Preschool Graduation and School Assemblies

On May 1st, Adelia graduated from preschool!! Her official preschool ended in December when her teacher moved, but I kept doing the Mommy-Me one 2 days a week in our neighborhood. It wasn't always a wealth of knowledge and learning, but she had fun and it was great social interaction. Basically, what matters most for preschool!

Can't help but do a comparison. She grew so much this past year!!!

May 1, 2014

September 1st (ish) 2013

Somehow this year at Tianna's school I ended up in charge of organizing school assemblies. NOT my favorite job-- but it did give me an excuse to attend the cool ones like in February when they had Ballet West's "Nutcracker" (the condensed version--and in my opinion the BEST way to see it with little kids) 

And this day we had the awesome opportunity to meet Miss Jessi Kate Riley: Miss Teen Utah.
My friend is over Utah's teen pageant so I had a pretty good hook-up. She was awesome! She came to speak about being true to yourself and embracing the things that make you unique. Then she played her violin and she is incredible! The kids all loved it!!

And not that it has anything to do with anything else, but this picture is funny:

Adelia had been attempting to hula-hoop while at the same time testing our her new swimming suit. Before I knew it Linaya had gotten into her new suit and was trying the hula-hoop too. She wants to do EVERYTHING her big sisters do. SO FUN! 

Easter Weekend--April 18-20, 2014

We camped at "The Ranch" this year before Easter. The Ranch is some property near Hiawatha, Utah that my family has turned into a pretty sweet camping spot..... graded roads, level places for the trailers, 4-wheeler trails and an actual out-house---equip with Moon cutout on the door :) 

 It even has 10 foot (no really!) high sagebrush. Luckily they could remove it all from the actual campsite.

 We didn't get to spend nearly as much time out there as we would have liked. On Friday Tianna had school and Luke had to work so we came for just Friday evening until Saturday late morning.

 Whilst the little ones were out on a walk, the Easter Bunny made his appearance. (convenient, no?)

 She must watch Daddy cook :) 

 "Look! Easter eggs!!!'

We left right after the egg hunt so we could go to Castle Dale to help Luke's parents put in their sprinkling system.
On Sunday we had church at the care center in Price with Grandpa and (Grandma Peacock). We were invited to participate so the girls sang, "I am a child of God" with me and then I sang, "How Great Thou Art."  It was nice seeing Grandpa. Sadly he wasn't feeling very well that day.

After church we went back to Castle Dale for Easter dinner. 

 Then we celebrated Gauge's first birthday. Sure love that little guy!

 Mmmm tasty! 

 Behold, "The STINK EYE!"

 Baby goats!

 Apple Blossoms. LOVE SPRING!

 And 3 cute cute cute girls!......even ornery ones

It was an exhausting weekend with lots of time spent going back and forth, but it was great spending time with our loved ones in both families.
We are so blessed! 

PreEaster-- the fun before the holiday

This April, the girls entered the coloring contest at their Pediatricians office. 

Adelia's is on the left, Linaya's in the middle and Tianna's on the right. 

Tianna WON!!! (in her age group) Funny thing is when they entered the coloring contest at Christmas time Adelia won in her age group. It's always out of quite a few entries too! 

Tianna was excited about her gift set for her prize. 

Good thing it came with an egg coloring kit because

I SERIOUSLY love coloring Easter eggs. It makes me so very happy! The kids probably like it as well as I do....... and Dad humors me, so we count it! 

Like last year, we invited our good friends, the Prices, over to dye eggs. Last year was Melissa's first time every coloring eggs-- her parents are from Brazil so they have different traditions.  

 Linaya had no idea what was happening..... but she was sure excited to do it! 

It's very serious business. Just ask Luke

We discovered THE BEST way to color eggs... while the egg is still really warm you write on it with crayons. The wax melts and creates really fun, smooth, pictures, then when you put it in the dye afterwards it creates an even better effect. 

 

This isn't necessarily Easter related, but I can't think of a  better place to put these amazing pictures we took of the lunar eclipse.  We set our alarm and woke up several time that night to get these pictures. Luke was more dedicated than I was.... I wandered out, looked up, and went back to bed. I'm glad he spent more time capturing the gorgeousness.