Gorgeous St. George

Over Memorial Day Weekend Our family went to St. George and spent a day in Zion.

The weather was perfect! I bought a tent and decided to go with a roomy eight man tent. That thing is nice! We could fit a queen size blow up mattress and all four kids and still have room to spare. I got made fun of all weekend.

Taylor and Halee giving Uncle Brent a nice back massage.

The kids kept busy finding frogs, furry caterpillars, looking for wild turkeys, spotting lizards, swimming and just having fun with cousins.

Brent took us to Little Black Mountain where there are many ancient Indian Petroglyphs. It was cool.

My Baby's Growing Up

My baby graduated from preschool! The program was so cute. As we all stood to recite the pledge of allegance, it was so hard for me to hold back the tears. I couldn't believe how well they all could recite it! It was touching.

I'm really going to miss going to Miss Heidi's preschool. For the past four years I've had Taylor or Halee going there. Heidi and Marianne have been wonderful. You can never have too many good people in a child's life to care about them.

Halee is so excited to start kindergarten. She is a smart little thing. Big Attitude-Itty bitty body!

Grandma and Grandpa are always so supportive! Thanks for coming.

Way to Go Karli

Karli entered the reflections contest at school for the first time this year. The theme was "Wow". She painted a picture of dolphins at sunset. It was all her own idea and she didn't look at anything. She won an honorable mention for her art. I think she did a really good job. She is a bit of a perfectionist though because she was a little disappointed that she didn't win a trophy. We are so proud of you Karli.

My Baby is Five!

On November 18, 2003 Halee Rachelle Mecham was born. She is our youngest of four. It's hard to believe that it's been five years! It's a little sad. Next year she will start kindergarten and I will find myself with the free time I've been dreaming of. Now that this free time is coming closer I'm not so sure that's what I want. Can't she stay my baby forever? Halee is a beautiful young lady who won't be pushed around, yet she knows how to milk her "baby of the family" status. She loves to play mommy of 4 to 6 babies. It's not uncommon to find her pushing a stroller loaded with dolls and loading a carrier with a couple more. When she goes across the street to play with her friend, Bryson, she finds all of his baby brother's empty bottles hiding around the house and brings them to his mom. One time Halee spearheaded the "no bear bum mission" at Bryson's house. They got all the stuffed animals they could find and without Karen catching them until the mission was complete, they diapered every bears' bum. After removing the diapers, Bryson's mom now had a lovely basket full of all ready unfolded diapers for her to use. Halee will make an excellent mother one day.
She loves babies so much that she wanted to have a baby birthday party. The invitations read:"It's a Girl and she's 5! Halee's not a baby any more but she is having a baby birthday party." We decorated like it was a baby shower. I even got a call from the R.S. president that noticed the I'ts a girl banner on the front door and was wondering if she missed something.
We tasted baby food, played pin the binky on the baby's mouth, baby bingo, and had a baby dressing relay. The kids took home real baby bottles. Now Halee and Karli are drinking from them! I don't want to have to ween her again. What have I done!