Garden and Target deals

The boys and I have been so excited that the fruits and vegetables that we planted are actually growing! This is Aiden's watermelon plant. It was growing so big that we had to take it out of the pot and plant it in the ground. There were a bunch of them but ever since we replanted them they have mysteriously disappeared except for this one.

Wyatt planted sugar snap peas and they are getting so tall! Hopefully we'll get some peas soon.

This is Wyatt's cabbage plant that he started growing at school and it is huge. I would eat it but I'm not a huge fan of cabbage.

I planted some basil and it is doing so well that we have already used some in our pasta this week! It was so good!

Also I went to Target today to get some of this weeks good deals. Here is what I got-

I bought (7) eggo bake shop products for $1.50 each and (4) bare solo products for $1.50 each. The bare solo products are normally $2.79 each. I had 9 $1 off coupons and 2 75 cent off coupons and I only paid only $6.63 for all this stuff!

Bear Canyon Lake

This last weekend we went camping up at Bear Canyon Lake for two nights. Ryan's sister Christine, our brother in law Jason, and their little boy Grant came camping with us for one night. We had a lot of fun and I must say the best tin foil dinners and cobbler ever! These pictures are kind of in random order. Here is Aiden with his goofy grin. Why is it that everytime I ask my kids to smile this is what I get?

Aiden, Wyatt, and Grant sitting by the campfire.

Ryan helping Aiden cook his hot dog for dinner.

Wyatt cooking his hot dog.

We saw this really cool looking butterfly down by the lake.

On one of our hikes we saw this horny toad and had to catch it in a cup. Wyatt thought we were really going to let him bring it home and keep it as a pet even though he was too scared to even hold it for 2 seconds! We took a picture and let the poor thing go.

Both the boys with the horny toad.

When we were at the lake the boys wanted to catch crawdads. Ryan wanted to cook them up and eat them!

We had to get a picture of us by the lake. It is so pretty up there!

The three boys!

Jason, Grant, Wyatt, Ryan, and Aiden hanging out.

Aiden would not put this shovel down. Every time I saw him he had it in his hand digging.

My sister let us borrow their BB gun. The boys thought that was so awesome! I have to say that I had the best shots out of everyone!

I was a little nervous about letting the boys shoot the BB gun but we were really careful and they never did it alone.

We had so much fun camping. Hopefully we'll get to do it again this summer.

Fire Station Tour

This morning we got to go take a tour of the fire station on Williams Field Road right by our house with a group from our ward. This was our second time doing it and the kids just love it. Aiden is obsessed with fire trucks and always points them out when we are driving.

The boys in front of one of the fire trucks.

The firefighters telling them all about the trucks and equipment. When we were there they got a call and we got to see them put on their gear really fast and take off in the truck! It was pretty cool!

Here are some of the kids in our group.

Everyone in the group minus Aiden who wouldn't get in the picture at the very end!

cute frames

Every week the kids and I decided that we would make a craft. I saw these wood frames for $1 at Micheal's and so I painted them black and modge podged paper on the front with black vinyl lettering. I think they turned out really cute! ( Sorry it's a little blurry, I was trying to show the pattern on the paper up close)

Now what can I make next?

Strawberry Limeades

I had to post this recipe for strawberry limeades because it was so good! Sprouts has limes 9 for 99 cents and strawberries for 99 cents so I had to run out and get some. Here is the recipe:

1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries
1 cup lime juice
4 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar

Blend strawberries and lime juice until smooth. Combine strawberry mixture, water, and sugar in a pitcher. Pour over ice.

End of the Year

I can't believe it is already the end of the year and I'm going to have a 2nd grader! This is the boys at Wyatt's water day. I had to take this picture because if you look closely they are holding hands! That is rare around here!

This is Wyatt, Aiden, Justin, and Marcus waiting in line for the dunk tank.

I wasn't able to take very many pictures at water day because it was only about 25 minutes long. Each grade only plays for a half an hour and the kindergartener's got out there late and it cut into their time. At least they had an ice cream party later in the day.





All the 1st graders did a performance and they sang a bunch of songs. For the last song they sang My Wish by Rascal Flatts while there was a slide show. It was really cute!

After their performance we got to go back to their classroom for pictures and to carry their stuff home.

Ryan's mom came to see Wyatt perform and we took more pictures.

This is Wyatt and his teacher Ms. Monteleone (The kids called her Miss M). Wyatt is doing a goofy smile in this picture.

Wyatt with his friends Connor and Kellan. They were all in the same class this year.

Aiden had his preschool graduation the same night. Here he is in his cap and gown!

This is Aiden's best friend Matthew. They had alot of fun together. Aren't they so cute?

These are Aiden's teachers Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Brown and most of his class. They were really good teachers. He loved it so much he is going to go there next year too.

Here they are right before they sang some songs.

And some more pictures.

The boys and I went to Mother Nature's farm yesterday to pick some peaches. I would not recommend going there for peaches. They had only two rows of peach trees and they were tiny and alot of them were rotting and had bugs on them. But they loved the huge sunflowers so we took some pictures by them.

Wyatt and Aiden had fun at school this year but we are excited for swimming lessons to start, the summer reading programs, the Harkins summer movies, lots more swimming and being lazy!

Update and scrapbooking

I haven't updated much lately because nothing new is going on with us. We are just counting down the days until the boys are done with school. This last week is going to be fun. Wyatt and Aiden both have school performances that I'm excited to see! Wyatt has been practicing his songs all week for it at home. Aiden has preschool graduation and they both have water day on Monday plus an ice cream social. I remember loving the last week of school when I was their age! I can't believe I'm going to have a second grader! Where did the time go?

I took a short break from digital scrapbooking and just these last few days I have gotten back into it and wanted to post some of my really cute pages. Isn't this kit just adorable!

I'll post more pictures of all the boys fun events next week.