Addie's catch up!

Addie had her year end review with dance and did Smashing! She is such a cutie on stage. She has no stage fright and dances her heart out with a big grin on her face. She danced to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and Phineas and Ferb's "Gitchie Gitchie Goo". The costumes are the best part for her. She loves getting dressed up with "mommy's makeup" and I can never put too much on according to her. However I still like to have my four year old look like a four year old dancing so she doesn't get as much as she wants. If she did I would have a drag queen up there dancing :) Here are her adorable pics.



















The surfer pose.


















Waiting to go on.















The cute lion.


















The BiGgEsT, MeAnEst ROAR!

















Her Best Cheerleaders! Tennessee was such a good sport. While Addie was on stage waiting for the music to start Tennessee would yell "I love you Addie". She smiled so big it went to her eyes :) What a GREAT big brother!
































After the "hit" performance we celebrated by getting some Farr's ice cream at the mercantile. The kids loved it and Addie was happy she got to keep her makeup on for the occasion (she can be such a girly, girl). It was a perfect night!



Addie also had her Preschool Graduation with all our neighborhood friends. It was perfect with cupcakes, a hat, and diploma. Addie did not like the hat since she had to wear her lion main for the dance recital. I finally got one picture with it on. When they received their diploma they got to stand on the picnic table and recite their favorite nursery rhyme. What cute kids! It's been a fun year!



















Addie and Parker enjoying the cupcakes. They either had a diploma or graduation cap on the top, the kids loved them!

Catch up...Kindergaren Graduation

Whew, so a lot has happened the last 7 weeks or so and I haven't had a chance to blog about anything because at about that time I was called as our ward girls camp director. Well, girls camp ended this last week which means I have spare time on my hands and can FINALLY update my blog, woot! Here are all the details and in probably more than one post.

Tennessee graduated from Kindergarten, Wahoo!! He has had such a fun year of school and learned sooo much. He loved his teacher, class, friends, snacks, books, journals, bus, and....well, everything ! Next year will be very different with Mandarin Chinese, but he is already looking forward to it. Here are some pics of the graduation and end of year activities!


















Tennessee was soo funny through his graduation. First he was measuring all the kids around him showing me that he really is the smallest kid in the class. Then he was making faces to pass the time of all the kids getting their diplomas. Then he was crying and sad because his name hadn't been called yet. Then he was excited and happy when they called his name twice (because he was playing again and didn't hear his name read) to go and get his picture with Miss Ashby and the anticipated diploma. Finally he was happy to take pictures with all his friends and eat all the yummy treats after. What a great day!!














And here's some fun end of year activities.


















The Hula Hooping was Hilarious. I had no idea how good he was, he can move! This was at the Teddy Bear picnic. Dad even got involved, but I think Tennessee whooped him!



















Drawing pics. This is of Buzz Lightyear's galaxy planet.














Field day, acting like a chicken.


















The hoop race.

















And returning from a much needed bathroom break.















I loved going to school and volunteering in Tennessee's class. It was so fun watching what the kids were learning and how they interacted in the classroom. I have been blessed with such a great boy! I am one proud mama, love you buddy!

Rooaarr

Addie had her first dance competition on Saturday and I thought she was such an ADORABLE lion. Check out the costumes and face paint, soo scary! She loves dancing on the stage and was counting down the days until her next performance since Christmas. The best part of the morning was receiving her medal or as she call it her "trophy". She did so good and all those little dancers were so stinkin cute! I love this age of dance, the kids do whatever they want on stage and it melts your heart. YEA Addie!!

We Love our Teachers!

This week is teacher appreciation week and the kids made the cutest cards for their teachers. Tennessee spent over an hour on his card and that is very rare for my boy! Since Tennessee was taking so long Addie kept adding more and more drawings to her card. By the time Tennessee finished Addie had covered every available space. They both couldn't wait to give the cards to their teachers today with some tulips from the flowerbeds.

Tennessee's card















I love what Tennessee wrote for his teacher :)



















Addie's card

















The morning after, ready to deliver the cards. I hope all my tulips in the yard don't disappear after this.

