Growing up

My little Livie is growing so fast. She graduated from pre-school today! Next year she will be going to Kindergarten! I was a little worried sending her, as she will be the youngest in her class (having an August birthday) but she really seems ready! She has excelled academically, and she makes friends in a matter of minutes any where we go. So, I think she will be fine! This is some of what she has learned this year:

*Identify and write the whole alphabet and their sounds
*Say the days of the weeks, months, and seasons
*memorize many nursery rhymes
*sound out basic words
*memorized about 25 sight words
Identify and write #'s 1-20
*count to 50
*basic addition and subtraction
*write full name
*know birthday, phone number, and home address

I know Liv will do great in school! She is so smart like her Daddy and really puts her all into learning. I'm so proud of her!

New Play Set

Brett has been so stressed lately. Work for him is crazy, although he has gotten to work with Jimmer Ferdette and Jackson Emery from the BYU basketball team on a website, which was really fun for him. In his "spare" time though he has been building the girls a play set (which has taken about 15 hours so far, and is still not done). He has also had to teach a missionary class at church and give a talk in sacrament. Poor poor man. He is such a hard worker. He has stayed up until 3 am many nights working for another side company, and he just gets NO sleep and stress is high! Here are some pictures of the process of building the play house..

first we had to move the sand out of the sand box (that is where the play house was going) the sand box was 20 ft x 20 ft. ridiculous! It was about 40 wheelbarrows of sand to move out

we had some of the kids from the ward help on a Saturday (they were earning money for trek)

here is the play set as of now... still have to get the slide together and put down fake turf. We are also going to do a small sand box in the corner

claire swinging... we've got to get a baby swing. She has already fallen off!

and lastly Claire just being silly with her 3D glasses

Easter Weekend

We had a fun Easter weekend. Even if it was freezing cold. Have I mentioned this spring has been a total bust in weather? We have only had a few days here and there of sunshine, and they were still pretty cold (mid 50's) The rest of the days have been over cast, rainy, snowy, or stormy. It is starting to get old. It is May now, so expect at least SOME warm days!!

We had 3 egg hunts. One in our back yard on Easter, and 2 on Saturday. We had a neighborhood hunt at the park and had a 2nd one with Emily & Francisco's family.

Olivia and Nathaniel (Emily's nephew on Francisco's side)

Claire showing off her treats. She was so excited to open her eggs up!

And the girls walking to church with Dad. I made them little yellow matching dresses. I didn't get any good pictures though. I'll get better pics later I guess. Livs dress turned out kind of bad since it was the first (trial and error) but Claires dress turned out cute with a lot fewer mistakes ;) Sadly that can be said about the parenting with the 2 also... ;)