Preschool graduation.

On Wednesday Macey graduated her 2nd year of preschool. We are so proud of her! She is now reading, can write the whole alphabet with uppercase and lower case letters, can count to 50 and in 10's to 100, and is drawing/coloring crazy good! This year of preschool has been so fun. She had 3 teachers, one of them is in our ward. She went with 9 other kids from our neighborhood! The day after she graduated she told me "I'm so so sad that I'm done with preschool because I love my teachers, but I'm so so excited to go to kindergarten!" :0)

I know it's kind of silly to cry over a preschool graduation, but I did. Each stage is so fun with our kids, I love watching them grow and develop and mature.... I just can't believe how fast time flies!

I've been wanting to make a cute little ruffled skirt for Mace for a while, so I used preschool graduation as my deadline. It turned out pretty good, she was SO excited to wear it with the bow I made!

Grandma and Grandpa S came to watch the graduation and took us to lunch afterward. Macey was front and center for the program and took it all very seriously. She knew every word and every motion to every thing!

This picture shows Macey's true colors. I love that little belly!

 Cute story, the boy she is sitting next to is the cutest little boy from our neighborhood! He is also in her church class. The other day she was drawing a picture that had lots of hearts on it and came and asked me how to spell his name. :0) Love it!

 The other little boy next to her didn't want to have anything to do with the program! Haha!

 "J likes to jump like a speckled frog, J likes to jump like a speckled frog"

 Her adorable teachers!

 Can't you just hear the 'tude?

The day after graduation her preschool had reserved a bouncy house place just for their preschool, so we went and had fun. I didn't get any pictures of Macey cause most of the time I didn't know where she was! She was living it up with her friends. Instead I got some cute pictures of Collin going on this GINORMOUS slide! I was so surprised! The boy has no fear.

 What's this?! A SMILE caught on camera?? I was praying that it turned out! His personality is so fun, it drives me bonkers that he shuts it down when I take out the camera!

Easters

Wow, doesn't take much to get behind! While I have a minute (banished the kids outside) I figured I better update now or it may never get done!

This year we went up to Logan and spent Good Friday and Saturday with Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Larry. Randy's sister Lisa and her family came up too and we had a party! We had a yummy Easter dinner followed by an epic traditional egg hunt! Randy remembers he would ask his friend that lived across the street to watch out the window while his parents hid the eggs and then tell him (Randy) where they were. HAHA! I'm so not surprised.

After Saturday's festivities we headed back home.

Saturday night I was up late playing Easter bunny and loving it. I took pictures of what the kids woke up to. Mostly dollar tree crap and Target deals... but the kids of course loved it! Does anyone else remember the egg bubble gum? Oh my favorite!

For church Sunday we went and visited our old Provo ward, for a farewell of one of Randy's old young men. He was one of the youngest when Randy was YM President, so it was SO crazy to go and see how grown up everyone is! We both were a little misty eyed when we left, that ward has a special place in our hearts. We loved serving with the youth and are so grateful that they keep in touch with us. Matthew is going to Anaheim, California and will be an amazing missionary!

When we got back from the farewell we had our own Easter dinner of ham, funeral potatoes, rolls, salad and for dessert snowballs that I made into bunnies. Snowballs is a Slade holiday tradition, it's just vanilla ice cream rolled up into balls and then rolled in coconut. SO GOOD. I colored the coconut and made some ears for the 'bunnies'. Macey loved it!

I'm mad the pictures of Macey in her dress and Collin in his cute shirt didn't turn out, so I'll probably do a re-do soon. I loved their outfits!

 Youngest got to go first. Collin has an innate sense of easter egg hunts. He knew exactly what to do.

 Macey spotted her first egg!

 Collin would run up to the egg and would yell "GOTCHA" when he would drop it in the basket.

 Macey showing her prize- the last egg of the hunt.