Mother's Day

Josh's parents were able to spend Mother's Day afternoon with us this year. We went out to a very nice dinner in down town Claremont.

I made an almond, raspberry, cheese coffeecake for dessert. Karen loves anything almond and I had been wanting to try this recipe for a long time so this was the perfect opportunity. It was delicious and I am excited to make it again sometime. For dessert we even pulled out the china. It was a very nice day! Josh and I are very blessed with two wonderful mom's that we love so very much!!!! xoxo Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day Mom

Happy Mother's Day Mom!!!! I wish we could be together today but we will be in 1 week!!!! I love you so much and truly don't know what I would do with out you! Thank you for always being there for me and for helping me become the person I am today! xoxoxo

Preschool

In the Month of April we learned about insects and spiders in the 2 1/2 year old class. Teaching my little class about insects and spiders pretty much means reading them The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. They love these books and for the past few weeks during circle time they say "I want the Caterpillar book". They now pretty much know the story by heart so will I read most of a sentence and they fill in the blanks. For example "On Monday the very hungry Caterpillar ate through one red apple but he was still..." and all the kids say "hungry!!!" Another line in the story is this "the caterpillar built a little home around himself called a..." I knew this was a hard one but I wanted to see if they would get it and Elijah says very confidently... "a raccoon!!!"

Today we celebrated Cinco de Mayo preschool style with some delicious Mexican sweet bread which comes in bright pink and yellow and a pinata or a "pinyaba" as the kids called it. It was a Sponge Bob pinata (I didn't choose it) and each kid got a chance to brake it. They all got 3 hits and of course it was a very strong pinyaba and so the teachers later had to finish it off. After all the candy was picked up all that was left on the ground was the yellow tissue paper that was used to make the box look like Sponge Bob. Most of it got cleaned up but at the end of the day my little friend Joyce (a 4 year old) picked up a little piece of yellow tissue paper and when I asked her what she had in her hand she said "it's Sponge Bob skin!"

Sunshine

Buddy and Boo (especially Boo, she loves the sun!) enjoyed some wonderful sunshine outside with me today as I pulled weeds and watered my flowers. The weather was so nice today probably in the mid 80's. I am so ready for Summer, it's not even funny but I know I need to enjoy this weather as long as it lasts. It's just hot enough, and before we know it it will be really hot!!!

The School Dance

Last Friday night after a long week of work Josh and I got all dressed up for the first ever 7th and 8th grade dance at ACS. We were asked to dress up in something fun and be there to dance with and encourage those students who were a little hesitant to dance. Well, they really didn't need any encouragement to get up and dance, literally everyone was up and dancing most of the night. Actually what they were doing most of the night was more like jumping up and down with a little dancing mixed in here and there. We have been to lots of dances over the years and never have we seen so much jumping. I have seen jumping like this at concerts before but not at dances. It was pretty funny. These kids LOVE "Mr. A" and I have gotten to know them a little bit this year as well so they actually wanted us to get out there and dance with them. We did the tiny bit of swing dancing that we know and suddenly they were all were circled around us taking pictures and cheering us on. They loved it, none of them were actually dancing together as couples so I think they were some what impressed or maybe confused as to what we were doing, I don't know... Anyway, we had a lot of fun and the kids did too.

You know you are at a Jr. High dance when... there's a candy table fully stocked with Gummy Worms, Bubble Gum and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Mr. A dancing with the kids

Baby Sarver

We spent Spring Break with our families in AG and for some reason I wasn't really in a picture taking mood. I did however feel the need to capture a few pictures when we went to meet Scott and Nichole's new little baby boy Logan. Scott and Josh go way, way back. They have been friends since they were in elementary school and Scott was in our wedding. Over Christmas we finally got to meet Nichole who is super sweet and on this trip we got to meet baby who was only 5 weeks old!!! The little Sarver family is just so cute!!! They are adjusting to life with a brand new baby and yet they had us over for an amazing dinner followed by a delicious cake that she had made. I was totally impressed! It was fun seeing Josh and Scott together with a baby!!! Instead of talking cars and sports they were talking all things baby, it was pretty cute! I guess we are all growing up aren't we... weird! Next time I will have to make sure that Nichole and I get in a picture as well.

Just a tinly little peanut!! : )

Shelby and Matt's Wedding

Matt is a good friend of ours who works at ACS with us. He also went to APU and lived with Jackson for awhile. Shelby went to APU as well but we are just getting to know her through Matt. They are a wonderful couple and they got married the Friday before Easter. It was a beautiful, slightly cold ; ) but truly beautiful wedding! We also had fun traveling to the wedding with Jackson, Melissa and Stacy... lots of good laughs too and from the wedding as always.