Graduation Week

We attended 3 graduation ceremonies this week.

First up, Ellie and Noah graduated from "Grandma Cheryl's" preschool!

This was Noah's 6th grade "buddy" that helped him at preschool.

Grandma Cheryl is really Ellie's grandma but Noah claims her as one of his too!

Next up... Ellie and Noah graduated from Ms. Rebeccah's preschool.

They sang all their songs for us with the actions and all!

Each student got to talk in the microphone and tell what their favorite part about preschool was. All the kids were saying "water day" so I thought for sure that Noah would say the same thing. Nope! He got up there and said that his favorite part was when they went to Krispy Kreme. Him and I must be related!

Ms. Rebeccah was the best! Ellie and Noah loved her and she put so much time into making preschool so fun for them. Ms. Lauren was the assistant and Noah loved her too.

And finally... Alisse graduated!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She looked so cute and did a great job on her speech at the ceremony.

I've gotta mention that Scott graduated too (so cool for both of them to be DONE with school)!

We just didn't attend any graduation ceremonies for Scott - ASU = too hot and crowded! Here's Noah acting like a teenager at Alisse's graduation. He was a little booger, LITERALLY!!! Not only did he act like one, but he has a wart on his nose and Alisse's classmate came up to him and told him "you have a booger on your nose". I couldn't stop laughing. Then Auburn kept calling him "boogs" and I really couldn't stop laughing.

Noah was NOT a happy boy as you can tell by this picture. It makes me laugh though.

To celebrate Alisse's graduation - we had a fun day on Friday that included laying out, driving to Scottsdale just to get some yummy SPRINKLES cupcakes, working on some crafts, and BOOT CAMP as seen in the picture below. We really did work out hard to treat ourselves to those cupcakes! Even Ellie and Noah got in on the action.

CONGRATS to Ellie and Noah, but especially ALISSE AND SCOTT!!!!!!! What a great accomplishment to graduate from college! They've gotta be loving life right now.

Swing batter batter, SWING!

Noah the gymnast

Last weekend Noah got to participate in the "preschool show" at USA's mini-meet. It was fun to see what he's been learning with his favorite coaches, Aunt Auburn & Aunt Suzy.

That night we went to a benefit concert and got to watch Ellie perform with her dance team, as well as see the Phoenix Suns Gorilla show us some great tricks! It was a fun day!

Pretty proud of myself!

A couple weeks ago I did Pat's Run with my good friend Vanessa. I set the goal to do this back in September, started training for it in January - and dreaded it more and more as it got closer... but it turned out really fun! I can't believe how many people were there - over 20,000 I heard. The actual race was a lot easier than training for it was - I kept thinking "if that person can do this, so can I"! And of course it was fun to be running with a big crowd of people.

Here's proof that I finished! I outlined myself - like I said I'm pretty proud that I actually did it!

And, the results... exactly in the middle of what my goal time was and what I guessed I would do!

I kept telling myself that once this race was done, so was I with running in events like this - and the 4.2 miles was the most I could ever do! But I think I might challenge myself and set a goal for the fall when the weather cools off. Thanks Vanessa for a fun time!

Springtime means...

*EASTER

The Easter Bunny found our house and left Noah some goodies!

Us before church - we had a great program and I especially loved the music. I am so thankful for the Easter season and what it's really all about.

We had a family party after church and as you can see Noah participated in the egg hunt... but only has like 3 eggs in his basket.

It's because he was more interested in this thing (and pulling the basket in the trailer).

*The ZOO! The orangatans are really the only animals I care to see when I go there. Friday we went to the zoo and it was probably the last day of perfect weather to be there. We lucked out!

*T-Ball / Baseball / Softball Noah's doing great at t-ball. Go #24!

Noah's not the only homerun hitter in town...

And look how cute... yesterday all 3 boys had a game at the same time and I had to get a picture of them all in their uniforms! Riggs and Jax are also doing awesome in baseball!