Preschool Graduate

I am so proud of my little preschool graduate!  He has the same teacher, Mrs. Sara, for two years and we just loved her. Ryan learned so much and is very prepared for kindergarten.   This is as dressed up as Ryan would get for a non-church event.  No collared shirts for this kid.  Believe me, I tried.  He looked handsome nonetheless.  I loved what Mrs. Sara said about Ry. She said she could always count on him to help make peace and solve problems.  She said he would give up his seat when other kids were fighting over theirs. That made me the most proud of all.  I love the little boy he is turning out to be. 

Best buddy Nate

On to Kindergarten we go ( in four weeks)!  I am only pretending to be excited about this!

Happy Birthday to My Luke

Luke is three! This boy adds so much zest to our family. Luke is our little charmer.  He knows how to make friends and be a friend.  He loves people and can bring a smile to anyone's face.  

Here are a few tid-bits to remember about three year old Luke:

 - he can't say his s's at the beginning of words: snack is nack, sweet is schweet, snuggle is nuggle ( love that one)

-words that begin with f are often replaced with an s - weird, right?:   family is schamily, fly is shly

- he loves healthy food like nuts, salad, pita chips and hummus, guacamole and " picey salsha" ( can you guess what that is)

- all of his friends are Ryan's friends.  We need more 3 year boys around this hood.  Good thing Ryan loves his little brother

-he loves to be active.  He can scooter or swim for hours and hours.

-he is known for his impromptu compliments: he will randomly tell people they are beautiful or that they are his sweetie

-he is only semi potty trained and still uses a paci... gotta work on those

-he is a great big brother to Jace and has always been sweet to him

-he loves Superman and Captain America and gumballs

Luke is such an important part of our family.  We are so grateful he is ours.

Little Moments

One of the reasons my blog has been slacking lately is that I have become an Instagram user.  I love being able to capture the day to day moments that bring so much joy to my life as a mom.  But not all pictures and event make the cut.  Here are a few cute shots I didn't share.

Inside rainy day

Ryan dressed up like Willy Wonka for story book day at preschool

This kids is can always make us laugh.

Lukie the Lion

Brother turned him into a pig after preschool

Jace's favorite game with Luke: get the paci.

Utah Trip

In keeping with the road trip theme, we drove to Utah for Easter/General Conference.  The kids did great on the drive.  It is amazing how fast 9 hours goes when you are busy entertaining three little ones.  One the way up, we put the kids in the car at 3am and started our drive.  We thought they would all sleep until St. George.  They didn't.  The baby did, luckily, but  Ryan was awake the whole trip! He was a trooper.  We made a stop in St. George and hiked around a bit.  It was just what we needed.  

We were able to spend Easter with Brett's brother and his family.  It is always fun to see cousins.

I also got to spend time with wonderful friends.  We had a mini college roommate reunion ( minus an important two).  I sure love those girls.  We all just had babies with in a few months of each other and they got to meet.  We didn't get a picture of all of them, but here is Jace with his future college roomie.

On the tail end of the trip we got to catch the Saturday session of General Conference with my family.  Well, Brett did.  I have an attached baby who doesn't like me to leave him. 

We were all wiped out at the end of the trip.  Luke fell fast asleep during lunch and nothing could wake him up.  We drove home on a Saturday night and drove all through the night.  Never doing that again.  

Gotta love UTAH!

We Love San Diego

 We really love San Diego. Back in March (time is flying) we went down there twice.  The first time was for a quick day trip to Sea World with our good friends, the Randalls.  

Jace checking out the fish.  He was amazed.

I am not used to having a fair skinned bald baby so i had to buy him a hat there.  He looked pretty cute!

 Later in the month, we drove down again to stay with our dear friends, the Galvins.  We are so excited that they moved to San Diego so we can come visit a lot!  We had such a blast. We spent the evening at Mission Bay where the kids found real jelly fish that had come right up to the shore.  Needless to say, there was no wading in the water that night.  We spent the next day checking out the tide pools and light houses.  It was a perfect trip. 

Look at all those boys!  Too much fun!

Within five minutes of getting in the car to drive home, this happened.  That is a sign of a good trip!

Fun Weekend with Family (In March)

We had a fun weekend with Aunt Staley and Uncle Michael... back in March sometime.  I don't know what happened to February.  I am sure it was great.  

Staley and Michael brought some tatoos for the boys, which they loved.

 We headed to the park for a beautiful afternoon of bubbles and swinging.  I love these pictures that Staley took for us!

Making faces in the mirror at dinner.  Made for some good entertainment!