Friday night

 We had a lot of fun at John's Incredible Pizza on Friday night.

Everyone ate lots of pizza. That always makes for happy little people.

(Also....it was very orange.....please ignore the orangeness of these pictures!)

 Zoey loved the food. She wanted pizza and ice cream and anything she could get her hands on.

 My brother Joel was there.

Don't worry ladies......he's single ;)

Max, Mia, and Zackary rode the frog hopper together and Mia loved it. Zack was in tears and demanding to be let down and Max was yelling for someone to stop the ride. Oh well....

Zackary really enjoyed the race cars and the roller coaster and Max liked everything else he did as well. Next time we will just send Mia on this one!

We got home late and the kids had a sleepover downstairs on the fuzzy rug. Too bad no one slept in. Maybe tomorrow.

Max

Max is no longer a first grader. He is moving on up to second grade and he is very excited about it.

I picked him up from school today and I was going to treat him and the other kiddos to doughnuts for national doughnut day, but he said he had already eaten an ice cream cone, a popsicle, a cookie, chips, and candy at school.

It must have been quite the party!

We are headed out for fun as soon as Ty gets home, but for now all Max wants to do is play a little Angry Birds.

I think Max's hair is really cute BTW!

June!

Today is the first day of June!

I can't believe how quickly it got here.

Today is also Max's last day of school. I put a special note in his lunch that said, "Max's last 1st grade lunch EVER!"

On the way to school Max and Mia were talking about summer vacation and how we would need to eat lots of ice cream and drink lots of lemonade. Sounds like a good plan to me!

This afternoon we are taking the kids to John's Incredible Pizza to celebrate the end of the school year and the start of our summer vacation. We leave on Monday for Monterey. I am really looking forward to getting away for a little while. 

June is going to be an awesome month!

The Little Graduate

This evening Mia graduated from Pre-K!

The ceremony was nothing short of adorable. She was so pleased with her accomplishment :)

We are proud of you Mia. 

1 more day

Our little countdown is almost finished!

Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year (Well...Mia's last day was today, but we are all celebrating tomorrow!).

The kids are so excited and I am thrilled for the lazy days ahead. It has been a wonderful year. Last year, when Max was in kindergarten, we moved across the country and Max was in 3 different schools. It was so nice to have him in one classroom with one teacher for the whole year. He made some wonderful friends and did great.

Mia had a fantastic school year as well. She is so excited to be going to kindergarten in the fall. She is most looking forward to meeting new people. She is my little extrovert!

Happy Almost Summer!

(1 more day!)

New Shades

 Next week we are headed up the coast to Santa Barbara and Monterey for a little fun in the sun.

I wanted all of the kids to have sunglasses so that all of our outside time would be more enjoyable.

These are Zoey's!

I think the bright pink color and the sparkly jewels are a perfect fit.

She didn't seem to mind wearing them either!

Marine Biologist

 While Max and Mia were at school today, Zackary was enjoying a movie called, "Turtle Tale". It is about a little baby sea turtle and Zack was loving it. 

I don't know why he needed to stand so close to the screen :)

I noticed he had a little ship Ty had brought home from Peru.

 Maybe he will be a marine biologist! Or maybe he will just watch a lot of movies.

Headbands

 Ty laughs at me for putting headbands on Zoey. He says she has no hair to hold back.

I think they look adorable on her little head, and I think she has plenty of hair :)

 If she had hair she would wear bows, but she doesn't so sparkly pink headbands it is!

We love our little Miss Zoey!

Memorial Day

 We had a wonderful Memorial Day Holiday!

It was so nice to have everyone home. We had a quiet morning. The kids crafted with play-doh and I made some granola. Later we did a little chocolate dipping. I melted some chocolate and cut bananas into pieces. We dipped the bananas into the chocolate and then into chopped nuts or marshmallows and graham crackers. Ty decided it should be a Memorial Day tradition from now on.

My parents came over in the afternoon for the official BBQ.

We grilled burgers and hot dogs. There was watermelon and root beer and a fresh batch of

Cake Batter Ice Cream!

 I used THIS recipe from Annie's Eats.

I added sprinkles right into the ice cream mixture during the last few minutes in the ice cream freezer. Max and I thought it was awesome!

After the BBQ the kids played some computer games and bounced on the trampoline. We ended the night with a quick FHE lesson on John the Baptist, Baptism, and following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Zack fell asleep during the lesson so it was pretty quiet!

Back to school tomorrow!

4 days until summer vacation.....and I can't wait!

My new toys

I had a special delivery this weekend.

A cherry red front loading washer and dryer!

Our old washer has been on it's last legs for about a year and we have been trying to make it last, but it finally expired. Our dryer was still working well, but we decided to go ahead and get both :)

I am more than a little excited about these new additions.

Now....time for a laundry room makeover!