are empty he likes to climb in and out of it. His favorite is when Rachel pushes him in it.

Kaelen loves to lay down and put his bum in the air. I think that he keeps trying to do a somersault. One day he'll do it and be freaked out because he won't know what he just did.

Kaelen has never taken a binky before. He has never liked them until he found the candy ones. Yum.

Kaelen is finally sleeping through the night now. Yippy. He will sleep anywhere from 9-11 hours straight. It's about time. I love it.

Kaelen will look at pictures of Enoch and I that we have in our room and will look at Enoch's picture and say "Dad" and then when I look at him and ask him where Mom's picture is he'll just look at me like I am an idiot because I am standing right there.

Kaelen loves animals. He has learned to pant like a dog and so every animal he see's he will pant. It is so cute. We always know that there is an animal around because he pants. We love.
He has this book about Dogs from Juleene and David. He sits on the floor and will spend an hour each day looking at it. He loves it. He sits and pants the whole time he reads it.

Kaelen finally loves shoes. He will actually put his feet out for you to put them on for you. He actually now has 4 pairs of shoes. That is amazing because a few months ago he would only wear slippers. He still takes his socks off though all the time if he doesn't have shoes on.

Kaelen loves to give kisses. He doesn't do it on your lips though. He will pucker his lips to kiss you and then at the last minute he tilts his head down and wants you to kiss his forehead. He does it every night before Rachel and Jacob goes to sleep. He needs kisses from them too. I love it. Sometimes he'll give me kisses three or four times in a row.

Kaelen has tamper tantrums already. He will get mad and lay on the ground and cry. At times he will also go find you where you are at so he can have his tamper tantrum on the floor near you. Don't take something away from him or he has one. Silly kid. Thank you to his sister and brother he does this sooner than most kids.

Kaelen loves to play on his own but he mostly loves playing with Rachel and Jacob. He wants to be where ever they are. He also loves to talk to you and talk while he plays. If only we knew what he was saying.

He actually said his first two sentences the other day. He pointed to a ball on his pajamas and said "it's a ball" and then pointed to my clothes and I of course didn't have one on and said "where's the ball." It was amazing. We all heard it because it was in the middle of family scripture study.

Kaelen is so much fun. I could spend hours each day just watching him play. I love it. He brings us all so much joy. We love our little boy and love him more each day.

6 Year Old Pictures of Jacob

We got Jacob's pictures taken this last week. Here is what they looked like. I was so happy with how well they turned out. Jacob was so energetic and fun while getting his pictures taken. He goofed off a lot too but it was funny to watch him. The whole time he wanted a picture of his bum so we compromised and got a picture of him laying down with his feet in the air. Jacob looks so big in all of his pictures. We bought a bunch. We had some of them cropped and put into black and white. These ones are the originals.

We got this one of Jacob

This is him being silly. He was happy that we could see his bum a bit in it. What a funny kid.

We got this one too but we cropped it more so you see less of his legs.

This one we definitely got because we have Kaelen and Rachel in the same pose laying down. These will go above our bed in frames that my brother-in-law Joseph made for us.

I love this one of him standing up on his own.

We got this one too but he is more centered and his face takes up most of the picture. We got it in black and white.

I love his super big smile.

We also got a picture of this pose. I love his grin. He is so cute.

"The Ball Olympics"

On May 16th Jacob had his birthday party with friends. It was so fantastic. We had so much fun getting ready for it as well as having it. I think that Enoch had as much fun as the kids did at the party. We decided to have Jacob's birthday party theme go along with balls. We called it the "Ball Olympics." (I loved his invitations. The ball on the top stuck out a bit and it was either a football, basketball or soccer ball.)

We had activities that in some way involved a ball. We did that party outside. It was a perfect day too. So nice that we had to put sun screen on. (Nice change from last year where it rained and was cold)

The activities were Balloon Bounce and Break (jumping on the tramp with tons of balloons and trying to only pop three and pop them the fastest), Threw the Hoop (standing on certain spots and throwing footballs threw a hula-hoop), Bubble Mania (really large bubbles that didn't work), and Smack and Smash (the soccer ball pinata). We invited 9 kids to his party but only 7 showed up. It was all boys too. 2 boys were from school, his cousin Carter and the rest were from church. The whole family helped set the party up. Enoch even ran over to the dollar store to buy gold medals for all the boys just before the party started.

When the boys arrived we put jersey's on them with black under their eyes because they were all football players. We welcomed them with opening ceremonies and then they tried to do the bubbles but they were not working great so we moved on to the football toss. They loved that. Enoch stood on the other side of the hula-hoop and loved getting hit with the footballs. Enoch would count and mark how many they got through the hoop and at each line that they got them through.

Kaelen playing in the bubbles while the boys did the games.

