8th grade Celebration

Marianne made it through middle school.  She sang in the choir for their "graduation".  She is the one with the light pants:).  She just found out yesterday that she qualifies for the gifted program. She is excited.  This gives her some more opportunities in high school (like going to MSA). We are proud of her!

My Boys

A few months ago when we were working on James baby book and getting ready for the baby James saw himself in this picture and wanted the baby to wear the outfit too.  Liz sent it to me so that he could.  Can you tell who's who?

Ben Anthony Maughan

Ben was born on May 7, 2013 at 2:13 pm.  He weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and is 20 1/4 inches.  The nurses were all guessing he was 9 pounds because he was chubby.  He's just short for an 8 pound baby.  He lost his chubby cheeks the first few days but is starting to eat more and I'm sure they'll be back before long.  He has wide shoulders, big hands (which were also chubby), a barrel chest and lots of hair.  We were planning on naming him Samuel or maybe William, but after our first look both Anthony and I thought of Ben.  At our name voting on Sunday the three final choices were Samuel Eric, William Oliver or Ben Anthony, in that order but Ben came out on top.
The first couple days I had to wake him every 4 hours to feed him but he has started waking on his own this weekend and even staying awake more.  Of course the first time he stayed up a lot it was night and he didn't go to sleep until 3 am:).  Saturday evening I wouldn't let everyone hold him so he would stay awake and sleep last night.  Worked much better.
All the kids adore him.  They place dibs on who gets to hold him first when they get home from school.  James keeps saying how cute he is.  The first night after Anthony had come home and they were going to bed James said, "He sure was cute wasn't he, Dad?"  This morning he was naming his body parts and saying they were cute, cute nose, cute hair, cute cheeks etc.
We are sure glad to have him here.  He was a lot of work.  I am glad to finally be done with pregnancy and just enjoy having a baby!

May Snow

When it kept snowing in April and the kids kept saying they couldn't believe it.  I told the kids it wasn't that unusual to have a snow storm or two in April, but when it snowed Friday, May3rd.  I agreed with them.  Clara said on of her teachers told her it has been 75 years since the last time it snowed in May.  James was the only one happy about the snow, he wanted more so he could go sledding.  He settled for jumping on the trampoline.

Wilson's Creek

Grandpa and Grandma Maughan took Clara and Haley to Wilson's Creek Battlefield.  They enjoyed the outing, did Clara's homework and learned some history too.

Concerts

Everyone did a nice job at their concerts this week.   Emma's pictures are from Spring Sing, a couple weeks ago.  I forgot to take the camera this week.  I will add some pictures when we get them from Grandma M.

 Emma and Asher singing Kiss the Rain from Les Mis

 Show Choir doing one of their Micheal Jackson songs, I'm Bad I think.

 Clara singing with the 4th and 5th grade Honor Choir.

Marianne singing with the Junior Choir.  She played with the band as well but those pictures were fuzzy.

Prom

Getting Ready with her friends.

 Emma and her date, Jessee Everett

Emma and her friends, Sydney Phillips and Elle Perkins.

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                                  The whole gang.

Dinner at the prom.