Graduation Day!!

 Kyla had her kindergarten graduation yesterday!  She and her class sang a couple songs then crawled through the magic tunnel which turned them into 1st graders!!
Kyla LOVED the jungle song they sang, she was dancing and twirling through the entire thing!

The curse of being tall... always in the back!

After the program with a proud mommy and dad!

We lucked out and had Grandma and Grandpa Seamons there too!  They were in Flag being super grandparents while Amy and Brad were both working out of town.  Kyla dragged Grandpa up with her to do the chicken dance...  they made a great dancing pair!

Kyla and her teacher, Mrs. Skeen.  She has been a great teacher for Kyla!

Eight more days of school this year, two four day weeks... and then SUMMER!  We are ALL excited for the fun times ahead.  I hope summer doesn't fly by too quickly, I'm looking forward to seeing Kyla more and will miss her again in the fall AND Johnny Boy too...  They grow too fast!

Thinking About Crawling...

Maeli passed another month mark...  9 months now!!  She has been thinking about crawling lately...

Thinking really hard about it...

Almost there!  For now she does a scoot thing on one knee and one foot.

Spring Gala!

Kyla had her spring ballet gala last Saturday, the same day as Johnny's party, it made for a busy day but cousins got to come to her performance too so it was good!  These pics are from the rehearsal, "no flash" so they are blurry AND the video I took during the performance I had Ky behind someone's head and didn't notice...  Just imagine how cute it was...  :)  She did a great job!  She has been unsure about ballet for a few weeks, we missed some due to sickies and traveling and she wasn't really into it but a little incentive, ahem... bribe, and some attention from a little best buddy cousin, Belle, and she is loving it again! 

Ky and two little girls in her class, no smiles here, they were too concerned that I had used the flash...  I promised to turn off the flash when they were on the stage.  :)

Ky was the first little girl on stage, she thought that was cool!

Ky on the far right.

Again on the right.

Right...

Middle, twirling with her partner.

Second one out of the tunnel.

Far right... the tallest.

And to finish it off, on the right.

Johnny Boy turns 5!!

It is hard to imagine that our little Johnny Boy is 5!  He is a smart, sweet FUN boy!  We were so happy to celebrate him this month!  We started celebrating the first of May, anytime I made a dinner he liked he would say, "Did you make this for me because it is my birthday?!  Thanks Mom!!"  

He kept on celebrating with a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Seamons.  He got to go out with gma and gpa, they had a special day together.  Johnny felt so loved and special.  He came home with a Lego set and then Grandma helped him figure out how to put it together.  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!!  Kyla got Johnny a red dino Lego set that is only half put together...  he needs some mommy time to help work on it.  :)

Johnny and his "Lego shaped cake"  When we were making it Johnny kept making the distinction between a Lego cake and a Lego shaped cake...  A cake made out of Legos would be gross...  :)

I love that Leo and Kyla are helping Johnny blow out his candles!

The Saturday after Johnny's b-day we went to the museum to check out the dino exhibit with a few friends and cousins.  We were lucky to have Liz and her kids here for a visit so they got to come too!

Then we headed over to the park for dino cupcakes!

Thanks to our missionary Grandparents for the special birthday note and to Grandma Grover for the card and "yellowstone" stickers!

All in all a great celebration for a GREAT kid!

Best Friends!

Spencer and Steve

For years Steve told me about his best friend, Spencer.  I didn't believe him... we had never spent any time with him and his family...  Happily we reconnected about two years ago and it only took 10 minutes for me to believe that they are best friends... "almost brothers."  
Spencer and Natalie spent some time with us on their way to a wedding in Phoenix a few weeks ago, it was lots of fun hanging out with them!!

Mustache Boys

Thank you, Mr. Potato Head, we look GOOD with a 'stache!

Duck Pond!!

The three littlest and I had a picnic at the duck pond yesterday.  Ky was at a b-day party for a school friend and Steve went to the temple with the young men.  

It was a gorgeous day, after our SNOW on Thursday we were happy to have sun again!

John dude, he is growing up!

Leo has such a cute run...  He was running up to get rocks and then back to the pond.

LEO!

Sweet baby Mae!

When we have been outside this spring, Mae keeps her mouth open, like this...  She likes how spring tastes!  :)

Easter Saturday! In our family it is the day for egg hunts and bunnies and fun!

Mtachy Matchy! My favorite... (see later post... :))!

Maeli Jo and Grandma Connie Jo!



Kyla and Erika, sweet cousins! Can you tell they both have Easter egg hunt spoils in the mouths... sweet candy... :)



Johnny took the egg hunt serious, he wanted a good start!

"Oh Yeah! Break it down now!" Leo's favorite song, he sings it ALL the time and dances too!

Yummy toes!



Easter Sunday! Love my wonderful kids! SO grateful for my Savior, they will be mine, FOREVER!

Kitchen is DONE!!

Well 99% done... I still have a little touch up paint to do but I am putting it off, I'm a little burned out... :) But LOOK! Isn't it beautiful!!

OK I have to add a before picture so you can see how drastic the change is...

After we moved in we took off wall paper and painted and this is what it looked like... cute, right?! After 6 years in the house we grew up and I guess it was time for the kitchen to grow up too... That is what Amy calls the new kitchen, my grown up kitchen. :)

Steve took out the pantry and moved the fridge into the space along with some BIG pantry cabinets.

Now this wall only has the oven instead of both oven and fridge. I can cook on the whole stove top without cringing about working to heat and cool side by side...

Since we were getting a new window anyway we decided to make it a little bigger, like 6 inches... that 6 inches was way more than 6 inches of work... Ask Steve, he LOVES when I get great ideas like that...

Steve moved the dishwasher from the peninsula to this spot right next to the sink, one less step to doing the dishes! New sink and faucet, I really like the under mount sink, no more grim around the sink, just sweep crumbs right in!
And there is the paint I have to do, the red line... I have to decide where to end the red...

No more dark poorly used space in the corner... no corner! Just a big open room! The door and window on that wall are gone too, just the new slider. Steve is all about light, I think we may overload our house at some point, he is always adding lights! :) The can lights are from the fall redo but this time he added lights under the cabinets.

And now room for 4 bar stools at the BIG long breakfast bar.

Steve did such a great job on everything! He is going to have to share his talents elsewhere from now on, every room in our house has been remodeled. Liz says she thinks we'll move in the next 6 months... nothing for Steve to do. Steve says he will work more on the yard now... I say go for it! At least I will still have a working kitchen when he takes down the deck to rebuild it and digs up the yard to put in sprinklers!

Yea for home remodeling... when it is finished!!

Matchy Match

I love matching kids! It is easier to match the boys since they are only 2 years apart...

But look the GIRLS are matchy!

LOVE her smile!

Spring Break 2012 Day 1

When deciding what to do for spring break this year, the kids had two requests. McDonald's and swimming. So easy! We came up with a few more things to entertain us but kept it pretty low key. I had a super fun week with my kids!

Monday I had to do a little laundry and house cleaning but we found time to make these fun Easter crafts...