Neighborhood water party

WAY back on June 4th all the neighborhood kids had a water party.  We have a lot of KIDS in our neighborhood right around our house.  It's FUN to see all the kids outside playing together.  While the kids played....... all the moms sat under a shade tent & just chit-chatted!  

My little Ethan is tall kid with no hips.  His bathing suit kept falling down & reveling his bum.  It was quite a show.  I went out and bought a new swimming suit the next day so no one else would get a show!

 It was funny.  

I LOVE SUMMER!! I love to be outside & enjoy watching my kids have fun. 

Preschool

I can't believe it's been another year of preschool for Ethan.  He has grown up way too fast.  He has really done well in preschool & loves going.  He goes to a neighborhood preschool, which has been great to walk him to school when we can.  Since he has done 2 years there, he technically graduated from her class & now will be going to a different preschool before he heads off to Kindergarten in 2011....CRAZY!

For Ethan's last day of school, they had a picnic in her backyard.  While I was packing Ethan's lunch, I packed Jackson & I one too.  They were both very excited.  While Ethan was a school, Jackson & I had our own little picnic in the backyard.  It was such a nice day & he was so happy.  

This is a picture of Ethan with his cute teacher Miss Margaret.  She is a great teacher & we will miss her but not too much, Jackson will be starting preschool with her this fall......now that is just CRAZY!

These are his friends Riley & Ryan....who we carpooled with.  It was fun to have a carpool this year

Here is a picture of Ethan on his first day of preschool back in 2008....he looks so little.  I can't believe how big he is now.  I guess I need to slow down & enjoy all the little moments before they pass me by.  We love you Ethan....Congrats on preschool graduation.  

Memorial Day

For Memorial day we went to see both set of my Grandparents, some other relatives related to me & 

my BIG BROTHER!    I didn't get a chance to know him but I feel like his is apart of my life.  He was only here for a short little while but I know we will see him again.  I love how every year my brother Ryan puts some kind of ball on his grave....last year was a golf ball & this year a tennis ball.  

We love you Chet!

This is a picture of the view from my paternal grandparents grave in Provo Cemetery.  I can't believe it has been almost 2 years since they passed away.  It just seems like yesterday they were here.  They were in my life for a long time.  I miss them a lot & think about them all the time but will see them again too.   

This is part of my crazy family in Provo.  

Here is my maternal grandparents.  I wan't lucky enough to have them in my life for very long.  It's weird that my grandma passed away when I was 2 but I have very clear memories of her & also of my Grandpa who died when I was 6 years old.  It would have been nice to have them around.  

My boys & cute Jovi were having fun looking at all the graves & flowers.

The kids liked the ones that would have lots of stuff around the grave & that had stand that said mom & dad. I thought it was funny, they would sit down by them & stay awhile.  It was a great day & very fun to remember all the people who have passed on before us.  

Let's go Kayaking

I  love summer! One of the things i love about summer is playing in the water.  I love going kayaking or river rafting.  Kevin got out his kayak for the boys to play in.  They thought it was pretty cool!  I'm so excited that Ethan is getting old enough that we can take him on one of our less intense trips.  

I love having 2 boys.  They play really well together & always ask where the other one is when they are away from them for 2 seconds.  Way cute!

Mother's day

The Friday before mother's day a box of flowers showed up on my porch for me.  I thought "Oh.... Kevin must have bought flowers for me for Mother's Day!" I didn't open them & waited for Kevin to come home.  Well, when he came home i asked him & he said "No, I didn't get you any, do you have an admirer?"  Not that I know of.....but you never know!  I opened the box & found some roses from my admirer.....MY DAD!!  That was such a awesome surprise. On the card he wrote: 

Dear Daughter: May this Mother's Day be very special for you and man you receive all the love you can handle.  Thanks for being such a sweet and caring person with the finest sense of humor.  I love you deeply and cherish the time we spend together.  

