Mother's day and end of school year stuff

     I had a very nice Mother's day! Aside from getting a new kitchen (Yay!!) Greg also managed to finish the majority of the painting in the hallway, living room and kitchen and of course is still working on several other projects to finish up the kitchen. Kayli was full of sweet surprises! Flowers, candy, cupcakes and bath salts, very nice. And McClane had a cute photo holder for me with a cute picture of him to display. The rest of the kids?Well, two out of 7 that love me isn't too bad. Ha ha, kidding! Mark mowed the lawn for me Saturday night despite the rainy day we had. (I'm sure the other kids had good intentions.) At church they handed out the yummiest cupcakes that I've ever had! I think they might have come from a little bakery in Pleasant Grove where the owner/baker is a former winner of 'cupcake wars' but I don't know for a fact. These cupcakes were chocolate with a caramel filling and they were AMAZING!!

      We're only days away from the end of the school year and with the end of school come choir concerts and other fun activities. Isaac is part of a 100 student choir who performed several awesome songs. There were also two other choirs that performed and the Principal sang with one of the choirs, which was pretty fun and impressive. Isaac doesn't like to admit it, but he does enjoy singing and he's had fun in choir these past few months.

Isaac's in the middle, 2nd row from the top.

    And McClane participated in the first grade program at his school and was pretty darn cute.

He was pretty excited to be one of the sign holders

      We also attended court with Mark this week. It went quick and the results were a lot better then we expected. He still has some serious consequences but thankfully they'll all be on his juvenile record so as long as he doesn't do anything criminal again he should be able to start his adulthood, at 21, with a clean slate. The court dropped 9 of the 10 charges against Mark and told him he could get his license reinstated immediately, which was a huge relief and somewhat of a surprise but unfortunately the DMV doesn't have to adhere to the courts decision so that was a huge bummer today when we went to get his license back. There's still a chance the lawyer we hired could provide us with a legal argument to get his license back but as of today the DMV said he will still have to wait until September before he can drive again. This was a huge let down and to say Mark is disappointed is an understatement! Consequences are a necessity, for sure, but this consequence almost seems more of a punishment for Greg and me! How's a guy supposed to get to school and work and avoid future criminal behavior if he's not allowed to get himself to his job and school? Anyway, that's where we're at and lets hope something can be done to change the DMV's mind but for now we'll continue to do what we have to, to get Mark where he needs to be.
      Well we have 8 days left of school to survive and we have 24 days, 2 hours and 7 minutes until the Atkinson's hit the states!!