We have finally completed our move and loving it here in our new home. Life is calming down, school is over, and we are ready to have some major fun family time! I am ready to attack "my list" again which includes updating this lovely blog :) So, the past month in a nutshell will be given mostly in pictures. Here it goes:
It's nice to have daddy visit more often in the ambulance. The kids love to play with the rubber gloves and check out all the equipment. Even though it was a bit of a shock for our new neighbors to see an ambulance in front of the house, they are getting used to it.
"Pretty in Pink". The girls love playing dress-up together.
We get to watch our new little buddy, Cason, a few days a week and got to help him celebrate his 1st birthday! It was a sports theme so Eris wore a baseball cap and gymnastics jersey shirt while Shayla chose to wear a pink hat, and a dress with a ballet skirt on top because "Mom, dance is a sport!" Gavin wouldn't wear his adorable Broncos hat so he wore his swim suit with snow boots.
Eris performed in her 2nd year of "Lets Play Music" and did fantastic!
Eris and her musical theater class at school put together a 10 minute skit all on their own. She was the narrator and memorized the entire thing! Afterwards, they signed and sang the song, "Fireflys." Sarah had the opportunity to meet the guy who sings it and told him about the performance and he thought it was totally awesome! Way to go Eris! :)
Gavin loves to help daddy with anything and everything especially when he's able to "help" while riding on daddy's back!
I had an amazing Mother's Day filled with love, laughter, lots of gifts, homemade breakfast and dinner, and bunches of fun with my beautiful family! Thanks guys!
Gavin with his chocolate doughnut on the couch. He seemed to rotate between licking his fingers or spreading it on the top of Kudos back.
Beautiful Eris posed herself for a pretty pic!
Spencer was asked by a family he home taught in Mesquite if he would baptize their daughter. We all went to watch and it got Eris really excited for her own baptism coming up.
Eris posing for some pictures after her dance competition. Her tap dance won "1st place group overall" and her ballet won "Best in Show". She was amazing!
More Moving Fun!
3+ years of going strong and fishie finally said goodbye. The girls were quite devastated. We buried him in the backyard of the old house, said our goodbyes, and the girls made him a headstone out of cardboard and wooden stick. Eris even included his name, dates, the words "We'll see you in Heaven," and a picture of Jesus on it. It blew away in the wind before I got a picture of it but it was heartfelt and beautiful.
Gavin and the worm he found in the grass. He carried it around for awhile and tried to take care of it. He would move it to one area of the yard and try to give it some grass. It was so adorable watching him try to take care of the little guy.
Eris and Shayla made a diner called "Lilly Lamb's Great Petunia" complete with menus, play food, cash register, set table for guests and a kitchen area where they prepared the meals requested. So fun!
I Love Chocolate!
Gavin is extremely independent and always chooses what he will wear, how he will get out of the car, what he will eat or play with or do. This has been his outfit of choice; basketball shorts with his train snow boots. I think that he loves to wear the boots because daddy has to wear boots to work so whenever he is home, Gavin brings him his boots and wants him to wear them so they can match. He tries to copy everything Spencer does. What a cutie!
Shayla is quite the little helper and loves to carry her brother around, push him in the stroller, get him dressed... She pulled him in this wagon for over an hour and they both had a great time. I just love those moments of bliss?
The kids were so excited to set up for Christmas!
Shayla dancing to the music!
Putting ornaments on the tree.
Gavin couldn't leave the fire truck on the tree for long so now it's his new "far kuck" toy.
They even decorated their little playhouse outside. The joy of happy kids during the holidays! :)
I have been trying harder to get out and do fun activities with the kids during the weekends. It seems like a lot of times I focus my attention on trying to clean up after a crazy week or spend time trying to catch up on work so I have a new goal to spend more fun family time with the kids even if daddy is at work. So a few weekends ago it was the dinosaur museum which the kids loved. Gavin liked to run around and roar like a dinosaur, Eris loved to make origami paper cranes while Shayla loved to color. They all enjoyed looking at the dinosaur bones and footprint fossils but the most fun was digging in the sandbox outside (the only part that was free!)
Another weekend we went to the Home Depot activity where the kids got free face painting, cotton candy and snowcones. They also received their very own Home Depot aprons and were able to build little wooden helicopters. Dad was even able to come help for a few minutes.
The next day we went to the Heritage Days Parade and to the park afterward to see old pioneer wagons, hear stories, listen to music... The kids helped make a dish towel with a loom and spun wool on a spinning wheel.
