Happy Birthday Grant!!!

I can't believe my little Grant-man is 6!!!! He is such a good boy, I'm so grateful for him. He is growing like crazy. If they are sitting, he's taller than Olivia (thanks to inheriting dad's long body and shorter legs). He's almost to catch her in weight too. Only 2 more pounds to go. Grant has the best smile ever, and is always smiling and happy. He also has the longest eyelashes I've ever seen. Watch out girls!!! He is a mini Ryan with almost everything. He loves watching the Phoenix Suns with him, and especially likes Grant Hill. He also likes Heber J. Grant, and Ulysses S. Grant!! Granters is so loving and sweet, and super smart. We are so proud of you and we love you!!!

Field trip

Isaac's field trip was a while ago, but I just got the pictures off my camera. We went to the dairy. There was a hay ride to see all the cows and a little area where the kids could feed and hold other farm animals. He loved it.

I threw this picture in because it cracks me up. He came in to me the other day and said look mom, I'm a knight in shining armor! So creative with the costume I think. Not sure where he's actually heard of a knight in shining armor though.

Today he told me mom, I have time for you to take me to the library today. So glad he could fit me in with his busy schedule!

My Last Recital

Last week I had my last recital for an indefinite amount of time. (I'm thinking when the baby is on his mission, my kids and nieces and nephews are an exception though.) With my kids in school, I just don't want to teach any more. I missed them all day and want to be with them after school, and not teaching other peoples kids. I have to say though that my students were awesome and I'll miss them, but its nice to just be a mom for a while. Grant didn't want to be in the recital this year (and I think 5 year olds should have a choice) so here is Olivia. She played one song and then sang a song too. She did so awesome. I'm so proud of her!!!!!

Malaysia

So, I think I'm a super happy person most of the time, so here are five reasons that I'm happy that Ryan gets to go to Malaysia AGAIN!!!!

1. He has a good job and provides for every need for our family.
2. We can put all the olives we can fit on our pizza while he's gone. (Ryan HATES olives, me and the kiddos LOVE them.)
3. Frequent flyer miles!!! (We've got quite the stash of those from all these trips.)
4. By the time he gets back I'll be super close to having this baby!
5. I have really learned to appreciate having a hubby home with you who lets you talk their ear off and not complain, takes care of us, gets the spider out of the bath tub, reaches high things, takes out the trash, ghost busts etc. etc. etc. I could go on forever!!!

Happy Easter!

We went to the Easter pageant. I love it more every year. This year we were really lucky to find Sis Worthin from our ward who is in the Easter pageant. She just happened to have a little girl and two little boy hats to try on.
The kids were so excited to find some Roman Soldiers to take pictures with. These ones even let them hold their swords!
Coloring Easter eggs. This year went so well. We used an egg coloring kit that had sparkles to shake with the egg. This was a hit, and the kids didn't really want to color the eggs, just do the sparkles, sooooo....mom did the egg coloring, so no spilling any on the counter!! (This is far different from our usual spilling many colors every year!)
All dressed up Easter Sunday.
My handsome boys!!

Mini Vacation!!!

We've been planning our "mini vacation" for a while and finally it was time. The only problem was that we discovered one of our tires on the big car was really dammaged, and couldn't be fixed in time, so we had some major family togetherness all crammed in the "White Rhino" (sentra).

The kids were really good sports being smooshed in there together, but we survived and had tons of fun.

We wanted to do one more little family trip before I was too big and uncomfortable to drive very far. The plans changed a bit here and there, but we ended up having a super fun time. We window shopped the toy store and saw Alvin and the Chipmunks at the super saver. The next day we drove to see a Huge tree in Sierra Vista (I think, but I really don't pay that much attention if I'm not driving) and toured the mine in Bisbee. I LOVE that even the smallest little trip is so exciting and fun for the kids! Good times!!!

Copper Mine

We toured the Bisbee mine. The kids were so excited to get outfitted with their hardhats and flashlights.

We rode on a little train thing down the mine. This was really fun. Isaac wanted to hold my hands at first, but then he figured out it was more fun to look around with his flashlight.
More train ride and using the flashlights!
There were a few stops on the train ride to walk around and look at stuff in the mine. This is a wall ready for dynamite. I don't think the kids were quite as impressed with this as they were with the train, but still fun!!