Chase wins again with his Science Project!

Chase's science fair project was submitted to SARSEF where he won two different awards. The picture is awful but here is Chase accepting those awards at the Tucson Convention Center. Way to go Chase we are very proud!

I was sitting at my computer the other day when Emma came running in. She was complaining loudly "Mati said the 'S' word!!!!" I was very shocked, nobody cusses/curses however you say it, in my home! I went to Mati and gave him this big spiel, (is that a word?), explaining that certain English words were bad and should never under any circumstances be spoken. Blah, blah, blah! I went on and on. Mati looked slightly confused then said, but mom 'idiot' doesn't start with 'S'. Emma immediately started getting upset "See, he said it again!" Whoops! It was very hard not to start laughing!

Anyway, I wanted to share some fun stuff we have been doing like making homemade pizza. We tossed our dough all over and made quite a mess!

We also went to Amazing Jakes! Very Fun!

Mati and Emma racing Chase and Brock

Brock could make it to the top and ring the buzzer, Way to Go Monkey!

Some of the kids before going home!

Kenzi was feeling sick the whole day but that didn't stop her from cheering the boys on at bumper cars!

Mom and Dad hung out while the kids went crazy having fun!

Bonfire Fun!

Tonight we made a couple of fires with the mesquite that grows all over our land! It smells sooooo good! We cooked lots of food and had some fun. As we finished off with smores it began to rain, just in time to put out our fires!!!


Dad stokes the fire!


Brock plays with fire!



The rest of us eat around the fire!

Don't be silly, go to bed!!!

How many times do you need to tell your kids "go to bed!!!!", before they actually do? Mati and Emma kept being silly, an evil ploy to stay awake longer. I am a sucker because it's spring break. We did silly things and made a silly video which may show up on here later! Well eventually dad thought the kids were too rowdy in the family room (that's against the rules!) and said "GO TO SLEEP" just once and all the fun is over! POO POO daddy! Chase has influenza and is too sick on the couch. Brock is too cool to have pictures of his silliness taken. Kenzi took the picture for us... So the picture only contains three DeSpain delinquents. We were the few, the proud and the brave. As Mati says in the picture "Peace Out".

Day of Sporting

Chase won 1st place for his science project! Good job Chase! Today was Mati's first day of track and he ran under a 6 minute mile his first try! Very awesome! McKenzi played in her first doubles tennis match against Duncun. They lost 7-9 but Kenzi played great. Some very nice serves, maybe it's her new racket?