sofia starts preschool

This little sassy mama started preschool today. She was beyond excited!! When we went to orientation yesterday all of the other kids were shy and timid around the teachers, and Sofia was just grinning ear to ear.

This morning when I dropped her off she just jumped right out of the car and was ready to go! No looking back, until the teacher made her turn around and say goodbye.

When I picked her up she was still grinning ear to ear. Love our little Sofi-bops.

 I don't think Jack knew what to do with himself. It was pretty quiet around the house.

livy on 2 wheels

Last night we were all outside and Livy came up to me asking to take her training wheels off. I was quite hesitant and just moved the training wheels up higher. But when Livy got on her bike it didn't seem to make any difference. They were still touching the ground. So, I tried telling Livy to just ride around for awhile on them like that, but she shortly came asking again to take them off. I don't why I do it, but I then gave her horror stories of scraping her arms and legs up if she falls. But she still was pretty persistent of having them off. So off they came. 

The girl took off right away! She had it down in no time!

 I'm not sure if you can see Livy's expression and Jon's. But if you had any doubt of who she takes after, I think you can see it in this picture. She is her Fathers child.

 One happy super woman princess!

first day of school

The day has finally come that these 2 cute kiddos get to start school. 

 So excited to start Kindergarten!

 Couldn't be happier to be in 3rd grade!

 Jack-boy wanted in on the action as well. Has to always be doing what the older ones are doing.

 I think this might be what they were most excited about. To finally get to ride a bus. When we lived in Nebraska Jaedon told me the next place we lived he wanted to ride the bus.

 They are so cute together and I was worried that Livy may not be able to find her class after getting off the bus at school. So I asked her last night if she wanted me to meet her at school and help her find her room. Jaedon immediately piped in and said, "I can take her to her class! I remember where it was at." Love that he is such a good brother and wants to help out and watches over his siblings.

a lost tooth

This girl is growing up too fast! She lost her first tooth last night with a "little" help from mom. All right, I  pretty much ripped the thing out. She kept complaining about it though and every night would have Jon try to get it out. It was very wiggly and loose, but had kind of a long root on it, and it didn't want to come out. So unfortunately her first experience with losing a tooth was painful and some tears were shed. But she was a happy girl when she woke up and found what the tooth fairy had brought.

jaedon's baptism

Jaedon was baptized today, and we had quite the day filled with fun events. Jaedon has been wanting and wanting to go on a boat. So we rented a boat through the base and headed out into the open sea. The kids loved it, and we mostly spent our time in the bayou and swam around in it. It was wonderful all around.

These next photos are of a little shoot that we did last week. While editing pictures you can see all the details of people. :) And while editing Jaedon's I realized how much he has grown and matured. He's not my little buddy anymore.

 Jaedon was baptized and confirmed by Jon. My parents were able to come and so we put them to work. :) My mom said the opening prayer and played the piano, and my dad gave a talk on baptism and the Holy Ghost. Besides ourselves the were 2 other families that came that we have gotten to know in the ward, 2 members of the bishopric, and someone from the primary presidency. We did miss other family members and especially Scott and Claudia that weren't able to make it. (Dang living far away from everyone).

 We then came home and celebrated with some pizza sticks and root beer floats and a little movie.

It was a wonderful day and we are so happy with Jaedon's decision to be baptized. He is such a wonderful boy with a heart full of love. 

sofia and jaedon's birthdays

Sofia turned 4 years old on the 10th. 6 days after we arrived here in Florida. It was kind of chaotic, but hopefully she felt special and still enjoyed her day.

When we would ask her what she wanted for her birthday, and while at the store to see what toys she liked, she told us she just wanted clothes. What!? Who's child is this!? :)

She did find one barbie toy that she said she did like though. And of course it was just the perfect accessory to go with her "clothes".

For her birthday cake she said she wanted a Hello Kitty cake. Which was easy since we have a mold from Livy's birthday last year. And then Sofia wanted to decorate it herself. So my job was even easier. To be honest I was kind of happy that she wanted it that way, since we were still quite overwhelmed with getting the house put together.

Jaedon turned the big number 8 this year! And all he has wanted is a Kindle Fire. He actually told us he wanted this about in January so we told him the only way he would probably get one is if he paid for half. So, surprisingly he saved and saved his allowance quite faithfully.

Since he was only getting the Kindle ,and we had lots of boxes,  I decided to pack it up in a big box and progressively get smaller. 

 The whole time I kept aksing him what he thought it was. He just kept responding with , "I don't know." I think the big box threw him off, and thought he might be getting something else other than a kindle. It was nice to see him still excited for it.

 And to go with the present, we made a Kindle Fire cake, and of course of him playing a roller coaster game. 

Love both of these kids more than ever, and can't wait for Jaedon's baptism.

easter

My blogging is almost non-existent lately.

I just don't have the camera out as much as I should, or I am taking pictures on my phone instead. But here is Easter. Jon and I were in Florida and came home really late Saturday night, so we missed the egg hunt. But Scott and Claudia did not disappoint and we even found a couple more when cleaning things up, making dinner, and putting on shoes and coats. :)

Jack woke up first, and I put him down by the kitchen table to get his sippy cup of milk from the fridge, and by that time he had all ready discovered what the Easter Bunny brought him.

Jaedon was next up and thought he had to wait for everyone else to wake up before he could start looking. Finally we told him he could start looking and he didn't hesitate.

 Sofia then found hers...

Livy is our child that sleeps in and so she was last to find hers up on top of the computer desk.