Author: Emily

dressing up in princess clothes and reading princess books.

Playdough.

making a cake.

and following mommy around and being a little helper.

I don’t mind a rainy day every once in awhile.

The morning after the dance festival, we headed up to Salt Lake City.

We had lunch with dad at his cafeteria:

I love that last picture, Tru took it of himself. Cracks me up.
Then walked around the temple:

I love pictures like this, with my kids lined up, and holding hands walking together. It makes my little heart leap in love when I see them.

To the Lion/Beehive House for a tour:

These sweet sister missionaries were so kind and patient, and smiled patiently at my kids awesome questions.

Then to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building where we got to go watch the Joseph Smith Movie:

The older two made it thru the whole movie, the younger two and I snuck out about 45 minutes into it, they were too tired and restless, and noisy. 🙂

Then as it was the beginning of memorial day weekend, we stopped in SLC and visited and decorated graves, including Grandpa Greene’s grave. It was such a special day for me. It was the first memorial day my kids had a love one whom they knew personally whose grave we got to visit. I enjoyed cleaning Grandpa and Grandma Greene’s grave with them, as we cleaned, we talked about our favorite memories. And of course my kids brought up me jumping on the couch, and being told not to jump on the davenport. 🙂

A good way to end the day, a heart full of gratitude for the beautiful life I have.

The neighborhood kiddos on their way to school that morning:

Tucker was from the 80’s and danced to Juke Box Heroes!
(He was in the middle of the very back row, so unfortunately, there was no way to get good video! Most of my video is him facing the wrong way!)
I love this picture:

Truman danced to Elvis Presley, ain’t nothing but a hound dog. And just FYI, he has since slicked his hair back every single day. He likes the way it feels. 🙂 And unfortunately, my video just quit in the middle, and I didn’t realize it 🙁 At least I got some of it!

Lorelei was happy to have found a friend, Nora.

And the boys did an AWESOME job. How grateful I am for a great school that my children get to participate in! 🙂

Another Year GONE! I can hardly believe it and for Elliot in Preschool, it has been a fantastic year.
We were so excited to attend his graduation to cheer him on!

I can’t believe how big he has gotten:

When I asked him what he was most excited about for his graduation today? His response, his yellow flip flops. well. Okay.

Marching in:

About Elliot:

Singing when I was young:

Singing Alphabet Rock:

Getting his diploma and his speech:

Graduate:

With his friend Luke:

Mrs. Maureen:

One of the presents we received at the close of graduation was pictures from Mrs. Maureens classroom, here are a few of my favorites:
Elliot being a genie in the bottle for my mother’s day Genie in bottle of soap present:

First day of school:

Halloween:

Happy Class for the year:

Lorelei loves to be pampered,
getting her hair curled:

nails painted:

and of course stories before bed:

She’s lucky to have Aunt Amy who takes such good care of her.
🙂

In order to have a picnic you need food right? Well It would help if I remembered to pack the food that we were going to eat! Thankfully my husband goes with the flow, and helped to find a coupons and a killer deal on ‘The Pie’ Pizza. 🙂

Afterwords we went to the zoo for the ‘sunsets safari’ and it was wonderful because there was not very many people there! Beautiful night in beautiful weather:

Beautiful night that wetted my appetite for summer with my family!~

Since fourth grade they studied mountain men, the kids got to do a rendezvous! I got to help at the rendezvous, and was in charge of running the marbles station. The boys all loved this station, and what’s not to love about marbles! Unfortunately, I only got one shot of Tucker, and it wasn’t that good of one 🙁 Blurry and dark!

What is not to love about getting to spend time with by boy, and getting to watch him interact with his peers!

Tucker is a recorder Ninja. For every song he passed off he got a ‘belt’ for his recorder. He did very well, and finished all but the last two songs. (You only got to play the songs you’d earned the belts for!)

Hot Cross Buns:

Pretty Song:

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring:

Old McDonald:

When the Saints:

So proud of this boy.

When I watch this my heart swells and I am proud of him and the amazing choices he is making in his life. He has a good heart and wants to share it all with us, his parents, and his siblings and his friends.

Need I say more?

Cuteness.

I’ve been spending alot of time trying to keep up with yard work, including the backyard, Lorelei has been doing some exploring for herself, and she’s pretty happy about it.