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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

May 2016 - Jaina Kindergarten Graduation

Once again, I love seeing my kids doing things together, because it feels like they are fighting all the time.



Jaina got to celebrate her birthday early at school, since it's after school is out.
She was so excited to be able to take a treat to share with her friends.



Crazy hair happens only when Dad bathes the girls.



Mara and her good friend Abby Hoyt painting on a canvas that Mara got for Christmas.



Mara was teaching Melody the fine art of licking the bowl/spoon after dessert has been made.



Jaina's tooth on the bottom has been loose for a little bit, but while brushing 
her teeth, I noticed that the new tooth is growing in behind the baby 
one. Looks like we'll have to work on getting those teeth to come out.



I babysat Pat's cousin Jared's kids for a few hours one day. The baby, Tanner was 
loving Melody and she was cute and was showing him her books. But as he would 
inch closer to her, she would inch away. It was so funny to watch them interact.



An updated tooth picture: getting really loose, but won't let mom and dad wiggle it at all.



I had started the day out by giving Melody at bath at 6:40 am. She had been sick 
in the night and needed to be cleaned up. Luckily she still gave me a smile.



Melody has really loved the puzzles at Mana's house, so when we went 
to the store we found this Disney alphabet one for her. She was doing 
really well with it on the first try and even put the letters into color groups!!




May 20th: Jaina's last day of Kindergarten
We got her all dolled up for her graduation program. She was in the AM kindergarten class, but 
on this last day of school, the program wasn't until the afternoon. She was so antsy and wanted 
to go to school about 2 hours before we could go. She has a hard time waiting for everything. 





At her program. They sang some songs and had fun!



The very last song was "If W Hold on Together" from The Land Before Time. She had been singing 
this for a few weeks, so I knew that it was going to be in the program. But when they sang it I 
started to cry a little bit. It's such a great song and reminds me of when I was little like her.


The principle: Mr Anderson and her teacher Mrs. Eckhardt



Mana was able to come a support her on her big day.



I made sure to get pictures of her with her friends.

Evan and Ashlyn Murphy 


Zoey Cybulski


Kaylee Horrocks
After I took this picture, she leaned over to Kaylee and said, "Sorry, my mom likes to take 
pictures a lot, she's kinda weird." I laughed about that for awhile. Oh the things kids say.


Leisy Greer


Jordan ?





Hannah Bailey




One last picture with Mrs. Eckhardt. She has been an amazing 
teacher for Jaina and made Kindergarten a great experience.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

May 2016 - Mother's Day

I love that the kids still get the Geo Trax out to play. It's really cute to see the 3 girls playing with trains.


It's so odd to me that Melody likes to sleep with her head covered. 
There's so much in her crib that you can barely find her.



This was May the 4th be with you day, so I made sure that Melody and I were wearing our Star Wars shirts.





Lisa and I had talked about taking the kids to get new pictures for Mom's birthday, but we both forgot. Luckily, Mother's day was coming up soon so we booked an appt and got new pics! Melody was REALLY cranky and didn't want to be in the pictures, so I'm amazed that we actually got a few that turned out pretty good!




At the photo studio there were people dressed for Star Wars day, and 
in perfect Jaina fashion, she asked it she could wear this helmet.



And then Mara had to have a turn too!




Melody looks so sweet when she sleeps.




These are the moments that I love. Mara and Melody watching a 
movie on Mara's kindle, on the floor all curled up in a blanket.




We were so excited to see Captain America Civil War that we got decked out for it.




While we were at our movie, Mana and Karri were watching Melody and 
Jaina. They decided to take them up to the Museum of Curiosity at Thanksgiving 
Point. They had a great time, except for when Jaina got lost (of course).















Afterwards we met up at Wendy's to get the girls.




Mother's Day
The one day a year I get a picture with my kids, because I'm usually the one taking the pictures.







Sadly, this was the best picture we could get with Grandma Tolman








For Mana, we all chipped in and got her some new Disney charms for her Pandora necklace



And gave her the new pictures of the kids.




Me and my Momma.






We sure love our Grandmas!!!!