Car

The Prius, aka "the Jo car", will soon celebrate her 13th birthday. The counter just made it to 6 digits a few days ago. Although it has a few scratches, which have nothing to do with the driver, it is an awesome car!

Guinea Pigs

We have pigs in the house! (we already knew that). Guinea pigs that is. Just for a few days while their owners are on vacation. Meet Balthazar and Hamilton.

Sophie enjoys taking care of Balthazar

Alex chose the young one: Hamilton

I'm always looking for food

Oui, j'ai un beau museau.

Hamilton is the shy one only coming for food

It was fun babysitting these two!

Band

Last band concert for this 5th grader.

Sounding pretty good

Much progress has happened since they started
to learn their instrument in late August

Choir

The WorshipArts kids performed for Mother's Day.

Teri herding cats

Part of the gang

Thankful for Teri leading our kids in songs

One last check

"You and I" by Sleeth

Party

A busy day ending with a birthday party.

Mini me ready for the day!

Enjoying friends at Shawnee Mission Park

The chips table was a hit with some of our kids..

Theo & Alex catching up

Asian Festival

The Asian Cultural Festival had great shows and food again. Always fun to check out the vendor booths and watch the dance and martial arts performers.

Found my birth country flag

Welcome!

Vietnamese spring rolls & fried rice rock!

Craft table for Sophie

Alex always enjoys checking out stuffed animals

Quelqu'un ne peut pas s'empécher de faire le singe...
Until next year!

Last Soccer Game

Last soccer game of the season. Alex is still undecided whether he wants to continue with soccer or focus on karate. To be continued...

Playing goalie for the first half was fun
The other team couldn't score one goal with Alex!

Try me folks!

I'm a pretty fearless attacker too!

Goal for the Rock Stars!

I can kick the ball backwards!

Carnival

School carnival was a lot of fun. Here are a couple of pictures that papa took while maman was volunteering at the food tent.

Bungee jumping

Sophie hang out with Mariya all evening
Alex is too fast to be caught on camera having fun with his buddies

Karate

Alex enjoys his Monday night karate class with Sensei Daniel and Garrett.

Practicing my orange belt form

Here are my team mates

It can get a little crowded here!

Check out my dojo moves!

Here I come again

That's it folks!

Soccer

Soccer season is almost over. Alex enjoyed being both goalie and defender.

Running is what I do

Defending my goal

Got the ball

Time to kick it hard

Go Blue Team! My friend Ty was with the Red Team.

Kick

Way to go, goalie!

Market Day

Fifth graders worked hard to come up with ideas for Market Day. The rules were spend no more than $5 to create your items to sell to students. Students could display six items at a time. Alex the businessman sold all his items. Way to go!

Ready to sell stress balls

Alex bought balloons and filled them up with rice

Cool advertising poster

Market Day was an awesome experience

Recital

We had our spring piano recital. A first for Sophie. Both little pianists did very well.

Our neighbor Marilyn is always there cheering on the kids

Here I go first

Summertime Daydream

Pretty dress for my first recital

River's Edge

Proud Maman

A great lineup. Bravo !

Ear Piercing

Sophie said she is now ready to get her ears pierced. She was pretty pleased with herself when she realized that she got it done at a younger age than Maman.

Is this going to hurt? I sure hope not.

My big brother is there for me.

Here she comes with her ear piercing thingie.
I got this, folks!

Look at me now with my new unicorn earnings!

Snake

Sophie had a field trip to the high school animal lab. She was excited to pet the animals there with her classmates. Everything was going well until the snake decided to latch onto Sophie's finger. Maman got an unusual phone call at work from the school nurse. A princess bandaid later, everything was back to normal. Everyone was amazed how brave Sophie was. Way to go keeping calm when a snake decides he's finally hungry!

Souvenir bite from Mr. Snake

Thank you, uncle Gilles!
The swelling is gone and I can hold
my baby unicorns.