my baby is FIVE

Terek is such a joy to have in our family.   He is growing up so fast!  He loves to play and fight with his big brothers.   He loves to play with his friends... he plays Star Wars and fights with light sabers.  He loves all super heroes and still loves to play dress-ups.   He loves to play on daddy's iPad and the wii... a little too much.  He loves to ride his scooter and gets to ride home from school on his scooter with his big brothers.  We love you Terek!

President's Weekend Fun

It's hard to want to go anywhere for President's Day Weekend when it's so nice here at home.  We had family in town and our kids love playing with their cousins. So, on Saturday, we took off to Snow Canyon to play in the sand dunes.  We had a picnic at the parking lot, then the kids went and played while we chatted and soaked in the sun.

I just love this picture of Terek!  It was so funny to see him come up over the hill all decked out in his light sabers.

The kids love digging holes (we only let them dig little holes because someone in Rose's ward died at the sand dunes a few months ago getting buried in the sand)

After the sand dunes, we went to Sand Hollow swimming pool.  We figured we'd rather have the sand in their pool, than our house:)

Brenner and Joren had a blast jumping off the diving board.

On Monday we went out to Gunlock to the Camel back (or toilet bowl) hike.  I went hiking with Brenner and Chad and Melissa and their kids, while Ryan stayed at the parking area with everyone else to eat and ride 4-wheelers.

Here's Brenner down in the toilet bowl.

We got a little sunburned, but it was sooo nice to be outside!

Preschool

Terek gets to go to two preschools this year!  The first preschool is at Red Mountain Elementary School. 

 He was a little nervous to go since it's a new place for him.

Tanner took him to school an had to stay with him for a few minutes.  But Terek loves it now!!!

My baby turned 4!!!

This past 4 years has been a whirlwind for our family!  I can't believe how fast time has flown by.  

 My sweet baby boy, Terek in the hospital.

 Terek had his birthday party on the Saturday before his birthday.  For details of his birthday party, you can visit my craft blog.  He was so excited to have 2 birthdays!!!

And here's the pix I took of Terek for his 4 year old pix.... he's a silly boy.

Happy Birthday Terek!!!

My little grads

We had a couple of fun graduations this past week.  Terek graduated from his first year of preschool.

 They sang a bunch of songs for us and did a program.  I love this song that he sings with the bean bag.

 Terek has loved his teacher, Miss Robyn (Petersen)

 Today Joren graduated from Kindergarten.  Next year he gets to go to school all day!!!  That's going to be a little bit crazy.

 Joren has really loved his teacher, Mrs. Moore!

Thanks to all of the teachers that teach and love my kiddos!

April just flew by...

Blogging is a little underrated... 

Brenner participated in the Evening of the Arts at his school.  The theme was diversity is... so he submitted his Perler Bead art.  "Perler beads are all different and unique, but if they all work together, they can create a beautiful work of art."  He won 2nd place!

The boys participated in about 4 easter egg hunts.    Unfortunately, I only took pictures of 1.

Joren and his teeth.... he had some new permanent teeth starting to come in.  He was way too scared to have me or Ryan pull them out.  For awhile, he had two rows of teeth like a shark.  Eventually he wiggled one enough to pull it out himself.  It just so happened that he had a dentist appt to get some cavities filled.  Since he has to be sedated for dental work, I had the dentist pull out the 2nd one while he was doing the dental work.

Terek had Pet Day at preschool so he got to take Mia to preschool to show his friends.

We love the Kayenta Chalk art Festival.  This year we have been spending a lot of our weekends trying to fix up Granny's house in Kanarraville.  So, we missed the festival.  We headed over Sunday after church to see all of the finished products:)  These are the kids favorites...

Terek learned how to ride his bike without training wheels!!!  We knew he could because of how awesome he is on his scooter!!!  Now he needs to work on starting and stopping better on his own.

Spring has sprung and our garden is starting to produce.  We have lettuce, radishes and our favorite... PEAS!  My boys love them and will often be found over at the garden munching on peas!

We can hope for better blogging in May, but I doubt it!  For more up to date info and pics, follow me on Facebook or Instagram.

Here is our list of things to look for in May... Moab, Brenner's b-day, father's and sons, working on Granny's house, end of school, family camping trip... busy busy days... bring it on!

1st Day of School... take 3

Today was Terek's first day of Pre-school. We were a little nervous he'd cry when we dropped him off, but he did great!!!He goes to a home preschool here in Ivins.
His teacher's name is Robyn Peterson. 5 of the 6 kids in his class are in our ward. And he is the only boy:)
He couldn't resist eating his apple:)
He got to take the snack today because he was the first to celebrate his birthday. He had so much fun and can't wait to go again next week!
My little boy is growing up!

3 years ago...

I had my 3rd boy.
My little snuggler.
Sweet Terek is such a big boy... in many ways. The only two kids he plays with are the little sisters of his big brothers' friends. So, we had the girls... and their big brothers come to his party. And Legacy surprised us and came down from Wyoming.





His friend party was on Saturday, but his birthday was on Sunday. So, on Sunday we went to Pine Valley for a BBQ.

Big T is Big 3... where did the time go?

Crawdad Huntin'

In an effort to try to keep these kids busy, we thought we'd go crawdad huntin'. When Shellie was down a couple of weeks ago, we took the kids down to the river. We discovered that there wasn't really a sandy beach or anything to play on, but there were people there catching crawdads. Since we weren't prepared that time, we decided to go back.The crawdads are in some rocks under the bridge.
They aren't too big and I'm too chicken to pick them up with my hands... I liked to use a cup.
We took them home and cooked them for a bedtime snack. Joren wasn't scared of them anymore once they were dead.
I'm not sure if Joren really ate one, but Brenner loves seafood, so he ate a few of them.
Joren has been begging to go back, so I'm sure we will head that way again soon.