SUMMER HAS BEGUN!

SUMMER HAS BEGUN!

  This week three things happened that signaled the begging of summer.  First off

THE TIKI SHACK opened. 

This place is great.  And the owners happen to be friends of ours.

WE love it.

 This is the tiki man they have out front to direct traffic their way.

 

Caden is a big fan.  They have a Zipper size, it is perfect just bigger than a dixie cup!

Caden can have his own and it is not TONZ.  

Plus they are only $.75 perfect.

 Our family!  so fun great FHE treat

 The second thing that happend is a warm spring rain.

I LOVE PUDDLE JUMPING! 

I blame my girl friend Steph, she use to call me when it started raining, and out we would go.

I took the boys out.

 It was not a big rain, but enough to go play and jump.

 I love his tongue out, Reminds me of me

 We built a dam.  The boys were fun and we had a mini engenering lesson.  The big rocks let to much water through

 The little rocks kept floating away.

WE had to figure out how to combine and put them together so they worked together.

The third there was not picture of, I forgot to pack Chad the camera.  But the boys went camping for father and sons.  My superman of a hubby took all three of the older boys.  I had the house to myself on friday night (I had Max, but he really does not count)

Chad said it was fun.  The boys did  great.  Braxton would not keep his blankets on that night.  Caden thinks he is big and does not need dad, until there is a bug...Then the world ENDS!  And Michael just talked about the guns.  They loved target shooting.

Braxton had his end of the year festival.  They sang "Never Smile at a Crocodile"  It was so cute.

He showed me all of his friends and about 98% of them are female.   

Doing the actions for the song. 

Smiling big.  I was able to bring Michael, he is out of school already.  Braxton spent twenty minutes showing Michael around his classroom.  They were both so excited.  Braxton was so proud to be big brother, we had to see where the lunchroom was, where the play ground was.  He talked about the bus stop and all the rules.  I loved to watch them, and they would have stayed the entire day like that if i had not pulled them away. 

SO fun.

Enjoying the weather

This week was great.  I convinced Chad to come home early one day a week. 

He usually leaves for work at 6 am,

to be to work by 7. 

He would get off at 3 and be home and 4, sometimes 5pm.

But he carpools with another teacher here in Cedar to save on gas 

and she does not get off work till 5pm.

So my hubby is not home until 6.

That is 12 hours every week day.

It makes for a long week for both of us,

and my boys see their day on Sat, Sun, and an hour every night before bed.

With school letting out, and the weather becoming so nice we will be up later

but it is still a long time to be a single mommy.

I know I am a wimp, 

But I am not a very good single mom.

So I convinced him to just take one day a week

and come home early :)

This past week was Michael's end of the year performance

So Chad came home early on Wednesday.

 Michael with Kenzi B. and Quentin T. 

we carpool with Kenzi, 

and Michael talked of Quentin ALL the time.

 During the show, 

He sang a few songs,

and even did one in sign language!

 Daddy watched the little men

Don't all the people in this picture look so happy

Caden was really done

He did such a great job, 

but there were a lot of people

and he wanted to run and play 

 This is Michael's amazing teacher, Mrs. Barbara

She truly loves the kids, I felt so comfortable dropping him off every day

She was all smiles and hugs

She announced at the party that she will be retiring.

Michael's class was her last.

I also found out that Brax's teacher from last year, Mrs. Jordan

will also be retiring.  I am so glad, and feel very blessed to have these two wonderful women start my boys scholastic journey!

 One last hug

Quentin comes from a family of four boys

and their ages are very close to ours

and he falls in the exact same place and Michael, second.

These two were meant to be friends.

They totally can relate!

 On Thursday the weather was AMAZING!

And it was my GF Gina's Birthday.

That is her in the middle. 

Her big sister came over and brought popsicles for all the kids in the neighborhood.

 The little girl in the front is Livi, Gina's youngest.

I get to have Livi at my house a couple days a month, and she is so fun

she will sit in the sewing room giving me advice on color choices

she will paint my nails and I hers

she will let me paint her nails

and her favorite movie is Little Women.

I truly love her.

 This is Caden after his popsicle asking my to wipe his sticky hands.

I love his messy face.

Caden calls Gina, Jooney.

So the entire neighborhood has jumped on board and she is now Jooney to all the kids ;)

 Michael riding his bike

His helmet is to small, he put his other one behind my car

and well, it is now in a about five pieces.

And Braxton behind learning to long board.

 Friday we went to the SUU farm to look at all the new baby animals.

They have tours and we missed it :( 

But there was a lady there who said she would come back and give us a private tour!

So expect pictures of that in the near future.

 We had dinner at I HOP after.  They have a "Kids eat free" special, for every eating adult

you get one child meal for free.

SO we can feed out entire fam for cheap.

Caden sat at the end of the table, by himself

and did great.

 This chunky monkey is Henry.  He is about seven weeks older than Max.

And my Max!

The week was great

with the weather warming it is only going to get better.

We also worked on our garden lot

and tilled in some stuff to get ready to plant.

That is this next week

so excited!

PEACE

Busy week

I went to go get some ice cream and found this.

Michael likes to wake up EARLY,

and we don't usually wake up with him till about two hours later.

He is good about watching a show,

and getting himself some breakfast.

I guess he wanted ice cream for breakfast and forgot to clean up the evidence.

It is melted around the edges, my guess is it was out for a bit...

We got Caden's glasses.

I have been really dreding the day when they would need to go on.

He fought so hard to get the things sized, I had to bear hug him just to even look.

Chad and I thought we would purchase a special Build a Bear doggie.

Caden really loves doggies.

But this build a bear was special.  He needed glasses too.

SEE!

After we pointed out Doggies glasses, I asked if he could wear glasses like doggie.

He put them on with out even fighting me!

He loves his doggie, and it goes EVERY where with him.

 I am ususally a sticler when it comes to toys being anywhere but the basement.

But the doggie has been to the grocery store,

to run carpools,

on the trampoline,

and almost to church.

SO cute

Doggie is present at every meal, and sits right on the table next to Caden

I just could not resist this face!  

He is getting so big, and still so chubby! 

Friday afternoon, the two little boys took a great nap.

So I went out to play with Braxton and Michael.

Braxton got bored and went to ride his bike.

But my Michael stayed and played with me.

SUPER MICHAEL

And flying through the air. 

I love this photos  of kids that I see online

so I attempt at imitating.

On Saturday, I signed to boys up for t-ball.

Braxton is actually to old and has to do coach pitch.

I was nervous about that so Chad took them out to practice Saturday night.

Look at that form.

Braxton has a great arm.

He has since he was very small.

His aim is getting better and better.

His ability to catch is still developing.

He is afraid of the ball.

Michael is still learning.  

What he lacks in skill

he makes up in heart.  

He was having so much fun 

I love this face.  He threw it way past Braxton.

Learning to catch

Learning to catch

Not only does Brax throw very well,

he also is a great batter.

He hit four of the five pitched at him!

Michael swung hard, and is going to be such a power house when he hits off the T

This is the way Caden gets involved.

He jumps.  My guess is he is about 10 feet in the air!

He giggles and laughs the entire way up and down.

And daddy always catches him!

That was a busy week.

I love the changing weather.

I am super excited to see the boys play baseball this summer

I have Zumba in an hour, gotta go get babies ready to go

KATY