WOW...i just love my dad.  Dad~ i love you too! Thanks so much for making my Mother's Day.  

Just so you know...... Kevin also made my Mother's Day VERY special.  He is a great husband! I love that he is always thinking about others regardless of what day it is.  

New oven

Out with the old in with the new....well new to me.  

We are in the process of updating our kitchen....replacing the counter top, painting the golden oak cabinets... amongst other things.  I was getting really tired of cooking on our stove.  One of the burners is bent, so i never used it & I was getting tired of cleaning up the drip pans every time my oatmeal would boil over. 

Poor Lindsay...i know :)  So...i looked on my favorite place...ksl...and found a good deal on a Kitchen Aid oven & nice flat top stove!! It was in pretty good condition & works like a charm.  Now i have convection, self cleaning & digital.  Yeah me!  The awesome thing about it, is that we sold our old one the same day we bought our new one on ksl in about 2 hours.  Kevin just had to convert our 3 prong oven plug to a 4 prong.  He can do anything.....i love my handyman.  That is one of the reasons i married him, he loves to learn & figure things out.    

Temple night

Once a month we go to the temple with 4 other couples.  Each month one couple stays home & takes care of all the kids.....which can be up to 10 kids at a time.  It's pretty great having someone to take your kids once a month, a temple date set & to go with friends.  The month of April was our month.  We took 7 kids to the church & let them run around for awhile, since it was snowing & our house it too small for all those kids...lovely! It was fun to hangout with them & get to know all the kids.  

Then we came back to our house & made some cookies.  The girls were pretty cute, they said they wanted to have their own cooking show & they are awesome at cooking. For some reason the frosting turned out horrible. It was the same frosting I always make so i have no idea what went wrong.  Anyway...so i let the girls go loose on trying to make it better. They were fun to watch!

I thought this picture was so cute of Alli & Ethan.  She is pretty gorgeous, no wonder he is snuggling her!

Yep, this is what the Moore's will do to your kids if we take care of them.  We send them back in less than perfect condition.  It was a fun night.  I think this temple date night is a pretty good idea.  

Conference Weekend

This last conference the boys actually watched some of it.  I was impressed.  I thought it was pretty cute of Jackson laying down just like his dad.  

Then we had spaghetti for dinner.  The boys had a blast trying to eat it.  Open wide!

Soccer

Kevin went to the DI a bit ago & found a soccer net for cheap.  I love good deals & recycling, it makes me feel good.  The boys thought it was so cool & it is.  

I love now that it is nice outside & that we can run around outside.  I was a little tired of us not being able to go outside & do some good old fashion exercising.  

Ethan loved being the goalie.....he was pretty good at that.  He is funny, he is like his mom, once he starts laughing he can't stop & everything is funny to him!  I love summer & my soccer players!

Red & White game

We went to the Red & White game at the U stadium.  It was such a gorgeous day! It got me so excited about football, i love to watch the games! I think it's a fun atmosphere.  I miss going to the games when we were in the student fan club, but I am in luck this year.... we got a season ticket with some friends, so i might be able to catch a game or two! It was fun to take the boys this year, they loved it.  

I love all the red, it looked awesome!  

After the game we went down on the field.  It was fun,  the boys would try to get to the end zone while Kevin tried to block them, it was pretty funny! 

Hopefully this will be a good year....if not, no big deal I still love to watch them play.  

GO UTES!!

T-ball

This spring we signed Ethan up for T-ball.  Although he told me he really wants to golf, he says "it's so easy all you do is hit the ball into the hole." Don't we all wish!  It was fun this year because his cousin Madisyn played on the team with him...she is on the right.  It was fun to watch him play with other kids & see how they all dog pile to get the ball.  He loved  it & would get sad when it was cancelled because of all the crappy days in April.  

