Kinder graduation for Ashlee

Ashlee had a great kindergarten year.  She got the teacher we requested, Mrs. Flora and had 2 of her best friends from church in her class.  She looked forward to going to school each morning.  On her last day of school that had a little ceremony where they sang songs, received a certificate and had cake. 

Ashlee's 6th Birthday

Ashlee had a Hello Kitty themed party at our house.  She invited her cousins and a few friends over to swim and have pizza.  Her B-day morning started off at school with her class singing to her and then she passed out ice cream sandwiches.

6 THINGS ABOUT ASHLEE

1.  She is very friendly and loves playing with her friends.

2.  She is really into Hello Kitty, Princesses and Fairies.

3.  Her favorite movie is Frozen.  She got the soundtrack for her Bday and loves it.

4.  She is in dance taking tap and ballet.

5.  She is my best eater.  She loves sweets but also will eat any veggie and will try anything.

6.  She is the best big sister to Bryson.  They play really well.



Disneyland 4 Bryson's Birthday

Bryson was one happy Birthday boy when he heard he got to celebrate at Disneyland.  The weather was perfect and besides it being spring break for some we had a great time.  The only bummer was Bryson was not tall enough to ride the Cars ride at CA adventure he was pretty upset about that...Next time for sure hopefully he will be able to.
 

This last pic we had to take because his nickname is "pup"...so here's our Pup laying in the dog house at Toontown.

Our March Birthday Boys

Bryson and Braden celebrated their birthdays last month.  For Braden's birthday we went to Chuck-e-cheese and for Bryson's we went to Disneyland.  We lucked out and a patient of Arlan's was able to get us free tickets.  Bryson loves Disneyland so that was the best birthday present he could of asked for!  (our Disneyland trip will be on another post)...

After playing at Chuck e Cheese we went to my mom and dads for presents and gifts.

9 THINGS ABOUT BRADEN

 1.  He loves to be tickled.

2.  He is talking more with words but still uses his PECS book.

3.  Favorite foods are chicken nuggets, eggs , cereal ,and chips.

4.  He loves balls and is very good at basketball.

5.  He has the best laugh.

6.  Favorite TV show...The Wiggles.

7.  He loves music and things that light up.

8.  Favorite color is orange and green.

9.  He is left handed, which we recently just discovered.

4 THINGS ABOUT BRYSON

1.  Favorite foods are pancakes(he request these every morning),  chicken nuggets, pasta, 

burritos and goldfish crackers.

2.  He is all boy...very active and loves to be busy.

3.  Thomas the Train and Hot Wheels cars are his favorite toys.

4.  He has his 1st little "girlfriend"...  Lexi who is in his Sunbeam class.  He used to

be a stinker about going to class but now he loves to go and see her.

Love Day Scavenger Hunt

Every Valentine's Day we do a scavenger hunt and love you dinner with the kids.  The dinner is always full of things that are red.  During dinner we write down what we love about each other on paper hearts.  The kids always look forward to this.

Bryson's A Sunbeam

It's hard to believe our youngest is 3 and now in Sunbeams at church.  No more nursery kids for us.  He was so excited to go and loves his teacher, Sis Kerschen.

Christmas Dinner and The Beach

Some of the family after our Christmas dinner.

 Arlan, Uncle D and Aunt Elaine doing a silly pic.

 Our plan was to take everyone to our cabin in Big Bear Christmas night to enjoy some snow.  But since it was in the 80's this year we headed to the beach instead.  The kids had a great time playing in the sand and some even went in the water.

Christmas morning

Ashlee and Jaron checking out what Santa brought.  She was so excited she got the exact Hello Kitty car she had asked for.

Jaron with his gifts from Santa and mom n dad.

 Bryson's gifts.  He was being a stinker and not staying in the picture.

 Ashlee with her gifts.  She must of been a very good girl this year.  Santa spoiled her!

 After we opened presents we headed over to my folks house and had a yummy breakfast.  Dad made his famous crepes.

 Jaron and his cute cousin Max enjoying breakfast.

                                                              The End!

Holiday Traditions

It is so fun when the holidays come and we do our family traditions...Some things we do are bake my aunt Peg's sugar cookies; make homemade candy with my mom and grandma; read Christmas stories each night; see lights; write letters to Santa and build gingerbread houses. A new tradition we started recently is each Monday night (our family night) leading up to Christmas we read of the birth of Christ and have the kids open a family gift.  This year the kids got a Christmas game, a video, and gingerbread house kits.  Its always a gift we do as a family right after they open it.  The kids love it.  Here's some pics of our traditions this holiday season...

Ashlee was so excited that she could write her own letters to Santa this year.  Love her little 5 year old writing!