Safe Kids Fair

We took the kids to a Safe Kids Fair two weeks ago and I just came across the pics on the camera. The bad thing about digital is I always forget where we've been and it's not until I need to upload the pics to the computer or delete them off the camera that I remember. Whoops! The kids had fun getting their faces painted and taking pics with a princess, pirate, star wars characters, and Sparky. We had fun and even scored on free bike helmets for the kids, booyah!

Little Surprises

I love being a mom to three awesome kids. Every day I get plastered with slobbery kisses and big squeezes. My favorite things in the world! They also are very excited about warm fuzzies and filling up everyone's bucket. At the beginning of the year we started putting all the warm fuzzies we did in a jar, when the jar gets full we get to do an activity that the kids all agree on. Tennessee and Addie have been pretty creative at what they can do for each other and us. Today they unmade our bed. Tennessee proudly announced that he "got our bed ready for sleep". Addie clarified, "that means we messed it up"! The other day as I was taking the kids to tumbling I spied this message on the side of our car.














I love it. Tennessee loves writing us all love notes and taping them to the walls or in this case writing it on our car. He is such a sweetie. Addie has copied this and we have cute notes from her too. I'm not exactly sure what they say but we feel the love :) I think we all enjoy doing something nice for each other secretly and the good feeling we get inside. It's made our home happier and each of us more thoughtful towards one another.

Happy 4th Birthday Addie

The day has finally come, Addie's Birthday!! She has been talking and planning it for weeks. She wanted everything that she saw in the store ad's and she had a list of everything she needed for the party! At the top of the list was a bike. She has been wanting one since Christmas eve when she asked Santa for one at the mall. (That was the first we'd heard of her list to Santa: Bike, Lego's and a box of nails. Sadly she didn't get any of that for Christmas.) We were in Idaho for grandpa's funeral and stayed through Sunday which was her Birthday! We were staying at Cody and Geri's and Addie woke up at 4:30 Sunday morning talking. We always have a cousin sleep-over when we stay over there so Scott and I were downstairs completely oblivious to Geri & Cody's wake up call. Geri walked in the door and Addie immediately announced "today is my birthday"! She was too excited to sleep :) Geri finally convinced her that she needed to go back to sleep so she wouldn't be tired for her first day of being four.


















In Idaho we celebrated with family, a Butterfly cake (which she really wanted a pink dinosaur, another thing we found out after the pan was bought) and ice cream. She decided the butterfly was okay but cupcakes had to be at the party with her friends. We also had an Easter egg hunt with cousins. It was a great day and not too windy.

Wednesday we celebrated with friends. Addie woke up to balloons, birthday banner and streamers all over the kitchen. The best thing was a pink shiny bike hidden inside a play tent! She was so giddy and couldn't wait to take it for a spin. She told us she really wanted a princess bike like Savannah but the pink one with butterflies and flowers would be okay. She definitely knows what she wants.


















That morning Addie had dance and then it was party time! When she got back home the cupcakes were done and all the finishing touches were in place. She was ready for the friends to come and the fun to start. It was a little tricky planning her party. She only wanted to play, no games. We did make a princess craft out of a wooden spoon and played some silly games with the kids.


















She refused to play the games so she sat on my lap while I played duck, duck goose and chased kids around holding her pretending to be a monster. She laughed and begged for more, but didn't want to be put down :) When Addie got hungry (which if you know her happens every few minutes) we fed the kids strawberries and grapes and then it was time for presents, CUPCAKES, and ice cream cones. The kids were all soo great and it was a wonderful party. I also had some mom's help and they were amazing!Addie wanted it to be her birthday everyday!


























We also had fun celebrating together. We had an afternoon of playing and of course eating cupcakes. Tennessee and Parker were also excited to give Addie their present that Tennessee had wrapped all by himself. They were even more excited to help her unwrap it!
































What a great day, we love reason's to celebrate and have fun together and eat cupcakes! Happy Birthday Addie, We love you!