May 2014

May 2014

 Handsome Lucas wearing his Hawaii shirt

 We took advantage of the warmer weather and headed up the canyon after church one Sunday.  We cooked tin foil dinners in a fire, roasted marshmallows, had smores, and the girls did some exploring!  Matt's brother Mike met us there, and the kids greeted him with celebrity status!

 Lucas was way more interested in the fire than I want him to be!  He is still all things boy, which means the canyon was a great place for him.  He loved the fire, the rocks, sticks, dirt, water, and was especially happy to have his first ever roasted marshmallow.  Since he can't have the real kind, we brought him his own.  I'm not sure what was in them, they did not plump up like normal marshmallows, but that did not seem to bother him at all!

 Emilyn went with Matt to pick Matisyn up from her friend Van's birthday party.  She got in on some action with the bouncy house and face painting and came home very happy!

 Emilyn has been requesting buns in her hair often these days.  It's finally long enough to do some more things with, and it really does look cute up too.  She also requests pictures with her and Lucas.  He was in a cooperating mood with her on this day. 

 Owen and Lillie spent a day playing at our house when Ashly was out of town.  These boys get pretty excited to see each other, and have even started interacting and playing more when they are together.

 Happy Mother's Day to me!  I didn't manage to take a picture with all the kids, but Emilyn and I took a picture with the special hand flower painting she made me.  I love it!  I feel so blessed and grateful to be a mom to these three wonderful handfuls!  They amaze me and make me smile everyday.

 Matisyn has been working on her drawing book that she got for her birthday.  These were pictures she drew for each member of our family.

I love the questions that the girls answered about me for Mother's Day.  They cracked me up.  The pink one was from Matisyn from school, and the white ones were from both girls from primary.

 The beautiful glitter flower was from Emilyn from gymnastics preschool.

 Matisyn studied maps at school and made up a key for her own island of Bubble Gum.  They also studied Earth Day.

 Emilyn loves drawing pictures of our whole family.  They turn out so cute!

 Matt works as the 1st counselor in the Elder's Quorum for church right now, and they were in charge of the Fathers and Sons camp out.  Matt put together the activities.  Matisyn loves to shoot her play bow and arrow, so she was pretty excited to try out a real kid's arrow Matt had collected for the weekend.  Matt went on his own to the camp out since Lucas isn't old enough yet.  Some day that will be a looked forward to weekend for the both of them, I'm sure!

 The last second grade project Matisyn had to do was an oral animal report.  She chose her favorite animal, sea horses.  Matt helped her create a power point project as her visual aid and she did a great job presenting it to us for practice.

 Lucas still loves taking walks in his car.

 Emilyn's last day of down the street preschool.  I can't believe she has been going to preschool for two years, and that she is already going to kindergarten next year.  I keep teasing her that she is growing up too fast and I told them she was staying in preschool.  She tells me I'm a silly Mommy and that it is too late because I already signed her up for kindergarten.  "I like when you do silly jokes like that Mommy!"  I guess she is right.  I try to slow time down a little, but they just keep growing up faster!

 Matisyn had her gymnastics exhibition meet.  She passed off level 2 last month and is moving on to level 3 in June.  She got to show off all the things she has learned this year.  Her favorite is the bars, and I can tell she has really excelled in that area.  It's fun to watch her improve.  She is constantly flipping and flopping and stretching around the house!

 Our elementary school has a dance festival every year in May for each grade to present a dance.  Matisyn was so excited about their performance to "Jump Up."  She was a little star, dancing her heart out.  She has always been a performer.

We had a quick visit from the Helquist's toward the end of May.  They came just for the weekend for some family stuff, and we were lucky enough to get to see them on Friday.  Alison came over in the afternoon and the kids played.  Then the dads watched the kids so that the moms could go out to dinner.  We had such a great visit, and a delicious dinner at Harvest.  I'm always happy to spend time with Alison, and am reminded how grateful I am to have her in my life.  I wish we lived closer!  The kids had a blast too!

 My Mother's Day hand flowers had this note attached.  I love my mom because...she makes me lunch, she takes me on trips and up the canyon.  Love, Emilyn

Misc from my phone

 Lucas loves his new sandbox

 Uncle Mike surprised Lucas with his own chair.  He sits in it all the time, and drags it all over the living room.  It has been a big hit!

 Lucas loves drinking fountains!  He gets soaked playing in them if they have a handy stool to climb.

 Signing up for summer reading at the library.  Emi requested a picture with the statue.

 Sometimes the playroom gets this messy!  It's hard to know where to start to clean it up!

 Mommy and Emi ice cream date after her final five year old thyroid study testing session

 Lucas "helped" me in Matisyn's classroom by collecting all the scissors.  It kept him happy while I collated the yearbooks.  At least I think they are the safety kind of scissors!

 Lucas climbed right into the tub with Emilyn before I could stop him.  He loves baths, clothes and all!