Our Preschool Grad

First off....sorry for the blogging delay. I had to break for some temporary craziness. Height of the wedding season for pictures right now along with our AWESOME hawaii trip and I've fallen behind. Lyd, I'm working on the pix from our vacation but when you take 400 pictures it's REALLY hard to narrow down a few for the blog! Well here he is...our MODEL preschooler. Paying ever so close attention to his teacher as she reads to them before the graduation program and ceremony.At least he is doing the actions to the song in this shot and not bumping the kid next to him off the stage like in all my other pictures.

They always do such a good job decorating for each event.

This is Elle, Jack's carpooling buddy

Happy Mother's Day

I picked Jack up from preschool on Friday and he got in the car so excited! He could hardly wait to hand me this....

The look on his face, his cute smile and sense of pride in what he had made. I immediately started balling! That is when I got it...you know that same feeling that I'm sure all of our Mother's had when we gave them cute little drawings or pictures we had made that they so proudly hung on the refrigerator. Here is one I dug up from the old albums that I made my mom when I was about Jack's age.

Mom I love you! Thanks for being such a great example of the kind of mom I hope I am to my boys. I remember I used to sing that song "When I grow up, I want to be a Mother" I think the song later goes on to say she would have "Six little blessings from above." Not quite sure if that's gonna happen but... I'm so glad I grew up to be a mother. I love being a Mom! I love my boys and I especially love their daddy.

The OTHER way to say "I'm Cold"

The other day it was so hot we had all the windows open in the house, including the one in Jack's bedroom. During the night it got soooo cold. Well, about 4 am Jack comes in my room, I'm not really coherent at this point so he has to repeat himself like 50 times. "Mom, my

BLANKETS not WORKING." Sure enough when I went to get him back in bed his room was an ICEBOX! I felt so bad. That is Zoe in the bottom curled up helping him get warm. I just think it is so cute when she curls up next to her buddy Jack.

Finally!

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We're missing someone!

So last weekend Ted, Max and I went to San Diego to shoot my MTC companions wedding. We left Jack with my Mom and it just seemed so odd to me when we took some of these pictures and Jack wasn't with us. Once we got home and I downloaded all the pix it was even stranger to actually look at the picture. Someone was definitely missing :( This is at the Montage in Laguna. Seriously minutes before before we got there 2 people were killed in one of the bungalow suites by cops. We didn't know that when we first arrived and had just taken a picture with the crime scene in the background. Within seconds this security guy came up and made us delete it and watched us do it, just to make sure. Max has inherited Jack's one eyed smileThis was a rare sight.... a picture of the San Diego temple

with NO ONE in the background.

While I was taking pictures Ted & Max passed the time hanging out with these cute ladies who fell in love with Max and making him smile.

Grandpa Fun

Dad up to his old tricks!

Happy Rock-n Birthday Ted!

Every boys dream! A Rock and Roll birthday party...only these boys were grown men! Ted, Chad and Jeff were the birthday boys. It was such a blast!! All of our friends came dressed as Rockers. We had Cafe Rio (yumm yumm) style food, a contest for best Rocker outift (Natalie) and an out right show down for Guitar Hero Champion (Jeff Cox). I'm afraid Max might be following in his father's Heavy Metal ways.

Natalie below won for best Rocker Outfit Jeff with the mullet won Guitar Hero Champion.

Make a wish!

SURPRISE!!

Don't everyone go calling me now saying "Why did you do it?" I know everyone has secretly been dying for this day to come :) Jack keeps trying to shake his head of hair like he used to and says... "Mom it can't shake, it can't shake."

NOT my favorite thing

Waking up to this after weeks of beautiful sunshine and warm weather.

A Few of My Favorite Things

1. Remembering Ted as the Man in the Yellow Hat. 2. Boarding a plane from the tarmac.

3. Playing Guitar Hero with Ted

4. Jackism: Chicken Little = Chicken Nuggets

Shoes-on = Shoes

baba chocolate = sippy cup with any liquid

itsy bitsy spider = spider

hold you = will you hold me
5. Watching Ted be such a great dad.

6. When Jack goes to the bathroom and shouts... " mommy I'm going poo."

7. When Jack tells me "good job" after I use the bathroom.
8. When Ted dresses Max. (at least everything is stripped in this outfit)

9. Monkey is part of our family.

10. Jack's one eyed squint smile.

11. Talking to my mom everyday

12. Talking to my sisters almost everyday

13. Bets with my dad

14. Going to the park

15. The way Jack's hair curls on one side and flips out on the other.

16. When Ted calls and says "who's your daddy."

17. Jack dressing himself.

18. Friday Date Night.

19. When Jack completely wipes out on his bike and then says..."That was close."

20. Max's blue eyes and his cute laugh.

21. The beach.

22. Saturday mornings when Jack, Max, Monkey and Zoe are all in our bed ;)