The month of May

The month of May, full of crazy weather, the end of the school year, graduations, powwows and adventure!
First we had a day of snow and a blizzard that cancelled school.

 



 

That Saturday the weather was fine and dry,

 

but the next week it was raining so they cancelled school for the bad roads. The rain yielded some fun outside adventures though, because it meant all the toads were going to come out! One morning, Elora and Josh and I went on a walk around our house and  found three toads (small medium and large) as well as a cool snake!

small toad

giant toad

medium toad

another view of the small toad

our friend the snake

All the nooks and crannies of the rolling hills were filled with water, creating an exciting new landscape. Of course, this meant lots of mud too.


















































































May also means the Drive In restaurant in Faith is open for the summer, so we went up that  evening to enjoy dinner together.

































(River is available to advertise other businesses as well.)

The end of May included graduation for Jonah and a powwow to mark the end of the school year. Jonah was thrilled to get dressed up for his program, though they don't really do a show like the kindergarten programs in Utah. They just kind of walk up and get their awards and diploma, then line up to shake hands with everyone. I was sad they didn't do a little bit more.













































































I did ask Jonah about what they were supposed to say in the part that was cut from their program, and he did a cute little video with me.

For the powwow, Elora got to do hoop dancing one more time this year. At their school, all the third and fourth grade girls have the opportunity to be on the hoop dancing team. They only ever practiced once,in October,  and have performed four or five times this year. I wish they would have practiced more because Elora really likes it, but has a hard time knowing which formations they're doing next, while the other girls may have been watching the hoop dancers for years. So yeah, she's not that good at it, but she enjoys it!

 

 

At this powwow, she was sad because her shoe came off in the middle of the performance, so it really threw her off. River had fun at her first powwow too.