May 25 through May 31, 2009

On Memorial Day, Kevin and Savannah and Mariah woke up early and ran in a 5K. Savannah ran it in 25:25 and came in 6th place in her age division. Mariah ran it in 29:35 and placed first in her age division. A day of triumph for the Skinners! We are looking forward to the Art City Days race this weekend where we will all run!

Memorial Day was a beautiful, cloudless, green and blue day. We packed a picnic lunch and took it to a field where we played a family game of softball. It was great fun. We decided to record Beth's new trick while we were there -- clapping her hands!

This was the last week of school and of preschool. On Thursday we had preschool graduation. Here are our distinguished graduates:

Cheyenne

Calianne

And here is the 2009 graduating class of Brookside's Neighborhood Preschool:

On Friday night we took the kids out to eat at Arctic Circle (their choice!) to celebrate all their hard work during the school year. It was great fun.

Kevin has been invited to join a men's softball team here in Springville. He started playing this week and is really enjoying it. I haven't gotten a chance to watch him, yet, but I'm looking forward to it! He played twice this week. Megan played once and got to pitch again. They won! She got a lot of people out. It was fun!

Next week, I'm going to have each of the older girls start keeping a blog to practice their writing skills over the summer. If you want to follow any of them and give them some encouraging comments, here are their blog addresses:

Savannah storiesoflandsfaraway.blogspot.com

Sarah thissupersummer.blogspot.com

Megan gigglerthoughts.blogspot.com

Mariah the5Krunner.blogspot.com

Mariah just has one for fun, so it might not get updated very frequently. Savannah's is a blog she already started once. I don't know if she'll use it for her summer writing or if she'll start a new blog. If she does, I will let you know!

SUMMER STARTS FOR REAL TOMORROW!!! Ready or not . . .