Preschool Graduation

Callan graduated from Miss Julie's Preschool on May 19th!  The week of graduation was basically a monsoon.  About a half hour before it was supposed to start it started haling and the graduation was quickly moved from the park into the church.

 Callan was so proud to sing his songs.  He had been practicing them for months and teaching them to his brothers.  I'm surprised he could pay attention long enough to learn one song, let alone 4!  Here are some of his songs:

"Mary had a little jam, little jam, little jam.  Mary had a little jam, she spread it on a waffle.  If she hadn't eaten 10, eaten 10, eaten 10, if she hadn't eaten 10 she wouldn't feel so awful."

"Row row row your boat gently down the lake.  Don't stand up and rock the boat.  That's a big mistake!"

"Jack was nimble.  Jack was quick.  Jack jumped over the candlestick.  Jack kept jumping much to close.  And now his pants smell like burnt toast!" (said with nose plugged :)

Easton was being such a stinker!  We all went down like dominos after the picture cuz he knocked us over!  I have no idea why he wore pajamas to the graduation.  Must have been a rough day!

 Callan's bestie, Creighton Hjorth.  Their dad's work together at the pharmacy and we're so glad they happened to be in the same class!

 Miss Julie was so great and Cal absolutely loved her!  We're so proud of Cal and the way he is learning and growing so fast!

Mother's Day

It was a great Mother's Day!  Tyson was worked the night before, but came home with these questionnaires to have the boys fill out in the morning.  I'm not gonna lie - probably the most sentimental thing he's done in 8 years.  I loved it.  

 Those two are sure confused about my thoughts on running!  My little Fin called me Nonny for about 8 months.  He just figured out how to say "mommy" in the last couple weeks and I'm sad!  I loved being his nonny!

 Ty went to bed and the boys and I went to church.  They did a great job singing to me in sacrament meeting.  

 After church we woke up dad and went to the Cooks'.  We got to Skype with Tia Cass!  She looked beautiful and so happy.  Since Mother's Day the time has flown by!  She will be home so soon and we can't wait!

 We are so blessed with this mother of ours!  We missed Kate who was in Hawaii!  And of course Cassidy!

 We hung out for a while.  Fin and Grandpa put on a concert.  (You can see his blonde spot really well in this pic!)

 We also discovered Easton's double jointedness.  He thought it was pretty cool!

I've gotta say, I think I have the cutest kids!  I've had difficult Mother's Days in the past when I didn't feel like I was doing enough well enough.  This year I just felt so much love for my sweet boys!  I just love where we're at in this stage of life and I feel so blessed to be their mom!

PS While looking through scrapbooks to find pictures of us with our mothers I came across this note from Tyson to Arlene.  I think it's just the sweetest!  Things that are important: shopping a lot, having neat clothes, having school lunch, and going to spring lake.  This boy had it made!

St. George

We had SO much fun at our Page Family Vacation in St. George!  We were counting down the days cuz we needed a vacation bad!  We rented a town home outside of Sand Hollow.  It was beautiful and worked out perfectly for all of us!  We rented a side by side and went four wheeling in the sand dunes. The boys had a blast!  (PS this was also my birthday!  Great way to celebrate 27!)

 We played a few rounds of "Bean Boozled" and laughed so hard.  Here's everyone waiting to find out if Crew gets skunk spray or black licorice.  It was definitely skunk spray!  The boys spent the night trying to find a place to watch the big Pacquiao/Mayweather fight.  

We spent time playing at the pool and just had so much fun.  Everyone had to leave Sunday to get back to work but we had some more time so we decided to stay another night.  

Sunday we toured the Brigham Young home and were surprised to find our tour guides were Scott Burt, who worked with my dad, and his wife.

After that we drove around Snow Canyon and did a short hike.  

 Then we visited the St. George Temple before checking into our hotel.

 We went from a gorgeous brand new luxury condo to an okay Best Western and Callan said that was his favorite part!  He loved that the kitchen, bedroom, and tv room were one in the same!  The next morning the boys swam and we went to the outlets for a little bit.  I got a pedicure with my bday moolah (woohoo!) and then we headed to Zion's.  We hiked the Lower Emerald Pool, Grotto Trial, and Riverside Walk.  We had plans for more but everyone was so exhausted we decided to call it quits!

 We rode the shuttle back, ate a quick sandwich and the boys were asleep before we hit the freeway!  Sign of a successful vacation!

 The next Saturday we all got together again to go through the Payson Temple open house.  It was POURING rain and we waited outside for about an hour, but at least we were all there together!  Later that night we found out about the new baby Page coming to Hayden and Crystal!  We couldn't be more excited!