Where has May gone?

Mallory w/ Angie & Julia
Mallory's Spring Choir Concert (notice the 60s theme)

Piano Recital

We had our first Pinkberry - YUM!!!

A day in LA - Memorial Weekend

Cal Cup Field Hockey Tournament w/ Jillian - Memorial Weekend (Thousand Oaks, CA)

Mallory stayed home w/ Auntie Jana, Auntie Jenny & Grammie

My last day in Mrs. Wiebe's 1st grade classroom at Westridge Elementary. I LOVED being in her classroom and learned so much from her. She is awesome!

With Hilary, Lisa & Desi - Jillian's 6th Grade Continuation at Westridge Elementary

With her BFF Lisa

With Mrs. Park & Mrs. Corbett (her favorite teacher)

She saved for a set of acrylic nails. You can't see them, but her toes match.

With Hilary

We have had quite the whirlwind of activity at the Christensen house with kitchen renovations, holidays, recitals, concerts, continuation & family events. The past few weeks have flown by. Thank goodness I have pictures to help remember it all.

The End of a Season

A Long Overdue Sleepover

painting grammie's nails - each one a different color
cool chicks in cool sunnies
the beauties - annelise, mallory, lexie & jilly haley & kaitlyn w/ bruce & kyoko
jilly & annelise

mallory & annelise

My brother Jason and his family have been stationed in Germany for the past 5 years and will be moving to Washington as he heads up the ROTC program at Pacific Lutheran College. They have traveled from New York across the US this past month visiting family and friends along the way. This is the first time I've seen Jason since Christmas '03, and this will be the first time in 8 years that ALL 8 of the Shrader children and their families are living in the same country at the same time.

It has been a long time since we've had a sleepover with Annelise and Kaitlyn, so yesterday, my sister Jenny and I took Annelise & Kaitlyn, Lexie & Haley (Jana's girls) & Mallory & Jillian shopping for the afternoon, ate dinner at Chili's, painted nails and all of the girls slept on the floor of our family room talking and watching movies until early in the morning. For breakfast Jenny made Swedish pancakes (my grandma would always make them for us when we slept over at her house) for all of us - plus Grammie, Uncle Jon & all the parents who came in the morning to join us.

It was so much fun, and I am so thankful to have the opportunity to have these moments with my girls and my nieces. So I hope it doesn't sound selfish when I say that I wish Washington was closer.