Quick Updates

Garrett finally made it home on Wednesday night (the 21st). His flight landed around 10:30 that night, so he got back pretty late. I am so grateful that he made it home!! It's been so great having him back--he was able to stay at home all day Thursday and then he went in for a few hours on Friday, but then took the rest of the day off.

Wednesday night (before he got home), we headed over to the school to see the science fair displays. We found out that Maggie won 1st place for 4th grade! Wow! So, now she's off to districts this coming Thursday.

Starting in 4th grade, students are given the opportunity to join the school choir that meets after school. Maggie joined it this year and has really enjoyed participating--she loves to sing! They've been working on this "production" called "A Better You...A Better Me!" All the songs explore character building concepts like respect, trust, making good choices, being responsible, having good citizenship and fighting fair. Maggie also joined the dancers to go along with the songs. I think she danced in 3 or 4 of the songs. They presented their show to the parents this past Thursday night and it was really good. We are so proud of her for getting involved in these kinds of activities.

She is on the second row down, and the second from the left.

Sorry about the video, we don't have a very good quality video camera and can only zoom in so far. Maggie is the second person from the left on the second row down.

Our friends took this video for us, it's much better quality. Isn't she cute?

On Friday afternoon, after the girls got home from school, we headed down to Woodburn to check out the Tulip Festival. I had wanted to go the last Saturday, but we didn't because I didn't want to go without Garrett. So, we went on Friday, because the weather was supposed to be really nice (which it wasn't that great--oh well) and the next day was Maggie's birthday. The tulips were beautiful, as usual and the girls had a good time playing on the swings and slide and the hay stacks.

Tulip Festival

One thing that I have always wanted to do since we've lived in Oregon is to go to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival. I've heard that it is beautiful, and I love tulips! So with Garrett's parents here, we decided to finally go. I loved the waves of color and the beautiful shapes and colors of the tulips. They had some fun things for the kids to do--one of which was a little ride where you got to ride in a wooden shoe that was pulled behind a tractor. It was fun, at least me and Lydia liked it. Paige didn't like it because it was really bumpy and the guy driving the tractor went pretty fast, so she was a little scared. Lydia kept saying how awesome it was. They are so completely different, it's funny. It was a fun day and I'm so glad that we finally went.