Performances, Grandma visit, Anniversary, and Memorial Day!

We've had a busy week! It's been great! Such fun things to do! I love it when our lives are filled with fun stuff!

In one day we got to go to both Sean's Preschool graduation and Ryan's First Grade Performance. How cute!

It was funny to see the differences in our boys stage presence. While Ryan is reserved and looks a bit nervous Sean has the loudest voice (as usual so it comes in handy for performing) and is a ham!

"Sean is our Senor del Espanol. He is enthusiastic about Spanish and remembers the vocabulary exceptionally well. His reading and writing are exceptional as well. He is definitely ready for Kindergarten. He is one of our continual smilers and loves to tell a story, which always begins with "You know what?..." We love to listen to his expressive relating of what happened and when. You know what, Sean? Miss Judy and Miss Shannon love you!"

Here is Sean performing our favorite of his preschool songs. It's a song about a house with some spanish words. Pretty cute and funny!

And Sean by his life size painting. And Kyle with a ring pop that was supposed to bribe a tired two year old to sit quietly during the ceremonies. Didn't work so good with the play structure and tricycles around the corner. He did however end up finishing it...this is what happens when you give a pacifier loving boy a ring pop!

Sean with his family that got to enjoy the show!

* Kyle was still off playing.

Ryan during their last song about Forever Friends. He is the white shirt on the left ~ first row. The first grade studied different Habitats all year. They sang related songs and each class chanted their own acapela habitat song. Ryan's class did, "The wonderful thing about Tundras."

Then we took Grandma on a hike to Hidden Falls. Scott discovered this regional park on Mormon Helping Hands Day as he was responsible for coordinating and training (they cleared brush in an area that was known for having poison oak ~ luckily they got an area that wasn't badly infested)the 20 volunteers for our ward (There were two stakes involved in this particular park project...our stake provided 242 volunteers who collectively worked 955 hours!). It was a nice 3.1 mile round trip hike with a cute waterfall at the end.

My mom and I have always loved California Poppies. There were lots. Aren't they so happy?

Then Ryan had his last baseball game of the season and we enjoyed a Brain Freeze Yogurt before Grandma had to leave! It was a quick visit which Sean made sure we all knew! Sad but we had fun and we're going to be in Virginia in less than two weeks! Yipee!


Kyle was in particular heaven as he got to have his very own frozen yogurt for the first time. This is him saying, "Mmmmm."

And later that evening, we all went to walk around the Temple for our 11th Anniversary!

Memorial Day included planting our new fruit trees(Peach, lemon and mandarin) and enjoying the evening with a bit of kids in the pool and a BBQ at Grandma and Grandpa's house!

We had a great week loving life!

This video is of Sean singing, "Never Give Up" at his Preschool Graduation.