Ellie's Preschool Graduation

Ellie has had an awesome year at Brilliant Beginnings Preschool! She has had such wonderful teachers who are so enthusiastic and loving. It has been filled with so many fun activities and great memories. Miss Emily and Miss Morgan are going to be missed! 

Umm...isn't this the cutest?

Supportive siblings

 Balloon release. They were each suppose to make a wish as they let their balloons go.

 Mason and Cassidy got to do it too. They were pretty impressed how high the balloons went without popping!

 Miss Emily

 Miss Morgan

 Ellie and Mom

Cassidy and Ellie wanted one more picture together.

 For each student, Miss Emily and Miss Morgan, came up with 3 words to describe each kid. I think they are right on with Ellie. They were very surprised and impressed that Ellie likes to read Junie B. Jones books by herself!

Boxcar drive in

For Ellie's last day of preschool they were having a "Boxcar Drive in" movie day. Cutest idea! Since we were making a boxcar for Ellie, of course, we had to make one for all the kids. They loved it!

Bridal Veil Falls

We took a little walk up to see the waterfall and to feed the fish. It was cool and windy with a few raindrops falling. We loved it!

Kids' pictures

I like to take pictures of the kids every spring. This year we went over to BYU to take them. So many beautiful places to take a good picture! So many beautiful faces in the pictures!

 Mason 

7 years old

Ellie

5 years old

 Cassidy

3 years old

Cousins!

Cade, Cora, Cassidy, Ellie & Connor

Baseball

Mason will get a little baseball in before we head off to our internship this summer. He's on the Raptors and for his first game he got to play 1st base. This league does machine pitch for this age group. Mason thought that was pretty cool, and got a single and a double during his game. 

Cassidy is 3!

I can't believe that Cassidy turned 3. She is supposed to be the baby! What happened? She was very excited about her birthday this year and for the past month or so has been giving me many ideas of things she wanted for presents. We let Cassidy open a couple of presents in the morning before Mason and Ellie went to school. She was really good about waiting to open the rest. After Ellie came home from preschool, we watched a movie and painted toenails. After Mason got home, we finished opening her gifts and had cake and ice cream. Originally, Cassidy had wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese's. We committed to going, but at the last minute asked her if she would rather go to Planet Play in hopes that the quality of the experience would be better. It is pretty much the exact same thing, minus a big grey freaky mouse, and it is better maintained. We invited our cousins to come along too. We had dinner, and then played arcade games. It turned out to be really fun!

 Morning gifts

 New goggles! Ready to swim this summer.

 Getting used to holding up 3 fingers now!

Strawberry cupcakes with pink and purple frosting.  

 The rest of the gifts.

 Playing games with cousin Cora.