Happy Birthday...

To my amazing Father.  He turned a whopping 55 years young on the 7th.  We are happy we got to celebrate it all together, even if it was just one short day together!

 Handsome grump-aw!

 The boys were glued to the TV all night watching the game...too bad for the Utes...

 Paisley of course put on a show with kimball...well about 10 shows.

 Papa Johns was invited...ummm

Grandma got her baby fix...for now.

Noah goes to Preschool...

Noah started Preschool today.  Of course Paisley wanted to get some pictures taken too...after all, she said, it is her SECOND day, and that means she needs some SECOND day pictures...

 This is what I get when I ask Noah to smile, it is impossible!

 Back packs on and all ready to go!

 There is the smile that I LOVE!

Noah is doing preschool at Lehi Elementary with Mrs. Kerri.  I LOVE HER!!  He is with the special needs preschool kids, and will act as one of the peer model students.  Which means he has to have exceptional behavior, and I have no doubt he will be great!  Since he has a late birthday and will get 3 years of preschool, Daddy decided to set this up for him this year, and do something different then he will when he goes to Mrs. Lindley's class next year.  He knew Mrs. Kerri and really wanted Noah to have some experience with the special needs kids that Daddy works with every day.  I think he is going to love learning in a class room setting, playing on the play ground, and socializing with new friends.  For some reason, this was not hard for me at all, not like with Paisley.  Maybe because it's just a few hours a week...probably.  But he sure was excited and had a great first day.  The first thing he told me when I picked him up was that he got "smashenos" and "nanas" (marshmallows and bananas) and got to play on the big play ground.  Oh Noah, you are growing up so fast!

Paisley Starts Kindergarten...

As you can tell she was more then happy to pose for some shots before school...

Then we had to get some with her new back pack on...

Lets go MOM!!!  She was so excited she could not get to school early enough!

In front of the school with her best buddy JayLynn...

As she walked through the doors and lined up with her class I watched through the window and couldn't hold back my emotions as hard as I tried.  This was my baby...how did she grow up so fast?  I cried all the way to Walmart, then composed myself.  Then I saw a blonde little girl about 2 years old, shopping with her mom and all I could think of was was what seemed like yesterday, that was Paisley and I! The tears started again.  Gosh it was hard for me.  I didn't think it would be that hard.

Then the bus FINALLY came to bring her home.  I was so excited to see her and hear all about her day.

She got off with a sad face and my heart dropped.  She had a fever of 102, and was barely able to walk home she was so miserable.  Poor girl.

Gratefully it was just a 24 hour bug and she was good to go the next day.  She had a great second day.  Her teacher is Ms. Peterson, and we love her already!  She came home with such cute homework and it was so fun to sit and do it together.  She laughed so hard when daddy pretended to put on lip stick and kiss the paper like mommy had to do.  I can't wait to hear about her every day adventures that she will have in kindergarten!  

What's been going on...

Ryan got PRK Surgery.  Funny story actually, he went in to get Lasik, and expect a full recovery the next day.  However, as he was seconds away from the laser shooting his eye ball, the Dr. stops and says he thinks he should reconsider, and get PRK instead.  WHAT!!!  This totally freaked him out, and so of course he was not going to get Lasik when the Dr. is sitting there advising against it.  So, instead of seeing and feeling great the next day, he was pretty miserable for about a week, and still can't see as good as he could with his glasses, but within another 2 weeks or so, he will be loving his 15/20 vision and all the taxiing around, missed work, eye pain, etc. will be worth it!

Noah loved watching the surgery with me...

Paisley on the other hand sat with her eyes closed and ears covered in the waiting area far away from the window, she wanted nothing to do with watching such things!

 However, she has immensely enjoyed wearing Daddy's old glasses.  She likes to play "school" with them!

 Noah has played lots with his buddy "Bracky"...

They line up cars...

They enjoy the sun, and eating popsicles!

They play superheros...

 and Rowan smiles all the time...

 Paisley is obsessed with having "Sales" with her friends...the splash pad ended up being a great money maker for her.  Otter pops for .25 cents and they all made about $4 bucks...not bad!  She was loving every second of it!

 Rowan got her hears pierced...it was sad.  But SOOO cute!

 Paisley of course again was covering eyes and ears and felt horrible for Rowan!

 Yes we are at the mall in our swimming attire...I know...Ryan called me white trash...we were on the way to the pool, please don't judge.

 There's a big smile before she knew what was coming!

 I'm not going to post the picture I took after it was done, I deleted it.  It was too sad, but I am happy to say that after her traumatic 30 seconds, she was fine and looks so dang cute with her little diamond studs!

We had a quick little adult get away with some dear friends.  We saw the Little Mermaid at the Tuacahn Theater.  It was pretty dang cool, I really enjoyed it and had some pretty great company too!

We were literally front row, and if we stood up would have been part of several scenes!

King Triton after the show posed with us...wow he was sweaty!!

We also all went golfing, swam by the pool, ate lots of good food...it was great times!