Preschool Graduation

My Mikey is growing too fast for me. He just finished his first year of preschool and so I had to post some pictures of his graduation. He had a lot of fun this year and I loved watching him learn and discover new things. Right now he is obsessed with singing nursery rhymes and his ABC's. He had a great teacher and I'm glad that he was just gone two days a week...I'm not ready for him to be gone every day yet. I love you Michael!

Here are some pictures of the fun things he did while in preschool. They were able to go to some fun field trips. They went to Texas Roadhouse, Thanksgiving Point, and the Post Office.

Moab

MOAB! This memorial weekend we decided to make our way down to Moab to do some camping and hiking in Arches National Park. Jeremy's two sisters, Natasha and Ashley and families came with us and we had a lot of fun. (We missed you Amber and Ryan!) This was our first experience taking both kids camping and it turned out that we all survived and might try it once more later on in the summer. We did end up sleeping in the van the second night, because there were some serious wind gusts that would cause the tent to collapse in where Jeremy was trying to sleep and would wake us all up. But after settling into the van, we all slept nicely. The kids loved sitting around the campfire and roasting marshmallows and we were able to take them swimming one of the days and even went to Moab's Art Festival and had a deep fried snickers...yum...who knew a snickers could become so heavenly when it is deep fried! Arches was beautiful and I wish we could have spent more time hiking around. The kids loved digging in the sand and Bryce is now my big boy and decided he was no longer going to ride around in our hiking backpack, but that he needed to walk like the other big boys. Here are some pics of our adventure!

Love

Jeremy and I just had our nine year anniversary. Can you believe it! Time flies when you are having fun. And we do have a lot of fun! Jeremy and I love spending time together and I am so glad that I married my best friend. He is my perfect other half. This year we decided to go see U2. It was awesome! Their stage was amazing. It was the biggest stage I have ever seen. We loved it. After watching Bono rock it, we headed to Midway to stay the night. The next day we went hiking up in the mountains and then headed into town to eat at Macaroni Grill and saw Pirates of the Caribbean. We had a fabulous time. Thanks mom for watching the kids! Happy Anniversary Baby!

Still in love after 9 years!

The stage was huge! It was amazing!

Favorite U2 song..."With or Without You"

The stage turned all sorts of cool colors and there was even a monster disco ball on top

Hike to Overlook Canyon

Love you baby!

Mother's Day

Today is mother's day and since I am now a mother of two, I get to be celebrated. I love being a mother. It is the best decision I have ever made. My kids bring me so much joy and I have developed a greater understanding and love for my Savior and Heavenly Father. I am also so grateful for my mom. She is wonderful and I hope someday to be the kind of mother that she is. She is compassionate, optimistic, loving, spiritual, and the most selfless person I know. She is always thinking of others. I think I was blessed with the best mother in the world!

My favorite mommy memory this week was...yesterday Bryce came and snugged in my bed in the morning. He was facing me and rubbing my face with his hand and every once in a while lean forward and bump his head against mine, like he was saying he loved me. So cute! For Michael....I was watching the Biggest Loser with Jeremy and was trying to do some sit ups when Michael came and laid across my stomach and said "okay mom, I'm ready for my snuggles. I love your snuggles." How did I get to be so lucky to have these two charming boys in my life!

Easter

Easter! I just love the holidays! Especially ones that involve large quantities of candy. This year we had the kids color their own easter eggs (which they thought was awesome) and then the easter bunny came and visited them. We had an easter egg hunt at our house and then the next morning we headed to our neighborhood easter egg hunt. Later that day we headed over to Jer's moms house for a very yummy easter dinner, another easter egg hunt, and our kids were spoiled with oodles of candy and cute easter outfits. Afterwards, we stopped by Jer's dads house for pie and fun. We are planning to see my family this weekend. We have such wonderful families and are so thankful for them. We are so grateful to have our two wonderful boys! And we are most especially grateful for our Savior, whom we get to celebrate at this time of year.

Happily Ever After

Jeremy and I were able to go see Nick's little brother Cory get married. It was a beautiful wedding and the best part was that the ceremony was in portuguese and english. Mel, his bride, is from Brazil and they had one of the funnest receptions we have been too. Everybody was dancing and having a great time. Jeremy and I of course went out a busted some sweet moves. Thanks for letting us be a part of your special day. Congratulations!

Cory and Mel

A picture before the wedding starts

Nick and Sheryl's cute family


Tanner was the ring bearer

Tanner and cousin Izzy dancing

Heaven

Home really can be a heaven! I just had to post that I love morning time at my house. It will probably not always be that way when my kids are older and I have to get them up early and get them ready for school, but for now my mornings are perfect. Every morning the kids jump in my bed and we snuggle and laugh and read books. I'm so glad that they still want to snuggle me and I am so grateful that I get to stay home and play with them. I don't know how I lucked out only having to work 5 hours a week, but it's perfect. The other morning Michael told me that I was his best friend and Bryce murmured my mom. I love it and love my boys!