JACKSONS JOURNEY JOURNAL: June 2012

Bre's "Sassy" Jazz

Ellie's "Step In Time" Tap

Bre's "Wishing on a Star" Lyrical

Bre's "Nostalgia" Ballet

Ellie's "Party Rock" Hip Hop

Bre's "Dum Diddy" Hip Hop

The girls had a fun dance year with all of their dance friends, they established many good friendships this year while having a great time strengthening their talents for dance. The Performing year isn't over for Bre yet, this summer they will perform at Silverwood which will work out good for our family to go see Grandma and Grandpa in Coeur d' Alene. (We'll get pictures of the "Hand Jive" performing dance there, the big group of girls all looked so cute in their 50's attire.) We will also celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary so Matt and I will get a little get away in while the kids needs are tended to by the grandparents. They also have a few summer events, service performances and then the Fall fairs that will end up this years season. BreAnna also performed her lyrical dance at our ward talent show and her middle school talent show which she had a good time with and received many compliments, it's fun to see how passionate Bre is about dance and how much she really loves it. Ellie too has fun with her dancing and likes it but her more loving interests are in other areas of the arts, she loves to do hair and is more passionate about hands on art, designing, sewing and creating. I told her we'd look into some art or sewing classes for her to take which she is excited about.

June 19, 2012

Strawberry Jam, loving the freezer jam simplicity and fresh taste! If you have never made it...do, you won't regret it...so SIMPLE!!!!

Spencer's Origami, this kid is good at his origami skills!

Bre did one of her lyrical dances for the ward talent show.

BreAnna's Candy Cane Butterfly (one of the only fabric selections we found on had at home at the time of her project) that she made in her adult living class.

Ellie's new UP-DO for Brooke's hair.

Rainy Day Crayon Making Entertainment

Ellie had better luck finding cuter fabric than Bre's candy cane fabric around the home and sewed up a pillow by hand one night on the weekend, she was up tell 3 in the morning sewing this thing. We picked her up some batting so she could stuff it a few days after.

After a fun field trip to Fort Nisqually learning about the pioneers, Ellie made a covered pioneer wagon for school. Going through Oregon on our trip to Idaho, we stopped off at the Oregon Trail rest stop so I snapped some pics of the commemoration monuments.

Speaking of Pioneers, Tracey...I think I found the picture Rod was referring to, this one was labeled mother and siblings in grain field! Our Great Grandma Jorgensen.

Brooklynne's nail polishing, she actually does quite a good job at two years!

Ellie's Birthday Party, we now officially have a ten year old in the home again! She was thrilled to finally get her long awaited and talked about kindle fire.

Traveling to Idaho, we also came across Mt Emily, Emily was excited to see her Mountain so we took a pic of the road sign.

Josh's Pre School Graduation at the traditional Super Jump here in Sumner.

Way to go Josh.

On to KINDERGATREN!

Some of Spencer's Art Work from this year in 2nd grade.

Josh hosted a GLOW-PARTY in his bedroom, he made tickets and partied to hip music and glow wands, it was great fun for him and his siblings.

Four more Girl Friend Parties this weekend. I can hoestly say that June is the PARTY month with out any hesitations, seventeen birthdays on the June calendar that will be celebrated between friends and fam when all is said and done. Then you add the graduations, baby showers, anniversarys, fathers day, recitals, talents shows, baptisms, even a wedding and a funeral...one packed month of energy! Wouldn't you know I even got to speak in sac mtg last Sunday, it's been busy but the kids are out of school this week and things should calm down a bit, or maybe with everyone home the party has just begun?