May-Day Celebration

End of the school year program!

For about 60yrs here in Ephraim they have celebrated May-Day with the elementary kids singing and dancing. Here are some videos and pictures of the girls:

Here Kayley and her 1st grade friends show us their moves (LOVE Kayley's hips at the beginning...way to move it girl!).

As a 5th grader, Moriah gets to culminate the celebration with the traditional Maypole dance! They say it symbolizes the intertwining of the community.

Jacob's 3rd Birthday!

OUR SWEET, BEAUTIFUL BOY!

Jacob's birthday was so much FUN this year! He was so excited for this day to come!!! He would talk about his upcoming birthday, telling us about blowing out his candles & opening up his presents and how he would say "oh, thank you"!

On his actual birthday we must have sang, happy birthday to him at least 3 times, allowing him to blow candle's out each time. He was so excited when we brought out his presents (he might have been content with just the singing & candle blowing this year).

It was such a fun day celebrating him! He had us laughing and smiling all day.

(The first set of candle's on his chocolate chip pancakes.)
(Cake #2)

Jacob wanted a yellow car cake this year. (He will always say, when he sees anything yellow, "there is my favorite color yellow".) The girls helped with this cake, they had some pretty good ideas for it. (They really do enjoy cake decorating, just like their Mama.)

Opening presents, so exciting!

Jacob has been wanting this car FOREVER! He would see one on TV or around the neighborhood, and he would tell us each time that he wanted that car. Now when he sees a car like his, he reminds us that he has one!

Jacob at his Grandparents house, party with his cousins and cake #1.

Getting packages in the mail is SOOO very exciting!!!

WE LOVE YOU JACOB!!!

Mother's Day

The girls came home from school the Thursday before Mother's Day with treasures for me. Kayley had a seed she had planted at school, all ready to grow at home. Moriah gave me some beautiful flowers (she must have found during recess) and she handed me a necklace. How sweet is this, she used the "money" she earned in class to buy something for me (I just thought that was so sweet, and selfless, what a thoughtful girl). On Sunday Jacob brought something adorable home from nursery, his "plant" was already edible, (chocolate cake). Zac even had something special for me, he say "Mama" for the first time (a couple of times throughout the day). The funny thing is he hasn't said it since and we are going on a week now. And NO, I didn't just imagine that he said it, the kids and Daddy heard him too.

MY TREASURES!!!




I LOVE YOU Moriah, Kayley, Jacob & Zachary, thanks for being my sweet little angels! And thanks to my other sweet angels, my Mother and Mother-in-law, thanks for EVERYTHING you do and have done for ME, I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

CALIFORNIA

Zachary & I took a very QUICK trip to California to be with my brother, his beautiful wife & their little girl when they were seal in the Temple for time and all eternity! I was very excited to be there with them and especially with my sweet little niece. It was great to be with ALL my family, I enjoyed visiting with everyone while I was down. I am looking forward to another trip this summer!!!

Mark's Birthday

Mark did have a birthday last month. It was a busy day for him, clinic and then off to the hospital (it was his busy week). The kids were in bed when he left for work and back in bed before he even came home. I showed him his cake and gave him a present to open before heading straight to bed. The next day he came home for a couple of hours to celebrate his birthday and see some of Kayley's soccer game. Then it was back to work for him.

Once Mark had some weekend time off, we headed to Provo for a real birthday dinner celebration! Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!!

Zachary, enjoying the freedom of the highchair!

Jacob sitting still for a moment.

Kayley & Moriah getting some fresh hot pineapple, yummy! (Notice Kayley's straightened hair.)