After the ball toss the boys stood around the trampoline and three boys got on at a time and Enoch timed them while they tried to pop three balloons the fastest. The boys loved this. They were laughing so hard. Some of the boys couldn't even pop them, they would jump on them and then be propelled off. I laughed so hard. One little boy couldn't even pop any because he was laughing so hard. We had 75 balloons on the tramp.


After the balloon pop the boys went to the pinata. They each hit it once, then twice and then till it fell. The could pick too between large metal stick or a long broom handle. The boys loved it. They were so good too. They took turns hitting it. We told the boys too that they could get some candy but that it was all going to be divided into treat bags after. Well when it fell open the boys didn't take any. I was shocked. I guess they new that they knew they were going to get some.

Kaelen leaning far onto the trampoline netting to watch the boys hit the pinata.

Next we opened presents. Jacob got some awesome presents. To open the presents Jacob tossed a football in the air and who it landed closest to he opened their presents. The boys were all very thoughtful. Jacob thanked every boy too when he opened their presents.

I love that all of their mouths are open.

After we had cake. I LOVED Jacob's cake. He wanted a football cake so we really made it a football cake. We put it on green paper that we them made to look like a football field. I then make goal posts out of kabob sticks and straws. It turned out fantastic. The boys all really loved it too.





All the boys from the party.

We had such a fun time. After the cake I let all the boys go on the tramp and go crazy popping the rest of the balloons. When the boys went home we sent them home with a large bag of candy with a small football in it as well as a gold medal.

It is amazing to me how quickly the time goes for a party. We had just enough time. I was sure tired at the end of the day though after cleaning it all up. I could have not done the party though if it had not been for Rachel and Enoch's help. They actually ran the party so I could take pictures. That was so awesome for me.

Jacob Turns 6

On May 15th Jacob turned 6. I can't believe that Jacob is already 6. He had a fantastic birthday this year. When Jacob went to bed the night before his birthday he asked for breakfast in bed. That morning when he woke up he did get a fun breakfast but not in bed. He got out of bed well before he could get it. We did give him pancakes with a candle in it.

Jacob was able to bring a treat to school and was sung Happy Birthday too. He enjoyed that. One request that Jacob really wanted this year was to eat at Red Robin. We went as a family and ate dinner together. It was fun. Jacob especially loved being sung too.

Jacob and Rachel eating the ice cream that was brought to Jacob for his birthday at Red Robin.

After dinner we went back to the house for presents and cake. This year we got him some really fun presents. Rachel bought him this foam rocket that you shoot through that air, a bike horn and a game for his leapster. He was really excited to the bike horn. Rachel picked one out that looked like a trumpet and that was really loud.

From Grandpa and Grandma Heileson he got new pants and a crayola wonder coloring kit. He screamed when he loves that. He loves to draw. He will spend an hour or more each day coloring. You will see from the cake he picked.


From his Mom and Dad we bought him some left handed golf clubs. He loved them. We have actually signed him up with the Idaho Falls Junior Golf Club. He is able to golf all summer long for free.




From Grandpa and Grandma Fisher they gave him a gift card.


When he saw the gift card he got all excited and said that he was going to buy a new bike with the gift card. He said that he then wouldn't have to put his horn on his old bike. He has talked about a new red bike for a while now. We played along with using the gift card for a new bike. We then told him to close his eyes for his next gift. Watch the video and see.

He acutally started crying in the video. He was so excited to get the new bike. He had no idea. It was so fantastic to see how excited he got.


After presents we had cake. Jacob wanted a blue crayon because of how much he loves to draw. I was pretty impressed with how well it turned out.

On the side of the cake it says "because he loves to draw."
I love the next two pictures of Jacob with his cake. He is so cute laughing as well as holding up his six fingers.


After we had cake we got a knock at the door. When we opened it there stood Jacob's friend Mckenna. Now let me tell about Mckenna. Mckenna is 15 years old. Rachel is friends with her little sister Elise. Months ago I went over to pick Rachel up from Elise's Jacob came in the house. Well Mckenna invited him to come and play Mario cart with him. He had so much fun with her. Well after that he went and played Mario cart with her anytime that Rachel played with Elise. Mckenna would always say hi to Jacob at church as well. She tells him too to come over when ever he wants. If Jacob goes over and she doesn't have much time she will still sit down with him and play. Well Jacob loves her. He has said that he wants to marry her. It is funny. She is just a really nice girl from a great family who thinks Jacob is fun to play games with. Well she was at the door with a goft. I guess a month before Jacob mentioned when his birthday was. She then added the date to her phone. I guess that when she got home from school on his birthday she told her mom that she needed to get him something but didn't know what. She and her friends went to store and bought some things for him. She got him 5 really awesome looking matchbox cars ( lucky for us he didn't have them) and some big bags of candy. It was such a sweet gift. I still can't believe that she brought over a present. It was so nice of her.

Jacob had a wonderful birthday this year. Thank you all for thinking of him and for all those that called on his birthday. Thank you especially Dad for sending the e-card and calling all the way from Greece. You all make birthdays so memorable for my kids. Thank you all.