Last Renaissance Assembly of the year

The last day of school Tucker has his last renaissance assembly for the year. I was so proud of him because he got another Gold Card! He also got a cool shirt because he always received one of the higher cards every quarter!  It was a cool water themed assembly, but Tucker didn't get to play one of the games because he played one last time!

 
 
My handsome *almost* 2nd Grader!

Mother's Day 2012

This is the first mother's day I have spent with my mom in like 5 years, so even though the weather didn't quite cooperate with us, it was still a great day.  Our day started out with Grampa/Dad making us a pancake and bacon breakfast and our plan for the rest of the day was to go to church like usual and head up to one of our favorite places in the Springs for a picnic by the river and hiking around that area.  Well, it was cold, barely in the 50s and drizzly...so no picnic...instead we ate a Qdoba..which was tasty , but not busy at all.  We decided that since it wasn't full out raining yet we would still venture up to our place and do some exploring and hiking. 

Grampa and Tucker checking out what is up the side of the mountain.  (Trey wouldn't come out at first because he was scared of windey mountain road we just drove up and it was thundering just a little and he is deathly afraid of thunder)

But eventually we got him to come out and throw some rocks down the side of the mountain and pose for a couple of pictures.

There is my oldest boy....he sure is looking so grown up here lately...I think it is those dang adult teeth...He is still handsome as ever though.

This one of Trey is pretty dark, but we were in a dense part of the woods on our trail to the top of the waterfall and with the clouds it was dark in there!

Here they are all at the top of the waterfall...please excuse the shadowy thing over Grampa's face...it was a raindrop on my lens.  If there weren't any clouds you can see the city below us in the distance.

Me and my mom!   It was really raining by then and we were pretty wet, but it was a fun way to spend the Mother's day!  And thanks to Trey who took this awesome picture for us!

My Trey really is growing up!

Oh Trey my loving yet very stubborn Trey....I seriously can't express how proud I am of him right now. A couple of weeks back Trey had his end of the year Dinosaur Program at school (The same exact program I put on in Kindergarten when I went to school there...I know...totally awesome!!!!) Anyways, for those of you who don't know Trey too well, he is stubborn...I don't even think stubborn begins to cover it, but I will just go with that for now.....and he (just like all of my boys) is very shy, I think he might be the shyest one of all. He does NOT do well in front of a crowd. In all his preschool years and the many performances, he would NEVER participate in them...we barely got him on stage to receive his Preschool Diploma..and that was all in thanks to his amazing preschool teacher! But let me tell you about this Dinosaur Program!!!!

That's right...there he is sitting up there with his class...smiling and waving at me none he less!!! (During the school year anytime I would go to school to visit Tucker or watch one of Tucker's award assemblies I would have to avoid Trey at all costs because if he would see me it would cause a major melt down...)And then to make it even better there he is singing along and even doing the motions!!!!  The song they were singing is one about a triceratops.

 And when I thought it couldn't be any better, his music teacher picked him to do the drumming for the t-rex song!!  I was fighting back tears the entire time(as I am right now as I'm writing this).  I am so very VERY proud of him.  He really is growing up! 

 

My biker baby!

With the nice Spring weather we have been having the big boys have been riding their bikes a lot lately and Ty keeps trying to ride their bikes, which he is never successful at, so I searched for a new bike for my littlest guy.  He was so excited about it, but had a hard time peddling it.  He looks so grown up on that bike!

UGH!

Have I mentioned how much I dislike this new blogger layout...I am having trouble with things, so it is making posting blogs much more of a hassle...most of the time (because of my lack of free time) I do posts in sections...like uploading pictures then saving it as a draft, then coming back at a later time (usually a later date) and finish things up, but this is not working for me right now...or I realized I need to edit a published post and for the life of me I can not figure it out...This is making blogging a lot less fun and a lot more work....so please bear with me and I will try to post some new stuff soon.

Happy Easter 2012

All dressed up for Easter service.

After church we headed over to my nephews house and had a great dinner and fun egg hunt!

Ty was so cute while hunting eggs, he would see them and just point to them and not pick them up, but thankfully he cousins are sweet and they helped him pick them up and he finally caught onto it.

Dye them eggs!

To keep with out Easter traditions we dyed some Easter Eggs. The boys did a great job and had fun.

Ty with a suprizingly little amount of dye on his hands!

Over spring break the boys and I took a quick trip to Western Texas to visit my best friend before they make a cross country move! The boys were excited to be back in Texas even though pretty much everything is different from where we lived. We didn't really do much just hung out and enjoyed spending time together. Emalee and Trey..those two...are so much alike and they drive each other crazy..it's pretty funny. We enjoyed the warm weather and played outside at the park and out in the backyard on the slip and slide...we went bowling, but I didn't take any pictures...Ashlie has those so if she ever sends them to me I'll put them up too ;P

a day in the dirt...fishing edition

After we finished up 4-wheeling we decided to go fishing since one of the lakes was part way unfrozen. We didn't really catch much, but we had fun. I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked, but I ended up hurting my hand...It was a fun day though and we were all filthy by the end.

A day in the dirt...

(just a sorry in advance because things are all out of order because blogger changed up everything and I don't feel like fixing it.)
Back in March we spent the day in the mountains 4-wheeling and fishing! And as usual we had a blast! Tucker was the first to try the baby dirt bike...we forgot to set the throttle pin that regulates the speed and he took off and hit the only rock in the area when airborne a couple of feet, landed the jump and then crashed...luckily because of the training wheels the dirt bike didn't fall down on him and he didn't really even have a scratch only the shock of crashing. He decided to give up on the dirt bike for awhile. Ty was crazy about that dirt bike. After Tucker's crash we set the throttle pin and he loved trying to drive (well mostly being pushed around on it.)  We took turns riding on the big 4-wheelers too and while we waited we rode bikes, climbed trees, practice knife skills, and mostly played in the dirt.  Below is my nephew showing off!

Trey had his turn on the dirt bike and actually did pretty good!