We have a Graduate!

Makenna graduated from preschool tonight. She has loved school this year and learned so much! She knows her ABC's in sign language, the pledge of allegiance, how to write her name and how to spell mom, she learned so many songs this year, and many other things that I probably don't even know that she knows. She is constantly asking me questions and asking what letter words start with. Sometimes it's more than I have patience for, but I know she is soaking it all in. I can't believe how much she has grown up this year! We are so proud of her!!

 

She is quite the artist and I love it when she draws. (Just in case you were wondering, no there are NOT five people in our family- I don't know where that other person came from in her picture)

 

 I love how she writes her name! She is so smart!

Summer Already?!

I can't  believe it's summer already. Today is Makenna's last day of preschool (no one is as sad about this as I am!), we've started to plant our garden but are at a stand still till next weekend because we're finishing the back of the fence which lines the garden, the yard work projects are piling up on the to do list, we're looking forward to doing some camping this year, and the sprinklers have been on every day this week. Bring on the summer!

Jared and Lauren

Jared and Lauren got married last weekend! It was so good spending time with family and being at the temple!
My kids looked adorable- thanks to Katrina for making Makenna's dress. Makenna has been talking about the wedding for a good month now, wanting to know if it was here yet. The day finally came and her shy/stubborn streak comes out and I could not get any pictures of her with Jared and Lauren. I was not happy with her, its a good thing she looked so cute.

This little man also looked adorable- I just want to squish him! He wasn't afraid of the bride and groom.

A special thanks to Mark and Steff who played with my kids ALL day long. My kids loved it.

 That night they had dancing at the reception. Chase stole a dance with the bride, I got a dance with Chase, and I even got a dance with Steve! (Makenna sat the table all evening refusing to come up and dance- what a stinker!!)

 Congratulations Jared and Lauren- Love you!!

GaGoon!

A few weekends ago Makenna and I were able to go to Lagoon, or Makenna was calling it GaGoon, with Misha and Kira! We had so much fun. Makenna might be terrified of animals but she is not terrified of amusement parks. She wanted to go on everything!

Mostly Kira and Makenna were glad to be together!

We rode all the rides that we could...

including the train which also involved a snack break.....

 ...and unfortunately for Misha and I also included the Tea Cups. We were hoping to just send the  girls by themselves on this one because all you do is spin around in circles, which since I've gotten older is anything but fun, but when we got to the front we were told they weren't tall enough to go by themselves. The only good part is that the girls didn't know that we could spin faster if they turned the wheel in the middle:)

  This is my favorite picture. The girls are on Puff- Kira was anything but thrilled and Makenna loved it!

As the ride went on Kira is sinking closer to Makenna and Makenna is just smiling.

So much fun!