Preschool Graduation

Today Porter and Bryson attended their Preschool graduation. They went to preschool with a lady in our ward. She is so darling and did a fantastic job! I really appreciate all she did for my boys. They learned so much and absolutely LOVED school. I am so grateful for Miss Vanessa and everything she taught my kiddos.

Here is Porter and his MVBF (most very best friend) Will. All year we heard all about Will and I'm sure his mom heard all about us too! 

They sang some of the fun songs they learned. Unfortunately, my phone will NOT take clear moving pictures, so everything is a little blurry, but still cute! 

This cute song they are singing about gum drops and lemon drops raining from the sky, so of course they have their mouths open, ready to eat all those wonderful candies! 

Here they are flying their kites, up to the highest height! 

Miss Vanessa brought each kid up and said a little something special about each one. She said that Bryson is so smart and does awesome with math. 

Porter said that something he loved to learn in school this year was about dinosaurs when the dinos were in a hard egg that the kids got to break open. Miss Vanessa also talked about how sweet and creative Porter is. 

Afterwards, the boys got to run around a little with their friends before we said goodbye for the summer. 

Porter and Will again. The very best of friends! 

What an awesome and fun year this has been for them!

FHE

 We have been trying to be more diligent about Family Home Evening. Last week we read a little book about CTR rings and remembering to choose the right. Then, I made CTR shields for the boys to color. Porter colored his and Bryson decided to draw his own. He is pretty talented at 4yrs old.

Miss Faerynn turned 1 month old on May 8th. Here are her commemorative photos. 

Every night I put the boys to bed in their bed and it doesn't take long for them to migrate into my bed. Here they are "snuggling." 

For FHE this week we went to the Jordan River Temple and let the boys see the temple, flowers and fountain. They loved it and the whole way there, every time we passed a church they would shout in joy "THERE'S THE TEMPLE!!!" and I would have to tell them that it was only a church. You can imagine their excitement when we finally reached the actual temple.

They jumped out of the car and ran to the light posts and immediately pretended to be statues. It was too cute! 

Here are some pictures we took. It was really hard to get a good picture because of the sun. 

Bryson really was smiling in this one, but it looks like he is having a meltdown.

Porter posed for this one all on his own. No lessons were needed from me ;) 

We had a great time and the boys were so happy they got to go to temple.

Happy 4th Birthday Bryson!

 Before I begin with the birthday festivities, Porter received a special award at pre-school. When another child in class was crying he went over to her and put his arm around her and helped her to feel better and invited her back to group. He is such a sweet boy! I am SO proud of him!

Here is my cute boy, 4 yrs old and ready to take on the world! Too bad he fell on his face right before his birthday. It left a nasty "wound" under his nose.

Grammy took us all to the Children's Museum. It was so much fun! Bryson loved the trains. 

Porter loved the dinosaurs! 

This is a tiny picture of Bryson bring the doctor. If you can see his face up close he is yelling at me. There was a picture of a skeleton on the wall and it scared him. He was yelling at me to stop taking pictures and come save him.  

President Porter in the White House. 

The boys participated in the story time and got to dress up. Bryson was the duck and Porter was the rooster.  

Bryson had a great time at the castle. He kept taking the horses across the bridge.

Porter got to be an astronaut.

They practiced their farming skills.

And their rodeo skills, getting ready to ride with Grandpa Dan. 

This picture is blurry due to the frantic running around on Bryson's part. He was so excited he could hardly stand still. 

We opened presents and had cake and ice cream on Sunday. Bryson picked his favorite meal for dinner, which he decided was fried chicken. 

Here are pictures of opening presents. He was smiling so hard it looks like a grimace. 

Here is his blowing out the candles.

What a fun birthday!