Warm Weather on the Way!

With warmer weather every day, John and Hannah decided to start the clean up process in the backyard to prepare for springs arrival!

There were a lot of sticks from our Willow tree.  Cannot wait to get rid of that thing!  But for now... we pick the sticks up... and then we pick them up again.. and again.. and again!

Life can never be all work and no play though!  That gets really old really fast!  So after some cleaning up I found John and Hannah outside shooting their bows!  Shooting is one of Hannah's favorite things to do!  And of course there are no complaints from this Dad of 4 girls! :)

Way to go Hannah!!!

Last week we received a letter in Hannah's backpack that read as follows:

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Daurer,

We are very pleased to notify you that your child, Hannah Daurer has been selected for special recognition for the first trimester of the 2011-2012 school year.  You are invited to attend an awards presentation on Tuesday March 20 at 8:45am.  The character traits that we focus on at Reagan Elementary are

"Respectful, Reliable, and Responsible"

This is a special time for you to let your child know how proud you are of his/her accomplishments.  You may want to bring a camera for pictures!

Thank you for your great support and commitment to the best education possible for your child.  

Signed,

Mrs.Stallones (Teacher) and Mr.Russell (Principal)

 All of the grades gathered into the gym for this special assembly.  Taylor was thrilled with all of the kids and action!  She had a constant stream of squeals trying to get their attention to smile at them!

 The twins just wanted to get down and play with the balls.  We had to have them on double lock down! :)

 Hannah was so proud when they called her name!  Then I think she got nervous as the gymnasium roared with applause....  She ran off the stage to get back to the place she was waiting, lol! 

 There were a few different awards handed out today.  Hannah was 1 of around 20  kids out of the entire school grades K-5 who received this award!  We are so very proud of her!!

 Daddy with his girls :)  Hannah was so excited her sisters got to come!  We were able to spend a few minutes with her before she went back to class.  She's such an amazing little girl!

Hannah Grace we are SO proud of you!  Your impact on this world has already begun!  Way to be an example and lead the way at such a young age!  We will never despise your youth....  Way to make a difference and be the shining light in your school.  You will do great things Banana...  things Mom and Dad can't even imagine!  We love you and your sisters so much and are so very proud of this accomplishment!

Fun in the Sun!

Another fun day in the sun!  The weather is SO gorgeous today!  I love the ability to go out and enjoy the day in February!  The girls were giddy with excitement as we switched the swings so that they both could swing on big girl swings!  Hannah is in school today so it worked out perfectly until we get a third!  

Taylor spent the weekend sick with some kind of viral something or another... and got her 4 month immunizations today.  So it has been a little tough to capture her sweet smiles, but she is still as cute as ever!

Brooke

Aspen

Taylor looking a little confused! Ha!

Brooke is always flying off of something!  No fear!  

We sure have some cute girls with cute smiles!

I love it that they enjoy the outdoors as much as we do!

Spring and Summer are on their way...  I can't wait for this next season as the girls and I plan on taking full advantage of the warm weather that is creeping up on us!  I'm even looking forward to those HOT days to spend in the pool!  Again I say... I was made for California! :)

Brooke is generally the risk taker, but Aspen has her moments too!  Little Daredevil!

Aspen and Brooke have figured out a couple of new ways to make their swings more fun!  They did this for at least 20 minutes!  I would be sick! :)

Hannah's First Official Science Project

 Now that Hannah is in Kindergarten, she is being challenged with some pretty big things!  Like her first "Great Brain Fair" at her school!!!  Hannah answered with some pretty big request too... one of my favorites was "I want to make a tornado in a bottle and then open it and have it come out onto the table."  Ummmmmm....  Maybe.

 Instead we agreed to make our own paint and then see what happens when we mix all of the colors.  Not as cool as an actual tornado on the table, but we had a lot of fun and it turned out awesome!!

 Making our own paint was SO easy, but I think I should have taken it off of the stove about 30seconds sooner because it ended up a little clumpy.  :)

 Then came time to work on her presentation board.  I saw this really cool project online the other day, so we decided to try it with the word "Colors" (which was the title we decided on).

 Hannah did most of the weaving herself!  I think I am going to pick some kind of inspiring word and give this a try to hang on our wall at home.  It turned out awesome and really didn't take that long.  The best part it, there is no rhyme or reason to the weaving back and forth between the nails so it is actually really easy and fun!

 Hannah worked really hard on all of the words for her different categories.

 Then she helped work on the layout...

 Tada!  The finished product...  Turned out REALLY awesome!  Hannah was so excited!  Before she went to school, she was sitting down quietly looking at it.  I asked if anything was wrong, and she just responded... "No Mom....  I'm just proud."  SO sweet if you ask me.  It made my heart happy to see that all of Hannah's hard work and a little of our help paid off.  John and I felt a little silly as we stayed up until midnight waiting for glue to dry etc... I mean this is a Kindergarten project, Lol! :)  But in the end it was definitely worth it to see such a sense of accomplishment in her face on the way to school!

 The icing on the cake was that our entire family got to go to the science fair at Hannah's school to check out all of the neat projects!

 We went straight to Hannah's where she explained how she got to present her project in class and the entire class gave her a round of applause! :)  

 Yep... Proud.  Will make a Mom's heart melt. :)

They didn't have awards, but everyone received "A Great Brain 2012" ribbon and Hannah was quite satisfied!  Afterwards we went to Miss.Ellie's cupcakes to celebrate!  Definitely a success!