He did a pretty good job hitting the ball.  I just enjoyed being outside to watch him.  After the game they would get treats, we would come home & eat them on the porch.  That was too much fun for them :)

Preschool

It has been so great to have summer somewhat here.  I love being able to be outside instead of being stuck in my house all day.  I really am an outdoor girl & love the sunshine.  Jackson & I have loved walking Ethan to school....riding bikes, scooter & wagons.  We have a little carpool we have been in, which has been nice but now that the weather is nice he asks me all the time if we can walk.  He will wake up on the days he goes to school & asks me if  it is shorts weather!  I guess he may take after me with the outdoor thing.  

This will be Ethan's last year at a neighborhood preschool.  He has gone there 2 years & is ready to graduate.  It's been fun to see how excited he gets & to have a few hours for him to be with friends.  I'm gonna miss taking him & how close it is but Jackson will be starting up there in September....crazy! Ethan will be going to another preschool for a year & then start Kindergarten...now that is crazy! They grow up too fast.  I need to take the time to enjoy the little moments more.  

This is a day that i had to take the carpool & Ethan wanted to run home instead. 

FHE

Kevin took pictures of our family night. I guess he was impressed by my play dough story.  For those of you who are keen to the stories in the Book of Mormon.  We had a lesson on  Ammon,  when he was tending the kings sheep & cut off the Laminites arms.  As you can see so clearly the king is the big orange blob & the 4 green blobs are sheep laying down.  It was pretty fun, they were very into it.  

Although Jackson was not to happy that night.  

EASTER

On the 4th of April Kevin's side of the family celebrated Easter.  I was a bad person & took hardly any pictures, just video.  Oh well, did however get some cute pictures of my niece at the bottom! She is such a cutie pants...i love you Caroline! 

We had a fun time at my in-laws.  We all had a good dinner & then went downstairs for the easter egg hunt since it was cold outside.  This year they hid all the eggs in two rooms, the kids lined up in two line & they let them go in a room one at a time and get one egg .  Then they had to go back in line again. It was fun & pretty organized so all the kids weren't running around everywhere....since there were 12 kids.  

I told you she is SO cute!

Movie Night

Every once in awhile we like to have MOVIE NIGHT! We get out blankets, pillows, popcorn & sometime I get the mattress from Jackson's bed & bring it downstairs, so we can all fit on it.  This time we watched Princess & the Frog.  However by the time we start we didn't have enough time to watch the whole movie.  I don't think we have ever watched a whole movie during movie night.  We try to finish the movie later but we usually have to return it to the library or a neighbor by then....oh well.  The boys were pretty cute...during the movie there is a part where the alligator is going down the Bayou with the fireflies & a good song comes on.  Well, they got up and danced all crazy around the room.  I decided to get the soundtrack to the movie & when I got it,  the song was not on there......what a rip.  Oh well I guess I will have to find it somewhere else.  

Playdough

I try my best to have craft time with my boys or something to that affect each day.  This time I decided to make homemade play dough.  I love to make it because it's easy & lasts a long time.  The boys have a fun time playing with it.  As you can see Jackson like to wear no clothes most of the day.  I guess I will need to keep an eye on that :)

Field Trip

Ethan's preschool this year went on a field trip to Hogel Zoo.  It was fun to be there again.  Last time we went when all the animals had babies & this time there were more babies.  I think I like seeing the babies with their parents. 

The only animals we didn't get to see were the Zebras & Polar Bears, I  heard the Zebras passed away :(

We took Riley up there with us from his school.  After the field trip was done I took them all on the train.  I don't know why but I like going on the train rides no matter how small they are.  

After we were done with Hogel Zoo it was lunch time so I asked them where they wanted to go.  Riley suggested Winger's.  She said it was a tradition.  Last year after the field trip her mom & us went to Winger's, so I guess it is a tradition.  I was a little nervous taking 3 kids by myself but it worked out fine, they were great!  When we finally got home, Jackson laid down on my bed & went right to sleep.  I guess we wore him out.  He looks dead in this picture because he is so straight...creepy.