Friendship Program

As a family including Grandpa and Grandma Gardner

we attended Riley's 2nd grade end of year program.

The theme was about Friendship.  The kids

got to decide what parts they wanted to to.  There

were singers, speaking parts and dancers.  Riley

wanted to sing.  So with a group of four girls 

they sang a song solo before the rest of the classes

joined in.  Riley was very nervous of course but

did a great job.  I think I even saw her lips move when

she sang!  

They all wore their Tie Dye Shirts they made earlier

that year.  The 2nd grade teachers, mostly Riley's teacher 

put together a slide show of the kids during the

year.  Riley was in a bunch of the pictures.  Riley

loved her 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Sube. 

Crazy Hair

Riley had another crazy hair day at school.

For the kids it never gets old.  Oh well

it's something new for me to do to their hair! 

Fathers Day

The kids and I were so excited to give Brandon

his Fathers Day presents.  We love to spoil him. 

Owen and Sierra love giving kisses to Daddy.

Sierra and Owen gave Brandon new hatch struts

for his mustang.  He had been using a pvc pipe to

hold it up.   Can you say, White Trash! 

Riley and Paige made him cards and home made gifts.

Plus they got him new shoes.  

Poor Riley and Paige did not 

get to enjoy their day as much as they could have

if they were not sick.  I took them to the insta care

and was there for most of the afternoon.  Riley

tested  positive for strep and Paige did not.  

It probably was not fun for Brandon either, sitting

home with out us all on Fathers day. 

But we made up for it by giving him all his fun gifts.

We all gave him the best gift of all.  We had his 

air conditioner changed over to the new coolant

and recharged his air conditioner with out him 

knowing.  We handed him the keys to his

car and told him to start it up.  I'm sure in his dreams

he was hoping to turn the key and hear the roar

of a new muscle engine.  But he was still thrilled

to have cool air blowing on him after driving his

car summer after summer in his hot car. 

Later that day we visited my dad. 

What wonderful Men me and the kids have in our

lives.  We could never live with out them! 

We love you, Brandon,  Dave and Bob!

2nd Grade Field Trip

Riley had a 2nd grade field trip at

Hogle Zoo.  I got to be one of the 

chaperones and keep an eye on a group of kids

from her class. 

I rode the bus down with the class which was not

too bad.  Riley loved it though.  She laid down

on my lap the entire time there while I scratched her

back.  We rode home with our friends, the

Hamblin's in their air conditioned car.   Which was 

much better! 

One of the reasons Riley's class visited the zoo

was because they were doing a report on their

favorite animal.  Riley loves Elephants so that

is what she picked for her report.  

The baby elephant was so fun to watch. 

Tumble Tumble Tumble

The girls love to tumble and that is all they do.

Tumbling in my living room, at tumbling class,

in the front yard, back yard when ever and where ever!

They are so excited that they have been improving. 

Riley got her "round off one" by herself.

Paige is just right behind her.

Girls aren't competitive at all! 

Riley was so excited she threw her backhand spring

all by herself at her tumbling class that she had to

come home and try it again on the grass so she could

officially say that she can do her backhand spring

all by herself. 

My two cute men!

Brandon was wearing his hat before heading out the door and Owen was fascinated so 

he had to wear his hat to be just like his dad.

My men are so adorable!

In the Spot Light

 Paige and Sierra have been taking dance at Light Box Dance

Studio for one year now and are so ecstatic to be in the

end of year review.  Their favorite part of course is

to dress up in their dance costume.  

The girls started with... 

Getting all beautified! 

All dressed up with makeup on 

and ready to head out for the review.

They were so cute to in their costumes!

They loved posing for my camera. 

With all the anticipation for the review the girls got

all tuckered out on the way to the review.

It's tiring to be the star in the spotlight! 

Or they were just building up their energy for

a long night of performing!  

Paige and Sierra both had 2 dance routines as well as

a finale.  So in stead of staying back stage the entire time

we had to go pick up our little dancer after each performance

and return them before each performance. I was walking

back and forth most of the night.  The review was 

about 3 hours long. 

But the girls did great and had so much fun performing

on a big stage. 

Sierra was the smallest girl on her dance team. 

After the review was over Brandon and I gave the girls

a rose bouquet.  They loved it and felt so special! 

The girls had to be at the theater before dinner and

the review got over so late that by then the girls were

starving.  Brandon and I decided to take the family

to Sizzler since it's a new restaurant we like now,

thanks to my mom and John! 

The girls were so tired and emotional spent that

it was hard to finish eating.  They got a bunch of

smiles from people at the restaurant because

they were in their cute costumes which they

thought was fun! 

Daddy Daughter Camp Out

For the first year at Daddy Daughter Camp Out

Brandon got to take all the girls.  This was fun for me

getting Owen all to myself!  And the girls got

some bonding time with their dad.  

Don't expect many pictures when a guy is in charge

of taking them.  This is what he got.  And of course

there are none with Brandon in them because guys 

don't think of those things.  But hey I'm proud

of Brandon for getting 3 pictures if anything! 

Don't get to mislead by this picture.  Sure it looks like

Sierra is scarfing down her hot dog.  But Brandon

informed me which I could have guessed that

she had maybe two bites.  

Riley, Hallie Kofoed and Paige. 

All tucked in ready to snooze!

Daddy Daughter Picnic in the Park

For Riley's activity Days she got to pack a lunch,

with her mom's help of course for her and her dad.

They got to ride their bikes with all their friends

and leaders to Jensen park in Syracuse and have

a picnic with their dads. 

Riley thought that was pretty cool to have her dad

all to herself with out other siblings!

Out side fun

The weather warmed up a bit so the kids wanted

to put the sprinkler under the tramp and play in

the water.   Owen just got new sunglasses and I

love how he kept them on while jumping on the

tramp!