Graduation(s)

All of these deserve their own post, but I'm going to clump them all together.  Boo!

First up, Katelyn participated in a singing class for the last year. We took the summer off, but she LOVES this class.  If you are interested in more, I can get you the information. It's awesome.

She had a little recital to celebrate their spring session. It was animal themed.  She went around singing the songs for weeks, and even still I hear her break out in song.

This last school year we participated in a neighborhood preschool. Josh-man had so much fun!! I need to find something great for him to do this year!

Here he is on the last day, and with his class.  He and his little friend Logan fought off all sorts of girl-germs together! :)

And Miss Katelyn.  Last day of kindergarten.  I'll admit--I shed tears. She didn't, but I was sad. Sad to leave her awesome teacher. Sad that she's growing up. Sad that it means next year is first grade.  What a sweet girl she is!

She also participate in a Kindergarten graduation program. My awesome Sister, Brielle, who happened to be more on the ball than me, already blogged about it. Check it out HERE. There are some great videos!

Oh yeah...and I graduated from pregnancy.

But you already knew that! :)

Treehouse Fieldtrip

I got to go with Katelyn and her Kindergarten class to her field trip.  We went to the Treehouse in Ogden--one of Katelyn's favorite places. We had a grand time!  It was fun to tag along with her class and watch Katelyn with her friends. We made wands, put on a play about the Golden Goose (which I had never heard before!), and learned all about lots of other fairytales.  I can't wait to go again!

We survived Trimester Numero Uno~!

Sorry friends! Dropped off the face of the planet for a while. This baby is kicking my trash--I keep telling Mike it had better be a girl for all the nastiness I'm feeling!

What have we done the past 2 months you ask?  Mostly a whole lot of TV and sleep.  My to-do list for October included 10 items...only 7 of which got done! :)  But November finally showed it's beautiful fall head and we are out of the bed and on to bigger and better things!

A few things you may have missed...

Halloween:  It was a great success. We were a family of Angry birds (Joshy's idea) and it was fun!  The kids were the cutest, and I'm pretty happy with how the costumes turned out.  The ward trunk or treat was a hit, as always, then we celebrated with the Jenkins and Julianos for our second annual Halloween night fun.  Lots of candy--most of it was gone in two days--and still not enough for me!

We also made it to BYU Homecoming, which is a favorite yearly tradition.  I'll admit, the parade wasn't as stellar as in years past (I think because we were at the end) but we loved seeing Cosmo and all the schools of education still the same! Love us some BYU time!  We had a blue pancake breakfast with Ben and Marilyn and had such a great time!

Katelyn finally got to bring home Curious George from school.  It's the curse of a 'W' last name! She was so excited~!

Luke, Luke, Luke. This boy is crazy nuts!  Happy most the time now, which is a bonus from all the crying he did his first year of life, but man! He keeps me on my toes. Case-in-point...this month he 'exploded' his crib. His incessant rocking back and forth and moving around actually busted the bolts right in half.  The side rails came down, the whole crib tilted and when I found him he looked at me and said, 'Whoa!'  Crazy boy!

We got our first snow of the season--and our only picture of Joshy! The kids sure had fun and built a snowman ALL BY THEMSELVES!  Gotta get me some snow boots so I can go out and play too!

It was wacky hair day at school.  Thanks Aunt Jilli for the great idea! It was a hit--all the kids at school couldn't stop touching Katelyn's hair!

 We carved pumpkins and had a pizza night for FHE.  Good times.

And, Ky and I enjoyed the first egg nog milkshakes of the season!  Snow this weekend--you better believe Christmas music is coming on! :)

First Day of Kindergarten

Yesterday was a big day in our family--the start of school!!  For the next bazillion years we will have kids in one school or another...exciting!!

I was so worried about this day--fretting and worrying and yes, even tears. But the morning came and went and all was well.  No tears from me, no tears from Katelyn, and no tears from anybody else either.  We got a sitter for the boys and Mike took the morning off of work so we got to take her to school together.  She was so excited for school to start and said she loved it all. She is still loving it today.  Let's hope this sticks for the next 18 years! :)

She came home and said her first day was good. She learned to say her teachers name, she learned some other kids' names, she got breakfast.  They practiced letters and sang songs and played games.  She was only sad once when "somebody else colored better than me".  Today they painted and learned about computers.  I think we are going to like this school thing! :)  

Back to School

Katelyn starts school on Tuesday.  Holy cow--when did that happen?!?  In prep for her big day, Katelyn got to go shopping with Grandma for a new school outfit (or 2, depending on how nicely she asked!! :)  This is pretty fun for me because I remember going shopping before school with MY grandma for my school outfit. What a great tradition Grandma Craven started!!

Katelyn had a fun day.  They went shopping and out to lunch with Grandpa, then came home and modeled her outfits for me and the boys.  She is sure going to be one cute Kindergartener! :)

Here I am.  I remember this fun day--we rode a bus and I got Grandma all to myself! Check out my mad sense of style! :)

Here is my Katelyn girl on her day...!