School Awards

At the end of the school year Logan received a trophy for getting an “exceeds” in both Reading and Math on his AIMS testing! This testing starts in the 3rd grade, so Carson is looking forward to participating next year. Plus, at the Max’s Milers assembly, he and his best buddies were named the top 4 runners out of the entire school! 4th grade was filled with wonderful achievements and GREAT friends!

Our weekend wrap up…London turns 4!

This year London’s 4th birthday fell on Mother’s Day Sunday. We decided to celebrate his special day on Saturday so we could make the day ALL about him! He started the day waking up to a curtain of balloons leading to his presents, and his breakfast of choice…chocolate chip pancakes! After breakfast he opened his presents and had a chance to play with his new toys while daddy and I got ready. We had a FUN day trip planned to Phoenix to go to Makutu’s! London LOVES Makutu’s and always has so much fun climbing through all of the tunnels, robe bridges, and sliding down the various tube slides. When we finished playing we were off to dinner at Pei Wei and ice cream at Coldstone. There may or may not have been a Francesca’s right next door to Coldstone where mommy picked a little something out for Mother’s Day.

I had had a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday. We started off the day at church where all of the mom’s were treated to some special songs sung by the primary children and chocolate!

^^After we were home I got the rest of the day “off” so I could do a little of this and took a much needed nap!^^

^^Weston made an AMAZING salmon dinner, washed all the dishes, and got the boys ready for bed.^^

^^Of course we still had to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to this cutie pie and enjoy a special birthday treat!^^

A Birthday, Baptism, and Blessing!

What a special weekend for our family! On Saturday Carson was baptized (on my birthday!) Weston took me out for my birthday date on Friday night so we could make Saturday all about Carson. In our church we believe that at age 8 you can be held accountable for your choices. You have the opportunity to choose to be baptized at that time. Carson was so excited to be baptized by his dad and confirmed by his Granddad. There were 2 other kids from our ward who were baptized the same day, and it was so fun to share this special time with such wonderful families. Afterwards we had our family over for a BBQ and pool party! All of the kids (and dads) had a blast swimming and doing tricks on the trampoline.

For our BBQ we had burgers,hot dogs, fries, and fruit salad. For dessert we had “Great to be 8” powdered donuts, cupcakes, and “baptized” strawberries (dipped in white chocolate.)

On Sunday morning we had Greyson’s baby blessing. He was wide awake the whole time and didn’t let out a peep. He is such a calm, sweet baby. It was the perfect way to cap off our special weekend. I’m so grateful we have family that live close to help us celebrate these milestones in our boy’s lives!

Happy Easter

We were so happy to have Grammy in town for Easter this year! We had a very full day. We spent our morning at church where we all were reminded of Jesus Christ’s ultimate sacrifice for us, and the power of the atonement in our lives. Also, our ward choir treated us to some beautiful, uplifting music. I’m so happy were able to start the day this way! After lunch we let the boys dig through their Easter baskets while daddy hid the eggs in the backyard. It didn’t take them long to find every last one! Later that afternoon the boys dyed Easter eggs while I got dinner ready. We enjoyed a yummy dinner of spinach pesto pork chops, fresh green beans, strawberry spinach salad, resurrection rolls, and green apple limeade. I made pink lemonade cookies for the adults to eat since the kiddos had plenty of treats in their baskets. It was a full, fun day!

^^Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be the oldest. Logan didn’t get as much time to find eggs and his little brothers cleaned up quick!

^^Don’t feel too sorry for him. He got plenty of candy and coins.