End-of-year Performances

With the end of the school year came end-of-year recitals and performances too!  It's always so rewarding seeing the kid's hard work pay off and see all they have accomplished.

Jaden completed his first year of Let's Play Music.  It is a really neat and effective program for teaching young children the fundamentals of music.  He loves it and was so proud to graduate from Red Balloons and Blue Bugs.  On to Green Turtle Shells!

Jaden loved showing off his skills on the bells, songs, solfege signs, rhythm, staff, etc.

We love Miss Courtney!

awards for kiddos and flowers for mom:)

Tumble Performance Night!  Both Brielle and Jaden tried out tumbling this year.  They loved it and have grown stronger and more confident in trying new things!

Miss Jodi is fantastic!

Brielle was in the Super Stars class.

Jaden was in the Rockets Class.

Bri's class went first.  She was so cute showing off all her new skills:)

Jaden's class went next and started out with a fun routine before heading to the mats and trampoline. 

 

How the little one entertained himself throughout the evening;)

A couple weeks later we enjoyed watching Brielle in her first dance recital.  She was in a little hip-hop group and it was the cutest thing!

Here's her class hanging out backstage before the show.

Thanks Miss Julie!

We were sure proud of these cute kiddos of ours! :)

Springtime Holidays

Spring time was full of little holidays!  It's so fun to make the day just a bit extra special for the kiddos.  They soak it up (and so do we)!

struttin' our green for St. Patrick's day

Once a year the kids get to dive into their favorite cereal... Lucky Charms!  They look forward to it every time.

cookies!

along with a few deliveries to some neighbor friends

cruisin' the town before the day was through

Easter preppin' with some egg dying

and more sugar cookies! (a family favorite)

they were sure proud of the finished product:)

springtime crafting

Easter egg hunt at preschool for Miss Bri

Loved seeing the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple

J was feeling pretty cool holding tight to one of the soldier's swords!

Easter Sunday

Easter shape biscuits and butter braid for a special breakfast treat

the baskets:)

They loved them!

Reading our traditional "What is Easter?" book before diggin' into our Easter egg hunt

J and Bri loved helping Landon find all his eggs:)

gotta open each one!

Easter Sunday dinner

cheers!

Just days later was April Fools Day.  The kids thought it'd be super funny to trick their dentist Daddy into eating a toothpaste-filled oreo!  Then they got extra clever and piled some frosting onto my toothbrush... haha!

he wasn't too thrilled...

they even filled his glass of milk with some surprises... yikes!

General Conference feels like a holiday around here.  We always look forward to it!  This year we transformed our family room into a tent from King Benjamin's days.  We explained to the kids that each family unit faced their tent towards the prophet to hear his words, so we wanted to do the same.  They loved it:)

We also set up a Conference Store to keep their attention.

Throughout each session, they listened for special buzz words that would earn them conference cash.

Then in between sessions, they would take a trip to the conference store to pick out some goodies and activities to enjoy.

It worked like a charm!

Spring had sprung!