2015 Mother's day

This year for mother's day, I cooked breakfast and took Abbey to dinner by surprise, thanks to my brother to help babysit the kids. FF color and cut a very pretty flower for mom a week ahead while Clayton wrote a poem, and Brennan wrote mom a letter. Then we all sang to the Primary song, Mother I love you with lyrics that are slightly changed. We practiced several times while mom's not home, Brennan played the piano while Clayton played the violin and FF and I just sang!





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Scouts hiking and camping

Clayton is still in cubscouts while Brennan has moved to Boys scouts. So now we're even more busy taking them to two different pack/troops to do things.






























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Out and about

Lately the weather's so nice we've been taking advantage of it going outdoors and enjoying this beautiful weather. We stopped by the Temple and then go hiking at Sugarloaf Mountain































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Brennan jamming with his teacher for the very first time

Brennan quits learning piano and started to learn Saxophone since December 2013. After a little longer than a year with Mr. Perry and finished his Elementary Method Book, Mr. Perry finally let Brennan learn Jazz. Mr. Perry makes sure Brennan know he has to work on his classical pieces and exercises before practicing Jazz.

This is his second Jazz song and first time ever jamming with Mr. Perry. Only after one week of practicing by himself.

I was so proud and happy to see how much Brennan enjoyed playing his Alto Saxophone. He surely has the music talent. I hope he will continue to learn and share what he loves with others.







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2015-05-03 Clayton's violin solo recital - SS Solo Recital - Gavotte by F.J.Gossec

Today Clayton played  Gavotte by F.J.Gossec. It is a fairly hard piece but this didn't come about without the consistent support of mom at his side yelling and telling him what to correct. While practicing, he didn't like mom to be like that at all but when show time came he did it flawlessly and was proud of himself achieving it. Then he later thanked mom for consistently 'correcting' him until he perfected it.

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That genuine grin and walk of confidence knowing he nailed it.


Yeap telling his bro that he nailed it.







"Hard work pays off" smile



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2015 Spring Break getaway - Assateague State Park

For this year's Spring Break, we decided to be local and go and camp at the Assateague State Park which is only three hours away to the Eastern Shore. We decided to take David with you us too. We want to see all the wild horses roaming all around the park. While there the weather is cool enough there are no bugs. It was windy and it rained so hard at night that it woke us up at 1am in the morning. The kids enjoyed the fire, food, and stories from there.









































 
















































































































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